What is even worse, but seldom pointed out, is why would a technologically advanced race be broadcasting every increment of a countdown timer between ships? Do they not have clocks? They can't just specify a precise time in the future to attack? Do you think it would have been smart for the allies to broadcast a countdown (encrypted or not) for days or hours before launching the invasion of Normandy? The whole idea of having the countdown broadcast is kind of ridiculous.
I was really hoping for a 1920x1200 display on the 17 inch model this time around. That would allow displaying 1080p in native resolution, as well as the nice sharp small fonts that I crave.
Considering that graphic designers are a target user for Macs, I find it pretty stupid that Apple doesn't offer WUXGA. I am a coder and my next notebook will have a 17 inch WUXGA display, one way or another.
Was it Advan BASIC? (which for some reason I always knew as "Advan Compiler BASIC".)
You have me beat. I cut my teeth on an Atari 800, but I only learned Atari BASIC, 6502 assembler and Advan BASIC. I wish I had learned Deep Blue C and/or Action! back then.
I feel old too. I remember wishing for 80 columns of monochrome text instead of 40. Now I have 1920x1200, 32 bit color.
I mostly agree with your comment about Ubuntu being ready for the desktop, and I installed/support an Ubuntu desktop for my father-in-law (a complete computer newbie). It is great not having to worry about anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, worms, trojans, viruses, etc. (He was on Windows 98SE). Overall it is a better desktop than Windows for him. But it does have it's disadvantages.
Most of what he does is email and web browsing. Unfortunately a lot of what his friends send him are videos, powerpoint presentations (with background music), sometimes even *.exe files. Despite a lot of work to try to get it working, many of the videos don't play properly or at all (Windows media format) - the sound is out of sync or missing, the video plays very slow/choppy, corrupted image, etc. The sound for powerpoint files doesn't play.
He wants to play the free downloadable World Poker Tour program/client, but it is Windows only. People tell him about this really cool "GoogleEarth" program, but he can't run it because it's Windows only. Flash web sites basically work, but often some links in flash sites seem to be dead (but they work in Firefox or IE on Windows). You get the idea.
I know I could probably use Wine to work around some of the problems, but he could never handle the added complexity.
So unfortunately I find that he still has lots to complain to me about, problems that didn't exist under Windows. I do believe the benefits of Ubuntu outweigh the drawbacks (VS. Windows), but I look forward to the day when these issues are gone.
If HD-DVD's really get locked to one player, then their business model pretty much goes in the toilet, right? They won't be able to offer HD through their service, only standard DVD's or maybe HD-DVD's that play at lower resolution.
I stare at text on the screen all day, and I really like small, smooth, sharp fonts. Small fonts that are just anti-aliased look blurry to me. But with sub-pixel font smoothing on an LCD, I am a happy camper.
All these 3D desktops (Linux and Vista) that allow smooth magnification/shrinking of windows or 3d transforms on windows can't possibly allow sub-pixel font smoothing to work right (as far as I can see). The best they can do is something like anti-aliasing, I would guess. I hope I am wrong.
Personally, if I have to choose between smooth sharp small fonts or 3D eye candy, I think I will stick with the nice fonts, thank you.
Personally, I find Dreamweaver's ability to manage the files that make up a website to be very useful, even if I want to use the text edit mode to change the files.
Dreamweaver makes it easy to have a local copy to modify, play with, and test changes on. It also makes it easy to sync your local copy to the actual web server copy (uploading your modified files, and downloading any files modified by others). And perhaps most importantly, it provides a basic means to "check out" the files you want to edit so that you don't accidentally overwrite each other's changes by both editing a file at the same time. It isn't true SCM, but it is way better than nothing.
That is why I was very disappointed to find that NVU does none of these things. I wanted to use NVU, but until it can do that stuff it is pretty useless to me.
It would be a bonus if NVU copied Dreamweaver's method for checking out files (a lock file on the web server?) so that a mixture of NVU and Dreamweaver could be safely used for web site maintenance.
when, as a society we unlock the food and shelter, and people start to have real choice in what they do with their time... thigs will start to get REALLY interesting.
