I recommend Mozilla seaMonkey. It has the same core engine as Firefox 4, but with the functionality/appearance of classic Mozilla Netscape, and only half the memory usage of FF (~150,000 vs ~300,000 kilobytes).
Another browser Ive tried is Mozilla Songbird, which is really more of a music player than a browser but it's good for those of us who like noise in our ears all day long.
>>>I'm locked in to cassettes. >>>I also record TV shows to VHS tapes.
My brother! I've found you.;-) When my Metal tape deck died in 2003, so too did my recording off the FM radio. No great loss. There's really no need anymore, because you can rip any song you want off Youtube and store it on c: or on Googlemail.
But my Super VHS? Still use it. It creates perfect DVD-quality copies from my DTV converter box, which I can store indefinitely on my bookshelves.
Bluray's not owned by Sony (like beta was). Bluray is owned by multiple companies under the umbrella organization called "Bluray Consortium" similar to the DVD consortium.
BTW vhs was also proprietary. It was owned by JVC. I didn't see that our lives were harmed by that fact? And CDs and Cassettes are also proprietary. The world did not end when they were dominant.
Myth. VHS and Betamax have almost-identical specs (see below). In fact VHS has one advantage Betamax did not have: It could hold 10.5 hours per tape, while Betamax maxed-out at just 5.5 hours. VHS is the superior standard, and that's why it won.
VHS Bmax feature yes yes Hi-Fi sound? 250 240 Lines of horizontal resolution (420 for Super VHS) 3.0 3.0 Luma Bandwidth in megahertz (5.5 for Super VHS) 0.6 0.6 Chroma Bandwidth 10+ 5.5 Hours of record time
Oh and before you mention professional usage, that's BetaCAM not betamax. Completely different format (like Mac vs. PC vs. Amiga floppies). While Betacam was superior to VHS, Betamax was not. It was mostly identical, or inferior (in terms of record time).
>>>network have affiliation agreements that guarantees exclusivity over the TV screen
No they promise exclusivity over the *market*. For example WBAL-11 is guaranteed by NBC to be the only station serving the Baltimore market. It does not guarantee viewer eyeballs. For example you could get NBC from nearby Washington or York PA or Philly stations. Or hulu.com. Or nbc.com.
Is it? According to web statistics, Apple Safari users are only double the size of Opera users, and Opera routinely gets ignored. I'm not convinced ignoring Apple Mac users will be a travesty.
>>>Nothing short of armed revolution will fix that of which you speak.
Or we could just revoke all the Incorporation Licenses. What would remain are companies directly owned by an individual (or partners) who have to face full liability for their actions. It would also severely limit their ability to buy the government.
I've donated to plenty of sites (mostly art sites), but never to something that mattered. Maybe it's time to give them something, and since I don't fly the US can put me on their list. I don't give a damn.
BTW there are also a lot of people on "the left" who were pro-war. Go back and look at the Congressional Authorization for War in 2001. The Democrat representatives voted near-unanimously to go to war.
Even now the Democrats continue forward with war, even though they've held Congress since 2006 and could have ended the war anytime they felt like it. IMHO they should have ended it then, or immediately after Obama became inaugurated.
I wish you (and other posters) would stop saying "the right" as if we all think with one hive mind. I'm on the right (tenth amendment constitutionalist) but I'm anti-"war on terror", and always have been since the towers collapsed. Stereotyping is a bad thing to do.
If you want to denigrate, then be more specific with your targets. "The real problem is that the Bush/neoconservative Republicans from 2001 to 2008 were pro-war and..." i.e. Don't include me in your 2-minute hate, because I was NEVER sided with them. And there's lots more like me (Ron Paul, Judge Napolitano, Harry Browne, et cetera) who also were against the war.
>>>The sniper? It is war. Always been part of war, always will be.
The Iraqi husband and his wife would not have to dodge bullets or checkpoints or death, if the American soldiers had *stayed home*. The first act to prevent death, is to not start the war in the first place.
And no, I don't think the ~3000 killed on 9/11 was reason to go to war. We've had fifteen times that number die just from driving cars (this past decade).
