Lower power consumption is the key. All the effort towards building less thirsty portables will certainly be of much use when the real concern about power consumption comes. If the power grid is stressed to its limits one can expect frequent blackouts, in which case a computer demanding half as much power shall stay alive twice as long on the same no-break.
Apple is currently the only company other than Windows, Inc. with a viable consumer operating system.
I have to agree with that. Let me tell you a OS consumer story.
Now there is this guy who has 3 children. 3 beautiful girls, 16/14/11 years old. They happen to have a i486DX2/66 box with Win95 installed. Every now and then they phone their dad saying Windows is behaving weird, if he could come over and fix whatever is going wrong. And their dad goes and does whatever is possible to do without a Windows CD, for that is an old second-hand computer. And they go on using it, with a picture of their cat as a wallpaper, lots of sounds of their voices in place of those dings, Internet and MS-Office for their school work.
One day they call their dad, Windows just won't boot, except in security mode, and security mode is useless for children. No CD, no clue as to what is going wrong, dad has a Windows 98 CD but it is installed in another machine already, and it's a no-no, for dad wants to teach by example, their dad asks if they would consider using Linux, "you know, that system I have in my computer, with all those games you like so much to play when you come over..."
"Will we have Internet? Will we have ICQ? Will we be able to open files from our friends and do our homework? Can we print? Can we have those graphics? Will we have multimedia? Will we have to call you every week to fix things up?"
Dad scans the possibilities: Distro CD's on hand, free to use. Netscape, LICQ, StarOffice (which dad installed at home but used only once). Lots of drivers. KDE, Gnome. X11Amp. Stability. Piece of cake. Interestingly, those eyes really shined when dad said each one would have their own password and their own 100% private home directory!
Dad picks up the box. "Back in a week", for dad is busy...
Install CD in, hmmmm, old BIOS, where is that freaking boot floppy. No idea, RTFM, dad makes a new floppy. Boot, can't find CD drive. 2 hours (dad is *lame*) to figure out the CD drive cable must be connected direcly to the mother board, not to the sound card, and the fact that Windows didn't bother was because Windows is lame as well. Install (taylored, of course, dad likes to think he's cool), won't fit in 540MB. Dad has another one. Two HD's, install, won't fit. RTFM,/usr is the disk hog, install everything but/usr in hda,/usr in hdb. 256 colors. Great! It did better than that in Windows, so it must do in Linux. No driver, FCC # can't be found in website. Dad has read Cryptonomicon and is afraid of having the monitor blown in his already not-so-Brad-Pitty face. 800x640 16bit, won't risk going further. Man, KDE crawls in a 32MB RAM 486, doesn't it? Install StarOffice...
Too slow to be usable. Dad goes shopping for used stuff, for budget is tight right now. Picks up a 586/133 mother board and a 1.2GB Bigfoot. What? Earthquake? Will have to do with 32MB...
Install again, slow but usable. Install StarOffice (8 times, for there are 3 users and something didn't work the first time) and dad hopes for the best when the time comes for the children to use it. Dad picks up funny passwords, calls children to take a look, explains that KDE is fine for everything, but to use StarOffice they'd better type "startx" and so on, for memory has become expensive because of forces of nature... "Now I'll show you how to mount CD's and floppies..." Children find these a "bit more complicated than Windows"...
"Now, children, the Internet. Remember Trumpet, which dad had in his old notebook? So this kppp is just about the same, you connect first and then browse". Dad fires up Netscape. Fonts suck, won't cut it for children. RTFM, no mention to fonts. Call support, "out of basic scope", at least didn't tell dad to reinstall Linux...
RTFLDP. Goes to MS site and downloads Verdana, Georgia and Andale Mono (dad loves Georgia, dad reads Slashdot in Georgia). 2 different recipes, no one works. Finds another, nope. A fourth one, works. Two weeks now, one week late.
Install real fonts (xfs still refuses to serve Andale Mono), configure desktop, now looks nice at last. Fires up Netscape again. What? Can't resize TrueType fonts on-the-fly? Someone is lame, may be dad, may be not... Well, dad remembers reading something about changing some line in some file from 120 to 140, so as to have larger fonts.
Where is the printer driver? Too low end... Linux is too sexy for that printer. Dad finds a recipe in the Internet, will try it today. Thanks god dad had a real modem and ripped that PCI card off.
