Mostly because it doesn't work that well. I couldn't even get Java to work with it for Pete's sake. There's not even a dialog to choose your Java!
Sure, a lot of good work went into it and it seems to work for a lot of people, but really, a typical user doesn't want to futz with config files, downloading/installing extensions, etc. Something as basic as a browser should just work. Firefox doesn't for me. Opera does. Opera has everything bundled together nicely and it works great "out of the box". I think it would be a greater service to our User friends who are sick of IE to encourage them to try Opera, because it is way more user-friendly, than Firefox, which may work great after a great deal of effort.
I've purchased Opera for Windows and Linux and am glad I did. You truly do get what you pay for.
I happened to notice this on the Channel 9 RSS Feed: http://channel9.msdn.com/rss.aspx They have a few pieces of footage. The one I watched was about an hour long interview with one of the developers and one of those fanatical MS Project Managers. It was interesting, though I think someone with half a clue would be able to put stuff onto their HD in an organized fasion, negating the need for such a thing. I'm no MS Fanboy, but this might be of use to clueless users who save stuff willy-nilly and have no idea where they put it. Though, some of the advanced features are way beyond such a user as this. Check out the video, it'll give you a bit of a clue as to what it's all about.
Actually, they rate Sabrina as being good. Go figure.
I personally enjoyed Sabrina in the 90's when it was fresh and new. Melissa Joan Hart was pretty hot, as were her friends, and that talking cat was pretty clever.
put a password on your screensaver. It doesn't have to be anything confusing, just a specific letter of the alphabet. This prevents the young one from screwing up anything I've got running if he does manage to get to the keyboard unnoticed.
Hi I have a 4 yr old, and a 1 year old, so this has been something I've had to deal with.
1. Get a case with a locking front panel thing, so Jr. can't randomly hit the power button, pull out and play with cds (scratching the hell out of them in the process), or jam stuff into the neat openings.
2. Get Jr his own pc. You can get a decent kid computer for about $50 on ebay.
3. Look into software that allows you to mount an ISO as a drive letter. My kid was scratching the hell out of his cd's. I found a copy of this Virtual Drive software, which allows us to basically put a copy of the ISO on the hard drive, and mount it via a shortcut as a drive letter, and run the programs from there. This way, they can play whatever kiddie game they want without having to use the actual cd.
4. Put everything you can out of their reach.
5. Yell really loudly and slap them if they touch your computer or related stuffs.
Uh... in mine - T22, the nic isn't really onboard, it's a mini pci add-in card. It also happens to have the modem on it. I forget the exact term... mini-pci, wee-pci, whatever. They're cheap and easy to replace, you might look into that.
I've had mine for about a year, bought on ebay still under warranty. I had to replace the mini-pci modem/nic card, but it was cheap and easy. It runs Slackware great, except for the Winmodem, which I haven't bothered even trying to get running because I have the 10/100 nic and 802.11b. If I REALLY need dial-up, I can always boot into Win2k.
My place of employment gets Dells, and they seem cheap and flimsy compared to my Thinkpad. My thinkpad is like a big Volvo, where the Dells are like some cheap crappy car, maybe Ford Fiesta.
Christ! I don't use IE, and for kicks, a techie installed spybot and found nothing, nada, zilch, whereas most of our users use IE and are chock-full of spycrap. Good God! Stop using IE already!!!!
Putting a human heart into a gopher does not magically make the gopher's DNA into human/gopher hybrid. This would require some sort of agent, say a virus, to hit each cell, analize the DNA, report back to headquarters, which would decide to change the DNA in every cell to reflect the changed findings. This is entirely unlikely and silly. This would be akin to eating beef, having your body identify the beef DNA, and magically deciding that you're now part beef. Silly, stupid, and entirely likely to be adopted as arguments against progress by -- insert your favorite (favourite for the Brits) wacko group here --.
I tried FireFox with all the hooplah... But the following keep me using Opera:
mouse gestures come standard in Opera
adding extentions and themes in FireFox require restarting it every time to take effect
FireFox likes to spawn new instances of itself rather than open a new tab, as it's supposed to
FireFox does not open maximized, ever, for whatever reason
downloading extensions of questionable quality is a hassle in FireFox (where most of this functionality is built into Opera)
Opera has a nice built-in IRC client
Opera has a nice built-in mail client.
Opera has the ability to quickly and easily subscribe to RSS feeds
Thunderbird is a massive beast - at least twice as big as FireFox itself.
RSS reading in Thunderbird is a hassle
FireFox renders some pages - like on Slashdot for example - like total crap.
I know that any replies this gets will be like "Well, you just have to do this, this this, this, this this, and this."
But I don't have time or the desire to dick around for hours on end trying to get FireFox to behave as Opera does out-of-the-box. It's free, sure, and it makes you happy, good. But, please don't discount the qualities of Opera just because FireFox is the geekyworld buzzword of the day.
All of these machines are shipped with their operating system exposed to the evil internet via Internet Exploder. Perhaps they'll start shipping with some other browser as default?
The only reason I give a rip is because I have relatives who buy these machines and end up whining about it to me. Hmph.
