And by 2007 there will be three people using Firefox for every two computers in the world, By 2008 there will be 14 billion people using Firefox. By 2015 there will be more copies of Firefox in use than protons in the observable universe.:-)
MS has given up on IE. Someone is going to come up with the killer extension to Firefox and then it will gain even more momentum. Tabbed windows was a great start. At first I thought it was a stupid idea, and then I tried it and realized how wrong I was. IE hasn't seen new functionality since, what?, 1996? (Not counting security fixes of course.) Now MS is too concerned with DRM and other ways of cementing their monopoly rather than competing on features, usefulness or other value.
Firefox gets new features every day thanks to extensions... and some of them are really useful.
I love this tool, and hope to see it take off in market share.
Sorry to let you down, chump. If you like I can just troll you instead. Bwahahahahaha!;-)
p.s. Thanks for the compliment.
Speaking of Japanese gangsters, I also liked "Johnny Mnemonic" despite having Keanu Reaves at his wooden best. Ice-T made up for it, as did the girl with the chainmail.
I have mixed feelings about Reloaded and Revolutions. They seemed far less coherent than the first one, with new concepts and exceptions to the rules being thrown at us from minute to minute. About halfway through Revolutions you finally just give up and enjoy the pretty pictures.
I never saw Reloaded in the theaters, and I can say with pride that I have yet to sit through that agonizing "party" scene, stopping only to hear what turned out to be a very lame speech by Morpheus. Still, I have them all on DVD. There's enough coolness in them to make them worth only, even if the W. brothers squandered the first movie in the second and third.
Yeah, I realize I was being flip, but most of the big name movies suck...
I don't think there could be any comparison between Superman and Spiderman 2 (I haven't seen the latter, but I will assume for argument's sake that it's as good as the first and I've heard it's much better).
Superman had some good elements to it, but it just didn't feel honest. It wasn't Superman, it was the Hollywood version of Superman, whereas with Spiderman, I really felt this was the character I'd read about for all those years... maybe some of the details aren't the same (OK, there was no maybe about), but the feel of the movie was very true to the comic. I'd say the same about the X-Men movies too. Daredevil was pretty good and I liked "Hulk" more than just about everyone else it seems.
That said, Superman II was my all-time favorite superhero movie for many years but bae on the track record, the Marvel movies have generally been far superior.
I would hope that the 3rd Harry Potter movie was better than the first, which I actually made it all the way through, and the second, which I only bothered with for a few minutes. Both movies smacked of 1-dimensional and entirely predictable characters and about 90% of the movie was "Look at this cool thing! Now look at this cool thing!" with little or no point to it.
The Pixar movies I've seen were all consistently excellent. The "Lord of the Rings" was also really great. I haven't seen a number of movies on your list, but from what I know of them I would tend to agree with you. However, I still can't see how "Kill Bill" and "Dodgeball" could be anything but mindless violence and just plain mindless and formulaic, but I haven't seen either (nor do I plan to), so I really can't judge.
I didn't like "Empire" as much as Star Wars when they came out, but in retrospect, all these years later, it is clearly the best of the 3. Oh yeah, and there are some new movies posing as Star Wars, but I'm not fooled. However, I'm enough of a loser that I'll go see Episode 3 when it comes out. Besides, I have the excuse that I'm taking my kids.
Some other good movies I've seen recently (just at complete random): "Heist", "Sorceror", "World without End" (OK, it was corny, but I still liked it... except for the spiders, which were just weak, even for the 50's), "Life is Beautiful" (a comedy set about Jews in WW2 Italy? Why not?), "Daddy Day Care" (despite the obvious formula this movie really connected to me) the British "A Christmas Carol" from the 40's or 50's. I don't recall exactly when, but it was quite old and not the George C Scott one (or the Bill Murray one, or the Mr. Magoo one).
I've got every MST3K episode on spindles too. Plus all the commercially released stuff. And I watch it all the time. OK, granted I probably won't watch the first four or five KTMA episodes (that you can get) because, well, they suck, but almost all the rest are really good for watching and great for background noise while working.
