Interesting, that's something I haven't heard about before.
But what about electric typewriters? Those date back at least 30 years. I guess then again, so do computer terminals. Did RSI go undiagnosed for a really long time, or what?
Personally (yes, the ever-reliable sample of one!) I've never had a day on the keyboard hurt, but boy: a day with a lot of mouse use really sucks.
Ah well, in another year it'll be "RSI caused by a chemical imbalance" anyway:)
Don't pick some of the more obtuse and complicated mouse gestures and then say "Hey, this sucks!" Of course you wouldn't like them if they were all like that!
I can't speak for Moz, as I haven't used it with gestures much, so this is Opera-related:
I'll tell you why mouse gestures rule. Page navigation. I tend to flip back and forth between pages a LOT, especially on sites like Slashdot. Click into a story, check out some comments, read a sub-comment, go back to the main story comments, go forward to see if I've read it correctly, go back, etc.
In Opera, going back and forth is a simple right-click and drag left or right, to go backwards and forwards in history respectively. MUCH nicer than constantly having to move mouse up the the back button, click. Move mouse down to comment link, click. Move mouse up to the back button, click.
Now, there may be keyboard shortcuts for back and forth than some people find handy, but for me, those 2 mouse gestures alone are like a scroll wheel. I'd never live without, and when forced to, it really, really sucks.
In general I don't have much sympathy for RSI sufferers...
I use a keyboard something like 8 hours a day, and have done for the last 15 years, programming computers. If anyone is a prime candidate, it's me, and no RSI as yet.
Perhaps you don't know what really causes RSI. Keyboarding doesn't, or we would have seen RSI cases decades ago, long before computers existed.
The biggest cause (well, so we think so far) is mouse usage. All that constant reaching for and manipulating the mouse. It can be mitigated with simple excersizes and not spending 8 straight hours on the damn thing. In fact, I've noticed mouse gestures HELP my wrist tendons, because they add some more variety to the act of mousing - it's not just move-click-move anymore. Well, it is, but more complex motions.
Congratulations on your not having RSI, but you're not a prime candidate as you suggest. At least not according to current theory, which will probably change sometime in the next 3 months:)
Yikes, I'd figure it's the latest infusion of 6/700,000 user accounts, but your number is really low, so I might as well respond to you.
In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot has, and always has had, an editorial bias towards OSS, and against Microsoft. So do the bulk of the Slashdot readership. This is nothing new. This is a geek website, and the plain truth is, most people who call themselves geeks don't just sit blindy clicking away in Windows all the time. We like to play with our toys, we like experiment, we like to open it up and see what makes this baby tick. With something like Linux, you can do this. With Windows, you can't. Those are simply the facts. So of course people here will look upon OSS in a more favorable light.
Yet today, we have comments such as "hysterical ranting of the Debian wackos" being modded up as Insightful and Interesting? Hello people, that's called flaming. If it was more subtle, as yours is, it's called trolling. Walking into a Britney Spears fan club meeting and shouting "Britney SUCKS!!!" is also an example of trolling/flaming. So when you come to a website with an obvious and open slant towards something, and constantly try to point out that slant...
Well, I guess I just don't see why you're bothering. I mean really. If you really think the OSS community is full of shit, why on Earth do you come to one of their main websites/blogs/message boards/whatever?
As far as a double standard goes, I honestly don't get your point. Slashdot has never had a policy of reporting every single hack of a Windows-based system. However, pretty much every major OSS hole/exploit/hack gets a story here. Considering how many Windows machines there are in the world, you'd think there would be a lot MORE exploiting going on (hey, I'll use the "Linux would get hacked too if it was on 90% of computers" line for a change). And yet, we hear more often about Linux machines being compromised.
Well, except for things like Code Red/Nimda/Slammer/Blaster/etc, which, I'm sorry, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that this DOESN'T prove the case of Microsoft being just slightly less secure than Linux. Or else we'd be seeing Apache worms flooding the Internet on a daily basis, because "Microsoft only gets hacked because it's on 90% of computers", right?
Oh, and for the record, password compromises are OS-independant, and have nothing (read: zero) to do with the OS, design paradigm of the OS, colour of the developer's underwear, or whether we use a penguin or a flying box to represent ourselves. Only trolls would be saying "Ha ha ha ! Serves 'em right for running Bill Gates' Satanic OS. Let the jokes begin. Moderators, get ready !" if Microsoft had a machine get hacked because of a password compromise.