Now dad has to figure out a way to create a modem group so as all 3 children can surf without being root. Dad knows there are evil people reading this, or not reading this, so he will spend the night reading about ipchains and stuff, for dad is beginning to like this Unix thing, which he tought was so damn complicated 6 months ago when he installed it in a P400 for the first time and spent so much time to get GNU tools up and running. Dad has learned a lot in the last 3 weeks, for this is the short version.
Bottom line: if a consumer wants to try Linux on his/her own, better pick up a distro that comes with a dedicated daddy or a nerd son included (which can be in the form of decent customer support service). Otherwise, this user is going to learn quite a bit
People seem to think that the applications group has been secretly waiting for the day that they could port Office to Unix.
I've been thinking about this for some time too. Why isn't there (really?) a MS-Linux. Why not port MS-Office to Linux or *BSD? And why open-source programmers in general seem to try to stay away from Windows?
One of the main concerns one has upon deciding on what OS to use is app availability. Porting Office to Linux would be a dumb move from MS, for it would plug one of Linux's holes. Now, in a splitted MS scenario, with Mac OS X being a strong contender, maybe it would be interesting for them to do whatever they can to prevent Mac OS X from taking a larger market share, and that may mean writing(or releasing?) a Linux port of Office. You know, divide and rule. Releasing a Linux distro would be an easy and very sinergic (sp?) action. And, yes, I tried StarOffice, its problems are well known, but the initiative points in the right direction. Now, is Sun making money with it? Do their business depend in any degree on fixing whatever may be wrong with SO? Wouldn't a stable port of MS-Office be good for a lot of us? Wouldn't MS make money out of it? I'm ok with paying for software.
Now, why do we see so little Windows open source software (as compared to Linux/BSD)? Would that be because most Linux apps are poorly coded and consequently hard to port? I doubt so. Would it be lack of tools? Nope. Strategy? No either. I really think it's almost religious. More than once I saw a project website where the project leader says he/she just doesn't care to port to Windows because it's just lame or something. MacBeth is one that springs to mind. I don't have a problem with that, but is that intelligent?
Of course it is *way* better to have the normal installation CD! My comment was supposed to be sarcastic. The point is that the support person was clueless about what was going on, so he picked the default answer. It was very simple, indeed. I couldn't make the system find my Borland C++ tools. The problem is that I use NT at work, you change the path and the next DOS session works with the new settings. I had no experience with Win98 or Win95. I knew these run on top of DOS (you MUST restart for changes in autoexec to take effect) but it didn't occour to me at that moment due to my NT background. The support guy, OTOH, *had* to know that and have the answer at the tip of his tongue. The second time it had to do with a WinPrinter (Lexmark 1100, very low end) that I couldn't make work with DOS and wanted to know if there was any workaround. I just gave up and bought a new one.
"Essentially, Microsoft is providing the flexibility for OEMs to offer the recovery solution that will be best for their business and best for their customers,"
This is pretty accurate. I bought a computer last year with Windows98 pre-installed and I had to call MS customer service twice in the first month. Tha answer was the same in both cases: "reinstall Windows". So, if there is no other way around when you face any problem (according to my experience with MS CS), I thank them for making it easier by providing an image CD, so as we have to click fewer times to install their OS.
And yes, Compaq has been doing this for years. I had to buy 50 floppies to back up an installation in 1995
So now fools will be able to write Linux applications in less time, but anyone will as well. This will not only increase out options but hopefully will allow for better UI's by means of standardizing in well-designed components. Take GIMP for an example, a program with very good potential, but with a horrible (my oppinion) user interface. If it is well written (UI detached from logic) it can be "ported" to a better component library in two months.
Don't assume the problem with what you call "Windows world" is too many options. It works pretty much the other way around.
Wait a minute: your point seems to be that even if the attacked site wasn't responsible in any way for the attack, the ISP is entitled to stop hosting the site so as to protect other customers. Following this logic, in case a site attracts lots of traffic because of interesting content or is victim of a "/. attack", to the point of compromising the ISP's bandwidth, you would, as an ISP, just terminate the service?
If there is one single peripheral that hasn't changed much since the XT, that one is the keyboard. I think it is so important that I pay more attention to it when buying a box than I care about other things (yes, there *are* odd people in the world), because we stay in touch with it for so long and a bad keyboard can really screw you productivity. The article mentions both a tailless buttonless mouse and a "much improved" keyboard. I don't think being wireless as being much of an improvement, so I really hope Apple comes up with something really evolutionary.