>>>Nearly 70,000 of these casualties were civilians.
This is why I've been against the war since 9/12/01. Yes I'm Libertarian and registered Republican, but I'm still anti-Bush and anti-war. The ~4000 killed by Bin Laden is nothing compared to the number of innocents America has killed over the last decade. WE have become the evil we detested. We have become the true terrorists (scaring the shit out of Iraqi and Afghani civilians).
But of course Presidents Bush and Obama will spin this, and convince everyone that wikileaks is evil and "dangerous", rather than admit that the US Government was in the wrong.
Reading your post makes me think of the UK's "Free Satellite" service. I wish we had that in North America, and it makes me wonder why no provider ever copied the idea. You buy a dish. Aim it at the sky. And get ~40 channels totally free.
As for ABC/CBS/NBC:
When I read this article the first thing I thought was, "Maybe the FCC ought to revoke their licenses to public frequencies (2-51)." Not that I want that to lose free broadcast TV, but it would be a friendly reminder to the Big Three their position in the world (use of the People's airwaves is a *privilege* not a right).
1 was Analog 2 was GSM 2.5 was GPRS/EGPRS 3 was UMTS 3.5 was HSUPA+ 4 is LTE
Completely arbitrary. See the recent slashdot article about how companies kept redefining what "3G" meant. First it was GPRS. Then it was EGPRS. Then it was UMTS. They change definitions whenever the hell they feel like it.
Aside - I have an old phone called Ericsson DH668 which I think is analog only. Is this any good, or should I toss it?
>>>"...to launch the world's* first large-scale LTE network later this year." >>> >>>Ahem... Stockholm and Oslo already did that while back.
You missed the footnote: * (where "world" is defined as any territory equal or larger than the US). So that would exclude all the EU Member States/Cities. See how dishonest corporations are?
It didn't work the last time Sprint advertised a "3G" phone, sold it to customers, and then when they rolled-out their network, the phone did not work (incompatible). Doubtful a lawsuit would succeed this time either.
Not sure that it matters. When oil companies started marketing Type II Natural oil as "synthetic" the trade/standards committee called foul. So the oil companies went to court, found a judge to declare "if the oil acts like synthetic, even though it's natural, it can be marketed as 'synthetic' on the bottle." Now you can't be sure if your oil is a True Type IV synthetic built in a lab, or natural oil from the ground.
So the cellular companies will just find some compliant US judge to declare their service is "as fast as G4" and can be marketed as 'G4' on the label, without violating false advertising laws. Done deal.
>>>Why hasn't a PC in the living room taken off, and what can geeks to help make them more common among non-geeks?
Old-fashioned notions that computers don't belong in the living room. For example my friend's wife will NOT let him put his computer in the living room, and instead forces him to put the computer in the upstairs office. I told her I have my computer in my living room so I can surf & watch TV at the same time and she replied, "Yeah that's because you have no taste." I countered that she won't buy food at Walmart either, and she replied, "Well no. Food stores and clothing stores are not supposed to be inside the same building. It's wrong."
Anyway I know this is just anecdote, but I suspect a lot of consumers have the same old-fashioned concept of computers belonging in the office, not the living room.
And to answer your question: I suspect set-top boxes like WebTV, Boxee, and GoogleTV are the attempt to disguise computers in a "friendly" format that the home owner won't object to.
>>>From 1987 (VGA introduction) to 2006 (when HDTVs became affordable), PCs didn't have television output as a standard feature
I know you're talking about IBM PCs, but if you look at the "generic" PC, then Ataris, Commodores, and Amigas have been NTSC and PAL TV compatible since 1979, because their video output was based upon those standards.
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I recommend Mozilla seaMonkey. It has the same core engine as Firefox 4, but with the functionality/appearance of classic Mozilla Netscape, and only half the memory usage of FF (~150,000 vs ~300,000 kilobytes).
Another browser Ive tried is Mozilla Songbird, which is really more of a music player than a browser but it's good for those of us who like noise in our ears all day long.
>>>I'm locked in to cassettes.
>>>I also record TV shows to VHS tapes.
