Please choose me to be a beta tester. Not only have I purchased about 6 copies of Warcraft 2 (For me, for friends, more for me after first two copies were stolen at a lan party, one more for battle.net), 1 copy of Warcraft 1, the Warcraft Battle Chest (Just cause) and Starcraft, and the Starcraft Battle Chest but I have an unhealthy addiction to strategy games. I require little sleep, and have submitted a bug report for starcraft already.
I promise to give you my first born child for a chance to be a beta tester.
Some Korean based company. I really could care less, it expires next month. My guess is they are just going to let it expire as it still hasn't sold. If not, then I'm really not worried about it. It looks like that project isn't going to go through anyway (Damn!)
It took them this many years to realize that they were just wasting their money. I'm currently waiting out on a domain because the guy is claiming that he has received bids for $900 for the domain so I have to beat that. I told him, "Sure - send me proof of one claim that I can verify and I will gladly bid higher to secure the domain name." It successfully terminated the conversation.
I think it's really funny that all these nimrods are finally starting to realize that hoarding domain names only works if you get things like 'doctor.com'. I just have to laugh at all those folks who helped keep the registrars business flowing.
I know a lot of people here don't want to hear this, but XP is not a bad OS. As for your comparisons to 2k, I'm not sure exactly why you're making them; XP is meant to upgrade 98 users, not 2k ones. I'm not sure why you'd upgrade from 2k in the first place. Please read my original post. I did not upgrade from 2K. They are on two different laptops. I have a 2K Pro, she has an XP.
She's been having a world of problems with it, and has since started bugging me about getting a dual boot of Linux on there. Linux can play games, just not all games. But, that's the whole reason why I dual boot 2K on my laptop - starcraft and Counter Strike, and because I'm having difficulties w/ the 2.4.17 kernel and the USB Mass Storage so I'm using it at the moment to update my archos mp3 player.. but I will always go back to linux or BSD. As for XP.. my assessment of it will stand that it is absolute shit. After spending about 4 days trying to get a netgear MA401 802.11 card to work in it to no avail and then popping the same card into my laptop and having it work w/o any configuration changes from my linksys card, I gave up.
Since you've never used it, you don't know how customizable it is. You can also revert to the 'classic' interface if you want. You sure can, a nice little slider:
Ugly |-----------o| Abomination to all that is Good and Right.
Not to start a flame war, but we just purchased a new laptop with XP for my girlfriend and so far XP is USDA Grade A Pure Pile O' Shit.
It's features? Like what? Popping up applications it thinks you need? Like Media player which is worse than that damned paper clip but insists on popping up all the time. Or it's network configuration which breaks any connection it did have (What? No DHCP, oh well.. let me kill your settings and turn it back on!)
As far as speed goes, it's definitely not a speed improvement over 2K (I dual boot 2KPro on my laptop for games) on comparable hardware (my CPU is slower, yet I can do 99% of things noticably faster on 2K than on her XP box.) and as for stability goes, we've already had 3 crashes in which it sends the core file so M$ can figure out why their kernel keeps dumping.
I also hear I'm not alone in that experience. So, glad it worked for you. For me, I stick to my Linux desktop - which is very simple for me to setup. And I'm not blinded by the ugliness that is XP.
Not necessarily. I'm 20 at the moment, and started working in the computer industry part time since 15. However, I also know that any one 20 and under claiming they have more than a few years of experience is seriously lacking in a lot of other ways. Ones in which I would fire someone working for me.
I think the utmost descrimination is the fact that this 19 year old probably has a lot of other issues that he doesn't see. If people who know you, still think you are a kid -- you are doing something wrong. I've worked with younger people, and done stupid things myself. It's just called growing up. The point of all the nay-sayers is that Professional Experience is the summation of full-time dedicated work for a professional environment. This does not involve your ma and pa, nor does it involve your local computer shop hiring you under the table.
That's why my CV has two sections, "Recreational Work History" and "Professional Work History". Most kids I have met (under 20) that are working claiming multiple years of experience are absolute dumbasses. However, I have met a few people who are genuinly good.. they are few and far between though.
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I have worked on physics models for atmospheric effects in a flight sim for the Kitty Hawk project. There are a lot of issues surrounding flying a plane on mars, but it is not much different.
