Except for that fact that Everquest servers are down for patching 90% of the time.
Actually, the Everquest EULA is very interesting. You have to agree to it _every_ single time you play the game. It becomes annoying, especially when you already have RSI from just playing the game. I have never read it once and have played many many times. I wonder what it says.....
So far, I've been impressed with NetApp. A demo at thier site showed that they knew what they were talking about and the cluster failover was awesome. Sun couldn't even show us that for some reason. We get in-house try-before-you-buy producst from both of them this week. Woop. Thanks for the opinion.
I'm not the best Spanish speaker in the world, but it looks like you don't really speak Espanol, but just translated what you wanted to say word-for-word. True?
You've left out a very important and large demographic: corporate users. Their browser use varies widely - although it seems to be the case that most very large orgs use Netscape 4.x versions. It could be that they are just extremely slow to move and change to IE. Some of them do use IE. I have strange feeling that corporate users far outnumber home users. The average joe has to spens X number of hours in front of a computer at work, but doesn't *have* to at home - and probably doesn't want to, either.
Even though I feel that Netscape 6 is a good browser, I don't think it's good enough to meet most corporate standards. I do believe that a 6.1 release could manage that. One can only hope that Netscape uses all of the negative criticism that the community is dishing out and uses it to strengthen the browser (hopefully they use a more recent Mozilla build, but I guess this won't happen, eh?)
Oh yes, forgot to mention that after setting up a fresh install of Win98 for my wife, IE continually brought the entire system to a halt just by typing in the address bar. I installed N6 via FTP for her and her system runs smoothly. Go figure.
No, this is not a lie. Okay, so I have been using nightly builds of Mozilla and switched to N6 when it was released. I forced myself to use it. Turn off all the AIM/ads/shopping. No big deal (why do people freak out about these things? - they are optional, you know and my mother-in-law would probably find them useful). Okay. Changed security so I use the great control over cookies that I've become used to in MozNightly.
At first, yes, there were a few crashes. Yes, it was slower in Linux than Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (of course, 4.x was like that as well). Yes, it loaded slower than IE. Then again, N6 doesn't have the advantage of being preloaded with the OS.
Weeks later and I'm used to it. The quirks, those I can put up with. I mean, shit, if you use open source software on a regular basis - especially the 99% of OSS that is labeled pre-release/alpha or even 'production', then you know that there will be quirks. You live with them or you contribute back to the project and help them go away.
After the initial crashes, I've had: NONE. NO problems with sites that I visit. Okay, maybe a few, but they were using layers in a way that was only intended by MS.
Bottom line: shut the hell up. Go use IE, Konqie, MozNightly, Mozilla-based browsers, old NS, Lynx, wget, etc. For now, I'm sticking with N6. It works fine with me and is actually fast on my machine after the initial load. I'm personally getting a little sick of the negativity. People use it for a total of 30 seconds (okay, not everyone, but I get the feeling that most installed it, looked at it then deleted or uninstalled it) and pass judgement on it. I have reason to believe that most of these people probably use IE themselves.
Bah - who cares. I use what I want and you use what you want. Go away.
You do realize that both Microsoft and Netscape are large conrtibutors to the standards process? Both are members of the W3C and responsible for submitting many of the standards that are "around" today. Just nitpicking on that last paragraph...
I have to say that voting for Nader is absolutely not voting against my ideals. I consider myself to be very much to the left - as far left as possible without being socialist - and Gore and the rest of the Democratic party do not represent me, my interests, or IMHO the good of the United States. Thier "left" and "liberal" labels just do not apply anymore. Someone needs to tell them.
It's all in who the contributors are. Who is the largest contributing group? Microsoft. Not bad in the fact that it's the "evil empire micro$oft, etc etc". Bad in the fact that such a powerful organization can possibly have sway over a candidate and that said organization might benefit greatly from the Libertarian movement's success if it was to ever happen. This is not to say that they actually do have any control over any Libertarian, but I can just imaging the nice privitized corporate world that would come about.