You get used to it. Many years ago the company where I worked installed RISC6000 workstations as we shifted from the drawing board to CATIA (IBM/Dassault CAD software). These had both a mouse and a 4-button pointing device with a cross-hair in the middle that I have no idea how to call in English. I found it most awkward, both beacuse of the strange feel and because it mapped the tablet to to screen (you couldn't just raise your hand and start moving from a new position). After a few days, though, nobody wanted to use the mouse any more, for this thing gave us so much better control.
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And before you say that this can be done with an account as well, that's true, but I can always bitchslap anyone who pisses me off.
if you don't like it, well, it *is* my site after all, and banner ad revenues probably won't be affected that much by your loss.
Anyone with the guts to moderate this as Flamebait"?;^)
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I'm seriously considering getting rid of [AC option] altogether in order to cut down on the amount of spam this site gets hit by sometimes.
This is going to be a *long* thread.
I feel the main reason why the AC option should be kept is because sometimes people have very interesting information but are afraid that their employers would not like to see it made public. This has enrichened many discussions.
OTOH the noise is obviously damn too high, even at 1 threshold. Maybe you could keep at least the possibility of posting as AC for those who have accounts for more than a given time or above a certain karma.
Since/. is so great, why not let users configure their own color, or would that be too much load on the server...
No, it wouldn't. Actually, it would put *less* load on the server, as well as consume less badwidth.
The script should form the page with no formatting, just *valid* content. A.css would be generated on the fly, but this would be just a MySQL lookup, real fast.
Alternatively, the style sheet could be embedded in the document or stored as "username".css, being updated each time the user decides to change preferences.
Another thing that is really in need of change is the time it takes to download pages. Why throw everything together in a single table? Couldn't we have a table for the story, sections, links and preferences, and then have the posts outside tables, or arranged in strips of, say, 1 thread per table?
Before anyone asks:
I don't do this myself because I don't do perl.
I don't use light mode because I like the look of the formatted page.
On the other hand, I think what Bidder's Edge does is really indefensible from an ethical standpoint and I am rooting for them to lose because they are in effect *competing* with eBay for advertising dollars by *using* eBay's content. If you view content from ebay through Bidder's Edge, that's advertising revenue eBay doosn't get which BE does. Seems really lousy
I really find it hard to think that a site the size of eBay makes the bulk of its revenue out of add banners. IIRC, I saw eBay's owner on TV saying that most of their money comes from their cut from sales price. And this is precisely what they are loosing.
eBay is the best known auction site, so it's where most people go to when looking for something, or at least it's the first chice of most people. That means anything auctioned on eBay will have a potentially higher demand, thus sell for a higher price. That's what draws most sellers there, turning this into a vicious circle. Quite a comfortable situation...
What Bidders Edge is doing (and I think the name is quite appropriate here) is bringing competition to the game. Not competition on add revenues, but competition that comes from price comparison. And that's what eBay is pissed of with. This "resources" BS is nothing but a lawyers excuse.
Of course, the idea that someone can _patent_ something which was for the most part created naturally (my "favorite" being the companies patenting human genes) is, IMHO, riduculous.
Agreed. Even scarier than patenting something evolved out of artificial selection are patents of plants found in nature, like these, that could help a lot of people but are now "property" of someone.
I don't tink timothy asked if there's anything he doesn't know about IE. He asked if there's anything in IE that would make him wish for it.
Your words certainly don't dis NS or Mozilla. The problem is that calling the shell capacity of IE "wonderful" is like calling MS Outlook's capacity to trigger VB scripts in preview mode wonderful as well (though I know of the latter just from hearsay). These things could make life easier in a perfect or unconnected world, but that's not where we live.
I exclaimed "my God!" because such a comment came from someone who claimed to have developed apps for a large organization, thus, being supposed to know that this shell capacity is inherently dangerous.
I saw your point: the shell capacity is a fundamental difference. You didn't see mine: this is a dangerous feature.
Well Tim, one of the wonderful things about IE, apart from it works well as an HTML browser is the power you have in it as a program shell in an Intranet environment.
My God! Read your own words man! This wonderful Intranet program shell is an Internet program shell too! Does it ring any bell?
Netscape and Mozilla are trying to do a god job at precisely what they are supposed to do: browse the web.
I use a NT network in my job and I get a lot of e-mail. I didn't receive a single I LOVE YOU message, probably the sysadmins (about 200 km from where I am) are doing the same as you are.
Even so, Windows users are at disadvantage, for it leaves a bitter taste in or mounth like nobody loves us...:-(
With this letter, Andover.net's lawyers just told MS what their defense strategy will be, in case this issue makes it to court. That's th ekind of information I'd love to have if I were on MS's side.
