I agree. It's kind of like Netscape and IE, there came a time when IE was actually a better product and people chose it because of that. My first IBM computer came with Netscape and Lotus Smartsuite. I used them for a long time until I tried IE and Office and found the alternatives better. This was back in the day before MS shoved those products down your throat. Wordperfect was a great product but the early Windows implementation couldn't hold a candle to Microsoft's offering.
As a test of the search results I did a search on my name in quotation marks.
MSN Search returned my High School and College Alumni pages, a reference to myself in a friends Blog and some newsgroup postings where I'd answered some tech questions in Yahoo Groups. All together there were 32 results returned.
Google returned 7 results, and out of the stuff I expected it only had the reference to me in my friends Blog. Didn't even have my schools alumni pages.
I also tried Yahoo, which returns 13 results, but has the Blog and Alumni pages.
When.NET was in Beta part of the prerequisits for development was a version of IE 6 that had the side bar on it. I remember how much I hated it just like the one on Mozilla/FireFox so I was glad that it was not there when IE 6 came out. Also, if you have MSDN for.NET installed on your machine; or even just the.NET SDK, it uses IE as it's renderer and it has tabbed browsing; so you can use it as a tabbed browser. IE 6 SP2 has built in pop-up blocking that's better than the one provided in the Google toolbar; so they can definitely put out a browser with these features with no problem.
I hope something happens this time too. When Mozilla hit it's 1.0 milestone there was talk that the end of IE dominance was upon us, yet it may have taken a percentage point or two away from IE's marketshare; didn't have the impact everyone was expecting.
You're only looking at the music that's played on your ClearChannel radio stations. You should look beyond this music and you will find better stuff. You have to realise that most of the top 40 groups out there are just trying to get that one or two good songs per albumn so they will get their radio play and music videos. If you listen to stuff not played on the radio you will probably find albumns where every song is decent.
I listen to punk music. I'm almost 33 and have been listening to punk since I was 13. It's just the music I've come to love. The last 4 albumns I bought:
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
The Angry Samoans The UnBoxed Set
Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 - Viva Los Violence
When listening to these CD's in my car I don't skip any of the tracks, all the songs are good. This is something you don't find in your top 40 bands very often.
I think it's just the way some people treat stuff. The first music CD I ever bought was The Sisters of Mercy FloodLand back in 1990. In 2002 I let a friend borrow it for the night. When I gave it to him, after 12 years of use it had no scratches at all and the case and booklet were perfect; like all my other CDs. When I got it back there was a crack in the case, the booklet was roughed up, and there were little scrathes all over it. It still played fine but overnight it went from looking new to looking like you'd expect a 12 year old CD to look.
I rode with him in his car one day and on the back floorboard were all his CDs. He just tosses stuff around, which explains why his CDs look the way they do.
>>The ultra-intrusive new format opens when a user is on one page of a Web site and clicks a link to go to another page on the same site. Instead of seeing that new page, the user sees an ad that fills the entire screen.
See the part where it says it opens when you click on a link...that's known as asking explicitly; so Opera will not block it.
The consulting firm I work at has deployed a Point Of Sale system running on the.Net framework; it's currently running in 4 restaurants. The touchscreen GUI was written in C#, as was the business and data tiers. We use.Net remoting to communicate between the touchscreen and the server. Just started development using the.Net compact framework to let the waiters use Pocket PC devices when taking orders. I've been developing in.Net since June of last year; deployed two intranet sites and an e-commerce site since then. Have been developing in Java since '97. I personally don't consider one better than the other; but then again I'm not out there fighting a religious battle against Microsoft either.
If I remember right, Dell was selling home machines/workstations with Linux installed on it if that is what the user chose. The machines didn't sell, so Dell stopped selling this choice, and left Linux to the servers.
I've always figured it would be a support nightmare if companies like Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq, etc. sold computers with any OS of choice. How would it be when you called tech support:
Press 1 for Windows
Press 2 for Linux
Press 3 for Solaris
Press 4 for FreeBSD
etc. etc.