Did you miss it? In the US at least this has already happened in a real sense. While it wouldn't work for everyone, on an individual level you can live in homeless shelters and eat in soup kitchens and have better food/shelter than 95% of people had 200-300 years ago - for free.
Most people could get basic food and shelter with a 20 hour a week minimum wage job. Then almost all their time could be used for other things.
You are forgetting human nature. Most humans by nature will strive for more - a higher standard of living. More than they have now. More than their neighbors. The fact that few people settle for a low standard of living to get lots of free time proves it.
So unless "society" can provide everyone with Bill Gates' standard of food and shelter, people will keep working to get more. Your vision of people being "freed" to pursue things other than providing for themselves is flawed and will never come true for 99.99% of the population.
Even if it could happen, I think for the most part we would be sickened by the result. Think about what most "free time" is spent on now.
The question is how accurate must the flags/paint be?
My father was an excavator and he cut/damaged lines a few times. Every time it was because the flags were nowhere near where the lines/pipes actually were. When the flags are 10 feet from the actual position of the cable, whose fault is it when they get cut?
It isn't always the "redneck backhoe driver's" fault. Of course, since the flags can be easily moved by anyone, it is hard to really prove that the utilities placed them incorrectly (unless they used paint).
It really stinks for the excavators when they place flags wrong; not only does it make you look incompetent (or dishonest), but it is dangerous to hit high-voltage lines or gas lines.
"They probably are safer in their huge SUV. Too bad they are not thinking about the people they will murder though. If they were driving a lighter car which would more effectively crumple and absorb impact the people in the other could maybe survive."
I believe the term you meant was manslaughter, not murder (there is a big difference). However, in your ham-handed attempt to deamonize people who think differently than yourself, I guess "murder" has more impact.
You are also forgetting that most people consider themselves good drivers, and would guess that in a two car collision they would most likely not be at fault. If you are assuming that some other reckless (and possibly drunk) driver is probably going to be the cause any two car accident you are in, then why would you feel morally obligated to trade off your safety for theirs by driving a small vehicle? Especially if they might be driving a large one?
Not to mention, you are also trading off the safety of your passengers (possibly your children).
I have always owned/driven a small car, even now that I have a wife and two kids, being willing to risk my own safety. I think differently when I travel with my family, and rarely use my small car for that. I guess in your mind I that makes me equivalent to a murderer.
Actually, I think the weight matching problems are worse than that. Most of us are tall enough that our feet rest on the floor while we sit on the toilet. We would have to be very consistent in how we sit in order for the weight offloaded onto our feet to be exactly the same every time. If you shifted more or less weight onto your feet the weight the toilet registered would vary by that much.
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I always wonder about people who think hunting is too cruel to the animal. I wonder "how do they think animals die in the wild, if they aren't killed by a hunter?"
I can only think of so many possibilities: starvation - very slow and painful, disease - very likely slow and painful, freeze to death - slow and painful, killed by non-human predators - on par with being killed by a human hunter in speed and pain (ever see those nature specials with large herbivores being killed by a pack of predators?) I don't think animals that get hunted die of old age very often, and those deaths would be similar to death by disease.
So while I have never hunted, and think being cruel to animals (like beating a dog) is terrible and wrong, I don't see hunting as being wrong (at least not in the "cruelty" sense). Pretty much all wild animals die in a painful/unpleasant way. Being killed by a hunter is the next best thing to instant death from being hit by a car if I had to guess.
There are actually several nice things Netscape has that Mozilla doesn't:
- support for the extended IMAP for accessing free netscape.net accounts (as you said)
- support for syncing your address book with your netscape.net account address book (very handy to keep your address book on all your computers in sync)
- on Linux Netscape 7.X has always shipped with extra fonts, which IMHO are very decent, and were better than any X fonts a few years back (unfortunately these fonts only seem to be available to Netscape itself)
- Netscape ships with it's own spell checker, which was great when Mozilla didn't have one, now it is just somewhat better than the Mozilla spell checker
- Netscape ships with some plugins like Flash included and preconfigured, which is nice if you are lazy like me or a newbie
- if you think that a red dinosaur is dorky, the Netscape theme is a bit more tasteful
- when Mozilla required uninstalling old versions, Netscape let you install over the old versions (maybe the install did the removal for you)
- I am probably missing something with AIM, but I don't use it, and don't know if Mozilla can do it too
For some reason I never see the address book syncing or extra fonts on Linux mentioned as Netscape assets, although to me they are quite valuable.
