Nope, sorry. It always initially loads in under two seconds on this workstation, while NS4.x takes about five and NS6 takes thirty (no joke). It's the only browser on Solaris that consistently and correctly renders XHTML. And don't even get me started about memory usage.
I was expecting the worst, but I was quite impressed. Heck, MS even went through the trouble of providing CDE icons. My only complaint, feature-wise, is that you can't browse local directories with IE, but that's minor.
You must not be using a recent version. Get 5.0 and then tell me it's slow and bloated. Fine, maybe it doesn't work for you, but on all of my modern Solaris boxes -- from a humble Blade 100 to an E6k -- IE stomps NS4.x and blows away Mozilla. I'll admit that on my SPARCstation 5 (the 170MHz Fujitsu TurboSPARC model) Netscape 4 provides better performance, but if you're running kit that old, you have more important things to worry about than browser performance.;-)
I used to be quite the Netscape weenie myself -- hell, even on Windows I used NS4.x up until IE5.0 was released. But not a single person I've ever met (IRL, as opposed to these online flamewars) who's used IE on Solaris and fairly compared it to Netscape and Mozilla (without the anti-MS issues being involved) can deny that it rocks. Seriously, if you're having issues, give me your hardware specs and OS version and I'll try to help you out.
No. It is not on par with IE5.5. It's not even fucking close, so don't fucking talk about it competing with Microsoft. I hate Redmond as much as the next asshole, but I will fucking defend Microsoft to the ends of the fucking Earth regarding IE. IE5.5 is the best browser on Windows, the best browser on MacOS, and the best browser on UNIX. Hands down, no arguments. It's the fastest, smallest, and most standards-compliant. It supports the most features and is the least buggy. It rocks.
Mozilla can't even compete with NS4.x. (That's sad, because did you know that it is possible to crash NS4.x with W3C-validated XHTML?) Even the die-hard Netscape weenies that I know who won't touch anything else because of some strange religious devotion to obsoelete technology won't touch NS6/Mozilla, other than the one initial installation which forver scarred their souls. Mozilla was obsoelete before it reached its first milestone, back in 1974. That isn't a typo. Nineteen seventy-four. BC!
You have to be either a zealot or an idiot to think that Mozilla is anything besides a steaming turd with little pieces of other turds in it, because it eats other people's turds and then poops them out as second-generation turds. Mozilla is such shit that coprophiliacs reach orgasm just by reading the changelog. (And I think you know what I mean by changelog, boys.) I curse you all!
Wow. You've never actually used Mozilla, I guess. RTFM so that you can learn how to compile software, download the latest Mozilla milestone (or even not the latest, it really doesn't matter), then come back with your actual opinions. I can guarantee that you'll hate Mozilla, and I can't say that about any other software product.
Hey, Microsoft astroturfers! If you're trying to turn people off to Cheap Software, show them Mozilla!
Mozilla: every time it's installed, IE and Opera gain marketshare.
AOL^H^H^HMozilla 0.9.6 is the best Mozilla *ever!*
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But that's not saying much, because Mozilla blows. It's pretty funny to see how Netscape managed to fall from the top of the crop to the laughing stock of the development community in only five years. Oh, wait, I remember now -- that's because they didn't fucking do anything for five years, and UNIX users were stuck with third-rate trash. (4.7 was lovely, by the way. No, don't bother writing a professional rendering engine, you hacks, just add a "Shop" button and we'll call it innovation!)
Thank God (or Gates) that Microsoft eventually ported IE to Solaris and HP-UX and gave UNIX users (as in real UNIX, of course, not ia32-optimized open-source garbage) hope for the future.
