Opera's not today's fanboy special. Firefox is. So, please just go buy an iPod and enjoy it, damn it! Pay no attention to your sudden fondness for showtunes.
But, I seem never to be able to upgrade gaim, at least not easily. I always have to do an rpm upgrade with the Force option because of "conflicts" with other gaim packages.
This is exactly why Linux is not a real threat to Windows. With Windows, you can download an installation file and know it'll install on any Windows box without any problem. With Linux, you get all sorts of package dependency crap that is simply unacceptable to real users. A typical installation of damn near anything on Linux goes something like this:
Ok... installing. Whoops! Need library Zippidy-doo-dah version 2.4.032.xgp.201. Okay, hmmm, where do I find that on the internet... Okay, there... installing this now.... Whoops! Zippidy-doo-dah version 2.4.032.xgp.201 requires Libiddy_Dibbity_Doo.lib version 12.824... okay... where do I find this on the internet...Hmmm... Okay, got it... installing.... Whoops! Libiddy_Dibbity_Doo.lib version 12.824 requires Bippy_Skippy.lib version 9.29.29399382721! Damn it... wheredo I find this on the internet... hmmm... huh.... hmmm..... Crap! I can't find it.
and etc., etc., etc.,
Really, until the entire packaging mayhem is sorted out, Linux will remain second-rate as a desktop gui-os. Oh, but try Distribution SuperDooper2000 you say... well, great, if all you do is run apps that come pre-installed and never change anything, add programs, etc., but really, how realistic is that? It's not. Linux needs a real, working, practical application structure.
Even if... StarOffice or OpenOffice offered a superior, free product, the suits will not care, because they see Microsoft Office as a defacto standard. Anything else is chintzy, cheap, shoddy crap that only used-car salesmen and pedofiles would use. Really.
Here's a dramatization to illustrate the status symbol aspect of office suites:
Two suits are sitting across from eachother on an airplane. They both have AISLE seats damn it! Aisle! (Note: when asked for a seating preference, all respectuable suits quickly and forcibly answer Aisle!)
Suit1: Here's the floppy with our annual sales report on it.
Suit2: Thanks.
Suit1: You should be able to read it fine, it's a Word Document.
Suit2: Oh, no problem, I've got OpenOffice.
Suit1: What?
Suit2: OpenOffice, it's a free office suite, compatible with Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, etc.
I agree. It's stupid. IF I wanted to carry a phone around, I'd want one that had buttons big enough for my manly fingers. No display necessary, just a bloody phone.
I see these things and think; Gee, I can drop this out of my backpack some day and instandly destroy my phone, my mp3 player, my camera... in other words Single Point Of Failure.
It's crap, oh so much crap.
No sir (or madam), you are Not Alone.
Yahoo was there first, and it's a directory
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Way, way back, maybe when you were still in grade school, Yahoo! was THE internet directory. And still, it is.
I too use Google most of the time, but, to the best of my knowlege, Yahoo! is still the only major big-time web directory. This has always been it's strong point, not it's search abilities. Sometimes, I intentionally use Yahoo! search when I want to do a less-googlish search, because I've found Google to be too good.
But, I'm annoyed at them right now because I've had my.yahoo.com as my browser homepage for a long time, and now they've monkeyed around with it such that it doesn't work in Opera, regardless of what browser-agent string you use. Oh well.
Really, the last thing I want is to be tied to a phone. They cannot become gimmicky enough for me to change my mind. If I want to take a digital camera with me, I'll take a digital camera. If I want to take an mp3 player with me, I'll take an mp3 player. All these silly phones remind me of that movie Gremlins; the geek dad inventor and his Bathroom Buddy 2000 or whatever it was called, which combined a toothbrush with about a dozen other bathroom oddities.