The biggest obstacle (and one in which I haven't read yet.. so I'm posting) is the differences in speed of sound. People say, "Get bigger wings" and "fly faster" unfortunately this doesn't work as well as would be expected. You basically have to design your plane to fly super-sonic when it is travelling roughly 180 knotts (Martial sea level vs. earth equiv is around 100K feet, reduction in speed of sound..don't remember the exact numbers -- this was years ago that I worked on the project)
This isn't the easiest of tasks, but, they did it. - the major obstacle the project faced (we did the sim, as show in the picture - CMEX did all the "real" work) faced was efficient fuel. The final engine was Hydrazine powered, as the whole plane had to be exceptionally light weight and cover a large stretch of valles marineris.
Anyway, it's been designed for years now... hope you found my drivel interesting.
I hear you on that one. I just wish that those members of my family (extended) that still buy me (thankfully none this year) gifts would just realize I really don't need baby books anymore, or a dozen other assorted crap-ass-gifts that for some reason they feel compelled to purchase that provide absolutely no use or entertainment. If they actually purchased the gifts instead of re-wrapping gifts (that really pisses me off) it would work awesome, and I don't see anything wrong with a gift exchange idea.
I will put the same amount of thought into returning the gift as they did giving it to me. The small portion of my family that does care about me always gives me gifts, while it may not be something I asked for/wanted, is always something I can use because they thought about who I was.
The spirit of giving has gotten so bastardized by commerce and greed that instead of giving a gift to show the person you care about them you give them shit to show them they acknowledge you are part of the family. Save it, stuff it, I don't give a shit.Proof is that this place exists. If people actually sat down and cared there would be no market for this. Morally I hate that this place is here, but I think it is highly justified. Unfortunately I also believe that this will spawn more feelings that it's ok to give stupid-ass-fecal-matter-gifts. I'm ok with that.. Christmas has been fucked since Coca Cola.
You don't need to worry much about anything else. 99% of store demos of the capabilities of HDTVs are shown off that setup. Most HDTVs that you'd find at $ENV{FAVORITE_ELECTRONIC_STORE} have built in line doublers now.. Which also helps analog signals not looking like absolute shit.
That's why I'm avoiding HDTV, every analog signal that comes in looks horrid. I'm not worried about cable, but my video camera/vcr/old video games (I still play SNES Mario Kart)
Till that gets better or I can get the original Mario Kart (with better graphics, but same play) I'll avoid HDTVs.
The store owner is screwed no matter what. It's easy to lay in wait for the store owner to leave. Happens all the time. They just come up with creative ways to try to not look like they have a bunch of money on them when they leave their store.
Sure - but think about how easy it would be to detect what people have money while sitting on a train with this. You don't need to lie in wait at a store front anymore.. criminal innovation.
As for cash, yeah it is stupid. I don't understand the whole hype with the euro anyway because europa has a larger deployment of smart cards than US does. That's what I want for christmas.. smart cards everywhere. Yeah, you can still be tracked but you can with a debit card too. I bet we all have national ID cards before a smart card. *sigh*
And then only people crowded with you on the tubes could find out. Brilliant!
So, a store owner that is on his way to the royal bank doesn't have to worry about the people around him that could find out and mug him.
I really think that the money should just emit a signal up to the clouds, like the bat signal or something, when the person carrying the money is in trouble. Now, the obvious market is just lead wallets!
Sorry, but I don't understand how you can label that as secure. I'm honestly not intending this as troll/flame, but it seems that security on a unix box is somewhat of a misnomer amongst the actual industry.
My methodology (and I have done direct work on this) is if it is not secure from root on the local box, it's not secure.. The software should maintain a level of segregation from that single server.
Let me give you a little bit of insight for your next run at it - variable key/algo encryption. Ensure that soon as it starts, the keys rotate and only a user logging in is able to restore the key hash properly (this can be done a number of different ways) and also ensures that only users looking at it know the key, and if you implement in a certain manner who looked at what, based off key history. It relies on a high degree of entropy, and can be CPU exhaustive but it is well worth it, imo. Being root on a box should not make any app insecure, and I hate seeing stuff like that. Employees are one thing, you can trust them. Maybe I'm missing something in your algorithm.. but it just seems that it's secure in-concept, that no one decides to attack your server. And also, it's not like the evil-ones have to know a whole heck of a lot to dump the memory of the process and work on it later, along with your CC database.
