I agree that once a game (or music, or video) leaves it's initial purchasing channel there should not be a required tax or fee that goes back to the originating party.
I don't agree that extras companies invest in providing (e.g., downloadable content) should transfer as well. It seems a fair balance, and don't feel my "rights" are being violated. I have a choice:
1. Buy new, pay retail, and get additional content
2. Buy used, pay less, receive no frills.
The companies aren't taking away my choice, and based on the quality of the downloadable content is how I choose to exercise it.
Publishers and studios are doing what they can to monetize their games. The games industry as a whole is pretty chaotic. EA is the juggernaut (ranked #1 again this year by Game Developer Magazine) but even EA has had to sack groups of employees and various studios: e.g., http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11289
Making money by offering product value to those who buy a game new is devoid of encroaching on one's liberities. Without doing so more studios would fail.
With the exception of Netflix, I find that expressing grievances with business practices to large companies usually has little effect. Legal shakedown seems to be the only thing CEOs understand, and that's because litigation is potentially bad for their stock value.
It's easier for me to just jump to another company that doesn't feel the need to sacrifice customer service (in this case standard payment options) in order to achieve a better revenue stream. Hello uBid!
I've been doing Actionscript 2 (AS2) based Flash for awhile, and recently picked up Actionscript 3. Below are sites that I've found to be the best for either:
How much clout do you need before you can say no [to a publisher insisting on DRM]?
It must be a rather good deal of clout; I don't know of a case where this has occurred.
Everything I've experienced myself or gleaned from GDC and IGDA meetings is that the publisher('s marketing) dictates all aspects of distribution, including DRM when it comes to AAA titles for consoles, handhelds, or PC.
I will personally state that your DRM lost you (and them) profit due to DRM in at least my potential sale. I refuse to buy products that require a CD to use.
I have a lot of respect for anyone who can adhere to this ideal. Unfortunately (for those advocating DRM removal) the game was in the top 10 and received a high enough meta-critic score that the publisher saw no reason to remove the DRM in the patch. I expect this trend to persist on future titles the publisher releases.
Even worst though, I cannot think of a game that was critically acclaimed that did not sell well because of DRM. And because of this, unless there is a large-scale movement, I doubt publishers are willing to attribute a SKU's poor market performance to the title's DRM.
Developers are so fixating in using DRM to force pirates to buy their games that they ignore the number of paying customers who don't buy their games *because* of the DRM.
I'm a game developer; this is partially correct.
While some developers may want to use DRM, it's more commonly a publisher that forces a team to utilize the DRM solution they bought into. On a previous AAA project we had to utilize the DRM the publisher utilized
We hated it, my friends who bought the game hated it, but our hands were tied.
On top of that, a patch was recently released which appears to mainly have tightened the DRM. The result: my friends are extermely upset as their Daemon tools ISO solution no longer works; they now have to keep the CD/DVD in their computer to play the game, another DRM annoyance pushed on customers who paid for the game. Personally this is making the game more trouble than it's worth; if my friends didn't play this at LAN parties I'd uninstall the game.
I wonder how die hard fans feel.
But in the end this is what the publisher wanted. Our team didn't agree with it, but while they paid our checks our hands were tied by what their marketing team dictated was good to protect their IP and ensure no lost profits, "due to pirating".
Agreed.... just called them this morning and told them my displeasure with eliminating profiles.
One interesting point to me was that the customer service rep pointed out to me was that profile picks are not kept seperately when performing suggestions. I am a bit disappointed in this, but even more shocked I didn't realize it when I received suggestions. (I'm told this frequently is masked by people not-showing movie genre's they don't typically watch.)
It was interesting to learn that recently Google was stopping it's browser sync support. It was one the one feature that had kept me on Firefox until I switch to Opera 9.5 beta last year.
I need to give Firefox 3 a whirl, having been a user since it's inception, but currently Opera is my default.
IE is off my radar, IMHO it's playing catch-up to both. Having two quality browsers in the market can only be good for consumers. It will be interesting to see who innovates quicker... FF (open source) or O (closed source).
I didn't even get that the middle portion (part 2 of 4) was hex until you posted that... thank you.
My analysis...