And Mozilla (NS6) is somehow even worse! Conclusive proof that open-source doesn't work.(TM) I didn't think it was possible to build a slower memory hog than 4.x, but never underestimate the mediocrity of Cheap Software, boys. Does 0.9.6 still use as much memory as five 4.x instances combined, and take six times as long to initially load? Please, someone explain to me how it is possible that fucking IE5.0 is the fastest, smallest, most standards-complaint browser on my Solaris boxes. I mean, that's just sad -- Microsoft, the bloatware behemoth with zero track record on modern UNIX is able to create a better browser than the "hackers" (pronounced "wannabes") in the Cheap Software "community?"
Mozilla development is unprofessional. Why bother implementing a mail/news client, when Mozilla doesn't correctly or completely implement CSS2, a standard from fucking 1998? We need a sense of priorities hear, boys -- it's a fucking web browser, people would much rather have an open-source browser that works (and I define "works" as "correctly implements all applicable modern W3C standards, including but not limited to XHTML1.0/1.1 and CSS2 and the latest DOM spec") instead of YASOHBWNA (Yet Anoter Suite of Half-finished Bloated Slow Netscape Applications). Maybe someone should open-source a book on project management and help these untalented Cheap Software fucktards out. Among employed software developers, there are a set of common practices -- such as determining and codifying user requirements, design specifications, and frequent reevaluation of project goals -- that help avoid these problems. I don't know, is it that Netscape has the "Fecal Midas touch" (everything it touches turns to shit), or is it that Mozilla is being "developed" by freshman CS (*snicker*) and IT (*snicker*snicker*) students between jacking off to Pokémon porn and pirating copyrighted music? I mean, that's what Cheap Software is, right?
You make me sick. How do you ever expect to attract us Real Developers(TM) to your lamer hobby projects when you can't even understand the basics of software design? When you don't understand the concept of sacrifice, that Cheap Software applications shouldn't include every possible feature that every developer wants? My guess is that Mozilla is a hacked-together dog because the project "leaders" (if they exist) don't know how to say "no." No, Bob, we aren't going to work on a mail client until the browser works. No, Sue, we don't need skins until we have a good basic product. No, Dave, there is no fucking reason to implement custom widgets.
I certainly hope that all of you Mozilla "developers" note your involvement in this project prominently on your resumé, so that it will be easy to identify you and deny you all possibility for employment as professionals. I curse you all!
And you can buy VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware for pennies on Etrade.
You commie terrorist pinkos make me sick.
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I really wish that Slashdot would stop posting all of these terrorist articles. I mean, we all know that Malda is a whiny, feminine, homosexual, unpatriotic, un-American liberal Communist -- but do we really need all of these illegal "discoveries" shoved down our throats like the cocks Michael sucks? I'll laugh long and hard when the FBI shuts you down, you terrorist scum. Slashdot: news for terrorists, stuff that's un-American. You'll have plenty of time to talk about overthrowing the corporate establishment with P2P MP3 clients when you're serving hard time in a federal penitentiary. But maybe that's the plan all along -- your type of people probably enjoy living with daily anal rape.
Absolutely -- and it is perfectly fair for heirs to defile the good name of the dead. I, also, hope that they make money by whoring out Douglas's private papers, and if they don't, maybe they can rent his rotting corpse to state fairs! "Throw a quarter into Douglas Adams's corpse's mouth and win a prize!"
The_Messenger: As a successful writer, do you worry about how your books are received by the public?
Douglas Adams: This is always an interesting question... the artistically-correct answer is of course that I write for the sheer joy of creation, and the masses can go read Chaucer is they don't like comedic science fiction. Part of me feels this way, especially because I worked for so long in radio that I know I'm not dependant on writing to earn a living. But I did read the reviews when I published the first Hitchhiker's Guide installment, and I do take the community's reaction into account when I'm developing a new plot. So, I guess my answer is that I do react and respond to what the public thinks of my books, but I try not to "worry" about them, per say. As long as I have a chance to respond to criticism and allow it to shape my literary view, I don't care who hates my work.