How many freaking times do we need to go over this?
Read my lips: SHE WASN'T DRIVING! In fact, the CAR WAS PARKED AT THE TIME.
How hard is it for people to get the facts straight, when this has been talked to death on Slashdot a million times?
The case was not about "stupid lady doing stupid things". It was about "McDonalds sold a needlessly hot product that injured people during a normal course of action".
Sorry, folks, but people can and do spill coffee on themselves all the time. How many of them need surgery because of it? Very few, because in the vast majority of cases, this coffee comes from what is established as a safe temperature.
Allowing McDonalds to win a case like this would be like letting beef producers knowingly inject E. Coli into their hamburger, and if someone got sick, well.. you shoulda cooked it all the way.
Guess what? That's not how our society works. Negligence is the act of doing the wrong thing / not doing the right thing, when you know what the right thing is to do. Pretty much every other restaurant in the US knows what a safe coffee temperature is, McDonalds didn't - even after they'd been told hundreds of times about the problem. Ergo, they lost.
the legal fact of the matter is that they may pursue copyright infringers. It is not her content to distribute
The problem is, folks like the parent like to whine "they mod me down without responding", but really, EVERY thread on the **AA has 500 responses to his/her initial statements. Most posts like the parent get modded down because they insist on whining. "You're all a bunch of thieves!" "See, this is Slashdot hypocrasy!!!" "What if someone stole YOUR code/violated the GPL!".
See, what you and the parent seem to miss, is that most Slashdotters respond to stories like this in the usual fashion, because most of us disagree with the laws as they stand.
We don't have a problem with laws being enforced per se, it's more of a statement of "the laws really, really suck". And no, it's not some black and white issue of "she shared music, therefore she must be guilty because the law says so". For one thing, she's a minor. For another, there is the concept of evidence, due process, etc, which seems to be entirely missing from the RIAA's current tactics. Oh wait, that would assume they're a law enforcement agency, which they most certainly aren't, even if they act like one.
Yup, some kid is accused of having copyrighted material on her hard drive. Coming to the RIAA's defense by saying "she's guilty, she's a thief, what they're doing is right!" isn't insightful, it isn't informative, and it sure as hell isn't interesting.
Although in all fairness, I think everything on this issue has already been covered a million times here, so I'm not too sure just what is interesting or informative anymore.
Most (and by most, I mean pretty much 99.99%) Windows users do not use Windows because of choice.
They use it because it came with their computer. They've become familiar with it and figure it's the best there is, because "hey, it sells the most".
They use it because they've never heard of anything else. If they have heard, they're too scared to try. If they've tried it, they've gone back to Windows because there is no viable alternative for them.
They use it because their workplace makes them use it, and a surprising number of people take work home with them.
They use it because their ISP only supports it. Or their hardware only supports it. Or, little Jimmy down the street who is "good with computers" supports it, because he can click more efficiently than they can.
I think I've met maybe 5 people in my life who actually CHOOSE to use Windows, when presented with viable alternatives for what they do.
No one in the OSS movement (well, no one sane) advocates forcing people to get off of Windows. What they do advocate is educating users so that they CAN make a choice, which in most cases, is currently unavailable.
I picked up one of the nicest LCD screens I've ever seen from an old 486 laptop a while back. It's a neat little 9" job, perfect for a picture frame, secondary display, or what have you. So I did a little research on what I could do with this thing...
Short answer: pretty much nothing.
Long answer: The video hardware necessary to convert a VGA signal into the controls for an LCD panel is embedded directly into the motherboard. I suppose if you were enterprising enough you could play with a hacksaw and some FPGA's or something. Every website I could find repeated the same thing: proprietary interface, and no success for the most part. You're talking 50+ wires leading into the LCD panel, so even if you knew what you were doing (like a very few do - some have actually succeeded in this), it's still a LOT of work.
Addendum: I've pretty much decided to just use the thing as a remote terminal window that I can mount over my bed, or somewhere else where I might want to get a shell but not have a computer handy. This is still going to involve a lot of messing about, and unfortunately the motherboard/drives/power supply will have to be included somehow, but I'm working on an extension cable to at least be able to have the display a few feet from the rest of the guts. We'll see how that affects picture quality - these wires are an insanely small guage, and I haven't been able to find the right spare plugs in case I screw up:(
Anyway, best of luck, and if any other slashdotters have any ideas, please, share!
an issue that only exists in places like Slashdot and is solely sustained by the "media" attention the OSS community and trolls that work for Fortune give it
Tell that to IBM's lawyers.