All the symbols have a hex # below them in part 2 and I bet those are reused in part 3. That would mean the last symbol in part 3 (which you wrote as "c") would have a hex equivalent of either "1" or "A" as neither of them are listed above.
Additionally I cannot help but think the three symbols (part 3) spell "key". If true it would mean either the key is above or below the words... I'd first guess below. That it even spells key is a complete leap though.
Aside from the FLDS (which other posts on here claim are no way tied to the LDS) I have to agree with you regarding becoming a god of your own planet.
All "Christians" believe there is one God.
The last time all Christians agreed (before the one church splintered into denominations) was with the "Nicene Creed". It specified, to the best of human ability, what the nature of this one God via the Trinity is.
And while most of what the LDS do is aligned with the teaching of the Christian Bible, the fact their doctrine is in conflict with the Nicene Creed is what precludes them from being "Christian".
Same is true for Christianity and Judaism. While a good chunk of Christian theology is based on Jewish theology, a Christian has believes that contradicts Jewish law. Therefore a Christian is not considered Jewish; at least by everyone I know (who is either a Christian or a Jew).
that makes no sense, the more video/audio capabilities a device has the more people are going to buy it
I think there are several examples to show this not to be true.
Example: What was the market outcome of Nintendo's Gameboy (4 levels of gray) when it was competing with the Atari's Lynx, Sega's Gamegear, as well as a few others?
Now whether or not the grandparent's theory is correct is a matter of speculation, but I wouldn't discount it.
I use cavtel, and too have faced their own special redirection page. Thanks Cavtel. Didn't know about monitoring bitorrents though. (I don't have Tivo, and so the option to view a missed show is attractive.) I suppose this isn't illegal... although it does feel a lot like wiretapping.
I wonder if Verizon FIOS is any better in terms of privacy. (Comcast, the only other non-dial up option isn't even up for debate.)
This was made by 2 programmers (me being one) and an artist/musician. It's not technically spectacular, but it was made to run on Linux and Windows, and ranked 3rd place at the Coma 2 demo competition.
The demo scene is a fantastically creative place to be. In middle school (][gs) and high school (PC), my friends and I would be the first to DL the latest demos from the European compos. It wasn't until college I obtained the discipline to put something out. Wish I had the time to do another one.
Has anyone here downloaded Dryad (the software) and got it to work?
I tried it a few weeks ago when I first heard of (believe it was 1.0 not the January 1.1 release). On two beefy computers the program would start then proceeded to crash after 20 seconds of interacting with it. I never saw a tree. I wasn't worried about specs as the one computer has 3 gigs of RAM and an 8800.
I'm all for releasing public alphas or betas, but was surprised at how brittle it seemed considering the lack of warning or documentation.
A computer "expert" is not someone who knows template metaprogramming in C++...It is someone who understands computers at multiple levels, allowing them to choose which one illuminates the problem at hand. On reflection of my co-workers, past and present, everyone who knows template metaprogramming (which is countable on one hand) is someone who understands computers at multiple levels. I wonder if it's even possible for someone to learn something so complex without having somewhat of an understanding of how the underlying system works.
Perhaps some high level programming skills are indicative of how much they understand about computers / computer science.
Came across the link below on here, or possibly digg: Psyché Rock
It's the song "Psyché Rock" by Pierre Henry which has such a strong similarity to the main Futurama theme music, I'd find it hard to believe that it didn't inspire the theme.
You could solve your dilema by legally changing your birth name to your nickname. That's what I did after a co-worker pointed out: 5,000,000 women change their name each year. It was surprisingly easy.
Mods: Parent is "Insightful"? Actually parent is making some incorrect assumptions. (Please mod down.)
Last two contracting gig I did (I have a programming consultant business in MD), I paid state and federal taxes on my hourly salary. When I charge a client a rate, I have figured taxes into my figure.
What just passed is an additional tax; and IMO is an exorbitant amount of what I need to give up.
Note:
This is also the same tax on arcades and landscaping services.
In the past, I built my own (and my brother's) PCs because I could get the computer "power" for a cheaper cost. For my last PC system I spent 3 months reading articles on Toms Hardware and similar web-sites in order to:
maximize "power"
keep cost to a minimum
ensure maximum compatibility
What I've found is that if I plan on keeping my system any longer than 2 years (I shoot for 3 - 5) that most of my items cannot (or I do not) want to bring them over.