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pop-up blocker, mouse gestures, etc, built in; no need to download/trust/install extensions from god knows who
changing settings, you don't need to close and re-open it every bloody time
built-in IRC client
built-in email client
built-in bit torrent client
highly-configurable thru gui, not through text file hacks
produced by an actual company with an actual interest in quality moreso than freedom/clunky-breakiness
These are the main reasons I can think of, besides the features that are probably common to Opera and Firefox, such as being very fast (I didn't use FF long enough to tell if it was as fast as Opera), having community-built themes, etc.
Basically, it comes "out of the box" ready to go and requires much, much, much less dicking around with to get it Just The Way I Like. This is really important to actual users, believe it or not.
Perhaps they should use a grammar checker as per that previous article.
For the braindead morons who don't see the problem here, it's the word as.
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MS Thought of that already, so they'll have the MSN Search Toolbar Buddy Service running at all times, indexing everything. You'll probably be able to find stuff based on what color shirt you were wearing when you created it.
agreed. Basic GUI stuff like fonts is the reason why Linux will never approach the usability of commercial OS/GUIs like Windows, or Apple's.
REAL users don't know that there's such thing as a windowing system, a display server, an operating system, etc. To a REAL user, these are one in the same, and it shouldn't be necessary to struggle to get these configured the way they want. Just think if you had to add Windows fonts by dumping files into a folder, then opening a DOS window and executing some obscure command.
Agreed. It was the "then" that irked me. Such hideous grammar really cripples credibility. When I read something like this, my mind says "Dolt. Move along, nothing to see here."
FWIW, I don't use compression (WinRAR, or tar/gz) to save space, it's mostly for tidiness. Rather than have hundreds of files sitting in an archive directory, it's easier on the eyes to have say AUG2005.zip. Then, should the need really arise to get something, it's pretty easy to find.
This new release includes "themes", which greatly de-uglifies it. Also, it reads/writes iso's, which is cool. I don't know if winzip does that or not. Winrar has a pretty powerful CLI too, which I use to back up certain directories on my Windows machine through a scheduled task. Winzip I believe has command-line options too.
Anyway, the new WinRAR is so nice I bought a copy.
Yes, bought, as in spent money! You can do that, you know.
Firefox = Clunky fixer-upper that you have to restart every time you change something
Opera = tight, ready-to-go
For many people, it's worth supporting a company (by paying) to get a nice, feature-rich browser that doesn't require a lot of dicking-around to get working the way you want.
I've been taking my two little boys, age 5 and 2, to the kid movies. The audio in the theaters sucks so much ass! It's almost painful. They need to make the theater experience better in order to compete. Otherwise, it's not really worth the bother, and much easier to rent the DVD later.
You are part of the 1% of users that knows what a parsing engine is, what CSS is, etc. The VAST majority of users don't have a clue and don't care. If everyone who read slashdot boycotted IE, it wouldn't matter, because that would be I'm sure less than 1% of users, probably way less than that. Your mom, grandma, boss, uncle, neighbor, none of them gives a rip. Try to tell them about it, and their eyes will glaze over and they'll be thinking about donuts. It's pointless.
Though Netscape was free, you could buy it to show support, etc., so I did. I still have the 2 floppy disks that it came on. I think it was version 1.1, but don't feel like pulling them out to look and see.
Even back then, Microsoft was Evil(tm) and Netscape showed a glimmer of hope against them. Oh well.
and turned to CRAP. I rented the first, "original" Star Wars so my young son could watch it, and it was totally screwed. I will only watch the first 3 in their theatrical release format from now on, if they still exist. Going back and muppetizing movies should be a crime punishable by being ass-raped by a gorilla.
I won't bother watching the next 3 steaming piles of crap.
Copy your favorite browser executable to iexplore.exe and put it where the old one was.
Chances are, these other crappy apps just fire off iexplore.exe with their url as an argument, so this might work for you. Of course, it might break other stuff, but then again, all the ie dll's and stuff will still be in place for your OS. You could always rename the original to iexplore.exe if it really hoses you up.