I hope that passes muster with you.
But when I hear the words "anime" combined with "fansubs", I gotta agree with you. I'm a digital pack rat, but I actually use what I keep and don't keep in excess what I won't use or want again.
Corrupting data is a bug. Period. If your design allows for corrupting data, then you are an idiot.
If everyone thinks like you, no wonder software sucks.
Your analogy was completely bogus. Here's a more correct one.
This car will only operate up to 70MPH. If you exceed 70MPH, there's a chance the engine will explode. There is no governor or warning to prevent that from happening.
Maybe because the first part of the post was a joke?
Nah, no one on/. could do something like that.
I'm not saying that Number Theory proves God exists, just that it implies an intelligent designer much more than nature, however inspiring it is. But since you seem to have me pegged as an ignorant Red State hick, I guess it doesn't matter what I say.
A "viable" solution is one where I press a button and my task is taken care, not one that requires me to learn a whole new technology and set up a freakin' mail server. You're one of those people who hand-assembles because you can. Some of us don't feel the need to set up a server just to back up data.
If you had bothered to read my posts rather than just show me how clever you are you'd realize I'd solved my own problem. However, if TBird wants to compete with the big boys, then it needs to do the work for you. This is how computers are supposed to work, despite people like you (and me) who don't mind doing these sorts of things.
You think Joe 12-pack who is smart enough to realize he needs to back up his data is going to figure this out? Oh, wait, you expect him to set up a freakin' server in order to save his e-mail.
You're assuming space is Euclidian! What if the wall is rotating at 80% of the speed of light in relation to you?
Go back to school, "geekoid".
Seriously though, that's one of those things that sounds tricky but is obvious in retrospect, although technically you'd need some way to measure a right angle.
I was turned on to math by my engineer Dad. One of the first things that blew my mind about how cool numbers were was the idea of logarithms. In sixth grade I computed the prime numbers up to 1000 for an extra credit project and in doing so realized I only had to check prime factors up to the square root of the number I was checking.
Math normally becomes interesting when it's applied to do useful and interesting stuff, although some freaks like me are attracted to numbers for the sheer beauty and coolness of them.
Some people point to a sunset or a mountain as evidence that there must be a God. Me? I point to Number Theory. Anyone can heap up rocks or make a planet orbit, but to me, it takes an Omnipotent Creator to achieve the infinite and sublime beauty of numbers.
A few apparent anomalies: The US kids rated 28th of 40 (so in the bottom third) while the Czech Republic, which spends in education 1/3 of what the US spends, ranked in the top 10.
Yeah, well the U.S. is #1 in terms of self-esteem, knowing how to put a condom on a banana and understanding that mentioning "Christmas" in a public place is an atrocious crime against our Constitution (Thomas Jefferson would be rolling in his grave).
That's far more useful than silly math.
Next you'll be telling me kids should study the Declaration of Independence even though it mentions God and is therefore technically a prayer. You should force all kids to recite Moslem prayers, especially when it's technically a conversion to Islam to do so, but Christianity is inimical to our country and way of life. After all, those horrible Ten Commmandments are trying to force us to worship someone. Who in this modern world could possibly do something so silly.
I'm so glad we are enlightened in the 21st century.
Fine, I missed that, but it still doesn't answer the real question. I do it with a batch file that fires of robocopy.
How would the average user do it?
Also, it would be nice to be able to archive messages, so I could pack up a databbase with, say, all my e-mail from 2003 and burn it on a disc.
Outlook does all these things. Thunderbird should too. If you are going to play with the big boys, you have to match them at every step. For the most part, TBird exceeds MS, but in this instance, it is way behind.
A big do-everything shouldn't be an order of magnitude slower to do basic operations. This is just poor design and poor engineering.
That's like saying a fully-loaded BMW shouldn't have drive as well as my vanilla Honda Accord just because it also has heated leather seats, a high-end stereo and a navigation system.