The first half of your post was true. The rest IS a troll, and if you're wondering why you'll get moderated as such, it's not (just) because people disagree with you.
Good article overall, in fact pretty damn amazing coming from mainstream press. But I did notice one disturbing thing:
And while Torvalds and Linux have recently faced legal issues about whether Linux might have some proprietary code embedded in it, that distraction is dwarfed by the time and energy Gates has devoted to battling the U.S. Justice Dept.
Now, all of us here are aware that the 2 cases are pretty much polar opposites. The former is the little guy being picked on by a big, greedy coporation. The latter is the little guys (us, represented by the govenment) picking on the big, greedy coporation.
Most of the non-tech people I know are aware that MS's name had been dragged through the mud as a result of the DOJ case, and have a lot less respect for MS now that the law has found them guilty. Regardless of the merits of the case, or the result, the fact is the general public often thinks of MS as the bad guys simply because of a court decision.
I really, really hope this doesn't happen to Linux, but articles that even mention the 2 situations in the same paragraph (without explanation) blur the issue. How long until my Mom asks me about Linux, the "Operating System written by thieves"?
is there a legal definition of what is spam? i consider anything about M$ Windows based products to be spam because i use a Mac, but i am sure to somebody it may be useful information.
To me, it's anything I didn't ask for.
If you're not a friend or relative of mine, it's spam, unless I've specifically signed up for YOUR advertising. Which in my life amounts to exactly zero things in the 9 years I've been online.
I don't give a damn if everyone on the planet except me finds something useful. I'm perfectly capable of finding information on my own, thank you very much.
There's surprisingly little byte manipulation going on
Ever heard of a spam filter?
Ever wonder why most spam has words like p3n1ds in it?
Trust me, they're working VERY hard to circumvent measures taken by myself and millions of others to NOT have their data reach our computers. Now if there was a way to copyright my inbox, maybe I could use the DMCA against them...:)
...Add to that 250 million 32-bit chips the much greater number of 16-bit processors, estimated at over one billion per year. Then add another billion eight-bit processors, and another billion four-bitters
And 8 bit chips still outsell any other category, by a huge margin.
AMD isn't claiming NO 32 bit chips will be around, they're talking the home desktop market. I'm pretty sure no one still sells 16 bit desktops these days:)
Two years ago the bank right next to my campus had an ATM with a fingerprint scanner. Instead of needing your ATM card on you at all times you could just use your thumprint to log in. Its kind of scary that a fingerprint is so easy to forge. It would be so simple to wipe out someone's life savings.
And this is why, in Canada at least, ATM cards can only be used to withdraw a small amount of money per day (starts around $500, I think my account is up to $1500 now).
Anyone who stores their entire life savings in an ATM card accessible account is just asking for trouble, as is anyone who doesn't check their bank balance often enough that they wouldn't notice this happening.
Unfortunately, thanks to Slashdot's way of formatting URLs to display the domain name to the stupid right in the post (and yes, I do mean stupid, that's what the status bar is for), I can get caught on these all the time.
For whatever reason, Opera 6 just shows the [domain.com] part in the status bar, not the entire URL like it should.
I'm really surprised that Slashdot works better on IE than it does on Opera, but the irony doesn't escape me;)
Some of you may not be aware of this, but at one point (20-25 years ago) Microsoft was seen as the little guy, fighting against the big, powerful, market-dominating, innovation-stifling IBM. Remind anyone of a certain penguin?
Microsoft has turned into everything they used to be against (and sometimes worse). Kinda reminds me of what happens to revolutionaries in the political world. Let's just hope Linus' ego can be kept in check:)
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Interesting, that's something I haven't heard about before.
:)
But what about electric typewriters? Those date back at least 30 years. I guess then again, so do computer terminals. Did RSI go undiagnosed for a really long time, or what?
Personally (yes, the ever-reliable sample of one!) I've never had a day on the keyboard hurt, but boy: a day with a lot of mouse use really sucks.
Ah well, in another year it'll be "RSI caused by a chemical imbalance" anyway
Don't pick some of the more obtuse and complicated mouse gestures and then say "Hey, this sucks!" Of course you wouldn't like them if they were all like that!