Nice rant. I take it that you didn't actually read the Green platform (or catch their whole purpose). Maybe you should take the time to skim through Nader's recent book...
I too first thought "hmmm socialism in disguise". On further reading and investigation it became clear to me - these people really want to empower the citizenry and disperse democratic power so that all of us have a say. Hmmm. I tore my Libertarian label off and threw it into the shredder.
Now don't get me wrong - I believe that the Libertarian's dogmatic (and justified) stand by all things constitutional is great. I fear that power in a Libertarian world would allow the richest people and largest corporations to act without consequence. I'm sorry, but I can't live in a world like that.
Visit http://www.opensecrets.org sometime. Look at who is supporting the candidates. Take a close look at Browne. Scares the shit out of me (although the actual dollars in cash aren't much). So, my vote goes to the person who's focus is empowering our democracy and not letting it get watered down by money.
Netscape (okay, actually Mozilla nightly builds) have not crashed on me once in the last three to four months. I use it frequently. My only problems have been slowness and an occasional freak out on some complicated designs (only on the Win32 version - Linux version hasn't run into this yet). Maybe I'm not stressing it out enough to see it die.....
If you ask this, then you should take some time to do some research on exactly what open vs closed source is, what Linux is, who makes it possible, etc.
Strangely enough, I've gotten it to run on GNOME desktops with no problems at all. Even different versions of GNOME and distributions. What kind of problems are you having? Maybe I could help you troubleshoot it?
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A very small amount of effort brought me to this press release by eBallot.net. They're the ones taking care of the voting.
Not much information on their site about the technical details - I would be interested in knowing how they maintain security while keeping the voting of individuals private.
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Except for that fact that Everquest servers are down for patching 90% of the time.
Actually, the Everquest EULA is very interesting. You have to agree to it _every_ single time you play the game. It becomes annoying, especially when you already have RSI from just playing the game. I have never read it once and have played many many times. I wonder what it says.....
So far, I've been impressed with NetApp. A demo at thier site showed that they knew what they were talking about and the cluster failover was awesome. Sun couldn't even show us that for some reason. We get in-house try-before-you-buy producst from both of them this week. Woop. Thanks for the opinion.
I'm not the best Spanish speaker in the world, but it looks like you don't really speak Espanol, but just translated what you wanted to say word-for-word. True?
You've left out a very important and large demographic: corporate users. Their browser use varies widely - although it seems to be the case that most very large orgs use Netscape 4.x versions. It could be that they are just extremely slow to move and change to IE. Some of them do use IE. I have strange feeling that corporate users far outnumber home users. The average joe has to spens X number of hours in front of a computer at work, but doesn't *have* to at home - and probably doesn't want to, either.
Even though I feel that Netscape 6 is a good browser, I don't think it's good enough to meet most corporate standards. I do believe that a 6.1 release could manage that. One can only hope that Netscape uses all of the negative criticism that the community is dishing out and uses it to strengthen the browser (hopefully they use a more recent Mozilla build, but I guess this won't happen, eh?)
Oh yes, forgot to mention that after setting up a fresh install of Win98 for my wife, IE continually brought the entire system to a halt just by typing in the address bar. I installed N6 via FTP for her and her system runs smoothly. Go figure.
No, this is not a lie. Okay, so I have been using nightly builds of Mozilla and switched to N6 when it was released. I forced myself to use it. Turn off all the AIM/ads/shopping. No big deal (why do people freak out about these things? - they are optional, you know and my mother-in-law would probably find them useful). Okay. Changed security so I use the great control over cookies that I've become used to in MozNightly.
At first, yes, there were a few crashes. Yes, it was slower in Linux than Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (of course, 4.x was like that as well). Yes, it loaded slower than IE. Then again, N6 doesn't have the advantage of being preloaded with the OS.
Weeks later and I'm used to it. The quirks, those I can put up with. I mean, shit, if you use open source software on a regular basis - especially the 99% of OSS that is labeled pre-release/alpha or even 'production', then you know that there will be quirks. You live with them or you contribute back to the project and help them go away.