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Nobody with half a nad washes a pillow. That's what pillow cases are for.
Opera's not today's fanboy special. Firefox is. So, please just go buy an iPod and enjoy it, damn it! Pay no attention to your sudden fondness for showtunes.
But, I seem never to be able to upgrade gaim, at least not easily. I always have to do an rpm upgrade with the Force option because of "conflicts" with other gaim packages.
This is exactly why Linux is not a real threat to Windows. With Windows, you can download an installation file and know it'll install on any Windows box without any problem. With Linux, you get all sorts of package dependency crap that is simply unacceptable to real users. A typical installation of damn near anything on Linux goes something like this:
Ok... installing. Whoops! Need library Zippidy-doo-dah version 2.4.032.xgp.201. Okay, hmmm, where do I find that on the internet... Okay, there... installing this now.... Whoops! Zippidy-doo-dah version 2.4.032.xgp.201 requires Libiddy_Dibbity_Doo.lib version 12.824... okay... where do I find this on the internet...Hmmm... Okay, got it... installing.... Whoops! Libiddy_Dibbity_Doo.lib version 12.824 requires Bippy_Skippy.lib version 9.29.29399382721! Damn it... wheredo I find this on the internet... hmmm... huh.... hmmm..... Crap! I can't find it.
and etc., etc., etc.,
Really, until the entire packaging mayhem is sorted out, Linux will remain second-rate as a desktop gui-os. Oh, but try Distribution SuperDooper2000 you say... well, great, if all you do is run apps that come pre-installed and never change anything, add programs, etc., but really, how realistic is that? It's not. Linux needs a real, working, practical application structure.
Even if... StarOffice or OpenOffice offered a superior, free product, the suits will not care, because they see Microsoft Office as a defacto standard. Anything else is chintzy, cheap, shoddy crap that only used-car salesmen and pedofiles would use. Really.
Here's a dramatization to illustrate the status symbol aspect of office suites:
Two suits are sitting across from eachother on an airplane. They both have AISLE seats damn it! Aisle! (Note: when asked for a seating preference, all respectuable suits quickly and forcibly answer Aisle!)
Suit1: Here's the floppy with our annual sales report on it.
Suit2: Thanks.
Suit1: You should be able to read it fine, it's a Word Document.
Suit2: Oh, no problem, I've got OpenOffice.
Suit1: What?
Suit2: OpenOffice, it's a free office suite, compatible with Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, etc.
Suit1: Uh, okay, whatever.
Suit1, thinking to himself: What a frikkin loser.
I agree. It's stupid. IF I wanted to carry a phone around, I'd want one that had buttons big enough for my manly fingers. No display necessary, just a bloody phone.
I see these things and think; Gee, I can drop this out of my backpack some day and instandly destroy my phone, my mp3 player, my camera... in other words Single Point Of Failure.
It's crap, oh so much crap.
No sir (or madam), you are Not Alone.
Way, way back, maybe when you were still in grade school, Yahoo! was THE internet directory. And still, it is.
I too use Google most of the time, but, to the best of my knowlege, Yahoo! is still the only major big-time web directory. This has always been it's strong point, not it's search abilities. Sometimes, I intentionally use Yahoo! search when I want to do a less-googlish search, because I've found Google to be too good.
But, I'm annoyed at them right now because I've had my.yahoo.com as my browser homepage for a long time, and now they've monkeyed around with it such that it doesn't work in Opera, regardless of what browser-agent string you use. Oh well.
Really, it all comes down to porn. How happy can you get with a tiny phone display?
Really, the last thing I want is to be tied to a phone. They cannot become gimmicky enough for me to change my mind. If I want to take a digital camera with me, I'll take a digital camera. If I want to take an mp3 player with me, I'll take an mp3 player. All these silly phones remind me of that movie Gremlins; the geek dad inventor and his Bathroom Buddy 2000 or whatever it was called, which combined a toothbrush with about a dozen other bathroom oddities.