I can't speak for Moz, as I haven't used it with gestures much, so this is Opera-related:
I'll tell you why mouse gestures rule. Page navigation. I tend to flip back and forth between pages a LOT, especially on sites like Slashdot. Click into a story, check out some comments, read a sub-comment, go back to the main story comments, go forward to see if I've read it correctly, go back, etc.
In Opera, going back and forth is a simple right-click and drag left or right, to go backwards and forwards in history respectively. MUCH nicer than constantly having to move mouse up the the back button, click. Move mouse down to comment link, click. Move mouse up to the back button, click.
Now, there may be keyboard shortcuts for back and forth than some people find handy, but for me, those 2 mouse gestures alone are like a scroll wheel. I'd never live without, and when forced to, it really, really sucks.
In general I don't have much sympathy for RSI sufferers...
:)
I use a keyboard something like 8 hours a day, and have done for the last 15 years, programming computers. If anyone is a prime candidate, it's me, and no RSI as yet.
Perhaps you don't know what really causes RSI. Keyboarding doesn't, or we would have seen RSI cases decades ago, long before computers existed.
The biggest cause (well, so we think so far) is mouse usage. All that constant reaching for and manipulating the mouse. It can be mitigated with simple excersizes and not spending 8 straight hours on the damn thing. In fact, I've noticed mouse gestures HELP my wrist tendons, because they add some more variety to the act of mousing - it's not just move-click-move anymore. Well, it is, but more complex motions.
Congratulations on your not having RSI, but you're not a prime candidate as you suggest. At least not according to current theory, which will probably change sometime in the next 3 months
Yikes, I'd figure it's the latest infusion of 6/700,000 user accounts, but your number is really low, so I might as well respond to you.
In case you haven't noticed, Slashdot has, and always has had, an editorial bias towards OSS, and against Microsoft. So do the bulk of the Slashdot readership. This is nothing new. This is a geek website, and the plain truth is, most people who call themselves geeks don't just sit blindy clicking away in Windows all the time. We like to play with our toys, we like experiment, we like to open it up and see what makes this baby tick. With something like Linux, you can do this. With Windows, you can't. Those are simply the facts. So of course people here will look upon OSS in a more favorable light.
Yet today, we have comments such as "hysterical ranting of the Debian wackos" being modded up as Insightful and Interesting? Hello people, that's called flaming. If it was more subtle, as yours is, it's called trolling. Walking into a Britney Spears fan club meeting and shouting "Britney SUCKS!!!" is also an example of trolling/flaming. So when you come to a website with an obvious and open slant towards something, and constantly try to point out that slant...
Well, I guess I just don't see why you're bothering. I mean really. If you really think the OSS community is full of shit, why on Earth do you come to one of their main websites/blogs/message boards/whatever?
As far as a double standard goes, I honestly don't get your point. Slashdot has never had a policy of reporting every single hack of a Windows-based system. However, pretty much every major OSS hole/exploit/hack gets a story here. Considering how many Windows machines there are in the world, you'd think there would be a lot MORE exploiting going on (hey, I'll use the "Linux would get hacked too if it was on 90% of computers" line for a change). And yet, we hear more often about Linux machines being compromised.
Well, except for things like Code Red/Nimda/Slammer/Blaster/etc, which, I'm sorry, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that this DOESN'T prove the case of Microsoft being just slightly less secure than Linux. Or else we'd be seeing Apache worms flooding the Internet on a daily basis, because "Microsoft only gets hacked because it's on 90% of computers", right?
Oh, and for the record, password compromises are OS-independant, and have nothing (read: zero) to do with the OS, design paradigm of the OS, colour of the developer's underwear, or whether we use a penguin or a flying box to represent ourselves. Only trolls would be saying "Ha ha ha ! Serves 'em right for running Bill Gates' Satanic OS. Let the jokes begin. Moderators, get ready !" if Microsoft had a machine get hacked because of a password compromise.
Who should be liable? The company that sells really hot coffee, or the 81 year old that tries to drink it while driving?
! !! !!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
How many freaking times do we need to go over this?
Read my lips: SHE WASN'T DRIVING! In fact, the CAR WAS PARKED AT THE TIME.
How hard is it for people to get the facts straight, when this has been talked to death on Slashdot a million times?