They'd have to hire a lot more tech support just to have people on staff that knew the OS you used.
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I agree. It's kind of like Netscape and IE, there came a time when IE was actually a better product and people chose it because of that. My first IBM computer came with Netscape and Lotus Smartsuite. I used them for a long time until I tried IE and Office and found the alternatives better. This was back in the day before MS shoved those products down your throat. Wordperfect was a great product but the early Windows implementation couldn't hold a candle to Microsoft's offering.
As a test of the search results I did a search on my name in quotation marks. MSN Search returned my High School and College Alumni pages, a reference to myself in a friends Blog and some newsgroup postings where I'd answered some tech questions in Yahoo Groups. All together there were 32 results returned. Google returned 7 results, and out of the stuff I expected it only had the reference to me in my friends Blog. Didn't even have my schools alumni pages. I also tried Yahoo, which returns 13 results, but has the Blog and Alumni pages.
When .NET was in Beta part of the prerequisits for development was a version of IE 6 that had the side bar on it. I remember how much I hated it just like the one on Mozilla/FireFox so I was glad that it was not there when IE 6 came out. Also, if you have MSDN for .NET installed on your machine; or even just the .NET SDK, it uses IE as it's renderer and it has tabbed browsing; so you can use it as a tabbed browser. IE 6 SP2 has built in pop-up blocking that's better than the one provided in the Google toolbar; so they can definitely put out a browser with these features with no problem.
I hope something happens this time too. When Mozilla hit it's 1.0 milestone there was talk that the end of IE dominance was upon us, yet it may have taken a percentage point or two away from IE's marketshare; didn't have the impact everyone was expecting.
I listen to punk music. I'm almost 33 and have been listening to punk since I was 13. It's just the music I've come to love. The last 4 albumns I bought:
When listening to these CD's in my car I don't skip any of the tracks, all the songs are good. This is something you don't find in your top 40 bands very often.
I think it's just the way some people treat stuff. The first music CD I ever bought was The Sisters of Mercy FloodLand back in 1990. In 2002 I let a friend borrow it for the night. When I gave it to him, after 12 years of use it had no scratches at all and the case and booklet were perfect; like all my other CDs. When I got it back there was a crack in the case, the booklet was roughed up, and there were little scrathes all over it. It still played fine but overnight it went from looking new to looking like you'd expect a 12 year old CD to look.
I rode with him in his car one day and on the back floorboard were all his CDs. He just tosses stuff around, which explains why his CDs look the way they do.
>>The ultra-intrusive new format opens when a user is on one page of a Web site and clicks a link to go to another page on the same site. Instead of seeing that new page, the user sees an ad that fills the entire screen.
See the part where it says it opens when you click on a link...that's known as asking explicitly; so Opera will not block it.
Anytime I have to fill in an email address on a web site to download something I use administrator@domain.com. Let them spam themselves.
The consulting firm I work at has deployed a Point Of Sale system running on the .Net framework; it's currently running in 4 restaurants. The touchscreen GUI was written in C#, as was the business and data tiers. We use .Net remoting to communicate between the touchscreen and the server. Just started development using the .Net compact framework to let the waiters use Pocket PC devices when taking orders. I've been developing in .Net since June of last year; deployed two intranet sites and an e-commerce site since then. Have been developing in Java since '97. I personally don't consider one better than the other; but then again I'm not out there fighting a religious battle against Microsoft either.
If I remember right, Dell was selling home machines/workstations with Linux installed on it if that is what the user chose. The machines didn't sell, so Dell stopped selling this choice, and left Linux to the servers. I've always figured it would be a support nightmare if companies like Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq, etc. sold computers with any OS of choice. How would it be when you called tech support:
Press 1 for Windows
Press 2 for Linux
Press 3 for Solaris
Press 4 for FreeBSD
etc. etc.
They'd have to hire a lot more tech support just to have people on staff that knew the OS you used.