For example, the Roman 'practice sword' was made of wood, and weight twice as much as an actual Gladius. Thus, during combat, the actual sword seemed light as a feather....
Uhm... Do you have any sources to back that up? That seems like a very bad idea to me. Fighting with a sword you are not accustomed to. Right.
These are the steps the alternative OS community should take:
1. Change my web serving products to have a default setting that prevents Microsoft browsers from using them.
2. Break the link that permits other browsers to be used for URLs. Always go to Opera/Mozilla for them.
3. Alter web serving products to stop functioning with IE browsers completely.
4. Show warnings when "non-approved" sites are visited. This is not all sites, mind you: Only a specially selected few that "might not display correctly". Like MSN. Or Hotmail.
5. Detect the presence of non-approved software being run. Warn that this sofware (like MS Office, or Internet Explorer) may interfere with the proper functioning of the computer.
This was my reply, I suggest more ppl send the same message or something similar. Perhaps without my spelling errors and grammatic misshaps.;-)
Hello.
I find your new strategy of blocking out competing web browsers very distasteful.
I will personally change all websites for which I am responsible into not accepting viewing by MS Internet Explorer. I will also encourage everyone I know that administer websites to do likewise.
You should be aware of that these tactics are applicable from more than one direction.
I tried turning javascript off, but that lasted about an hour. A lot of "fancy" big-company sites don't work without javascript, and I'm not at work or anything so I don't care about porn pop-ups and have yet to see a truly destructive use of javascript, so I just leave it on.
Seems to me they just say that it would be nice to have some standard emotional tags, but nothing about how to implement them?
My point is... Ok, fine they want them, but how will they show them in a way that is better than smileys or acronyms? How will they visualize <smile>???
OS'es need three basic things: development environment, applications, and drivers. Surely BeOS did not lack in terms of first two. Because it was able to run GCC and many other free software
Well, kind of... What "killed" BeOS was the combined lack of software and drivers. Since it was supposed to be *the* Multimedia OS, drivers was naturally very important. You can't call an OS multimedia superior without supporting the newest and best multimedia HW.
But another very real problem was that there were no complete software (multimedia) packages. No Logic/Cubase, no Photoshop, no Illustrator, no Dreamweaver/Frontpage, no Director, no Premiere... Hell, not even a fully functional webbrowser...
Without this stuff it was probably kind of hard selling the OS as a professional development platform for multimedia designers (the presumed buyers).
And of course... There was no MS Office... (ordinary buyers)
Tomb Raider was the hardware "killer application", not Quake
I don't know about you guys overseas, but here in sweden I never heard about anyone buying better HW for playing Tomb raider, but I do _know_ a lot ppl who bought better HW for Quake performance...
I ran a little test and opened up 1 local page in IE5.0, NS 4.78, NS 6.1 & Opera 5.11 (w. jdk). Then I opened 4 local pages, then 4 local + slashdot in all browsers.
The result:
IE 5.0: 8096 k | 10100 k | 11740 k
NS 4.78: 8904 k | 9756 k | 11088 k
NS 6.1: 20736 k | 22600 k | 26576 k
Opera 5.11: 7324 k | 7776 k | 9100 k
I dunno, but NS6.1 seem to use a *lot* of memory, even though the NT Taskmanager has a funny way of showing memory usage...
Don't get me started on the gun laws -
you can instantly become a felon for bringing your legally owned and responsibly carried weapon onto federal property (post office), school zones...
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For example, the Roman 'practice sword' was made of wood, and weight twice as much as an actual Gladius. Thus, during combat, the actual sword seemed light as a feather....
Uhm... Do you have any sources to back that up? That seems like a very bad idea to me. Fighting with a sword you are not accustomed to. Right.
>Don't tell anyone, but I actually save all my wordprocessing docs in RTF. So the program I use doesn't matter all that much, to some extent.
No, it doesn't matter... until someone send you MS Word documents with embedded stuff or powerpoint presentations.
Hmmm... How does Opera work under Linux? I do almost all my browsing in Opera on wintel boxes these days...
Somewhat interresting reading...
[opera.com]
These are the steps the alternative OS community should take:
;-)
1. Change my web serving products to have a default setting that prevents Microsoft browsers from using them.
2. Break the link that permits other browsers to be used for URLs. Always go to Opera/Mozilla for them.
3. Alter web serving products to stop functioning with IE browsers completely.
4. Show warnings when "non-approved" sites are visited. This is not all sites, mind you: Only a specially selected few that "might not display correctly". Like MSN. Or Hotmail.