The case was not about "stupid lady doing stupid things". It was about "McDonalds sold a needlessly hot product that injured people during a normal course of action".
Sorry, folks, but people can and do spill coffee on themselves all the time. How many of them need surgery because of it? Very few, because in the vast majority of cases, this coffee comes from what is established as a safe temperature.
Allowing McDonalds to win a case like this would be like letting beef producers knowingly inject E. Coli into their hamburger, and if someone got sick, well.. you shoulda cooked it all the way.
Guess what? That's not how our society works. Negligence is the act of doing the wrong thing / not doing the right thing, when you know what the right thing is to do. Pretty much every other restaurant in the US knows what a safe coffee temperature is, McDonalds didn't - even after they'd been told hundreds of times about the problem. Ergo, they lost.
the legal fact of the matter is that they may pursue copyright infringers. It is not her content to distribute
The problem is, folks like the parent like to whine "they mod me down without responding", but really, EVERY thread on the **AA has 500 responses to his/her initial statements. Most posts like the parent get modded down because they insist on whining. "You're all a bunch of thieves!" "See, this is Slashdot hypocrasy!!!" "What if someone stole YOUR code/violated the GPL!".
See, what you and the parent seem to miss, is that most Slashdotters respond to stories like this in the usual fashion, because most of us disagree with the laws as they stand.
We don't have a problem with laws being enforced per se, it's more of a statement of "the laws really, really suck". And no, it's not some black and white issue of "she shared music, therefore she must be guilty because the law says so". For one thing, she's a minor. For another, there is the concept of evidence, due process, etc, which seems to be entirely missing from the RIAA's current tactics. Oh wait, that would assume they're a law enforcement agency, which they most certainly aren't, even if they act like one.
Yup, some kid is accused of having copyrighted material on her hard drive. Coming to the RIAA's defense by saying "she's guilty, she's a thief, what they're doing is right!" isn't insightful, it isn't informative, and it sure as hell isn't interesting.
Although in all fairness, I think everything on this issue has already been covered a million times here, so I'm not too sure just what is interesting or informative anymore.
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Most (and by most, I mean pretty much 99.99%) Windows users do not use Windows because of choice.
They use it because it came with their computer. They've become familiar with it and figure it's the best there is, because "hey, it sells the most".
They use it because they've never heard of anything else. If they have heard, they're too scared to try. If they've tried it, they've gone back to Windows because there is no viable alternative for them.
They use it because their workplace makes them use it, and a surprising number of people take work home with them.
They use it because their ISP only supports it. Or their hardware only supports it. Or, little Jimmy down the street who is "good with computers" supports it, because he can click more efficiently than they can.
I think I've met maybe 5 people in my life who actually CHOOSE to use Windows, when presented with viable alternatives for what they do.
No one in the OSS movement (well, no one sane) advocates forcing people to get off of Windows. What they do advocate is educating users so that they CAN make a choice, which in most cases, is currently unavailable.
I picked up one of the nicest LCD screens I've ever seen from an old 486 laptop a while back. It's a neat little 9" job, perfect for a picture frame, secondary display, or what have you. So I did a little research on what I could do with this thing...
:(
Short answer: pretty much nothing.
Long answer: The video hardware necessary to convert a VGA signal into the controls for an LCD panel is embedded directly into the motherboard. I suppose if you were enterprising enough you could play with a hacksaw and some FPGA's or something. Every website I could find repeated the same thing: proprietary interface, and no success for the most part. You're talking 50+ wires leading into the LCD panel, so even if you knew what you were doing (like a very few do - some have actually succeeded in this), it's still a LOT of work.
Addendum: I've pretty much decided to just use the thing as a remote terminal window that I can mount over my bed, or somewhere else where I might want to get a shell but not have a computer handy. This is still going to involve a lot of messing about, and unfortunately the motherboard/drives/power supply will have to be included somehow, but I'm working on an extension cable to at least be able to have the display a few feet from the rest of the guts. We'll see how that affects picture quality - these wires are an insanely small guage, and I haven't been able to find the right spare plugs in case I screw up
Anyway, best of luck, and if any other slashdotters have any ideas, please, share!
I'd love to RTFA, but all I get is a bunch of banner ads, and an invitation to join the "Always on Network".
Did the poster mess up, or is this IE acting wonky?
an issue that only exists in places like Slashdot and is solely sustained by the "media" attention the OSS community and trolls that work for Fortune give it
Tell that to IBM's lawyers.