The ability to respond to criticism is crucial, by the way. I think my greatest fear is that I'll be hit by a lorry on my way to breakfast tomorrow, and some bungling solicitor will publish all of my half-finished manuscripts and notes written on napkins. I am sure my fans would love to see the alternate Hitchhiker's Guide plot where Dent is a queer waiter, but would it really helpful to either the series or my memory to publish every little piece of paper found during post-mortem excavation of my private office? Of course not.
(Okay, I'll admit that I just made all of that up on the spot... but it sure sounds like something that Adams would have said, right?:-)
I order tons of stuff by mail, so I've run into this dilemma many times. Oddly enough, becase the UPS guy has to stop by my house so often, he doesn't even leave the "signature required" slips anymore. It may be convenient for me, but it sucks, too, because most of what I have shipped is books, computer equipment, DVDs, et cetera -- ya know, stuff I wouldn't want lying around in front of the house all day, waiting to get stolen. Someday, when I'm feeling especially vendictive, I'll just call the shipper, say I never received the package, and fuck over UPS -- what, these assholes never learned to read?
FedEx, OTOH, is wonderful. They always follow shipping instructions, and once when I had a Sun machine delivered to my house, the FedEx guy actually walked around back and placed the box under an awning to protect it from the rain. I almost started crying, I was so fucking proud of FedEx that day. I would've given the FedEx dude a hug, if I didn't think that his prison instincts would cut in and he'd shank me.
Anyway, it's a pity that more online companys (read: Amazon.com) don't ship FedEx, because I'd use them constantly.
As for waiting for the packages... yeah, right! Between ten and three, fellas? "Sorry, boss, I really can't come in today. Am I sick? Yeah, I'm sick of these UPS fucktards wasting my time... anyway, I'll be in as soon as I receive my Ally McBeal DVD collection!"
My solution is to have the especially valuable ($800 software) and urgent (concert tickets) packages shipped to my office. After one incident early on when my company's mail room rifled through a box, I've had no complaints, and I always receive the packages by 11AM.
By the way, I should mention that I do't "do drugs." I don't drink, and I don't even smoke the kind bud. I just hate living with such deception and falsehood as the US government's anti-drug campaign.
Talk about hypocrisy -- I still don't understand how marijuana can be illegal. It isn't any more harmful than alcohol.
I remember Adam Corolla (he used to host Loveline, but I haven't listened for years, so I'm not sure if he still does) comparing the behavior of marijuana users favorably to the behavior of alcohol users. IIRC he said that when people drink, they tend to get into car accidents and bar fights, but when people smoke, they just stay at home and eat and watch TV.
Marijuana's classification as a "loco" drug such as LCD or PCP is simply ignorant. But given the state of drug education in this country (the USAss) I shouldn't be surprised. I still remember, years ago, how my high-school "Health" teacher was amazed when I started telling her about the research proving that physical drug addition is a heriditary illness, and how you can't just start smoking weed one day and turn into a theiving addict. These fucking morons fill kids' heads with such blatant propaganda and misinformation that it's no wonder people think "drugs are bad, m'kay?"
Once the government made sure that the unwashed masses were fully indoctrinated about the evils of all body-altering substances which aren't food or taxed, they began the "war on drugs." Garbage. Nancy Reagan deserves to be raped by a slobbering Rotweiller. More money and lives were wasted in that "war" than in Vietnam -- and they lost the war on drugs, just like they lost the war on the Vietnamese.
I believe that there are some substances, mainly opiates, which should continue to be effectively "banned" except for prescribed medical use.. But marijuana, more than any of the other "safe" drugs, should be legalized. How can it be banned when alcohol and tobacco are legal? Fucking hypocrites. Tax it if you want to, but legalize it. I'd much rather have a country full of stoners than a country full of chain-smoking drunks.
Personally, I loved the Keaton movies, especially the first -- but that was more because of the Godlike dynamic duo (Burton and Elfman, my lovelies!) than Keaton. I guess that after seeing BCJR and the Evil Dead movies I'm inclined to think that Cambell would do better in the later, funny, more cartoony Batman movies, but who knows? I've never seen Cambell in a dramatic role, maybe he'd rock.