I have noticed several city streets (in various states where I have lived) with lots of traffic lights where going the speed limit gets you just barely caught by _every_one_. If you go about 5mph over the speed limit, you eventually get caught. If you go about 10-15mph over the speed limit, you can cruise through all of them green. Guess what speed I drove that street.
Whoever set up that speed limit and those traffic light timings was either an idiot, or they were planning to earn a lot of revenue through speed traps.
They should stop rewarding speeding with traffic lights like this before they put in the effort to punish it through traffic lights.
I think you have fallen into the engineer-centric error of mixing up internal code names and marketing (brand) names. I don't think Intel marketing ever used Prescott or Northwood in their marketing. For the general public, they just slapped an "E" on the end of the Pentium 4 processor names for Prescott.
Prescott was a name probably not decided by marketing, meant for internal Intel use. Since it wasn't intended for marketing or even public consumption they didn't care about checking it around the world.
If this could be developed and made into a reasonably priced option for photo printers it would be great. Every time I have to print out 20 copies of 5 different pictures in 4x6, 5x7 and wallet size for all my relatives, it takes me hours to carefully cut the 8.5x11 photo paper into individual pictures. This could save tons of time and drudge work.
Somehow I don't think it will happen in my lifetime though.:-(
And if it did, I would still whine for a auto folder for the invitations and cards I print out.:-)
Isn't this "hyper-OS" the exact same microkernel idea that was popular in the early to mid 90's, with some hardware support on the CPU for performance? The "Next" computers actually had a microkernel, but they had to cheat (break the microkernel/OS separation) to get good performance (I believe). That was early in my career before I became jaded and cynical - I actually believed that by now I would be running multiple OS'es full speed on my one PC. Boy was I naive. Microkernel never really caught on.
That's OK though since Linux is less of a resource hog, I can run Linux on my older PC, Windows (for gaming/video editing/DVD burning) on my newest PC, and use a KVM switch to share my nice monitor/mouse/keyboard. The hardware to share my DSL connection is cheap too, so life is good!
Most of us have more than one PC (or can afford it), so who cares if we can run multiple OS'es simultaneously on one PC?
What about dynamic handicapping? I have seen Unreal Tournament servers with a mod I think was called "Fatboy". Basically, the game calculated your kill/death ratio and made you skinny if you were bad, fat if you were good. The dominant person looked like a big fat sphere, the bad players were thinner than skeletons. This made the good players easier targets, the bad players were harder to hit. It didn't work as well as you would think, weapons like rockets (splash damage) and flack cannons worked almost as well on either.
I'm sure with some imagination somthing like this could be developed, e.g. where extremely dominent players would have a maximum of 10 health, and the bad players respawn with 1000 health or something. At least the noobs would have time to learn and get good weapons instead of dying instantly every time they spawn.
Gee, I wonder if their TCO study calculations will include the cost of worms and virii(?) that only affect Windows platforms/outlook/IE? Every time a new worm comes along I wonder if people realize the hidden TCO costs that sticking with MS incurs.
There are some nice things that Netscape has that Mozilla doesn't that I seldom or never hear mentioned:
1. If you use netscape.com for a free web email account, you can use it just like an IMAP account in the mail/newsgroups window (unless you're behind a firewall:-( ) 2. You can sync your local address book with the netscape.com free web email account, which is useful for keeping home and work address books in sync. (sync at home, sync at work, every address book is latest and greatest) 3. Mozilla docs say you are supposed to uninstall old versions before installing a new version (and wipe out your profile I believe). Netscape lets you install over the old version and migrates your profile. 4. On Linux, Netscape (7.02 at least) comes with it's own fonts, and it's own way of doing fonts. If you like small fonts, and hate how they look blurry when using anti-aliasing, (like I do) the Netscape fonts are much better (IMHO). The adobe-helvetica is as good as MS Arial for a small proportional, sans-serif font. Unfortunately, with Netscape I can't get some system fonts to work like with Mozilla (I can't use my beloved 6x13 font for monospace like with Mozilla).