My brother! I've found you. ;-) When my Metal tape deck died in 2003, so too did my recording off the FM radio. No great loss. There's really no need anymore, because you can rip any song you want off Youtube and store it on c: or on Googlemail.
But my Super VHS? Still use it. It creates perfect DVD-quality copies from my DTV converter box, which I can store indefinitely on my bookshelves.
I hate vinyl. Most of my 80s collection is on cassette due to the better sound quality (no skipping, no static, no motor hum in the needle).
Well MP3 is already obsolete. The new dominant format is now AAC on iTunes, and its cousin AAC+SBR aka HE-AAC for net streaming.
Bluray's not owned by Sony (like beta was). Bluray is owned by multiple companies under the umbrella organization called "Bluray Consortium" similar to the DVD consortium.
BTW vhs was also proprietary. It was owned by JVC. I didn't see that our lives were harmed by that fact?
And CDs and Cassettes are also proprietary.
The world did not end when they were dominant.
>>>BetaMax ftw
Myth. VHS and Betamax have almost-identical specs (see below). In fact VHS has one advantage Betamax did not have: It could hold 10.5 hours per tape, while Betamax maxed-out at just 5.5 hours. VHS is the superior standard, and that's why it won.
VHS Bmax feature
yes yes Hi-Fi sound?
250 240 Lines of horizontal resolution (420 for Super VHS)
3.0 3.0 Luma Bandwidth in megahertz (5.5 for Super VHS)
0.6 0.6 Chroma Bandwidth
10+ 5.5 Hours of record time
Oh and before you mention professional usage, that's BetaCAM not betamax. Completely different format (like Mac vs. PC vs. Amiga floppies). While Betacam was superior to VHS, Betamax was not. It was mostly identical, or inferior (in terms of record time).
Hard to believe something that was once the #1 format for music (late 80s and early 90s) is now foreign to anyone college aged or younger.
>>>network have affiliation agreements that guarantees exclusivity over the TV screen
No they promise exclusivity over the *market*. For example WBAL-11 is guaranteed by NBC to be the only station serving the Baltimore market. It does not guarantee viewer eyeballs. For example you could get NBC from nearby Washington or York PA or Philly stations. Or hulu.com. Or nbc.com.
>>>The apple audience is just too big to ignore.
Is it? According to web statistics, Apple Safari users are only double the size of Opera users, and Opera routinely gets ignored. I'm not convinced ignoring Apple Mac users will be a travesty.
>>>Nothing short of armed revolution will fix that of which you speak.
Or we could just revoke all the Incorporation Licenses. What would remain are companies directly owned by an individual (or partners) who have to face full liability for their actions. It would also severely limit their ability to buy the government.
I thought Wikileaks donations were being blocked?
I've donated to plenty of sites (mostly art sites), but never to something that mattered. Maybe it's time to give them something, and since I don't fly the US can put me on their list. I don't give a damn.
I don't want our side to "lose"
I want our side to stop terrorizing Iraqis and Afghanis.
Big difference.
BTW there are also a lot of people on "the left" who were pro-war.
Go back and look at the Congressional Authorization for War in 2001.
The Democrat representatives voted near-unanimously to go to war.
Even now the Democrats continue forward with war, even though they've held Congress since 2006 and could have ended the war anytime they felt like it. IMHO they should have ended it then, or immediately after Obama became inaugurated.
>>>The real problem is that the right.....
I wish you (and other posters) would stop saying "the right" as if we all think with one hive mind. I'm on the right (tenth amendment constitutionalist) but I'm anti-"war on terror", and always have been since the towers collapsed. Stereotyping is a bad thing to do.
If you want to denigrate, then be more specific with your targets. "The real problem is that the Bush/neoconservative Republicans from 2001 to 2008 were pro-war and..." i.e. Don't include me in your 2-minute hate, because I was NEVER sided with them. And there's lots more like me (Ron Paul, Judge Napolitano, Harry Browne, et cetera) who also were against the war.
>>>The sniper? It is war. Always been part of war, always will be.
The Iraqi husband and his wife would not have to dodge bullets or checkpoints or death, if the American soldiers had *stayed home*. The first act to prevent death, is to not start the war in the first place.