Hard Drive - If brought over, is used as a temp or scratch disk...
Video Card - PCI, AGP, AGPX, PCIe, etc... format keeps improving, only sometimes can I reuse an existing card
Memory - Almost never reused, even highend-mid range boards use a newer technology
Case - I've never reused in an upgrade usually due to new form-factor
CPU & MB - Always upgraded, as this is what I consider a "new" computer. Otherwise it's just a fix to my existing one.
And so I discovered that after each upgrade I'd have a ton of extra parts. Some would become 2ndard computers, some would go to my geek friends, some parts would become Christmas decorations. (*Rah*, memory hanging from a tree!)
So the last 3 years I've started converting over to Apple products. If they last 3 years or longer, then they outlive my PCs by at least a year. I haven't worked out the ROI but I believe that makes them comparable in terms of cost.
And for lock-in, I know that even on the systems that don't intend for consumer performed upgrades (e.g., iMac, eBooks, etc...) that 3rd parties exist to sell most everything that I would typically upgrade in a PC. With a few exceptions though, I'd upgrade through Apple. My Mac Book Pro is the most solid system I've had in terms of the DMA and interruptable hardware pieces playing well together.
These days, that's all that really matters. Troubleshooting and optimizing my hardware, BIOS, and Windows(XP) settings are not something I want to spend time on.
I don't believe this was ever true for the tower based systems that supported AGP. (Today that would be the Mac Pro.)
From: http://www.apple.com/macpro/graphics.html
Looks like stock Apple options as of today are:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
ATI Radeon X1900 XT
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
youthoftoday, Sorry I didn't realize the intended tone of your e-mail and felt it necessary to throw out some facts.:)
This wouldn't happen on a Mac. 'Cos in most of them you can't even get in there to change the graphics card.
You are right, if you mean by "most" Macs you are talking about the iMac and those aimed at non-professionals, non-IT, etc. But if you want to compare apples to apples then the PC tower form factor Mac has equivalent (if not more) upgradability than it's PC equivalent.
IIRC the Mac towers since the G5 have been designed to more easilly swap out memroy, slot parts, and hard drives as well as provide better air flow than ATX and similar PC equivalent form factors. http://www.apple.com/macpro/expansion.html
Can a geek who believes that Jesus is Christ not enjoy Halo?
Is playing violent video games a sin?
If the "church" (meaning here being all churches of any demoninations that affirm the Nicene Creed), has been charged in spreading the teachings of Christ (thinking of Mark 12:28-31) does it further succeed or fail by offering a place for people to gather and play Halo 3?
Firefox user, in process of Opera switch
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A Talk With Opera CEO
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I currently run Firefox on my home PC, home Mac, home Mac-mini, and wife's computer.
Just last week I switched to Opera at work, after learning one of my, well respected, co-workers was using it for browsing. Ever year or so I'd done a "switch" for a day, but always went back to Firefox. I think this time the switch to Opera is going to stay.
Seems Opera is on par to all the features I've come to rely on in Firefox (tabs, mouse gestures, adblocking, tabbed download info), except that they are all baked into the browser instead of needing to be added in. The tight integration, shows in many subtle ways (e.g., where options are presented in the menus, etc...) that makes the overall product feel more polished. The smaller memory foot-print, faster (perceived?) UI response, and better standards compliance all make me feel more comfortable than the browser I've been advocating to friends the last 7+ years.
The lack of Open Source use to bug me, but not any more; I don't see myself ever becoming involved in the source code. I truely believe the money behind Opera is what has contributed to it being such a great product.
- Built in tabs (I don't care who was first, I care if there are tabs in the current version.) - Built in tabbed download status - Built in mouse gestures - Built in ad-blocking - Built in FULL full screen - Built in "Speed Dial" feature (neat idea!) - Better CSS2 compliance than Firefox or IE - A solid bookmark manager - Smaller (than Firefox) memory footprint
Another week of test driving this at work, and then my home computers are switching over too.
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I agree that once a game (or music, or video) leaves it's initial purchasing channel there should not be a required tax or fee that goes back to the originating party.