So when you get into the details, there are things that may make Netscape worthwhile over Mozilla IMHO.
Think of Australia. Non-native, introduced species are wiping out native species. Until we are positive that there is no life there, we would be risking wiping out (or damaging) the native life by seeding life forms ourselves.
For me, I would dual boot and only use Windows for games, if the hardware support was as good and easy as it is with Windows. Here are the things I would expect to be difficult/crappy/impossible with Linux:
-PhotoRET (high quality) printing with my HP P1100 customized for media type (i.e. glossy photo paper)
-access to CF/SmartMedia slots with my HP P1100
-access to the cheapo Memorex USB SD card reader
-USB support for my APC UPS
-Sony Clie' USB hot-sync base (probably possible, but a pain)
-HP 5300 USB scanner (probably possible with SANE, but a pain)
-DVD writer support, or any software to do video editing/DVD creation
Plus, even with the hardware support, I would miss the nice HP printing application that lets me do any size prints and photo album pages.
The gap can prevent heat from migrating back to the cool side through conduction or convection, but radiation (infrared light) can still jump the gap. The hotter the hot side gets, the more heat will radiate back to the cold side. So the efficiency of the system would be inversely proportional to how hot the hot side is allowed to get. Just using a simple heat sink/radiator might ruin the efficiency of the system.
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What is even worse, but seldom pointed out, is why would a technologically advanced race be broadcasting every increment of a countdown timer between ships? Do they not have clocks? They can't just specify a precise time in the future to attack? Do you think it would have been smart for the allies to broadcast a countdown (encrypted or not) for days or hours before launching the invasion of Normandy? The whole idea of having the countdown broadcast is kind of ridiculous.
I was really hoping for a 1920x1200 display on the 17 inch model this time around. That would allow displaying 1080p in native resolution, as well as the nice sharp small fonts that I crave.
Considering that graphic designers are a target user for Macs, I find it pretty stupid that Apple doesn't offer WUXGA. I am a coder and my next notebook will have a 17 inch WUXGA display, one way or another.
Was it Advan BASIC? (which for some reason I always knew as "Advan Compiler BASIC".)
You have me beat. I cut my teeth on an Atari 800, but I only learned Atari BASIC, 6502 assembler and Advan BASIC. I wish I had learned Deep Blue C and/or Action! back then.
I feel old too. I remember wishing for 80 columns of monochrome text instead of 40. Now I have 1920x1200, 32 bit color.
I mostly agree with your comment about Ubuntu being ready for the desktop, and I installed/support an Ubuntu desktop for my father-in-law (a complete computer newbie). It is great not having to worry about anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, worms, trojans, viruses, etc. (He was on Windows 98SE). Overall it is a better desktop than Windows for him. But it does have it's disadvantages.
Most of what he does is email and web browsing. Unfortunately a lot of what his friends send him are videos, powerpoint presentations (with background music), sometimes even *.exe files. Despite a lot of work to try to get it working, many of the videos don't play properly or at all (Windows media format) - the sound is out of sync or missing, the video plays very slow/choppy, corrupted image, etc. The sound for powerpoint files doesn't play.
He wants to play the free downloadable World Poker Tour program/client, but it is Windows only. People tell him about this really cool "GoogleEarth" program, but he can't run it because it's Windows only. Flash web sites basically work, but often some links in flash sites seem to be dead (but they work in Firefox or IE on Windows). You get the idea.
I know I could probably use Wine to work around some of the problems, but he could never handle the added complexity.
So unfortunately I find that he still has lots to complain to me about, problems that didn't exist under Windows. I do believe the benefits of Ubuntu outweigh the drawbacks (VS. Windows), but I look forward to the day when these issues are gone.
If HD-DVD's really get locked to one player, then their business model pretty much goes in the toilet, right? They won't be able to offer HD through their service, only standard DVD's or maybe HD-DVD's that play at lower resolution.
I stare at text on the screen all day, and I really like small, smooth, sharp fonts. Small fonts that are just anti-aliased look blurry to me. But with sub-pixel font smoothing on an LCD, I am a happy camper.