The first half of your post was true. The rest IS a troll, and if you're wondering why you'll get moderated as such, it's not (just) because people disagree with you.
That's not Slashdot, that's the real world. /me ducks
Heh. Dude, Seth MacFarlane is not the creator of Spawn / co-founder of Image Comics.
:)
That's Todd MacFarlane you're thinking of
Good article overall, in fact pretty damn amazing coming from mainstream press. But I did notice one disturbing thing:
And while Torvalds and Linux have recently faced legal issues about whether Linux might have some proprietary code embedded in it, that distraction is dwarfed by the time and energy Gates has devoted to battling the U.S. Justice Dept.
Now, all of us here are aware that the 2 cases are pretty much polar opposites. The former is the little guy being picked on by a big, greedy coporation. The latter is the little guys (us, represented by the govenment) picking on the big, greedy coporation.
Most of the non-tech people I know are aware that MS's name had been dragged through the mud as a result of the DOJ case, and have a lot less respect for MS now that the law has found them guilty. Regardless of the merits of the case, or the result, the fact is the general public often thinks of MS as the bad guys simply because of a court decision.
I really, really hope this doesn't happen to Linux, but articles that even mention the 2 situations in the same paragraph (without explanation) blur the issue. How long until my Mom asks me about Linux, the "Operating System written by thieves"?
Yeah, except it should say coming too fast, not going :)
Fuchs is normally pronounced "fewks".
:)
But I don't want to spoil your joke
is there a legal definition of what is spam? i consider anything about M$ Windows based products to be spam because i use a Mac, but i am sure to somebody it may be useful information.
To me, it's anything I didn't ask for.
If you're not a friend or relative of mine, it's spam, unless I've specifically signed up for YOUR advertising. Which in my life amounts to exactly zero things in the 9 years I've been online.
I don't give a damn if everyone on the planet except me finds something useful. I'm perfectly capable of finding information on my own, thank you very much.
There's surprisingly little byte manipulation going on
:)
Ever heard of a spam filter?
Ever wonder why most spam has words like p3n1ds in it?
Trust me, they're working VERY hard to circumvent measures taken by myself and millions of others to NOT have their data reach our computers. Now if there was a way to copyright my inbox, maybe I could use the DMCA against them...
Odd, I just enjoy open source software and tech news in general.
I couldn't give a damn how many pets you have named Eric.
...Add to that 250 million 32-bit chips the much greater number of 16-bit processors, estimated at over one billion per year. Then add another billion eight-bit processors, and another billion four-bitters
From here.
32/16/8/4 bit processors aren't going anywhere any time soon, just off the desktop.
And 8 bit chips still outsell any other category, by a huge margin.
:)
AMD isn't claiming NO 32 bit chips will be around, they're talking the home desktop market. I'm pretty sure no one still sells 16 bit desktops these days
WMA.
'Nuff said.
Two years ago the bank right next to my campus had an ATM with a fingerprint scanner. Instead of needing your ATM card on you at all times you could just use your thumprint to log in.
Its kind of scary that a fingerprint is so easy to forge. It would be so simple to wipe out someone's life savings.
And this is why, in Canada at least, ATM cards can only be used to withdraw a small amount of money per day (starts around $500, I think my account is up to $1500 now).
Anyone who stores their entire life savings in an ATM card accessible account is just asking for trouble, as is anyone who doesn't check their bank balance often enough that they wouldn't notice this happening.
Unfortunately, thanks to Slashdot's way of formatting URLs to display the domain name to the stupid right in the post (and yes, I do mean stupid, that's what the status bar is for), I can get caught on these all the time.
;)
For whatever reason, Opera 6 just shows the [domain.com] part in the status bar, not the entire URL like it should.
I'm really surprised that Slashdot works better on IE than it does on Opera, but the irony doesn't escape me
Ah, kids today.
:)
Some of you may not be aware of this, but at one point (20-25 years ago) Microsoft was seen as the little guy, fighting against the big, powerful, market-dominating, innovation-stifling IBM. Remind anyone of a certain penguin?
Microsoft has turned into everything they used to be against (and sometimes worse). Kinda reminds me of what happens to revolutionaries in the political world. Let's just hope Linus' ego can be kept in check
Because no one's ever actually thought that possible.
/me ducks
Flying cars at least there's evidence of.