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I don't speak Spanish, but I believe Duron means "big and hard" in Spanish, or at least an augmentative for "hard". Even worse, uh?
Lower power consumption is the key. All the effort towards building less thirsty portables will certainly be of much use when the real concern about power consumption comes. If the power grid is stressed to its limits one can expect frequent blackouts, in which case a computer demanding half as much power shall stay alive twice as long on the same no-break.
I even bought my own pinball table (Jackbot) a few months ago ...
Wouldn't a printer have been more useful?
I have to agree with that. Let me tell you a OS consumer story.
Now there is this guy who has 3 children. 3 beautiful girls, 16/14/11 years old. They happen to have a i486DX2/66 box with Win95 installed. Every now and then they phone their dad saying Windows is behaving weird, if he could come over and fix whatever is going wrong. And their dad goes and does whatever is possible to do without a Windows CD, for that is an old second-hand computer. And they go on using it, with a picture of their cat as a wallpaper, lots of sounds of their voices in place of those dings, Internet and MS-Office for their school work.
One day they call their dad, Windows just won't boot, except in security mode, and security mode is useless for children. No CD, no clue as to what is going wrong, dad has a Windows 98 CD but it is installed in another machine already, and it's a no-no, for dad wants to teach by example, their dad asks if they would consider using Linux, "you know, that system I have in my computer, with all those games you like so much to play when you come over..."
"Will we have Internet? Will we have ICQ? Will we be able to open files from our friends and do our homework? Can we print? Can we have those graphics? Will we have multimedia? Will we have to call you every week to fix things up?"
Dad scans the possibilities: Distro CD's on hand, free to use. Netscape, LICQ, StarOffice (which dad installed at home but used only once). Lots of drivers. KDE, Gnome. X11Amp. Stability. Piece of cake. Interestingly, those eyes really shined when dad said each one would have their own password and their own 100% private home directory!
Dad picks up the box. "Back in a week", for dad is busy...
Install CD in, hmmmm, old BIOS, where is that freaking boot floppy. No idea, RTFM, dad makes a new floppy. Boot, can't find CD drive. 2 hours (dad is *lame*) to figure out the CD drive cable must be connected direcly to the mother board, not to the sound card, and the fact that Windows didn't bother was because Windows is lame as well. Install (taylored, of course, dad likes to think he's cool), won't fit in 540MB. Dad has another one. Two HD's, install, won't fit. RTFM, /usr is the disk hog, install everything but /usr in hda, /usr in hdb. 256 colors. Great! It did better than that in Windows, so it must do in Linux. No driver, FCC # can't be found in website. Dad has read Cryptonomicon and is afraid of having the monitor blown in his already not-so-Brad-Pitty face. 800x640 16bit, won't risk going further. Man, KDE crawls in a 32MB RAM 486, doesn't it? Install StarOffice...
Too slow to be usable. Dad goes shopping for used stuff, for budget is tight right now. Picks up a 586/133 mother board and a 1.2GB Bigfoot. What? Earthquake? Will have to do with 32MB...
Install again, slow but usable. Install StarOffice (8 times, for there are 3 users and something didn't work the first time) and dad hopes for the best when the time comes for the children to use it. Dad picks up funny passwords, calls children to take a look, explains that KDE is fine for everything, but to use StarOffice they'd better type "startx" and so on, for memory has become expensive because of forces of nature... "Now I'll show you how to mount CD's and floppies..." Children find these a "bit more complicated than Windows"...
"Now, children, the Internet. Remember Trumpet, which dad had in his old notebook? So this kppp is just about the same, you connect first and then browse". Dad fires up Netscape. Fonts suck, won't cut it for children. RTFM, no mention to fonts. Call support, "out of basic scope", at least didn't tell dad to reinstall Linux...
RTFLDP. Goes to MS site and downloads Verdana, Georgia and Andale Mono (dad loves Georgia, dad reads Slashdot in Georgia). 2 different recipes, no one works. Finds another, nope. A fourth one, works. Two weeks now, one week late.
Install real fonts (xfs still refuses to serve Andale Mono), configure desktop, now looks nice at last. Fires up Netscape again. What? Can't resize TrueType fonts on-the-fly? Someone is lame, may be dad, may be not... Well, dad remembers reading something about changing some line in some file from 120 to 140, so as to have larger fonts.
