Galeon takes it an important step beyond mozilla by putting the toggle in the "Settings" pulldown on the main menubar.
Other options on the Settings menu include "use own fonts" and "use own colors" which are a godsend for reading poorly designed pages. Each function can be bound to a shortcut by pressing the key combo you want while also pressing the menu option. Now it's a single, easy to remember keystroke to kill popups, make the page legible, etc.
If they gave me a billboard to advertise Galeon, I'd put up a snapshot of the Settings menu with the caption "don't let the web surf you!".
Actually, your example about cars is a good one. At one point (maybe even now), automakers were required to offer a "radio prep" package for purchasers who wanted to use an aftermarket radio instead of the overpriced junk detroit was selling.
Although there are alternative to windows, they are not "mainstream", not yet at least. Companies like Digital Research made OS products which were superior to Dos/Windows, yet they failed because PC manufacturers were required to buy an MS license for each unit regardless of whether it would or not it would ever be used. Linux adoption is going slower than it should because MS has crafted the windows license to prohibit vendors from selling dual-boot machines. Microsoft is doing everything they can to maintain their monopoly.
Monopolies are not illegal, not even unethical, but it's unfair, as in "not fair trade" to use your monopoly power in one area to compete in another.
Windows started as a GUI addon to an existing operating system. MS "extended" the definition of OS to include the GUI. Then, they extended the definition to include a browser.
MS may be able to buy congress, but so far the judicial branch has seen right thru them.
Report the breach and your penalty is that your security methods are audited.
Don't report the breach, and get caught covering it up? You, not the cardholder, bank, or population at large, you are liable for fraudulent purchases made with the stolen info.
Microsoft killed Netscape the same way it killed many other application vendors, by illegaly leveraging their monopoly power in desktop operating systems.
As a monopoly, Microsoft is subject to tighter government regulation than a minor competitor. They don't have the right to do "whatever the hell they want to it". If they did have that right, they wouldn't be trying to prove in court that it's impossible to unbundle the browser.
Bundling a browser isn't innovation as Bill Gates tries to portray it. Marc Andreesen coinvented the graphical browser. Now THAT'S innovation.
Call it whining if you want, but it's pretty clear to me (and the supreme court) that Netscape got screwed over by Microsoft. I love winners, but i despise cheaters. Andreesen is justified in his complaints.
Under the new licensing scheme, upgrading your 1977 version will cost you $36k, or about $9/byte.
Seriously though, if you're interested in the history of this machine and the dawn of the pc era in general, check out a book called "Once Upon a Time in Computerland".
Intel engines have a higher redline than AMDs. They can turn faster. But any auto enthusiast will tell you that it takes both RPM and TORQUE to make horsepower.
AMDs breath better due to the shapes and sizes of the internal passages and can therefore produce more torque which leads to equivalent power at lower clockspeeds.
Claiming that an Intel chip is more powerful than an AMD just because it has a higher clock speed is like claiming that a hummingbird is more powerful than an elephant.
i.e. it's partly open. It has been viewed by hundreds or thousands of MS programmers, any one of whom might be an enemy spy. Windows src has already been distributed to certain colleges and corporations. Furthermore, MS's internal networks have been broken into in the past. Go ahead Bill, swear on a stack that no terrorists have the source to Windows.
Unless MS, Oracle, Sun, et al. do all their development under the same security controls as, say ICBMs, the "need for secrecy" argument works no better for their code than for OpenSource.
Maybe there are a few situations which call for Top Secret Source, but most do not. Use hardware as an analogy.
The U.S. armed forces use plenty of off-the-shelf type hardware. Many types of military aircraft are based on the same platforms as commercial craft. SR-71 Blackbirds are secret, 747-based AWACS share many of the same vulnerabilities as those flown by Trans American. F-xx fighters have been sold to questionable foreign governments, lost in battle, etc. How secret are they?
If the U.S. adopts this "Secret Source" philosophy, our computers will turn out the be the equivalent of those goofy cars (Trabant?) Russians were forced to drive all those years.