Speaking of superheros -- I'm a big Tick fan, and I haven't seen the new live-action television show yet, but I'd think that Brucey would make a rad Tick. Note the intellectual similarities between The Tick and Ash.;-)
Are you aware that Slashdot is a lame cesspool of hacker-wannabe Windows-weenie fucktards? And that it's run by a wannabe, latecomer otaku whose sole understanding of your work comes through masturbating with an Ash action figure up his ass?
I noticed that you did some voice acting for the recent Monsters, Inc animated motion picture. Had you ever done voice acting before, and what did you think of the end result?
Exactly. He spends all day jacking off the hentai -- he is a wannabe, latecomer otaku, after all. He doesn't hack. He can't program. He does have a CS degree, but he often neglects to mention that at his lamer college, CS stands for "cock sucking."
Combine Taco with Hemos, the wannabe scientist, and you have some sort of superhero team with special wannabe powers. They're like the Ambiguously Gay Duo, only without being ambiguous.
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Congratulation, Poggy. That's the first time that you've been modded up, like, ever.
"Hello! My name is BOWIE POAG!
I am ULTRA LAME!
I make teh PROPERGANDERZ WALLPAPERZ FOR LUNIX!
I go in teh GIMP and generate teh RANDOM NOISE!
And then apply EVERY FILTER!
It is l337!
And I release it as teh OPEN SOREZ WALLPAPERZ FOR LUNIX!
And then I get to say that I am a l337 LUNIX HAX0RZ!
Even though I couldn't code VISUAL BASIC!
And my idea of technical computer work is CHANGING TEH WINDOZE STARTUP SOUND!
My name is BOWIE POAG!"
I'm impressed. The girl seems wonderful, too -- sorry to hear about the breakup. Shall I take it that the "disagreement about Dadaism" started like this?
Her: So, what are you thinking about? You: Nothing. Her: What do you mean, "nothing?" That's impossible. What do you mean by that? You: Nothing, really!
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I was expecting the worst, but I was quite impressed. Heck, MS even went through the trouble of providing CDE icons. My only complaint, feature-wise, is that you can't browse local directories with IE, but that's minor.
You must not be using a recent version. Get 5.0 and then tell me it's slow and bloated. Fine, maybe it doesn't work for you, but on all of my modern Solaris boxes -- from a humble Blade 100 to an E6k -- IE stomps NS4.x and blows away Mozilla. I'll admit that on my SPARCstation 5 (the 170MHz Fujitsu TurboSPARC model) Netscape 4 provides better performance, but if you're running kit that old, you have more important things to worry about than browser performance. ;-)
I used to be quite the Netscape weenie myself -- hell, even on Windows I used NS4.x up until IE5.0 was released. But not a single person I've ever met (IRL, as opposed to these online flamewars) who's used IE on Solaris and fairly compared it to Netscape and Mozilla (without the anti-MS issues being involved) can deny that it rocks. Seriously, if you're having issues, give me your hardware specs and OS version and I'll try to help you out.
Hey, buddy, if you have the cash for AS, why not buy a decent CPU instead? :-) That must be a dog!
Mozilla can't even compete with NS4.x. (That's sad, because did you know that it is possible to crash NS4.x with W3C-validated XHTML?) Even the die-hard Netscape weenies that I know who won't touch anything else because of some strange religious devotion to obsoelete technology won't touch NS6/Mozilla, other than the one initial installation which forver scarred their souls. Mozilla was obsoelete before it reached its first milestone, back in 1974. That isn't a typo. Nineteen seventy-four. BC!