Where is the printer driver? Too low end... Linux is too sexy for that printer. Dad finds a recipe in the Internet, will try it today. Thanks god dad had a real modem and ripped that PCI card off.
Now dad has to figure out a way to create a modem group so as all 3 children can surf without being root. Dad knows there are evil people reading this, or not reading this, so he will spend the night reading about ipchains and stuff, for dad is beginning to like this Unix thing, which he tought was so damn complicated 6 months ago when he installed it in a P400 for the first time and spent so much time to get GNU tools up and running. Dad has learned a lot in the last 3 weeks, for this is the short version.
Bottom line: if a consumer wants to try Linux on his/her own, better pick up a distro that comes with a dedicated daddy or a nerd son included (which can be in the form of decent customer support service). Otherwise, this user is going to learn quite a bit
I've been thinking about this for some time too. Why isn't there (really?) a MS-Linux. Why not port MS-Office to Linux or *BSD? And why open-source programmers in general seem to try to stay away from Windows?
One of the main concerns one has upon deciding on what OS to use is app availability. Porting Office to Linux would be a dumb move from MS, for it would plug one of Linux's holes. Now, in a splitted MS scenario, with Mac OS X being a strong contender, maybe it would be interesting for them to do whatever they can to prevent Mac OS X from taking a larger market share, and that may mean writing(or releasing?) a Linux port of Office. You know, divide and rule. Releasing a Linux distro would be an easy and very sinergic (sp?) action. And, yes, I tried StarOffice, its problems are well known, but the initiative points in the right direction. Now, is Sun making money with it? Do their business depend in any degree on fixing whatever may be wrong with SO? Wouldn't a stable port of MS-Office be good for a lot of us? Wouldn't MS make money out of it? I'm ok with paying for software.
Now, why do we see so little Windows open source software (as compared to Linux/BSD)? Would that be because most Linux apps are poorly coded and consequently hard to port? I doubt so. Would it be lack of tools? Nope. Strategy? No either. I really think it's almost religious. More than once I saw a project website where the project leader says he/she just doesn't care to port to Windows because it's just lame or something. MacBeth is one that springs to mind. I don't have a problem with that, but is that intelligent?
You're kidding me! That will bring down a windows box? Ha
Nope. I can click that link all day long and my NT box won't crash. Well, not for *that* reason...
You must be one of those...
Wow, wow!
Of course it is *way* better to have the normal installation CD! My comment was supposed to be sarcastic. The point is that the support person was clueless about what was going on, so he picked the default answer. It was very simple, indeed. I couldn't make the system find my Borland C++ tools. The problem is that I use NT at work, you change the path and the next DOS session works with the new settings. I had no experience with Win98 or Win95. I knew these run on top of DOS (you MUST restart for changes in autoexec to take effect) but it didn't occour to me at that moment due to my NT background. The support guy, OTOH, *had* to know that and have the answer at the tip of his tongue. The second time it had to do with a WinPrinter (Lexmark 1100, very low end) that I couldn't make work with DOS and wanted to know if there was any workaround. I just gave up and bought a new one.
This is pretty accurate. I bought a computer last year with Windows98 pre-installed and I had to call MS customer service twice in the first month. Tha answer was the same in both cases: "reinstall Windows". So, if there is no other way around when you face any problem (according to my experience with MS CS), I thank them for making it easier by providing an image CD, so as we have to click fewer times to install their OS.
And yes, Compaq has been doing this for years. I had to buy 50 floppies to back up an installation in 1995
OK, you *are* being elitist. :)
So now fools will be able to write Linux applications in less time, but anyone will as well. This will not only increase out options but hopefully will allow for better UI's by means of standardizing in well-designed components. Take GIMP for an example, a program with very good potential, but with a horrible (my oppinion) user interface. If it is well written (UI detached from logic) it can be "ported" to a better component library in two months.
Don't assume the problem with what you call "Windows world" is too many options. It works pretty much the other way around.
Wait a minute: your point seems to be that even if the attacked site wasn't responsible in any way for the attack, the ISP is entitled to stop hosting the site so as to protect other customers. Following this logic, in case a site attracts lots of traffic because of interesting content or is victim of a " /. attack", to the point of compromising the ISP's bandwidth, you would, as an ISP, just terminate the service?
If there is one single peripheral that hasn't changed much since the XT, that one is the keyboard. I think it is so important that I pay more attention to it when buying a box than I care about other things (yes, there *are* odd people in the world), because we stay in touch with it for so long and a bad keyboard can really screw you productivity. The article mentions both a tailless buttonless mouse and a "much improved" keyboard. I don't think being wireless as being much of an improvement, so I really hope Apple comes up with something really evolutionary.