And no, I don't think the ~3000 killed on 9/11 was reason to go to war.
We've had fifteen times that number die just from driving cars (this past decade).
Exactly.
>>>Nearly 70,000 of these casualties were civilians.
This is why I've been against the war since 9/12/01. Yes I'm Libertarian and registered Republican, but I'm still anti-Bush and anti-war. The ~4000 killed by Bin Laden is nothing compared to the number of innocents America has killed over the last decade. WE have become the evil we detested. We have become the true terrorists (scaring the shit out of Iraqi and Afghani civilians).
But of course Presidents Bush and Obama will spin this, and convince everyone that wikileaks is evil and "dangerous", rather than admit that the US Government was in the wrong.
Just watch.
Reading your post makes me think of the UK's "Free Satellite" service. I wish we had that in North America, and it makes me wonder why no provider ever copied the idea. You buy a dish. Aim it at the sky. And get ~40 channels totally free.
As for ABC/CBS/NBC:
When I read this article the first thing I thought was, "Maybe the FCC ought to revoke their licenses to public frequencies (2-51)." Not that I want that to lose free broadcast TV, but it would be a friendly reminder to the Big Three their position in the world (use of the People's airwaves is a *privilege* not a right).
1 was Analog
2 was GSM
2.5 was GPRS/EGPRS
3 was UMTS
3.5 was HSUPA+
4 is LTE
Completely arbitrary. See the recent slashdot article about how companies kept redefining what "3G" meant. First it was GPRS. Then it was EGPRS. Then it was UMTS. They change definitions whenever the hell they feel like it.
Aside - I have an old phone called Ericsson DH668 which I think is analog only.
Is this any good, or should I toss it?
>>>"...to launch the world's* first large-scale LTE network later this year."
>>>
>>>Ahem... Stockholm and Oslo already did that while back.
You missed the footnote: * (where "world" is defined as any territory equal or larger than the US). So that would exclude all the EU Member States/Cities. See how dishonest corporations are?
>>>class action lawsuit
It didn't work the last time Sprint advertised a "3G" phone, sold it to customers, and then when they rolled-out their network, the phone did not work (incompatible). Doubtful a lawsuit would succeed this time either.
Not sure that it matters. When oil companies started marketing Type II Natural oil as "synthetic" the trade/standards committee called foul. So the oil companies went to court, found a judge to declare "if the oil acts like synthetic, even though it's natural, it can be marketed as 'synthetic' on the bottle." Now you can't be sure if your oil is a True Type IV synthetic built in a lab, or natural oil from the ground.
So the cellular companies will just find some compliant US judge to declare their service is "as fast as G4" and can be marketed as 'G4' on the label, without violating false advertising laws. Done deal.
What are the side effects of having a computer that does not decode Java?
Nothing at all?
>>>The ratings provided by Nielsen et al only count live viewers.
False.
The HouseHold ratings only count live viewers, but the Same Day and 7-Day Ratings add the DVR homes to the total.
>>>Why hasn't a PC in the living room taken off, and what can geeks to help make them more common among non-geeks?
Old-fashioned notions that computers don't belong in the living room. For example my friend's wife will NOT let him put his computer in the living room, and instead forces him to put the computer in the upstairs office. I told her I have my computer in my living room so I can surf & watch TV at the same time and she replied, "Yeah that's because you have no taste." I countered that she won't buy food at Walmart either, and she replied, "Well no. Food stores and clothing stores are not supposed to be inside the same building. It's wrong."
Anyway I know this is just anecdote, but I suspect a lot of consumers have the same old-fashioned concept of computers belonging in the office, not the living room.
And to answer your question: I suspect set-top boxes like WebTV, Boxee, and GoogleTV are the attempt to disguise computers in a "friendly" format that the home owner won't object to.
>>>From 1987 (VGA introduction) to 2006 (when HDTVs became affordable), PCs didn't have television output as a standard feature
I know you're talking about IBM PCs, but if you look at the "generic" PC, then Ataris, Commodores, and Amigas have been NTSC and PAL TV compatible since 1979, because their video output was based upon those standards.