All these 3D desktops (Linux and Vista) that allow smooth magnification/shrinking of windows or 3d transforms on windows can't possibly allow sub-pixel font smoothing to work right (as far as I can see). The best they can do is something like anti-aliasing, I would guess. I hope I am wrong.
Personally, if I have to choose between smooth sharp small fonts or 3D eye candy, I think I will stick with the nice fonts, thank you.
Personally, I find Dreamweaver's ability to manage the files that make up a website to be very useful, even if I want to use the text edit mode to change the files.
Dreamweaver makes it easy to have a local copy to modify, play with, and test changes on. It also makes it easy to sync your local copy to the actual web server copy (uploading your modified files, and downloading any files modified by others). And perhaps most importantly, it provides a basic means to "check out" the files you want to edit so that you don't accidentally overwrite each other's changes by both editing a file at the same time. It isn't true SCM, but it is way better than nothing.
That is why I was very disappointed to find that NVU does none of these things. I wanted to use NVU, but until it can do that stuff it is pretty useless to me.
It would be a bonus if NVU copied Dreamweaver's method for checking out files (a lock file on the web server?) so that a mixture of NVU and Dreamweaver could be safely used for web site maintenance.
when, as a society we unlock the food and shelter, and people start to have real choice in what they do with their time... thigs will start to get REALLY interesting.
Did you miss it? In the US at least this has already happened in a real sense. While it wouldn't work for everyone, on an individual level you can live in homeless shelters and eat in soup kitchens and have better food/shelter than 95% of people had 200-300 years ago - for free.
Most people could get basic food and shelter with a 20 hour a week minimum wage job. Then almost all their time could be used for other things.
You are forgetting human nature. Most humans by nature will strive for more - a higher standard of living. More than they have now. More than their neighbors. The fact that few people settle for a low standard of living to get lots of free time proves it.
So unless "society" can provide everyone with Bill Gates' standard of food and shelter, people will keep working to get more. Your vision of people being "freed" to pursue things other than providing for themselves is flawed and will never come true for 99.99% of the population.
Even if it could happen, I think for the most part we would be sickened by the result. Think about what most "free time" is spent on now.
The question is how accurate must the flags/paint be?
My father was an excavator and he cut/damaged lines a few times. Every time it was because the flags were nowhere near where the lines/pipes actually were. When the flags are 10 feet from the actual position of the cable, whose fault is it when they get cut?
It isn't always the "redneck backhoe driver's" fault. Of course, since the flags can be easily moved by anyone, it is hard to really prove that the utilities placed them incorrectly (unless they used paint).
It really stinks for the excavators when they place flags wrong; not only does it make you look incompetent (or dishonest), but it is dangerous to hit high-voltage lines or gas lines.
"They probably are safer in their huge SUV. Too bad they are not thinking about the people they will murder though. If they were driving a lighter car which would more effectively crumple and absorb impact the people in the other could maybe survive."
I believe the term you meant was manslaughter, not murder (there is a big difference). However, in your ham-handed attempt to deamonize people who think differently than yourself, I guess "murder" has more impact.
You are also forgetting that most people consider themselves good drivers, and would guess that in a two car collision they would most likely not be at fault. If you are assuming that some other reckless (and possibly drunk) driver is probably going to be the cause any two car accident you are in, then why would you feel morally obligated to trade off your safety for theirs by driving a small vehicle? Especially if they might be driving a large one?
Not to mention, you are also trading off the safety of your passengers (possibly your children).
I have always owned/driven a small car, even now that I have a wife and two kids, being willing to risk my own safety. I think differently when I travel with my family, and rarely use my small car for that. I guess in your mind I that makes me equivalent to a murderer.
Actually, I think the weight matching problems are worse than that. Most of us are tall enough that our feet rest on the floor while we sit on the toilet. We would have to be very consistent in how we sit in order for the weight offloaded onto our feet to be exactly the same every time. If you shifted more or less weight onto your feet the weight the toilet registered would vary by that much.
I always wonder about people who think hunting is too cruel to the animal. I wonder "how do they think animals die in the wild, if they aren't killed by a hunter?"