Comcast issues a more clear statement, saying they had brought AT&T flowers. The type of flowers were thought to be tulips, falling in with the funeral metephor.
Upon further inquiry, it seems AT&T has decided that they really just suck at being a large company and had to split once again, this time under their own influence, into several smaller companies.
If only certain other companies could make the same blundering mistakes to cause large debt requiring spinoffs....
Don't give up on it man. The key to social success all depends upon your desire for it. People become friends because of synnergy. There is no more scientific of a field than the art of mastering speech.
For anyone who doesn't think that speech is a science; look up natural language programming. You can make a person feel exactly how you want them to feel with the mention of few words that are correctly formed. It's the one true science that I love. True programming because it's a true variable state machine. I don't view it as manipulation or some other immoral act because it all boils down to synnergy and the other persons desires. Learn how to speak and be a good friend, some people it comes natural too - others work at it; in the end you will benefit if you learn this skill. You won't have friends if you have nothing to offer them. Make sure you offer the counter-balance that you are willing to deliver. Having said all that, I'm a natural programmer. It's what I've always done and what I love to do. Programming a computer is always the same, dealign with people is a constant challenge and always requires problem solving and that is why it is so exciting and fun.
Also, if you want to get a good grip on your body -- I recommend martial arts. Not only will it teach you to be comfortable with your movement inside your own flesh-suit but you will get over feeling awkward in your appearance around other people. If you are new to it, I would recommend Aikido or Tai Chi as they are not too physically demanding. For a notch up in intensity go for Tae Kwon Do or Karate, then Jiu Jitsu or another Brazilian art (very aerobic) and my personal favorite for a exhausting and strenous workout go for Kung Fu.
On a side note, I was tested for retardatation because I didn't play well with others and would never listen to the teacher. I came back from the tests with an impressive IQ on a piece of paper and a grade advance.
Having a LFS build would have probably helped the developers find the problem and make the build more robust - I hope you submitted a bug report for it.
But, if you haven't been able to get a working recent build of Mozilla running it seems less than likely to be able to perform an accurate analysis of Mozilla. Konquerer I think is absolutely great for doing HTML reports and such - as for the LFS, I have been thinking of spending some time doing something with it; how is it faring for you?
Back to mozilla, you really should try using it if you are open to it -- it's came a very long way in the last few months. As I've said before, I use it exclusively now (Skypilot is also a very quick theme) and am happily hacking away on it. It's CSS2 support makes me a happy hacker.. even when I hate doing web-based user interfaces.:)
Try a recent build, much much much more stable (since 0.9.4 - on my laptop I had some weird issues with it, but otherwise it's been very solid) and it is pretty speedy since 0.9.2 - Opera is still the choice for quick browsing though, but I just can't get past the interface.
As for the search pane, yeah - I am with you, that irritated the living hell out of me.. till I disabled it 2 minutes later;)
hehe, I love AC's. You whole argument is shot, assuming you are the same person as above. IE5 is what was requested, and that is what I showed.
Sorry if you can't handle you are just plain wrong, I'd rather be a sad man that's right - then a poor fool who won't admit when wrong.
The fact is IE had to work to come to standards compliancy because of competition of Opera and Mozilla. You want lightweight and standard you use Opera, you want full feature and standard you use Mozilla. End of story. IE is only for the drooling Mom'n'Pops of America in reality. They are the ones who are behind. The fact that IE6 has a 'main point' of being standards compliant is proof of this. IE's share is slipping, Mozilla and Opera are on the rise. You know why? Because it works the way it is supposed to.
The last one is especially nice, because it's a very objective review against Mozilla - showing while IE gets things "mostly right", Mozilla does it to the spec. Which has pretty much been their goal from the beginning, whereas IE's goal is to take over market.
Mozilla is also better than IE for another reason: Good PNG support.