These are the main reasons I can think of, besides the features that are probably common to Opera and Firefox, such as being very fast (I didn't use FF long enough to tell if it was as fast as Opera), having community-built themes, etc.
Basically, it comes "out of the box" ready to go and requires much, much, much less dicking around with to get it Just The Way I Like. This is really important to actual users, believe it or not.
Perhaps they should use a grammar checker as per that previous article.
For the braindead morons who don't see the problem here, it's the word as .
agreed. Basic GUI stuff like fonts is the reason why Linux will never approach the usability of commercial OS/GUIs like Windows, or Apple's.
REAL users don't know that there's such thing as a windowing system, a display server, an operating system, etc. To a REAL user, these are one in the same, and it shouldn't be necessary to struggle to get these configured the way they want. Just think if you had to add Windows fonts by dumping files into a folder, then opening a DOS window and executing some obscure command.
Agreed. It was the "then" that irked me. Such hideous grammar really cripples credibility. When I read something like this, my mind says "Dolt. Move along, nothing to see here."
Uh... it's WINzip. What're you doing trying to use it with your /non/windows/directory/structure/ ???
FWIW, I don't use compression (WinRAR, or tar/gz) to save space, it's mostly for tidiness. Rather than have hundreds of files sitting in an archive directory, it's easier on the eyes to have say AUG2005.zip. Then, should the need really arise to get something, it's pretty easy to find.
This new release includes "themes", which greatly de-uglifies it. Also, it reads/writes iso's, which is cool. I don't know if winzip does that or not. Winrar has a pretty powerful CLI too, which I use to back up certain directories on my Windows machine through a scheduled task. Winzip I believe has command-line options too.
Anyway, the new WinRAR is so nice I bought a copy.
Yes, bought, as in spent money! You can do that, you know.
Firefox = Clunky fixer-upper that you have to restart every time you change something
Opera = tight, ready-to-go
For many people, it's worth supporting a company (by paying) to get a nice, feature-rich browser that doesn't require a lot of dicking-around to get working the way you want.
I've been taking my two little boys, age 5 and 2, to the kid movies. The audio in the theaters sucks so much ass! It's almost painful. They need to make the theater experience better in order to compete. Otherwise, it's not really worth the bother, and much easier to rent the DVD later.
Sure, nameserver MSFT, but tucows as registrar? What's up with that?
You are part of the 1% of users that knows what a parsing engine is, what CSS is, etc. The VAST majority of users don't have a clue and don't care. If everyone who read slashdot boycotted IE, it wouldn't matter, because that would be I'm sure less than 1% of users, probably way less than that. Your mom, grandma, boss, uncle, neighbor, none of them gives a rip. Try to tell them about it, and their eyes will glaze over and they'll be thinking about donuts. It's pointless.
Though Netscape was free, you could buy it to show support, etc., so I did. I still have the 2 floppy disks that it came on. I think it was version 1.1, but don't feel like pulling them out to look and see.
Even back then, Microsoft was Evil(tm) and Netscape showed a glimmer of hope against them. Oh well.
and turned to CRAP. I rented the first, "original" Star Wars so my young son could watch it, and it was totally screwed. I will only watch the first 3 in their theatrical release format from now on, if they still exist. Going back and muppetizing movies should be a crime punishable by being ass-raped by a gorilla.
I won't bother watching the next 3 steaming piles of crap.
You may be right, but, he has a cooler nick name than you!
Drakonian = Dark, Evilish?
TheKidWho =
Find iexplore.exe... rename it to whatever.
Copy your favorite browser executable to iexplore.exe and put it where the old one was.
Chances are, these other crappy apps just fire off iexplore.exe with their url as an argument, so this might work for you. Of course, it might break other stuff, but then again, all the ie dll's and stuff will still be in place for your OS. You could always rename the original to iexplore.exe if it really hoses you up.