I don't agree that extras companies invest in providing (e.g., downloadable content) should transfer as well. It seems a fair balance, and don't feel my "rights" are being violated. I have a choice:
1. Buy new, pay retail, and get additional content
2. Buy used, pay less, receive no frills.
The companies aren't taking away my choice, and based on the quality of the downloadable content is how I choose to exercise it.
Publishers and studios are doing what they can to monetize their games. The games industry as a whole is pretty chaotic. EA is the juggernaut (ranked #1 again this year by Game Developer Magazine) but even EA has had to sack groups of employees and various studios:
e.g., http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11289
The smaller studios, owned by publishers or independent, are also not as sustainable as many people believe. For every game that makes it out of the gate and is considered a "hit" there are multiple studios who must sack employees or completely close their doors:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21113
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20929
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17661
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=15486
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13759
Making money by offering product value to those who buy a game new is devoid of encroaching on one's liberities. Without doing so more studios would fail.
I just Googled "Ebay Alternative" and was glad to find many options. A bunch are outlined right on: http://www.salehoo.com/blog/sick-of-ebay-try-these-alternative-places-to-sell/
With the exception of Netflix, I find that expressing grievances with business practices to large companies usually has little effect. Legal shakedown seems to be the only thing CEOs understand, and that's because litigation is potentially bad for their stock value.
It's easier for me to just jump to another company that doesn't feel the need to sacrifice customer service (in this case standard payment options) in order to achieve a better revenue stream. Hello uBid!
I've been doing Actionscript 2 (AS2) based Flash for awhile, and recently picked up Actionscript 3. Below are sites that I've found to be the best for either:
For (video-based) tutorials, gotoandlearn - http://gotoandlearn.com/
For reference, Kirupa's Flash Forum - http://www.kirupa.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6
I'd spend $2-$3 to support "You Got A Grappling Hook".
A simple game that has a unique play mechnic, and a great story.
How much clout do you need before you can say no [to a publisher insisting on DRM]?
It must be a rather good deal of clout; I don't know of a case where this has occurred.
Everything I've experienced myself or gleaned from GDC and IGDA meetings is that the publisher('s marketing) dictates all aspects of distribution, including DRM when it comes to AAA titles for consoles, handhelds, or PC.
I will personally state that your DRM lost you (and them) profit due to DRM in at least my potential sale. I refuse to buy products that require a CD to use.
I have a lot of respect for anyone who can adhere to this ideal. Unfortunately (for those advocating DRM removal) the game was in the top 10 and received a high enough meta-critic score that the publisher saw no reason to remove the DRM in the patch. I expect this trend to persist on future titles the publisher releases.
Even worst though, I cannot think of a game that was critically acclaimed that did not sell well because of DRM. And because of this, unless there is a large-scale movement, I doubt publishers are willing to attribute a SKU's poor market performance to the title's DRM.
Developers are so fixating in using DRM to force pirates to buy their games that they ignore the number of paying customers who don't buy their games *because* of the DRM.
I'm a game developer; this is partially correct.
While some developers may want to use DRM, it's more commonly a publisher that forces a team to utilize the DRM solution they bought into. On a previous AAA project we had to utilize the DRM the publisher utilized
We hated it, my friends who bought the game hated it, but our hands were tied.
On top of that, a patch was recently released which appears to mainly have tightened the DRM. The result: my friends are extermely upset as their Daemon tools ISO solution no longer works; they now have to keep the CD/DVD in their computer to play the game, another DRM annoyance pushed on customers who paid for the game. Personally this is making the game more trouble than it's worth; if my friends didn't play this at LAN parties I'd uninstall the game.
I wonder how die hard fans feel.
But in the end this is what the publisher wanted. Our team didn't agree with it, but while they paid our checks our hands were tied by what their marketing team dictated was good to protect their IP and ensure no lost profits, "due to pirating".
Agreed.... just called them this morning and told them my displeasure with eliminating profiles.
One interesting point to me was that the customer service rep pointed out to me was that profile picks are not kept seperately when performing suggestions. I am a bit disappointed in this, but even more shocked I didn't realize it when I received suggestions. (I'm told this frequently is masked by people not-showing movie genre's they don't typically watch.)
