It's no wonder for me that they behave like that. 1st, I made the experience they response very slowly to questions via email, even if it's about tech support for products you already own. Then, they _always_ have been like that with their hardware, just think about how long it took until Linux drivers for the SB Live were available. In my opinion, Creative is a company that really sucks and I'll never buy anything from them again because i dislike their policy of keeping everything closed, because they even keep their stuff closed when it makes absolutely no sense to keep it closed.
I think you're absolutely right. I've seen chinese versions of windows, all seems to be integrated very well. and with win2000 and office 2000, you can even do all this with an ordinary English version of windows. i checked it out, my girlfriend (who is chinese) could finally write chinese on my computer WITHOUT those icky addon programs she needed before. In Linux, there is still a far way to go. OK, for example, if you use (X)Emacs with MULE and LaTeX, you can also write foreign language texts rather easy. But the rest? Especially if it's about multibyte character sets i'd guess it's a total mess.
Netscape 4.7 in Windows has evil GDI resource leaks, you wikl notice íf you run the WIndows resource meter in the system tray. I wouldn't recommend using it, rather use and older version. and IMO IE is really faster than netscape and i don't think this is microsoft's fault. on linux, netscape also crashes often. i really, really hope that mozilla will rock. because IMO all current browsers suck somehow.
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It's no wonder for me that they behave like that. 1st, I made the experience they response very slowly to questions via email, even if it's about tech support for products you already own. Then, they _always_ have been like that with their hardware, just think about how long it took until Linux drivers for the SB Live were available. In my opinion, Creative is a company that really sucks and I'll never buy anything from them again because i dislike their policy of keeping everything closed, because they even keep their stuff closed when it makes absolutely no sense to keep it closed.
I think you're absolutely right. I've seen chinese versions of windows, all seems to be integrated very well.
and with win2000 and office 2000, you can even do all this with an ordinary English version of windows. i checked it out, my girlfriend (who is chinese) could finally write chinese on my computer WITHOUT those icky addon programs she needed before.
In Linux, there is still a far way to go. OK, for example, if you use (X)Emacs with MULE and LaTeX, you can also write foreign language texts rather easy. But the rest? Especially if it's about multibyte character sets i'd guess it's a total mess.
Netscape 4.7 in Windows has evil GDI resource leaks, you wikl notice íf you run the WIndows resource meter in the system tray. I wouldn't recommend using it, rather use and older version.
and IMO IE is really faster than netscape and i don't think this is microsoft's fault.
on linux, netscape also crashes often.
i really, really hope that mozilla will rock.
because IMO all current browsers suck somehow.
t.m.