I have 5 windows open at the moment, which is less than I normally have. Curently has a 64M footprint, which is taking into account the java_vm (which is bloated and the cause of all crashes I have encountered with 0.9.6) and it stays up far longer than IE 5.5 on another box. Renders very quickly (full page load in 2 seconds on the lan, including all graphics and content - while IE and NS4.7 take about 5 seconds)
Launch time is also relatively short, especially in comparison with IE if Explorer is not your shell and not loading at start up and staying resident which is why everything thinks IE is so quick.
Mozilla is also conclusivly more stable than Netscape's 4.x series so if you wouldn't mind not being an idiot for a moment and actually looking at the facts and.. oh I don't know.. use it (which is obvious that you haven't recently based on your statements) I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it.
I'm not giving much thought to replying to an AC,
What part of Mozilla is ugly?
Most end users (especially one who used Netscape 6/6.1) don't even understand anything beyond what they see. Therefor using your analogy is incorrect, they care about looks and Mozilla delivers fully in that aspect, and many more.
Pity you are posting AC... you could show the world how stupid your comment was.
Sure, I tried Mozilla, and Netscape 6.0 and 6.1. Quite honestly, they're crap. They're slow, not particularly stable, and ugly.
Now.. which chrome is ugly? Calling a completely skinnable browser ugly doesn't make sense.. sorry.
And, Mozilla reports less crashes than netscape 4.x ever had - so they are actually an improvement above Netscape even when you used it.
As far as speed, I'm not sure what you are doing wrong but it is very quick. I use Mozilla extensively and exclusively and it is exceptionally fast. As far as your memory foot print comment, you realize you can't accurately guage IE's memory foot print? It's threaded into the shell, too.
Mozilla still has a way to go, but anyone who thinks it's slow, ugly, and unstable obviously hasn't used it recently. Or ever, feel free to prove me wrong - but it runs as fast (faster than IE on another box of the same specs) as I could want it to.
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Please choose me to be a beta tester. Not only have I purchased about 6 copies of Warcraft 2 (For me, for friends, more for me after first two copies were stolen at a lan party, one more for battle.net), 1 copy of Warcraft 1, the Warcraft Battle Chest (Just cause) and Starcraft, and the Starcraft Battle Chest but I have an unhealthy addiction to strategy games. I require little sleep, and have submitted a bug report for starcraft already.
I promise to give you my first born child for a chance to be a beta tester.
Balanced as starcraft expansion. The first edition was not so balanced. War2 however was superbly balanced based off min/lumber.
I am twitching in anticipation.
Some Korean based company. I really could care less, it expires next month. My guess is they are just going to let it expire as it still hasn't sold. If not, then I'm really not worried about it. It looks like that project isn't going to go through anyway (Damn!)
:)
But thanks though
It took them this many years to realize that they were just wasting their money. I'm currently waiting out on a domain because the guy is claiming that he has received bids for $900 for the domain so I have to beat that. I told him, "Sure - send me proof of one claim that I can verify and I will gladly bid higher to secure the domain name." It successfully terminated the conversation.
I think it's really funny that all these nimrods are finally starting to realize that hoarding domain names only works if you get things like 'doctor.com'. I just have to laugh at all those folks who helped keep the registrars business flowing.
I know a lot of people here don't want to hear this, but XP is not a bad OS. As for your comparisons to 2k, I'm not sure exactly why you're making them; XP is meant to upgrade 98 users, not 2k ones. I'm not sure why you'd upgrade from 2k in the first place.
Please read my original post. I did not upgrade from 2K. They are on two different laptops. I have a 2K Pro, she has an XP.
She's been having a world of problems with it, and has since started bugging me about getting a dual boot of Linux on there. Linux can play games, just not all games. But, that's the whole reason why I dual boot 2K on my laptop - starcraft and Counter Strike, and because I'm having difficulties w/ the 2.4.17 kernel and the USB Mass Storage so I'm using it at the moment to update my archos mp3 player.. but I will always go back to linux or BSD. As for XP.. my assessment of it will stand that it is absolute shit. After spending about 4 days trying to get a netgear MA401 802.11 card to work in it to no avail and then popping the same card into my laptop and having it work w/o any configuration changes from my linksys card, I gave up.