It was interesting to learn that recently Google was stopping it's browser sync support. It was one the one feature that had kept me on Firefox until I switch to Opera 9.5 beta last year.
I need to give Firefox 3 a whirl, having been a user since it's inception, but currently Opera is my default.
IE is off my radar, IMHO it's playing catch-up to both. Having two quality browsers in the market can only be good for consumers. It will be interesting to see who innovates quicker... FF (open source) or O (closed source).
Correction... I meant the first letter part 3 "S" would either be "1" or "A".
I didn't even get that the middle portion (part 2 of 4) was hex until you posted that... thank you.
My analysis...
All the symbols have a hex # below them in part 2 and I bet those are reused in part 3. That would mean the last symbol in part 3 (which you wrote as "c") would have a hex equivalent of either "1" or "A" as neither of them are listed above.
Additionally I cannot help but think the three symbols (part 3) spell "key". If true it would mean either the key is above or below the words... I'd first guess below. That it even spells key is a complete leap though.
Aside from the FLDS (which other posts on here claim are no way tied to the LDS) I have to agree with you regarding becoming a god of your own planet.
All "Christians" believe there is one God.
The last time all Christians agreed (before the one church splintered into denominations) was with the "Nicene Creed". It specified, to the best of human ability, what the nature of this one God via the Trinity is.
And while most of what the LDS do is aligned with the teaching of the Christian Bible, the fact their doctrine is in conflict with the Nicene Creed is what precludes them from being "Christian".
Same is true for Christianity and Judaism. While a good chunk of Christian theology is based on Jewish theology, a Christian has believes that contradicts Jewish law. Therefore a Christian is not considered Jewish; at least by everyone I know (who is either a Christian or a Jew).
Example: What was the market outcome of Nintendo's Gameboy (4 levels of gray) when it was competing with the Atari's Lynx, Sega's Gamegear, as well as a few others?
Now whether or not the grandparent's theory is correct is a matter of speculation, but I wouldn't discount it.
I use cavtel, and too have faced their own special redirection page. Thanks Cavtel.
Didn't know about monitoring bitorrents though. (I don't have Tivo, and so the option to view a missed show is attractive.) I suppose this isn't illegal... although it does feel a lot like wiretapping.
I wonder if Verizon FIOS is any better in terms of privacy. (Comcast, the only other non-dial up option isn't even up for debate.)
The demo "Node" and it's associated source code is available here:
www.tronster.com/code/node
This was made by 2 programmers (me being one) and an artist/musician. It's not technically spectacular, but it was made to run on Linux and Windows, and ranked 3rd place at the Coma 2 demo competition.
The demo scene is a fantastically creative place to be. In middle school (][gs) and high school (PC), my friends and I would be the first to DL the latest demos from the European compos. It wasn't until college I obtained the discipline to put something out. Wish I had the time to do another one.
Has anyone here downloaded Dryad (the software) and got it to work?
I tried it a few weeks ago when I first heard of (believe it was 1.0 not the January 1.1 release). On two beefy computers the program would start then proceeded to crash after 20 seconds of interacting with it. I never saw a tree. I wasn't worried about specs as the one computer has 3 gigs of RAM and an 8800.
I'm all for releasing public alphas or betas, but was surprised at how brittle it seemed considering the lack of warning or documentation.
Perhaps some high level programming skills are indicative of how much they understand about computers / computer science.
Came across the link below on here, or possibly digg:
Psyché Rock
It's the song "Psyché Rock" by Pierre Henry which has such a strong similarity to the main Futurama theme music, I'd find it hard to believe that it didn't inspire the theme.
You could solve your dilema by legally changing your birth name to your nickname. That's what I did after a co-worker pointed out: 5,000,000 women change their name each year. It was surprisingly easy.
Mods: Parent is "Insightful"? Actually parent is making some incorrect assumptions. (Please mod down.)
Last two contracting gig I did (I have a programming consultant business in MD), I paid state and federal taxes on my hourly salary. When I charge a client a rate, I have figured taxes into my figure.
What just passed is an additional tax; and IMO is an exorbitant amount of what I need to give up.
Note:
This is also the same tax on arcades and landscaping services.
