Actually, I think the new name is brilliant. All you whiners and fanboys are not their target market, you clowns are going to buy PS3s and Xbox 360s and bitch about Nintendo no matter what they do.
I think they've decided to _not_ compete directly with MS and Sony for the same market, they've decided to try to expand the existing market into people who either do not play videogames or haven't in a long time.
I just tried out MSN on NS 4.77, IE 6, Opera 5 and NS 6.1. It looks acceptable on Konqueror, as well. All work just fine -- passport even works.
As a Web developer, I can tell you from experience that Netscape 4.x series browsers have chapped my ass far more than any version of IE ever has.
I agree that if everyone used Lynx and only geeks used the Internet we might have Nirvana. Unfortunately, the medium of the World Wide Web has gone through the same evolution every other mass medium has -- from a tool for hobbyists to a mass (and therefore commercial) medium. Just like radio, however, if you pine for the days of vacuum tubes and cloth-covered wiring, you can always roll your own...
Who do you think has the resources to track and pay taxes to the thousands of states, cities and municipalities across the US? At a local Chamber of Commerce event (in Oklahoma City) I was amazed to learn local merchants were up in arms that people buying from the Internet don't have to pay state and local sales taxes. The biggest loser in all of this will be the small INTERNET retailer, who now has to track sales taxes in every locality from which he or she receives an order, fill out the paperwork and pay the taxes. What a nightmare. Someone is going to get rich starting a service to do all of this for small merchants when this happens (and it will). Oh. Gotta run...:)
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Actually, I think the new name is brilliant. All you whiners and fanboys are not their target market, you clowns are going to buy PS3s and Xbox 360s and bitch about Nintendo no matter what they do.
;)
I think they've decided to _not_ compete directly with MS and Sony for the same market, they've decided to try to expand the existing market into people who either do not play videogames or haven't in a long time.
I think it's great.
(hope it sells!)
I just tried out MSN on NS 4.77, IE 6, Opera 5 and NS 6.1. It looks acceptable on Konqueror, as well. All work just fine -- passport even works.
As a Web developer, I can tell you from experience that Netscape 4.x series browsers have chapped my ass far more than any version of IE ever has.
I agree that if everyone used Lynx and only geeks used the Internet we might have Nirvana. Unfortunately, the medium of the World Wide Web has gone through the same evolution every other mass medium has -- from a tool for hobbyists to a mass (and therefore commercial) medium. Just like radio, however, if you pine for the days of vacuum tubes and cloth-covered wiring, you can always roll your own...
Who do you think has the resources to track and pay taxes to the thousands of states, cities and municipalities across the US? At a local Chamber of Commerce event (in Oklahoma City) I was amazed to learn local merchants were up in arms that people buying from the Internet don't have to pay state and local sales taxes. The biggest loser in all of this will be the small INTERNET retailer, who now has to track sales taxes in every locality from which he or she receives an order, fill out the paperwork and pay the taxes. What a nightmare. Someone is going to get rich starting a service to do all of this for small merchants when this happens (and it will). Oh. Gotta run... :)