Since you've never used it, you don't know how customizable it is. You can also revert to the 'classic' interface if you want.
You sure can, a nice little slider:
Ugly |-----------o| Abomination to all that is Good and Right.
Not to start a flame war, but we just purchased a new laptop with XP for my girlfriend and so far XP is USDA Grade A Pure Pile O' Shit.
It's features? Like what? Popping up applications it thinks you need? Like Media player which is worse than that damned paper clip but insists on popping up all the time. Or it's network configuration which breaks any connection it did have (What? No DHCP, oh well.. let me kill your settings and turn it back on!)
As far as speed goes, it's definitely not a speed improvement over 2K (I dual boot 2KPro on my laptop for games) on comparable hardware (my CPU is slower, yet I can do 99% of things noticably faster on 2K than on her XP box.) and as for stability goes, we've already had 3 crashes in which it sends the core file so M$ can figure out why their kernel keeps dumping.
I also hear I'm not alone in that experience. So, glad it worked for you. For me, I stick to my Linux desktop - which is very simple for me to setup. And I'm not blinded by the ugliness that is XP.
This is why you shouldn't post while tired and preoccupied..
I'm not 20.
I'm 21.
Not necessarily. I'm 20 at the moment, and started working in the computer industry part time since 15. However, I also know that any one 20 and under claiming they have more than a few years of experience is seriously lacking in a lot of other ways. Ones in which I would fire someone working for me.
I think the utmost descrimination is the fact that this 19 year old probably has a lot of other issues that he doesn't see. If people who know you, still think you are a kid -- you are doing something wrong. I've worked with younger people, and done stupid things myself. It's just called growing up. The point of all the nay-sayers is that Professional Experience is the summation of full-time dedicated work for a professional environment. This does not involve your ma and pa, nor does it involve your local computer shop hiring you under the table.
That's why my CV has two sections, "Recreational Work History" and "Professional Work History". Most kids I have met (under 20) that are working claiming multiple years of experience are absolute dumbasses. However, I have met a few people who are genuinly good.. they are few and far between though.
I have worked on physics models for atmospheric effects in a flight sim for the Kitty Hawk project. There are a lot of issues surrounding flying a plane on mars, but it is not much different.
The biggest obstacle (and one in which I haven't read yet.. so I'm posting) is the differences in speed of sound. People say, "Get bigger wings" and "fly faster" unfortunately this doesn't work as well as would be expected. You basically have to design your plane to fly super-sonic when it is travelling roughly 180 knotts (Martial sea level vs. earth equiv is around 100K feet, reduction in speed of sound..don't remember the exact numbers -- this was years ago that I worked on the project)
This isn't the easiest of tasks, but, they did it. - the major obstacle the project faced (we did the sim, as show in the picture - CMEX did all the "real" work) faced was efficient fuel. The final engine was Hydrazine powered, as the whole plane had to be exceptionally light weight and cover a large stretch of valles marineris.
Anyway, it's been designed for years now... hope you found my drivel interesting.
And yes, it is cool to work at NASA.
I hear you on that one. I just wish that those members of my family (extended) that still buy me (thankfully none this year) gifts would just realize I really don't need baby books anymore, or a dozen other assorted crap-ass-gifts that for some reason they feel compelled to purchase that provide absolutely no use or entertainment. If they actually purchased the gifts instead of re-wrapping gifts (that really pisses me off) it would work awesome, and I don't see anything wrong with a gift exchange idea.
I will put the same amount of thought into returning the gift as they did giving it to me. The small portion of my family that does care about me always gives me gifts, while it may not be something I asked for/wanted, is always something I can use because they thought about who I was.
The spirit of giving has gotten so bastardized by commerce and greed that instead of giving a gift to show the person you care about them you give them shit to show them they acknowledge you are part of the family. Save it, stuff it, I don't give a shit.Proof is that this place exists. If people actually sat down and cared there would be no market for this. Morally I hate that this place is here, but I think it is highly justified. Unfortunately I also believe that this will spawn more feelings that it's ok to give stupid-ass-fecal-matter-gifts. I'm ok with that.. Christmas has been fucked since Coca Cola.
DVD + line double + HDTV = beautiful.