More Links on the subject:
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In the past, I built my own (and my brother's) PCs because I could get the computer "power" for a cheaper cost. For my last PC system I spent 3 months reading articles on Toms Hardware and similar web-sites in order to:
- maximize "power"
- keep cost to a minimum
- ensure maximum compatibility
What I've found is that if I plan on keeping my system any longer than 2 years (I shoot for 3 - 5) that most of my items cannot (or I do not) want to bring them over.- Hard Drive - If brought over, is used as a temp or scratch disk...
- Video Card - PCI, AGP, AGPX, PCIe, etc... format keeps improving, only sometimes can I reuse an existing card
- Memory - Almost never reused, even highend-mid range boards use a newer technology
- Case - I've never reused in an upgrade usually due to new form-factor
- CPU & MB - Always upgraded, as this is what I consider a "new" computer. Otherwise it's just a fix to my existing one.
And so I discovered that after each upgrade I'd have a ton of extra parts. Some would become 2ndard computers, some would go to my geek friends, some parts would become Christmas decorations. (*Rah*, memory hanging from a tree!)So the last 3 years I've started converting over to Apple products. If they last 3 years or longer, then they outlive my PCs by at least a year. I haven't worked out the ROI but I believe that makes them comparable in terms of cost.
And for lock-in, I know that even on the systems that don't intend for consumer performed upgrades (e.g., iMac, eBooks, etc...) that 3rd parties exist to sell most everything that I would typically upgrade in a PC. With a few exceptions though, I'd upgrade through Apple. My Mac Book Pro is the most solid system I've had in terms of the DMA and interruptable hardware pieces playing well together.
These days, that's all that really matters. Troubleshooting and optimizing my hardware, BIOS, and Windows(XP) settings are not something I want to spend time on.
From: http://www.apple.com/macpro/graphics.html
Looks like stock Apple options as of today are:
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
- ATI Radeon X1900 XT
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
youthoftoday, Sorry I didn't realize the intended tone of your e-mail and felt it necessary to throw out some facts.You are right, if you mean by "most" Macs you are talking about the iMac and those aimed at non-professionals, non-IT, etc. But if you want to compare apples to apples then the PC tower form factor Mac has equivalent (if not more) upgradability than it's PC equivalent.
IIRC the Mac towers since the G5 have been designed to more easilly swap out memroy, slot parts, and hard drives as well as provide better air flow than ATX and similar PC equivalent form factors.
http://www.apple.com/macpro/expansion.html
And a quick Google for "mac video card upgrades" yielded much evidence that upgardes exist:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/accelerators/ATI-Videocards
http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeon9600/Radeon9600propcmac/index.html
Can a geek who believes that Jesus is Christ not enjoy Halo?
Is playing violent video games a sin?
If the "church" (meaning here being all churches of any demoninations that affirm the Nicene Creed), has been charged in spreading the teachings of Christ (thinking of Mark 12:28-31) does it further succeed or fail by offering a place for people to gather and play Halo 3?
I currently run Firefox on my home PC, home Mac, home Mac-mini, and wife's computer.
Just last week I switched to Opera at work, after learning one of my, well respected, co-workers was using it for browsing. Ever year or so I'd done a "switch" for a day, but always went back to Firefox. I think this time the switch to Opera is going to stay.
Seems Opera is on par to all the features I've come to rely on in Firefox (tabs, mouse gestures, adblocking, tabbed download info), except that they are all baked into the browser instead of needing to be added in. The tight integration, shows in many subtle ways (e.g., where options are presented in the menus, etc...) that makes the overall product feel more polished. The smaller memory foot-print, faster (perceived?) UI response, and better standards compliance all make me feel more comfortable than the browser I've been advocating to friends the last 7+ years.
The lack of Open Source use to bug me, but not any more; I don't see myself ever becoming involved in the source code. I truely believe the money behind Opera is what has contributed to it being such a great product.
- Built in tabs (I don't care who was first, I care if there are tabs in the current version.)
- Built in tabbed download status
- Built in mouse gestures
- Built in ad-blocking
- Built in FULL full screen
- Built in "Speed Dial" feature (neat idea!)
- Better CSS2 compliance than Firefox or IE
- A solid bookmark manager
- Smaller (than Firefox) memory footprint
Another week of test driving this at work, and then my home computers are switching over too.