I wonder when people will stop spreading these lies. Opera is neither adware, nor payware, and haven't been for several years. It's now free as in beer, but not speech, or however that saying goes.
I think the only option here is to only allow easily verifyable articles to be rated. Anything related to religion, evolution, preferences (IE vs. Firefox vs. Opera vs. Safari vs. Chrome, Emacs vs. vi, Microsoft vs. Linux vs. BSD vs. MacOS) and similar things should have a large disclaimer saying "We're unable to verify the truthiness of this page. Please use common sense and investigate before blindly believing the statements on this page" or something similar.
In fact, why don't we skip the entire rating, and just provide that standard disclaimer? Might solve some things...
Instead of every application having their own volume slider, why can't the system provide controls on an application basis? Instead of every single application having to implement their own volume slider. That seems like a gigantic waste of time and effort to me at least.
Also, the mixing of audio from many sources (that actually works) is very nice. Might be just me, but I've spent some time trying to get dmix working, and not enjoying it.
PulseAudio Just Works on my system, and I wouldn't go back to plain ALSA.
YMMV.
Amazing how many people still haven't realized that this is not true. (Or just repeat it to defend their beloved browser of choice, and at the same time badmouth Opera).
Opera hasn't required money since 2000. From 2000 to 2005 they had an ad-supported version, where you could pay to get rid of the ad, but after that, it's been free, as in beer.
Still not free as in free speech, so I guess that will be the new argument against Opera, when the masses realize that it no longer requires money.
And if you're not a DreamHost-customer, you can *still* use GMail with your domain name for no extra charge (meaning, free). Isn't the world just amazing?
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I wonder when people will stop spreading these lies. Opera is neither adware, nor payware, and haven't been for several years. It's now free as in beer, but not speech, or however that saying goes.
I think the only option here is to only allow easily verifyable articles to be rated. Anything related to religion, evolution, preferences (IE vs. Firefox vs. Opera vs. Safari vs. Chrome, Emacs vs. vi, Microsoft vs. Linux vs. BSD vs. MacOS) and similar things should have a large disclaimer saying "We're unable to verify the truthiness of this page. Please use common sense and investigate before blindly believing the statements on this page" or something similar. In fact, why don't we skip the entire rating, and just provide that standard disclaimer? Might solve some things...
Instead of every application having their own volume slider, why can't the system provide controls on an application basis? Instead of every single application having to implement their own volume slider. That seems like a gigantic waste of time and effort to me at least. Also, the mixing of audio from many sources (that actually works) is very nice. Might be just me, but I've spent some time trying to get dmix working, and not enjoying it. PulseAudio Just Works on my system, and I wouldn't go back to plain ALSA. YMMV.
Amazing how many people still haven't realized that this is not true. (Or just repeat it to defend their beloved browser of choice, and at the same time badmouth Opera). Opera hasn't required money since 2000. From 2000 to 2005 they had an ad-supported version, where you could pay to get rid of the ad, but after that, it's been free, as in beer. Still not free as in free speech, so I guess that will be the new argument against Opera, when the masses realize that it no longer requires money.
And if you're not a DreamHost-customer, you can *still* use GMail with your domain name for no extra charge (meaning, free). Isn't the world just amazing?