You have to be either a zealot or an idiot to think that Mozilla is anything besides a steaming turd with little pieces of other turds in it, because it eats other people's turds and then poops them out as second-generation turds. Mozilla is such shit that coprophiliacs reach orgasm just by reading the changelog. (And I think you know what I mean by changelog, boys.) I curse you all!
Hey, Microsoft astroturfers! If you're trying to turn people off to Cheap Software, show them Mozilla!
Mozilla: every time it's installed, IE and Opera gain marketshare.
Thank God (or Gates) that Microsoft eventually ported IE to Solaris and HP-UX and gave UNIX users (as in real UNIX, of course, not ia32-optimized open-source garbage) hope for the future.
And Mozilla (NS6) is somehow even worse! Conclusive proof that open-source doesn't work.(TM) I didn't think it was possible to build a slower memory hog than 4.x, but never underestimate the mediocrity of Cheap Software, boys. Does 0.9.6 still use as much memory as five 4.x instances combined, and take six times as long to initially load? Please, someone explain to me how it is possible that fucking IE5.0 is the fastest, smallest, most standards-complaint browser on my Solaris boxes. I mean, that's just sad -- Microsoft, the bloatware behemoth with zero track record on modern UNIX is able to create a better browser than the "hackers" (pronounced "wannabes") in the Cheap Software "community?"
Mozilla development is unprofessional. Why bother implementing a mail/news client, when Mozilla doesn't correctly or completely implement CSS2, a standard from fucking 1998? We need a sense of priorities hear, boys -- it's a fucking web browser, people would much rather have an open-source browser that works (and I define "works" as "correctly implements all applicable modern W3C standards, including but not limited to XHTML1.0/1.1 and CSS2 and the latest DOM spec") instead of YASOHBWNA (Yet Anoter Suite of Half-finished Bloated Slow Netscape Applications). Maybe someone should open-source a book on project management and help these untalented Cheap Software fucktards out. Among employed software developers, there are a set of common practices -- such as determining and codifying user requirements, design specifications, and frequent reevaluation of project goals -- that help avoid these problems. I don't know, is it that Netscape has the "Fecal Midas touch" (everything it touches turns to shit), or is it that Mozilla is being "developed" by freshman CS (*snicker*) and IT (*snicker*snicker*) students between jacking off to Pokémon porn and pirating copyrighted music? I mean, that's what Cheap Software is, right?
You make me sick. How do you ever expect to attract us Real Developers(TM) to your lamer hobby projects when you can't even understand the basics of software design? When you don't understand the concept of sacrifice, that Cheap Software applications shouldn't include every possible feature that every developer wants? My guess is that Mozilla is a hacked-together dog because the project "leaders" (if they exist) don't know how to say "no." No, Bob, we aren't going to work on a mail client until the browser works. No, Sue, we don't need skins until we have a good basic product. No, Dave, there is no fucking reason to implement custom widgets.
I certainly hope that all of you Mozilla "developers" note your involvement in this project prominently on your resumé, so that it will be easy to identify you and deny you all possibility for employment as professionals. I curse you all!
And you can buy VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware for pennies on Etrade.
Slashdot "editors," see your future!
(Okay, I'll admit that I just made all of that up on the spot... but it sure sounds like something that Adams would have said, right? :-)
Hell yeah! Ship Jane Pauley to Florida in a cardboard box with a palmcorder and a box of Power Bars.
FedEx, OTOH, is wonderful. They always follow shipping instructions, and once when I had a Sun machine delivered to my house, the FedEx guy actually walked around back and placed the box under an awning to protect it from the rain. I almost started crying, I was so fucking proud of FedEx that day. I would've given the FedEx dude a hug, if I didn't think that his prison instincts would cut in and he'd shank me.
Anyway, it's a pity that more online companys (read: Amazon.com) don't ship FedEx, because I'd use them constantly.
As for waiting for the packages... yeah, right! Between ten and three, fellas? "Sorry, boss, I really can't come in today. Am I sick? Yeah, I'm sick of these UPS fucktards wasting my time... anyway, I'll be in as soon as I receive my Ally McBeal DVD collection!"
