To me the latest Opera looks very good AND is amazingly responsive. I can't really agree with you about Opera feeling sluggish.
I can't say bad things about Firefox after version 2.0. Previous versions were a POS and fanboys were already raving about that POS like it was any good. But Firefox since version 2.0 has been a nice browser, and it was good because they copied a lot of Opera features.
Those people are just waiting to be screwed, as MS always does to its partners whenever it suits it.
If MS had its way, we would be using underpowered and overpriced HP phones with some flavour of WinMo, with an unhealthy lock of the market via some business-friendly winmo-only features of the phones. They had the iPAQ pocket PCs market, and it was just a matter of adding a dialler to the device. But the mobile telephony providers know how sneaky MS is, and refused to put all their eggs in a MS basket.
No other company is so effective leveraging a monopoly and making impossible to ever come off it as MS, and so effective to destroy partners in order to increase marketshare, and that's why people like me advice all the people we know to avoid MS smartphones. We don't want another Windows-desktop-like monopoly, no matter how good or bad their actual devices are.
I'm sure I'm not alone. Right now only Android and Maemo are the appropriate alternatives. And even then I'm not sure about Google 'don't be evil' motto.
My WP5.1 had on the fly typo correction, accent composition (important in my language) and some fixes that have been only rediscovered decades later in cell phones, like pressing space twice to insert a colon, and make the next letter in caps. I also had programmed that if you pressed space, then comma, the comma was moved behind the space automatically.
Sadly, all those macros were not compatible with WP6.0 (they changed the language to add object compatibility and lost a lot of functionality in the process) and were finally lost when my old 80MB disk died.
I do wish some of that stuff I coded in a 286 vintage PC were in use right now.
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I have used this feature for years in XP. Just install a tiny app called Launchy.
Good to hear that, I plan to do the same.
Yes, you plug it to your PC, not to your iPod.
(in before whoosh)
If you like racing games, a wheel can help you with the RSI.
Opera (and that copycat browser) scales everything correctly, except some stupid flash content that deliberately sets scaling off.
I absolutely hate flash content that has scaling disabled.
Mathematics is a huge field with lots and lots of small ramifications.
You may want someone who understand statistics for your SEO stuff.
You may need someone who knows calculus for a physics simulation.
You need someone who knows a lot of linear algebra if you want to write a search engine.
You probably need someone who knows about concrete mathematics for almost all the rest.
For everyone who thinks that they do not use maths when programming: what do you think regular expressions are?
To me the latest Opera looks very good AND is amazingly responsive. I can't really agree with you about Opera feeling sluggish.
I can't say bad things about Firefox after version 2.0. Previous versions were a POS and fanboys were already raving about that POS like it was any good. But Firefox since version 2.0 has been a nice browser, and it was good because they copied a lot of Opera features.
I still prefer Opera to Firefox though.
Yeah, because no one else can write a C web client any more, only Google.
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Really, do you work for Fox News or something?
Nothing new. Just read this:
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57261/
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
And spread the news to other newbies!
And what do you propose ?
Opera 10.5 uses GPU acceleration when available.
No, the Opera native skin is actually very different to the default skin.
They changed the default, the native keeps being native.
I'm one of the very few Opera users that use the native skin.
I do also agree with all your criticism of Opera 1.50.
I want special glasses and gloves to chat while I'm walking on the street.
Actually, I have no idea.
They may been screwed right now, like when MS marketed MFC but never used it themselves.
It is only that, if there are alternatives, like Android, I know what I will NOT use.
iPhones are available in only one network in the USA, but they are available for all networks in my country.
As do Blackberries, but those phones are fugly.
So iPhones should be eating even more Blackberry marketshare in other countries with no carrier exclusivity.
MS internal struggles are saving the rest of the software industry. I hope your company keeps having them.
We do not want other MS monopolies, thank you very much.
Those people are just waiting to be screwed, as MS always does to its partners whenever it suits it.
If MS had its way, we would be using underpowered and overpriced HP phones with some flavour of WinMo, with an unhealthy lock of the market via some business-friendly winmo-only features of the phones. They had the iPAQ pocket PCs market, and it was just a matter of adding a dialler to the device. But the mobile telephony providers know how sneaky MS is, and refused to put all their eggs in a MS basket.
No other company is so effective leveraging a monopoly and making impossible to ever come off it as MS, and so effective to destroy partners in order to increase marketshare, and that's why people like me advice all the people we know to avoid MS smartphones. We don't want another Windows-desktop-like monopoly, no matter how good or bad their actual devices are.
I'm sure I'm not alone. Right now only Android and Maemo are the appropriate alternatives. And even then I'm not sure about Google 'don't be evil' motto.
You may be right, but this:
but those are a distinct minority and are the only ones on which book publishers make any actual profits
looks way too much like hollywood accounting.
You just made me compare a credit card with the screen of my phone, you bastard!
P.D.: Yes, the card is a bit larger.
I do need at least a few dozen books to be able to decide what to read next, and not feel stressed about it.
P.D: In before Whoosh! This place is no digg.
Talk for yourself.
I do actually feel a huge craving when I finish a book.
What to read next ?
Do you want me to go to a trip, finish a book and then have NOTHING to read until I go back ?
Specially if I don't know what do I want to read next?
And I would probably finish a book in the trip, because I would probably be reading something already.
If you want me to carry 100 books to be able to satisfy my needs, you sir are a very cruel person. U_U
PD: Whoosh is overrated. +1 Funny is killing all the Insightfullnes of the comments, and turning this into a slow DIGG.
As long as you upgrade IE6 to a newer version...
My WP5.1 had on the fly typo correction, accent composition (important in my language) and some fixes that have been only rediscovered decades later in cell phones, like pressing space twice to insert a colon, and make the next letter in caps. I also had programmed that if you pressed space, then comma, the comma was moved behind the space automatically.
Sadly, all those macros were not compatible with WP6.0 (they changed the language to add object compatibility and lost a lot of functionality in the process) and were finally lost when my old 80MB disk died.
I do wish some of that stuff I coded in a 286 vintage PC were in use right now.
Well, it could have one or more after-responses with the word: WHOOSH.
Then we know it's a joke.
You are right, the ideal Apple Tablet would be a turntable Air that becomes a tablet, with full OSX.