You don't need to worry much about anything else. 99% of store demos of the capabilities of HDTVs are shown off that setup. Most HDTVs that you'd find at $ENV{FAVORITE_ELECTRONIC_STORE} have built in line doublers now.. Which also helps analog signals not looking like absolute shit.
That's why I'm avoiding HDTV, every analog signal that comes in looks horrid. I'm not worried about cable, but my video camera/vcr/old video games (I still play SNES Mario Kart)
Till that gets better or I can get the original Mario Kart (with better graphics, but same play) I'll avoid HDTVs.
Sure - but think about how easy it would be to detect what people have money while sitting on a train with this. You don't need to lie in wait at a store front anymore.. criminal innovation.
As for cash, yeah it is stupid. I don't understand the whole hype with the euro anyway because europa has a larger deployment of smart cards than US does. That's what I want for christmas.. smart cards everywhere. Yeah, you can still be tracked but you can with a debit card too. I bet we all have national ID cards before a smart card. *sigh*
And then only people crowded with you on the tubes could find out. Brilliant!
So, a store owner that is on his way to the royal bank doesn't have to worry about the people around him that could find out and mug him.
I really think that the money should just emit a signal up to the clouds, like the bat signal or something, when the person carrying the money is in trouble. Now, the obvious market is just lead wallets!
Sorry, but I don't understand how you can label that as secure. I'm honestly not intending this as troll/flame, but it seems that security on a unix box is somewhat of a misnomer amongst the actual industry.
My methodology (and I have done direct work on this) is if it is not secure from root on the local box, it's not secure.. The software should maintain a level of segregation from that single server.
Let me give you a little bit of insight for your next run at it - variable key/algo encryption. Ensure that soon as it starts, the keys rotate and only a user logging in is able to restore the key hash properly (this can be done a number of different ways) and also ensures that only users looking at it know the key, and if you implement in a certain manner who looked at what, based off key history. It relies on a high degree of entropy, and can be CPU exhaustive but it is well worth it, imo. Being root on a box should not make any app insecure, and I hate seeing stuff like that. Employees are one thing, you can trust them. Maybe I'm missing something in your algorithm.. but it just seems that it's secure in-concept, that no one decides to attack your server. And also, it's not like the evil-ones have to know a whole heck of a lot to dump the memory of the process and work on it later, along with your CC database.
I love America.
.. feeds on Life .. feeds on Life ..
Ma Bell gets broken up.
Baby Bells join into SBC.
Remaining AT&T collapses under it's own weight (and stupidity).
SBC swallows AT&T.
Life
Comcast issues a more clear statement, saying they had brought AT&T flowers. The type of flowers were thought to be tulips, falling in with the funeral metephor.
Upon further inquiry, it seems AT&T has decided that they really just suck at being a large company and had to split once again, this time under their own influence, into several smaller companies.
If only certain other companies could make the same blundering mistakes to cause large debt requiring spinoffs....
Don't give up on it man. The key to social success all depends upon your desire for it. People become friends because of synnergy. There is no more scientific of a field than the art of mastering speech.
For anyone who doesn't think that speech is a science; look up natural language programming. You can make a person feel exactly how you want them to feel with the mention of few words that are correctly formed. It's the one true science that I love. True programming because it's a true variable state machine. I don't view it as manipulation or some other immoral act because it all boils down to synnergy and the other persons desires. Learn how to speak and be a good friend, some people it comes natural too - others work at it; in the end you will benefit if you learn this skill. You won't have friends if you have nothing to offer them. Make sure you offer the counter-balance that you are willing to deliver. Having said all that, I'm a natural programmer. It's what I've always done and what I love to do. Programming a computer is always the same, dealign with people is a constant challenge and always requires problem solving and that is why it is so exciting and fun.
Also, if you want to get a good grip on your body -- I recommend martial arts. Not only will it teach you to be comfortable with your movement inside your own flesh-suit but you will get over feeling awkward in your appearance around other people. If you are new to it, I would recommend Aikido or Tai Chi as they are not too physically demanding. For a notch up in intensity go for Tae Kwon Do or Karate, then Jiu Jitsu or another Brazilian art (very aerobic) and my personal favorite for a exhausting and strenous workout go for Kung Fu.