5. Detect the presence of non-approved software being run. Warn that this sofware (like MS Office, or Internet Explorer) may interfere with the proper functioning of the computer.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Yes, very good point. Reminded me that I must set Opera back to identifying as Opera after my MSN.com test. Thanks.
Fortunately I "happened" to have IE installed. =P
;-)
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This was my reply, I suggest more ppl send the same message or something similar. Perhaps without my spelling errors and grammatic misshaps.
Hello.
I find your new strategy of blocking out competing web browsers very distasteful.
I will personally change all websites for which I am responsible into not accepting viewing by MS Internet Explorer. I will also encourage everyone I know that administer websites to do likewise.
You should be aware of that these tactics are applicable from more than one direction.
Best regards.
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Viola? Like, in playing? :)
Otoh, you could just use lynx. same effect. Almost...
I tried turning javascript off, but that lasted about an hour. A lot of "fancy" big-company sites don't work without javascript, and I'm not at work or anything so I don't care about porn pop-ups and have yet to see a truly destructive use of javascript, so I just leave it on.
That's why I suggested it.
Why not go to the Analog X website and download POW! - Automatic popup killer...
Might be a solution to your problem... Works for me anyway...
Otoh, that (even though unintentional) makes some of us like the OS even more.
Seems to me they just say that it would be nice to have some standard emotional tags, but nothing about how to implement them?
My point is... Ok, fine they want them, but how will they show them in a way that is better than smileys or acronyms? How will they visualize <smile>???
That would be interresting reading.
Repeating what many others said too many times: There are too many licensed components in BeOS to OS it!
OS'es need three basic things: development environment, applications, and drivers. Surely BeOS did not lack in terms of first two. Because it was able to run GCC and many other free software
Well, kind of... What "killed" BeOS was the combined lack of software and drivers. Since it was supposed to be *the* Multimedia OS, drivers was naturally very important. You can't call an OS multimedia superior without supporting the newest and best multimedia HW.
But another very real problem was that there were no complete software (multimedia) packages. No Logic/Cubase, no Photoshop, no Illustrator, no Dreamweaver/Frontpage, no Director, no Premiere... Hell, not even a fully functional webbrowser...
Without this stuff it was probably kind of hard selling the OS as a professional development platform for multimedia designers (the presumed buyers).
And of course... There was no MS Office... (ordinary buyers)
Napster, Gnutella and BearShare all have their flaws.
Um... Isn't Bearshare a Gnutella client? They also made the same distinction in the article.
(Before BearShare came Gnutella, a program written by Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper.)
And what about good ol C64 games like Scarabeus & Platoon III(?) ;-)
Tomb Raider was the hardware "killer application", not Quake
I don't know about you guys overseas, but here in sweden I never heard about anyone buying better HW for playing Tomb raider, but I do _know_ a lot ppl who bought better HW for Quake performance...
ebola incidents at Jack In The Box
:)
Uhm... Are you sure it was Ebola?
I ran a little test and opened up 1 local page in IE5.0, NS 4.78, NS 6.1 & Opera 5.11 (w. jdk). Then I opened 4 local pages, then 4 local + slashdot in all browsers.
The result:
IE 5.0: 8096 k | 10100 k | 11740 k
NS 4.78: 8904 k | 9756 k | 11088 k
NS 6.1: 20736 k | 22600 k | 26576 k
Opera 5.11: 7324 k | 7776 k | 9100 k
I dunno, but NS6.1 seem to use a *lot* of memory, even though the NT Taskmanager has a funny way of showing memory usage...
They said The Dune series was pretty nice. Wonder when/if they will show it here in Sweden...
Wonder if Miami Vice could be defined as scifi? Seems like a totally different universe... :)
Wasn't there like 2 million guys killed in the Somme offensive, WW1? Make 90000 sound pretty small...
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Why do you feel the need to carry a gun at the post office or any other public place?
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And we have "american gladiators", although their weapons are a bit lame compared to the original stuff... ;)
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Don't get me started on the gun laws - you can instantly become a felon for bringing your legally owned and responsibly carried weapon onto federal property (post office), school zones...
And exactly what is bad about that?
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