If you're writing apps for an M$ only audience, why use browser technology at all?
You program for windows yet call yourself a "web programmer". You are helping M$ co-opt a technology that belongs to the free world. You are helping M$ get away with their illegal practices.
The reason you do it (to feed the kids) may be honorable, but the act itself is not. You are part of the problem.
The MPAA is a bunch of thugs and Jack Valenti is just a mob boss.
We all know that they are using unethical and illegal tactics to deprive citizens of the U.S. (and the world) of their rights.
Valenti's credibility is dead. It has ceased to exist. The only reason he doesn't fall down is that he has been nailed to the perch. Lovely plumage, though.
Makes me think of what happened to a friend of mine when he was in college in NH.
He and 3 others were on the way back to campus. The driver, who was over 21 stopped and bought a sixpack. He put it in the trunk. The cops, who apparently had the place staked-out, arrested my friend and one of the other passengers.
They argued that the kids had access to the beer because of the fold-down rear seat. The law enforcement community was too stupid to keep terrorists out of 767 cockpits, but they've got folding car-seats down to a science.
Fscking New Hampshire cops with their "live free or die" license plates hauling away a kid who had never touched a drop of booze in his life. Can i put the bullet in my gun now Andy, can I?
My local supermarket charges 5.99 for chicken unless you carry their wallet cookie, in which case you qualify for the super special 1.99 price. 1.99 just happens to be the pre-shopper-card price.
Next, they'll demand a fingerprint in order to qualify to buy food at non-extortionary prices.
Shaws, Stop and Shop, Kroger... You should rot in hell.
They should put money into recombinant research to create airline execs, politicians, and law enforcers smart enough to do the simple-but-effective things.
Lock the cockpit door.
Don't give visas to known terrorists. Giving visas to the dead ones doesn't hurt, but it's not a good sign.
I have no complaint about the feds having a way of authenticating my identity. It's something i should have to present to get a passport. The scary thing is that supermarkets will think they have the right to require it.
Program listings? It just doesn't make economic sense.
Broadcasters spend billions promoting their shows. Why would they want to restrict the listing info?
Let's say we build freelistings.org. and allow pvr makers (sw and hw) to "link" their devices to it. FOX, ABC, and NBC refuse to publish on it, but PBS buys in. A few other broadcasters decide they have nothing to lose, but might gain viewers by publishing to the listing svc. Soon, advertisers wise up and demand that the programs they are sponsoring on FOX, ABC, etc. be listed on the service.
Wouldn't it just be a matter of time before all broadcasters publish the listing info in some XML based format?
They *want* us to watch, but they don't want us to know what's on? ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Movies are all about the big pic. I hope that the moral of the story isn't "open os" as much as it is "open data". I'd hate to see the consumer become liberated from the grips of the OS vendor only to become enslaved to the app vendor.
MS probably did have a lot to do with standardizing a PC platform
From what i've read, MS won the contract to supply the OS for IBM's new PC. It was IBM who was creating the standard by, well, by being IBM. Micros were not "appropriate" machines for big business until IBM said "Let there be PCs".
The ironic part is that IBM was compelled to use a 3rd party OS because of their own antitrust problems in the mainframe arena. Way back when, they (IBM) were forced to unbundle the OS from their hardware.
Another interesting fact is that UNIX was given to academia because AT&T (the creator) was prohibited by antitrust laws from competing in the computer industry. Thus, no commercial value for them in UNIX.
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Our local weatherman can move entire hurricanes around with a wave of his hand.
Its really quite easy to see that certain operating systems are better for some tasks than others, Linux is not ready for desktop market.
We "geeks" also buy computers and Windows is not ready for them.
The future, despite this setback, is MORE Unix and LESS Windows. If the typical Mac user can handle it, just about anyone can. Wake up and login:
Walmart's Windows-less PCs should help end the common misconception that Windows "comes free with the machine".
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I agree.
Galeon takes it an important step beyond mozilla by putting the toggle in the "Settings" pulldown on the main menubar.