My solution is to have the especially valuable ($800 software) and urgent (concert tickets) packages shipped to my office. After one incident early on when my company's mail room rifled through a box, I've had no complaints, and I always receive the packages by 11AM.
He wasn't speaking, he was writing, fucktard. All of you are cockgobbling assmasters!
By the way, I should mention that I do't "do drugs." I don't drink, and I don't even smoke the kind bud. I just hate living with such deception and falsehood as the US government's anti-drug campaign.
I remember Adam Corolla (he used to host Loveline, but I haven't listened for years, so I'm not sure if he still does) comparing the behavior of marijuana users favorably to the behavior of alcohol users. IIRC he said that when people drink, they tend to get into car accidents and bar fights, but when people smoke, they just stay at home and eat and watch TV.
Marijuana's classification as a "loco" drug such as LCD or PCP is simply ignorant. But given the state of drug education in this country (the USAss) I shouldn't be surprised. I still remember, years ago, how my high-school "Health" teacher was amazed when I started telling her about the research proving that physical drug addition is a heriditary illness, and how you can't just start smoking weed one day and turn into a theiving addict. These fucking morons fill kids' heads with such blatant propaganda and misinformation that it's no wonder people think "drugs are bad, m'kay?"
Once the government made sure that the unwashed masses were fully indoctrinated about the evils of all body-altering substances which aren't food or taxed, they began the "war on drugs." Garbage. Nancy Reagan deserves to be raped by a slobbering Rotweiller. More money and lives were wasted in that "war" than in Vietnam -- and they lost the war on drugs, just like they lost the war on the Vietnamese.
I believe that there are some substances, mainly opiates, which should continue to be effectively "banned" except for prescribed medical use.. But marijuana, more than any of the other "safe" drugs, should be legalized. How can it be banned when alcohol and tobacco are legal? Fucking hypocrites. Tax it if you want to, but legalize it. I'd much rather have a country full of stoners than a country full of chain-smoking drunks.
Why would God need a harlot, when he has that hot little twink Jesus at his right hand?
Speaking of superheros -- I'm a big Tick fan, and I haven't seen the new live-action television show yet, but I'd think that Brucey would make a rad Tick. Note the intellectual similarities between The Tick and Ash. ;-)
Are you aware that Slashdot is a lame cesspool of hacker-wannabe Windows-weenie fucktards? And that it's run by a wannabe, latecomer otaku whose sole understanding of your work comes through masturbating with an Ash action figure up his ass?
I noticed that you did some voice acting for the recent Monsters, Inc animated motion picture. Had you ever done voice acting before, and what did you think of the end result?
Rhonda-Mary Shaw is the principal developer of GNOME's clock applets.
I'll bet she sux a lot of Cox, eh, mate?
Combine Taco with Hemos, the wannabe scientist, and you have some sort of superhero team with special wannabe powers. They're like the Ambiguously Gay Duo, only without being ambiguous.
"Hello! My name is BOWIE POAG!
I am ULTRA LAME!
I make teh PROPERGANDERZ WALLPAPERZ FOR LUNIX!
I go in teh GIMP and generate teh RANDOM NOISE!
And then apply EVERY FILTER!
It is l337!
And I release it as teh OPEN SOREZ WALLPAPERZ FOR LUNIX!
And then I get to say that I am a l337 LUNIX HAX0RZ!
Even though I couldn't code VISUAL BASIC!
And my idea of technical computer work is CHANGING TEH WINDOZE STARTUP SOUND!
My name is BOWIE POAG!"
Would you like to comment on the acctheptance of Lithp in the homosexthual community?
- NP, N&P
- One bowl of hot grits
- Forty acres
- A mule
- Adultcheck passwords
- Windows XP site licenses
- JonKatz's head, on a stick, covered with caramel
That is all. Thank you.