After the initial crashes, I've had: NONE. NO problems with sites that I visit. Okay, maybe a few, but they were using layers in a way that was only intended by MS.
Bottom line: shut the hell up. Go use IE, Konqie, MozNightly, Mozilla-based browsers, old NS, Lynx, wget, etc. For now, I'm sticking with N6. It works fine with me and is actually fast on my machine after the initial load. I'm personally getting a little sick of the negativity. People use it for a total of 30 seconds (okay, not everyone, but I get the feeling that most installed it, looked at it then deleted or uninstalled it) and pass judgement on it. I have reason to believe that most of these people probably use IE themselves.
Bah - who cares. I use what I want and you use what you want. Go away.
You do realize that both Microsoft and Netscape are large conrtibutors to the standards process? Both are members of the W3C and responsible for submitting many of the standards that are "around" today. Just nitpicking on that last paragraph...
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I have to say that voting for Nader is absolutely not voting against my ideals. I consider myself to be very much to the left - as far left as possible without being socialist - and Gore and the rest of the Democratic party do not represent me, my interests, or IMHO the good of the United States. Thier "left" and "liberal" labels just do not apply anymore. Someone needs to tell them.
It's all in who the contributors are. Who is the largest contributing group? Microsoft. Not bad in the fact that it's the "evil empire micro$oft, etc etc". Bad in the fact that such a powerful organization can possibly have sway over a candidate and that said organization might benefit greatly from the Libertarian movement's success if it was to ever happen. This is not to say that they actually do have any control over any Libertarian, but I can just imaging the nice privitized corporate world that would come about.
Count me out of it.
Nice rant. I take it that you didn't actually read the Green platform (or catch their whole purpose). Maybe you should take the time to skim through Nader's recent book...
I too first thought "hmmm socialism in disguise". On further reading and investigation it became clear to me - these people really want to empower the citizenry and disperse democratic power so that all of us have a say. Hmmm. I tore my Libertarian label off and threw it into the shredder.
Now don't get me wrong - I believe that the Libertarian's dogmatic (and justified) stand by all things constitutional is great. I fear that power in a Libertarian world would allow the richest people and largest corporations to act without consequence. I'm sorry, but I can't live in a world like that.
Visit http://www.opensecrets.org sometime. Look at who is supporting the candidates. Take a close look at Browne. Scares the shit out of me (although the actual dollars in cash aren't much). So, my vote goes to the person who's focus is empowering our democracy and not letting it get watered down by money.
Netscape (okay, actually Mozilla nightly builds) have not crashed on me once in the last three to four months. I use it frequently. My only problems have been slowness and an occasional freak out on some complicated designs (only on the Win32 version - Linux version hasn't run into this yet). Maybe I'm not stressing it out enough to see it die.....
How is spending millions of dollars on fighting the drug war shrinking the government?
Keep that coke-sniffing drunk driver out of my country's top office, PLEASE!
Wrong.
Libertarian: Lots of things are bad and you can do them as long as it doesn't interfere with the free market.
I believe the heroin stance is not passive, but rather looking at addiction as a medical problem instead of a criminal one.
You keep your computer on your _desk_?
If you read some of the links mentioned above, your question will be answered.
Isn't splitting hairs what law, licensing, lawyers, etc all about?
Believe it or not, you can do this on your own time if you truly want to. That is much more important than "having" to.
Sony Corporation is no more an American citizen than my mousepad is.
If you ask this, then you should take some time to do some research on exactly what open vs closed source is, what Linux is, who makes it possible, etc.
Speaking of air pollution in Texas, it's getting ridiculous isn't it? A poison cloud hanging over Dallas........
I think that's the point. Why should applications cause the system to hang user32.dll or cause the system to restart? Hunh? Job security?
Strangely enough, I've gotten it to run on GNOME desktops with no problems at all. Even different versions of GNOME and distributions. What kind of problems are you having? Maybe I could help you troubleshoot it?
A very small amount of effort brought me to this press release by eBallot.net. They're the ones taking care of the voting.
Not much information on their site about the technical details - I would be interested in knowing how they maintain security while keeping the voting of individuals private.