Other options on the Settings menu include "use own fonts" and "use own colors" which are a godsend for reading poorly designed pages. Each function can be bound to a shortcut by pressing the key combo you want while also pressing the menu option. Now it's a single, easy to remember keystroke to kill popups, make the page legible, etc.
If they gave me a billboard to advertise Galeon, I'd put up a snapshot of the Settings menu with the caption "don't let the web surf you!".
Actually, your example about cars is a good one. At one point (maybe even now), automakers were required to offer a "radio prep" package for purchasers who wanted to use an aftermarket radio instead of the overpriced junk detroit was selling.
Although there are alternative to windows, they are not "mainstream", not yet at least. Companies like Digital Research made OS products which were superior to Dos/Windows, yet they failed because PC manufacturers were required to buy an MS license for each unit regardless of whether it would or not it would ever be used. Linux adoption is going slower than it should because MS has crafted the windows license to prohibit vendors from selling dual-boot machines. Microsoft is doing everything they can to maintain their monopoly.
Monopolies are not illegal, not even unethical, but it's unfair, as in "not fair trade" to use your monopoly power in one area to compete in another.
Windows started as a GUI addon to an existing operating system. MS "extended" the definition of OS to include the GUI. Then, they extended the definition to include a browser.
MS may be able to buy congress, but so far the judicial branch has seen right thru them.
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Report the breach and your penalty is that your security methods are audited.
Don't report the breach, and get caught covering it up? You, not the cardholder, bank, or population at large, you are liable for fraudulent purchases made with the stolen info.
Microsoft killed Netscape the same way it killed many other application vendors, by illegaly leveraging their monopoly power in desktop operating systems.
As a monopoly, Microsoft is subject to tighter government regulation than a minor competitor. They don't have the right to do "whatever the hell they want to it". If they did have that right, they wouldn't be trying to prove in court that it's impossible to unbundle the browser.
Bundling a browser isn't innovation as Bill Gates tries to portray it. Marc Andreesen coinvented the graphical browser. Now THAT'S innovation.
Call it whining if you want, but it's pretty clear to me (and the supreme court) that Netscape got screwed over by Microsoft. I love winners, but i despise cheaters. Andreesen is justified in his complaints.
Now that Linux is the *primary* OS on these machines, what would MS say if Walmart were to offer a dual boot option?
Under the new licensing scheme, upgrading your 1977 version will cost you $36k, or about $9/byte.
Seriously though, if you're interested in the history of this machine and the dawn of the pc era in general, check out a book called "Once Upon a Time in Computerland".
I'd estimate the real amount to be more like 100B dollars. Please don't mod me funny, i'm as serious as a heart attack.
CPUs and engines are both pumps of a sort.
Intel engines have a higher redline than AMDs. They can turn faster. But any auto enthusiast will tell you that it takes both RPM and TORQUE to make horsepower.
AMDs breath better due to the shapes and sizes of the internal passages and can therefore produce more torque which leads to equivalent power at lower clockspeeds.
Claiming that an Intel chip is more powerful than an AMD just because it has a higher clock speed is like claiming that a hummingbird is more powerful than an elephant.
i.e. it's partly open. It has been viewed by hundreds or thousands of MS programmers, any one of whom might be an enemy spy. Windows src has already been distributed to certain colleges and corporations. Furthermore, MS's internal networks have been broken into in the past. Go ahead Bill, swear on a stack that no terrorists have the source to Windows.
Unless MS, Oracle, Sun, et al. do all their development under the same security controls as, say ICBMs, the "need for secrecy" argument works no better for their code than for OpenSource.
Maybe there are a few situations which call for Top Secret Source, but most do not. Use hardware as an analogy.
The U.S. armed forces use plenty of off-the-shelf type hardware. Many types of military aircraft are based on the same platforms as commercial craft. SR-71 Blackbirds are secret, 747-based AWACS share many of the same vulnerabilities as those flown by Trans American. F-xx fighters have been sold to questionable foreign governments, lost in battle, etc. How secret are they?
If the U.S. adopts this "Secret Source" philosophy, our computers will turn out the be the equivalent of those goofy cars (Trabant?) Russians were forced to drive all those years.