It's ironic that MS can't write efficient software even when they have an efficient example to work from. Of course, Outlook was probably bought by them years ago from another company and they've just been bubble-gum and spitting it since then.
You said it. Just like TV. I don't normally turn off ads unless they really annoy me. Certain ads really grate, and for those I will mute the TV or even switch channels.
If the content providers can't deal with this behavior then they deserve to fail. It's not my problem.
Your Thunderbird profile is most certainly 5 levels deep inside hidden directories. This has nothing to do with Windows profiles and is in fact a small but important missing feature from Thunderbird.
You shouldn't have to be an expert in Microsoft's lame design decisions to effectively use an open-source piece of software when it is standard for the software itself to provide a solution to the problem (i.e. like Outlook does). That's all this was about.
If you think that's not what the issue is then you have some really mistaken ideas about what user-friendly software should be. Try giving your explanation to your grandmother or another non-savvy user in way of explanation as to how to move e-mail from one computer to another.
Thunderbird should allow backup up and restoring mail. It was easy for me to solve the process, but it's silly that in 2004 I should be having to write a batch file to perform basic operations on a so-called GUI app. If software usability had progressed the way hardware has we'd have frickin' HAL-9000 now instead of only small incremental improvements in the last 10 years.
That said, I love to the product and will continue to recommend it.
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I couldn't figure out how the real definition of the word could possibly have fit for a car.
Why not call it the Hircut, the Fiduciary, the Woody Plant?
Other than the fact that it's a plesant-sounding word, it's just weird.
I think "Scion" is Japanese for "butt-ugly".
Maybe 'cause they write "games" rather than overly elaborate graphics demos.
Notes 6.5.1 works perfectly on current Wine
You mean it works a lot better on Wine than Windows?!
And by 2007 there will be three people using Firefox for every two computers in the world, By 2008 there will be 14 billion people using Firefox. By 2015 there will be more copies of Firefox in use than protons in the observable universe. :-)
MS has given up on IE. Someone is going to come up with the killer extension to Firefox and then it will gain even more momentum. Tabbed windows was a great start. At first I thought it was a stupid idea, and then I tried it and realized how wrong I was. IE hasn't seen new functionality since, what?, 1996? (Not counting security fixes of course.) Now MS is too concerned with DRM and other ways of cementing their monopoly rather than competing on features, usefulness or other value.
Firefox gets new features every day thanks to extensions... and some of them are really useful.
I love this tool, and hope to see it take off in market share.
Sorry to let you down, chump. If you like I can just troll you instead. Bwahahahahaha! ;-)
p.s. Thanks for the compliment.
Speaking of Japanese gangsters, I also liked "Johnny Mnemonic" despite having Keanu Reaves at his wooden best. Ice-T made up for it, as did the girl with the chainmail.
Well I love the Bill & Ted movies, so there.
I have mixed feelings about Reloaded and Revolutions. They seemed far less coherent than the first one, with new concepts and exceptions to the rules being thrown at us from minute to minute. About halfway through Revolutions you finally just give up and enjoy the pretty pictures.
I never saw Reloaded in the theaters, and I can say with pride that I have yet to sit through that agonizing "party" scene, stopping only to hear what turned out to be a very lame speech by Morpheus. Still, I have them all on DVD. There's enough coolness in them to make them worth only, even if the W. brothers squandered the first movie in the second and third.
Yeah, I realize I was being flip, but most of the big name movies suck...
I don't think there could be any comparison between Superman and Spiderman 2 (I haven't seen the latter, but I will assume for argument's sake that it's as good as the first and I've heard it's much better).
Superman had some good elements to it, but it just didn't feel honest. It wasn't Superman, it was the Hollywood version of Superman, whereas with Spiderman, I really felt this was the character I'd read about for all those years... maybe some of the details aren't the same (OK, there was no maybe about), but the feel of the movie was very true to the comic. I'd say the same about the X-Men movies too. Daredevil was pretty good and I liked "Hulk" more than just about everyone else it seems.
