Can someone verify this scanner business, yes or no? I am an American living in Spain now, and somebody here told me that a secret acronym flashed during the scanner scene that proved that Matt Groening is a closet right winger. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd heard in ages, but I'm curious -- did the scanner come out for NRA or KKK or something?
Strongly disagree that Netscape is lagging behind MSIE. On the Windows side of my machine it handles my needs way better than MSIE, if for no other reason than the fact that it seamlessly integrates an HTML composer with the browser. The composer element is a *huge* benefit to Windows users that want to be able to create documents in a cross-platform file format. It beats the hell of the dreadful MS Front Page which requires you to launch three applications just to edit an HTML page.
They finally addressed lack of the ability to [TAB] between URLs on the page, which was a big shortcoming that had me switching to MSIE for a couple of years.
OK, so on my Linux side it takes a freakin' whole minute to launch Netscape (as opposed to one second on the Windows side). That's a serious problem but I think it is not a failure on the part of the product in general, just simply that they haven't taken time to optimize it for Linux.
my netscape takes about a MINUTE to launch. . . dreadfully it is making me sentimental for windows where, on the same machine, it never takes more than a second for NS or MSIE to get up and running. i do concur, they musta done a sloppy, quick port to linux that was not close to being optimized.
otherwise i love kde 1.1 to death -- only problem is i can't get any menus to work (have to do everything off the command line).
i picked up a super-dope nino cerrutti suit for about $250. but although i happen to work at a place where everybody dons suits, i never wear one. it isn't coded in the employee manual, so i skip it. nobody notices. since i am in a technical position i consider it inappropriate attire.
if one day i'm selling something again i will slap on my friend nino, preferably with my stylin', watercolory georges machado neck atttire.
This announcement is bliss. All these years, Intel's monopoly position put them in the position where they could make PC processors obsolete just when they were about to become affordable.
Consumers, having no PC alternatives cheaper than $1,200, consistently saw the value of their investment vaporize at the exponential rate implied by Moore's law. They were getting screwed on the order of the savings & loan debacle of the 80s.
Most consumers are finally realizing there is no economic justification for all the additional power that the upper-end chips supposedly provide. AMD's expanded presence will help those buyers steer clear of Intel's forced obsolescence scam.
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Can someone verify this scanner business, yes or no? I am an American living in Spain now, and somebody here told me that a secret acronym flashed during the scanner scene that proved that Matt Groening is a closet right winger. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd heard in ages, but I'm curious -- did the scanner come out for NRA or KKK or something?
Strongly disagree that Netscape is lagging behind MSIE. On the Windows side of my machine it handles my needs way better than MSIE, if for no other reason than the fact that it seamlessly integrates an HTML composer with the browser. The composer element is a *huge* benefit to Windows users that want to be able to create documents in a cross-platform file format. It beats the hell of the dreadful MS Front Page which requires you to launch three applications just to edit an HTML page.
They finally addressed lack of the ability to [TAB] between URLs on the page, which was a big shortcoming that had me switching to MSIE for a couple of years.
OK, so on my Linux side it takes a freakin' whole minute to launch Netscape (as opposed to one second on the Windows side). That's a serious problem but I think it is not a failure on the part of the product in general, just simply that they haven't taken time to optimize it for Linux.
my netscape takes about a MINUTE to launch. . . dreadfully it is making me sentimental for windows where, on the same machine, it never takes more than a second for NS or MSIE to get up and running. i do concur, they musta done a sloppy, quick port to linux that was not close to being optimized.
otherwise i love kde 1.1 to death -- only problem is i can't get any menus to work (have to do everything off the command line).
i picked up a super-dope nino cerrutti suit for about $250. but although i happen to work at a place where everybody dons suits, i never wear one. it isn't coded in the employee manual, so i skip it. nobody notices. since i am in a technical position i consider it inappropriate attire.
if one day i'm selling something again i will slap on my friend nino, preferably with my stylin', watercolory georges machado neck atttire.
This announcement is bliss. All these years, Intel's monopoly position put them in the position where they could make PC processors obsolete just when they were about to become affordable.
Consumers, having no PC alternatives cheaper than $1,200, consistently saw the value of their investment vaporize at the exponential rate implied by Moore's law. They were getting screwed on the order of the savings & loan debacle of the 80s.
Most consumers are finally realizing there is no economic justification for all the additional power that the upper-end chips supposedly provide. AMD's expanded presence will help those buyers steer clear of Intel's forced obsolescence scam.