On a side note, I was tested for retardatation because I didn't play well with others and would never listen to the teacher. I came back from the tests with an impressive IQ on a piece of paper and a grade advance.
Having a LFS build would have probably helped the developers find the problem and make the build more robust - I hope you submitted a bug report for it.
:)
But, if you haven't been able to get a working recent build of Mozilla running it seems less than likely to be able to perform an accurate analysis of Mozilla. Konquerer I think is absolutely great for doing HTML reports and such - as for the LFS, I have been thinking of spending some time doing something with it; how is it faring for you?
Back to mozilla, you really should try using it if you are open to it -- it's came a very long way in the last few months. As I've said before, I use it exclusively now (Skypilot is also a very quick theme) and am happily hacking away on it. It's CSS2 support makes me a happy hacker.. even when I hate doing web-based user interfaces.
Try a recent build, much much much more stable (since 0.9.4 - on my laptop I had some weird issues with it, but otherwise it's been very solid) and it is pretty speedy since 0.9.2 - Opera is still the choice for quick browsing though, but I just can't get past the interface.
;)
As for the search pane, yeah - I am with you, that irritated the living hell out of me.. till I disabled it 2 minutes later
hehe, I love AC's. You whole argument is shot, assuming you are the same person as above. IE5 is what was requested, and that is what I showed.
Sorry if you can't handle you are just plain wrong, I'd rather be a sad man that's right - then a poor fool who won't admit when wrong.
The fact is IE had to work to come to standards compliancy because of competition of Opera and Mozilla. You want lightweight and standard you use Opera, you want full feature and standard you use Mozilla. End of story. IE is only for the drooling Mom'n'Pops of America in reality. They are the ones who are behind. The fact that IE6 has a 'main point' of being standards compliant is proof of this. IE's share is slipping, Mozilla and Opera are on the rise. You know why? Because it works the way it is supposed to.
YHL, HAND.
Sure, here you go.
The last one is especially nice, because it's a very objective review against Mozilla - showing while IE gets things "mostly right", Mozilla does it to the spec. Which has pretty much been their goal from the beginning, whereas IE's goal is to take over market.
Mozilla is also better than IE for another reason: Good PNG support.
*cough* bullshit *cough*
I have 5 windows open at the moment, which is less than I normally have. Curently has a 64M footprint, which is taking into account the java_vm (which is bloated and the cause of all crashes I have encountered with 0.9.6) and it stays up far longer than IE 5.5 on another box. Renders very quickly (full page load in 2 seconds on the lan, including all graphics and content - while IE and NS4.7 take about 5 seconds)
Launch time is also relatively short, especially in comparison with IE if Explorer is not your shell and not loading at start up and staying resident which is why everything thinks IE is so quick.
Mozilla is also conclusivly more stable than Netscape's 4.x series so if you wouldn't mind not being an idiot for a moment and actually looking at the facts and.. oh I don't know.. use it (which is obvious that you haven't recently based on your statements) I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it.
I'm not giving much thought to replying to an AC,
What part of Mozilla is ugly?
Most end users (especially one who used Netscape 6/6.1) don't even understand anything beyond what they see. Therefor using your analogy is incorrect, they care about looks and Mozilla delivers fully in that aspect, and many more.
Pity you are posting AC... you could show the world how stupid your comment was.
Sure, I tried Mozilla, and Netscape 6.0 and 6.1. Quite honestly, they're crap. They're slow, not particularly stable, and ugly.
Now.. which chrome is ugly? Calling a completely skinnable browser ugly doesn't make sense.. sorry.
And, Mozilla reports less crashes than netscape 4.x ever had - so they are actually an improvement above Netscape even when you used it.
As far as speed, I'm not sure what you are doing wrong but it is very quick. I use Mozilla extensively and exclusively and it is exceptionally fast. As far as your memory foot print comment, you realize you can't accurately guage IE's memory foot print? It's threaded into the shell, too.
Mozilla still has a way to go, but anyone who thinks it's slow, ugly, and unstable obviously hasn't used it recently. Or ever, feel free to prove me wrong - but it runs as fast (faster than IE on another box of the same specs) as I could want it to.