That said, Superman II was my all-time favorite superhero movie for many years but bae on the track record, the Marvel movies have generally been far superior.
I would hope that the 3rd Harry Potter movie was better than the first, which I actually made it all the way through, and the second, which I only bothered with for a few minutes. Both movies smacked of 1-dimensional and entirely predictable characters and about 90% of the movie was "Look at this cool thing! Now look at this cool thing!" with little or no point to it.
The Pixar movies I've seen were all consistently excellent. The "Lord of the Rings" was also really great. I haven't seen a number of movies on your list, but from what I know of them I would tend to agree with you. However, I still can't see how "Kill Bill" and "Dodgeball" could be anything but mindless violence and just plain mindless and formulaic, but I haven't seen either (nor do I plan to), so I really can't judge.
I didn't like "Empire" as much as Star Wars when they came out, but in retrospect, all these years later, it is clearly the best of the 3. Oh yeah, and there are some new movies posing as Star Wars, but I'm not fooled. However, I'm enough of a loser that I'll go see Episode 3 when it comes out. Besides, I have the excuse that I'm taking my kids.
Some other good movies I've seen recently (just at complete random): "Heist", "Sorceror", "World without End" (OK, it was corny, but I still liked it... except for the spiders, which were just weak, even for the 50's), "Life is Beautiful" (a comedy set about Jews in WW2 Italy? Why not?), "Daddy Day Care" (despite the obvious formula this movie really connected to me) the British "A Christmas Carol" from the 40's or 50's. I don't recall exactly when, but it was quite old and not the George C Scott one (or the Bill Murray one, or the Mr. Magoo one).
They're all going to Adam Sandler. *phew*
Given the original scripts coming out, mabye tons of remakes isn't so bad after all.
I'm not. There are proofs, but none most people around here would buy.
I've got every MST3K episode on spindles too. Plus all the commercially released stuff. And I watch it all the time. OK, granted I probably won't watch the first four or five KTMA episodes (that you can get) because, well, they suck, but almost all the rest are really good for watching and great for background noise while working.
I hope that passes muster with you.
But when I hear the words "anime" combined with "fansubs", I gotta agree with you. I'm a digital pack rat, but I actually use what I keep and don't keep in excess what I won't use or want again.
Corrupting data is a bug. Period. If your design allows for corrupting data, then you are an idiot.
If everyone thinks like you, no wonder software sucks.
Your analogy was completely bogus. Here's a more correct one.
This car will only operate up to 70MPH. If you exceed 70MPH, there's a chance the engine will explode. There is no governor or warning to prevent that from happening.
THAT'S what MS has done with Outlook.
Maybe because the first part of the post was a joke?
/. could do something like that.
Nah, no one on
I'm not saying that Number Theory proves God exists, just that it implies an intelligent designer much more than nature, however inspiring it is. But since you seem to have me pegged as an ignorant Red State hick, I guess it doesn't matter what I say.
Well, since I didn't have access to a computer in 1975 it would have been kind of hard to write a program.
Don't be a crybaby. Turn off sigs if you don't like it.
A "viable" solution is one where I press a button and my task is taken care, not one that requires me to learn a whole new technology and set up a freakin' mail server. You're one of those people who hand-assembles because you can. Some of us don't feel the need to set up a server just to back up data.
If you had bothered to read my posts rather than just show me how clever you are you'd realize I'd solved my own problem. However, if TBird wants to compete with the big boys, then it needs to do the work for you. This is how computers are supposed to work, despite people like you (and me) who don't mind doing these sorts of things.
You think Joe 12-pack who is smart enough to realize he needs to back up his data is going to figure this out? Oh, wait, you expect him to set up a freakin' server in order to save his e-mail.
Talk about user-hostility.
One word... DAPCentral.org
OK, two more words: Rhino video
Then, DAPCentral.org
And how does something like this get out of beta? I'd fire a manager who let something like that get out.
If Thunderbird did something like this people would be all over it! There'd be a fix inside a week.