You get used to it. Many years ago the company where I worked installed RISC6000 workstations as we shifted from the drawing board to CATIA (IBM/Dassault CAD software). These had both a mouse and a 4-button pointing device with a cross-hair in the middle that I have no idea how to call in English. I found it most awkward, both beacuse of the strange feel and because it mapped the tablet to to screen (you couldn't just raise your hand and start moving from a new position). After a few days, though, nobody wanted to use the mouse any more, for this thing gave us so much better control.
And before you say that this can be done with an account as well, that's true, but I can always bitchslap anyone who pisses me off.
if you don't like it, well, it *is* my site after all, and banner ad revenues probably won't be affected that much by your loss.
Anyone with the guts to moderate this as Flamebait"?;^)
This is going to be a *long* thread.
I feel the main reason why the AC option should be kept is because sometimes people have very interesting information but are afraid that their employers would not like to see it made public. This has enrichened many discussions.
OTOH the noise is obviously damn too high, even at 1 threshold. Maybe you could keep at least the possibility of posting as AC for those who have accounts for more than a given time or above a certain karma.
One of these days some fscking retarded at USPTO will grant a pat on sex, then you americans will need a license to get laid!
Well, floppy it is not.
No, it wouldn't. Actually, it would put *less* load on the server, as well as consume less badwidth.
The script should form the page with no formatting, just *valid* content. A .css would be generated on the fly, but this would be just a MySQL lookup, real fast.
Alternatively, the style sheet could be embedded in the document or stored as "username".css, being updated each time the user decides to change preferences.
Another thing that is really in need of change is the time it takes to download pages. Why throw everything together in a single table? Couldn't we have a table for the story, sections, links and preferences, and then have the posts outside tables, or arranged in strips of, say, 1 thread per table?
Before anyone asks:
I really find it hard to think that a site the size of eBay makes the bulk of its revenue out of add banners. IIRC, I saw eBay's owner on TV saying that most of their money comes from their cut from sales price. And this is precisely what they are loosing.
eBay is the best known auction site, so it's where most people go to when looking for something, or at least it's the first chice of most people. That means anything auctioned on eBay will have a potentially higher demand, thus sell for a higher price. That's what draws most sellers there, turning this into a vicious circle. Quite a comfortable situation...
What Bidders Edge is doing (and I think the name is quite appropriate here) is bringing competition to the game. Not competition on add revenues, but competition that comes from price comparison. And that's what eBay is pissed of with. This "resources" BS is nothing but a lawyers excuse.
Of course, the idea that someone can _patent_ something which was for the most part created naturally (my "favorite" being the companies patenting human genes) is, IMHO, riduculous.
Agreed. Even scarier than patenting something evolved out of artificial selection are patents of plants found in nature, like these, that could help a lot of people but are now "property" of someone.
Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
This is the funniest thing I've read this month!
I don't tink timothy asked if there's anything he doesn't know about IE. He asked if there's anything in IE that would make him wish for it.
Your words certainly don't dis NS or Mozilla. The problem is that calling the shell capacity of IE "wonderful" is like calling MS Outlook's capacity to trigger VB scripts in preview mode wonderful as well (though I know of the latter just from hearsay). These things could make life easier in a perfect or unconnected world, but that's not where we live.
I exclaimed "my God!" because such a comment came from someone who claimed to have developed apps for a large organization, thus, being supposed to know that this shell capacity is inherently dangerous.
I saw your point: the shell capacity is a fundamental difference. You didn't see mine: this is a dangerous feature.
Well Tim, one of the wonderful things about IE, apart from it works well as an HTML browser is the power you have in it as a program shell in an Intranet environment.
My God! Read your own words man! This wonderful Intranet program shell is an Internet program shell too! Does it ring any bell?
Netscape and Mozilla are trying to do a god job at precisely what they are supposed to do: browse the web.
Well, with 32 bytes of RAM they will definetely need additional memory!
I use a NT network in my job and I get a lot of e-mail. I didn't receive a single I LOVE YOU message, probably the sysadmins (about 200 km from where I am) are doing the same as you are.
:-(
Even so, Windows users are at disadvantage, for it leaves a bitter taste in or mounth like nobody loves us...
With this letter, Andover.net's lawyers just told MS what their defense strategy will be, in case this issue makes it to court. That's th ekind of information I'd love to have if I were on MS's side.