If you're writing apps for an M$ only audience, why use browser technology at all?
You program for windows yet call yourself a "web programmer". You are helping M$ co-opt a technology that belongs to the free world. You are helping M$ get away with their illegal practices.
The reason you do it (to feed the kids) may be honorable, but the act itself is not. You are part of the problem.
The MPAA is a bunch of thugs and Jack Valenti is just a mob boss.
We all know that they are using unethical and illegal tactics to deprive citizens of the U.S. (and the world) of their rights.
Valenti's credibility is dead. It has ceased to exist. The only reason he doesn't fall down is that he has been nailed to the perch. Lovely plumage, though.
Makes me think of what happened to a friend of mine when he was in college in NH.
He and 3 others were on the way back to campus. The driver, who was over 21 stopped and bought a sixpack. He put it in the trunk. The cops, who apparently had the place staked-out, arrested my friend and one of the other passengers.
They argued that the kids had access to the beer because of the fold-down rear seat. The law enforcement community was too stupid to keep terrorists out of 767 cockpits, but they've got folding car-seats down to a science.
Fscking New Hampshire cops with their "live free or die" license plates hauling away a kid who had never touched a drop of booze in his life. Can i put the bullet in my gun now Andy, can I?
My local supermarket charges 5.99 for chicken unless you carry their wallet cookie, in which case you qualify for the super special 1.99 price. 1.99 just happens to be the pre-shopper-card price.
Next, they'll demand a fingerprint in order to qualify to buy food at non-extortionary prices.
Shaws, Stop and Shop, Kroger... You should rot in hell.
They should put money into recombinant research to create airline execs, politicians, and law enforcers smart enough to do the simple-but-effective things.
Lock the cockpit door.
Don't give visas to known terrorists. Giving visas to the dead ones doesn't hurt, but it's not a good sign.
I have no complaint about the feds having a way of authenticating my identity. It's something i should have to present to get a passport. The scary thing is that supermarkets will think they have the right to require it.
IIRC, the handles on many early Macs were removed by their owners to make room for a fan. I guess they were just "too hot to handle".
Does the Ti powerbook come with a potholder?
Program listings? It just doesn't make economic sense.
Broadcasters spend billions promoting their shows. Why would they want to restrict the listing info?
Let's say we build freelistings.org. and allow pvr makers (sw and hw) to "link" their devices to it. FOX, ABC, and NBC refuse to publish on it, but PBS buys in. A few other broadcasters decide they have nothing to lose, but might gain viewers by publishing to the listing svc. Soon, advertisers wise up and demand that the programs they are sponsoring on FOX, ABC, etc. be listed on the service.
Wouldn't it just be a matter of time before all broadcasters publish the listing info in some XML based format?
They *want* us to watch, but they don't want us to know what's on? ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Movies are all about the big pic. I hope that the moral of the story isn't "open os" as much as it is "open data". I'd hate to see the consumer become liberated from the grips of the OS vendor only to become enslaved to the app vendor.
MS probably did have a lot to do with standardizing a PC platform
From what i've read, MS won the contract to supply the OS for IBM's new PC. It was IBM who was creating the standard by, well, by being IBM. Micros were not "appropriate" machines for big business until IBM said "Let there be PCs".
The ironic part is that IBM was compelled to use a 3rd party OS because of their own antitrust problems in the mainframe arena. Way back when, they (IBM) were forced to unbundle the OS from their hardware.
Another interesting fact is that UNIX was given to academia because AT&T (the creator) was prohibited by antitrust laws from competing in the computer industry. Thus, no commercial value for them in UNIX.
As a terrorist, i would love to see the free world do what you are proposing.
Wake up!
*This* is an engine... "last of the v-8 Interceptors". "Supercharged", mate! 500 horsepower!
Microsoft has no respect for its victims, yet you want to "honor" its unilateral decisions about how the eworld operates?
M$ is...
an illegal monopoly.
anti-American.
anti-social.
an information terrorist.
evil-doers.