Fool!
You're assuming space is Euclidian! What if the wall is rotating at 80% of the speed of light in relation to you?
Go back to school, "geekoid".
Seriously though, that's one of those things that sounds tricky but is obvious in retrospect, although technically you'd need some way to measure a right angle.
I was turned on to math by my engineer Dad. One of the first things that blew my mind about how cool numbers were was the idea of logarithms. In sixth grade I computed the prime numbers up to 1000 for an extra credit project and in doing so realized I only had to check prime factors up to the square root of the number I was checking.
Math normally becomes interesting when it's applied to do useful and interesting stuff, although some freaks like me are attracted to numbers for the sheer beauty and coolness of them.
Some people point to a sunset or a mountain as evidence that there must be a God. Me? I point to Number Theory. Anyone can heap up rocks or make a planet orbit, but to me, it takes an Omnipotent Creator to achieve the infinite and sublime beauty of numbers.
A few apparent anomalies: The US kids rated 28th of 40 (so in the bottom third) while the Czech Republic, which spends in education 1/3 of what the US spends, ranked in the top 10.
Yeah, well the U.S. is #1 in terms of self-esteem, knowing how to put a condom on a banana and understanding that mentioning "Christmas" in a public place is an atrocious crime against our Constitution (Thomas Jefferson would be rolling in his grave).
That's far more useful than silly math.
Next you'll be telling me kids should study the Declaration of Independence even though it mentions God and is therefore technically a prayer. You should force all kids to recite Moslem prayers, especially when it's technically a conversion to Islam to do so, but Christianity is inimical to our country and way of life. After all, those horrible Ten Commmandments are trying to force us to worship someone. Who in this modern world could possibly do something so silly.
I'm so glad we are enlightened in the 21st century.
Fine, I missed that, but it still doesn't answer the real question. I do it with a batch file that fires of robocopy.
How would the average user do it?
Also, it would be nice to be able to archive messages, so I could pack up a databbase with, say, all my e-mail from 2003 and burn it on a disc.
Outlook does all these things. Thunderbird should too. If you are going to play with the big boys, you have to match them at every step. For the most part, TBird exceeds MS, but in this instance, it is way behind.
So what about the fact that I've filtered out the spam, etc, and have several years worth of archives?
That's a non-solution of the highest order.
The sad fact is that I have to go to the command-line to back up my mail. In the Real World, this is not acceptable even if I don't mind doing it.
A big do-everything shouldn't be an order of magnitude slower to do basic operations. This is just poor design and poor engineering.
That's like saying a fully-loaded BMW shouldn't have drive as well as my vanilla Honda Accord just because it also has heated leather seats, a high-end stereo and a navigation system.
It's ironic that MS can't write efficient software even when they have an efficient example to work from. Of course, Outlook was probably bought by them years ago from another company and they've just been bubble-gum and spitting it since then.
You said it. Just like TV. I don't normally turn off ads unless they really annoy me. Certain ads really grate, and for those I will mute the TV or even switch channels.
If the content providers can't deal with this behavior then they deserve to fail. It's not my problem.
Your Thunderbird profile is most certainly 5 levels deep inside hidden directories. This has nothing to do with Windows profiles and is in fact a small but important missing feature from Thunderbird.
You shouldn't have to be an expert in Microsoft's lame design decisions to effectively use an open-source piece of software when it is standard for the software itself to provide a solution to the problem (i.e. like Outlook does). That's all this was about.
If you think that's not what the issue is then you have some really mistaken ideas about what user-friendly software should be. Try giving your explanation to your grandmother or another non-savvy user in way of explanation as to how to move e-mail from one computer to another.
Thunderbird should allow backup up and restoring mail. It was easy for me to solve the process, but it's silly that in 2004 I should be having to write a batch file to perform basic operations on a so-called GUI app. If software usability had progressed the way hardware has we'd have frickin' HAL-9000 now instead of only small incremental improvements in the last 10 years.
That said, I love to the product and will continue to recommend it.