This one was pretty inexpensive... has a padded insert to put the laptop into, which is removable. There are plenty of pockets for various stuff, and a lot of room to carry other stuff as well. I use mine to carry my Thinkpad T22 to and from work everyday, as well as the floppy and DVD drives. It's got plenty of room for lunch, some file separator things in one compartment, a bunch of various pockets and etc for pcmcia cards, cables, etc. It's definitely worth looking into. Mine, I believe, was $30-$40. It's also got a little handle on the side to carry briefcase style if you want.
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These girls I went to school with, they would eat the stretchy material inside Stretch. I believe it was actually corn syrup, or some form thereof.
I never tried it, though I did have a Stretch.
Mostly because it doesn't work that well. I couldn't even get Java to work with it for Pete's sake. There's not even a dialog to choose your Java!
Sure, a lot of good work went into it and it seems to work for a lot of people, but really, a typical user doesn't want to futz with config files, downloading/installing extensions, etc. Something as basic as a browser should just work. Firefox doesn't for me. Opera does. Opera has everything bundled together nicely and it works great "out of the box". I think it would be a greater service to our User friends who are sick of IE to encourage them to try Opera, because it is way more user-friendly, than Firefox, which may work great after a great deal of effort.
I've purchased Opera for Windows and Linux and am glad I did. You truly do get what you pay for.
I happened to notice this on the Channel 9 RSS Feed: http://channel9.msdn.com/rss.aspx They have a few pieces of footage. The one I watched was about an hour long interview with one of the developers and one of those fanatical MS Project Managers. It was interesting, though I think someone with half a clue would be able to put stuff onto their HD in an organized fasion, negating the need for such a thing. I'm no MS Fanboy, but this might be of use to clueless users who save stuff willy-nilly and have no idea where they put it. Though, some of the advanced features are way beyond such a user as this. Check out the video, it'll give you a bit of a clue as to what it's all about.
I tried this out... clicking links in the RSS reader does nothing.
Also, page setup (link style, fonts) should be like I set them in Foxzilla, but aren't.
It seems like this is more like a Foxzilla Part Deux than a mail client.
I personally enjoyed Sabrina in the 90's when it was fresh and new. Melissa Joan Hart was pretty hot, as were her friends, and that talking cat was pretty clever.
They say Everyone Loves Raymond is a "GREEN" show. Didn't they catch the episode featuring the enormous vagina sculpture?!
put a password on your screensaver. It doesn't have to be anything confusing, just a specific letter of the alphabet. This prevents the young one from screwing up anything I've got running if he does manage to get to the keyboard unnoticed.
Hi
I have a 4 yr old, and a 1 year old, so this has been something I've had to deal with.
1. Get a case with a locking front panel thing, so Jr. can't randomly hit the power button, pull out and play with cds (scratching the hell out of them in the process), or jam stuff into the neat openings.
2. Get Jr his own pc. You can get a decent kid computer for about $50 on ebay.
3. Look into software that allows you to mount an ISO as a drive letter. My kid was scratching the hell out of his cd's. I found a copy of this Virtual Drive software, which allows us to basically put a copy of the ISO on the hard drive, and mount it via a shortcut as a drive letter, and run the programs from there. This way, they can play whatever kiddie game they want without having to use the actual cd.
4. Put everything you can out of their reach.
5. Yell really loudly and slap them if they touch your computer or related stuffs.
I've had mine for about a year, bought on ebay still under warranty. I had to replace the mini-pci modem/nic card, but it was cheap and easy. It runs Slackware great, except for the Winmodem, which I haven't bothered even trying to get running because I have the 10/100 nic and 802.11b. If I REALLY need dial-up, I can always boot into Win2k.
My place of employment gets Dells, and they seem cheap and flimsy compared to my Thinkpad. My thinkpad is like a big Volvo, where the Dells are like some cheap crappy car, maybe Ford Fiesta.
A buck says I get modded (again) as a troll because I'm not a FireFox fanboy. Oh well.
OHHHHH Of course! about:config!
How incredibly intuitive and user friendly!
This will DEFINITELY turn my mom and dad into FireFox fans!
Thank You! Thank You Ever So Much!
I know that any replies this gets will be like "Well, you just have to do this, this this, this, this this, and this."
But I don't have time or the desire to dick around for hours on end trying to get FireFox to behave as Opera does out-of-the-box. It's free, sure, and it makes you happy, good. But, please don't discount the qualities of Opera just because FireFox is the geekyworld buzzword of the day.
They look like serious, studious fellows. Their work is obviously superior to that of others.
Troll? This is an entirely accurate observation of how pc's are shipped these days; with MS Windows and Internet Exploder.
Give me a break.
The only reason I give a rip is because I have relatives who buy these machines and end up whining about it to me. Hmph.
A. You're the biggest dork alive.
B. You've got to take an enormous dump.
C. You'll do anything to impress minority chicks.
make a virus/worm/spyware buddy that secretly emails a copy of everything that goes through your spool directory to bigevilspies@usa.gov
This one was pretty inexpensive... has a padded insert to put the laptop into, which is removable. There are plenty of pockets for various stuff, and a lot of room to carry other stuff as well. I use mine to carry my Thinkpad T22 to and from work everyday, as well as the floppy and DVD drives. It's got plenty of room for lunch, some file separator things in one compartment, a bunch of various pockets and etc for pcmcia cards, cables, etc. It's definitely worth looking into. Mine, I believe, was $30-$40. It's also got a little handle on the side to carry briefcase style if you want.