I can only think of so many possibilities: starvation - very slow and painful, disease - very likely slow and painful, freeze to death - slow and painful, killed by non-human predators - on par with being killed by a human hunter in speed and pain (ever see those nature specials with large herbivores being killed by a pack of predators?) I don't think animals that get hunted die of old age very often, and those deaths would be similar to death by disease.
So while I have never hunted, and think being cruel to animals (like beating a dog) is terrible and wrong, I don't see hunting as being wrong (at least not in the "cruelty" sense). Pretty much all wild animals die in a painful/unpleasant way. Being killed by a hunter is the next best thing to instant death from being hit by a car if I had to guess.
There are actually several nice things Netscape has that Mozilla doesn't:
- support for the extended IMAP for accessing free netscape.net accounts (as you said)
- support for syncing your address book with your netscape.net account address book (very handy to keep your address book on all your computers in sync)
- on Linux Netscape 7.X has always shipped with extra fonts, which IMHO are very decent, and were better than any X fonts a few years back (unfortunately these fonts only seem to be available to Netscape itself)
- Netscape ships with it's own spell checker, which was great when Mozilla didn't have one, now it is just somewhat better than the Mozilla spell checker
- Netscape ships with some plugins like Flash included and preconfigured, which is nice if you are lazy like me or a newbie
- if you think that a red dinosaur is dorky, the Netscape theme is a bit more tasteful
- when Mozilla required uninstalling old versions, Netscape let you install over the old versions (maybe the install did the removal for you)
- I am probably missing something with AIM, but I don't use it, and don't know if Mozilla can do it too
For some reason I never see the address book syncing or extra fonts on Linux mentioned as Netscape assets, although to me they are quite valuable.
I have noticed several city streets (in various states where I have lived) with lots of traffic lights where going the speed limit gets you just barely caught by _every_one_. If you go about 5mph over the speed limit, you eventually get caught. If you go about 10-15mph over the speed limit, you can cruise through all of them green. Guess what speed I drove that street.
Whoever set up that speed limit and those traffic light timings was either an idiot, or they were planning to earn a lot of revenue through speed traps.
They should stop rewarding speeding with traffic lights like this before they put in the effort to punish it through traffic lights.
I think you have fallen into the engineer-centric error of mixing up internal code names and marketing (brand) names. I don't think Intel marketing ever used Prescott or Northwood in their marketing. For the general public, they just slapped an "E" on the end of the Pentium 4 processor names for Prescott.
Prescott was a name probably not decided by marketing, meant for internal Intel use. Since it wasn't intended for marketing or even public consumption they didn't care about checking it around the world.
If this could be developed and made into a reasonably priced option for photo printers it would be great. Every time I have to print out 20 copies of 5 different pictures in 4x6, 5x7 and wallet size for all my relatives, it takes me hours to carefully cut the 8.5x11 photo paper into individual pictures. This could save tons of time and drudge work.
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Somehow I don't think it will happen in my lifetime though.
And if it did, I would still whine for a auto folder for the invitations and cards I print out.
Isn't this "hyper-OS" the exact same microkernel idea that was popular in the early to mid 90's, with some hardware support on the CPU for performance? The "Next" computers actually had a microkernel, but they had to cheat (break the microkernel/OS separation) to get good performance (I believe). That was early in my career before I became jaded and cynical - I actually believed that by now I would be running multiple OS'es full speed on my one PC. Boy was I naive. Microkernel never really caught on.
That's OK though since Linux is less of a resource hog, I can run Linux on my older PC, Windows (for gaming/video editing/DVD burning) on my newest PC, and use a KVM switch to share my nice monitor/mouse/keyboard. The hardware to share my DSL connection is cheap too, so life is good!
Most of us have more than one PC (or can afford it), so who cares if we can run multiple OS'es simultaneously on one PC?
What about dynamic handicapping? I have seen Unreal Tournament servers with a mod I think was called "Fatboy". Basically, the game calculated your kill/death ratio and made you skinny if you were bad, fat if you were good. The dominant person looked like a big fat sphere, the bad players were thinner than skeletons. This made the good players easier targets, the bad players were harder to hit. It didn't work as well as you would think, weapons like rockets (splash damage) and flack cannons worked almost as well on either.
I'm sure with some imagination somthing like this could be developed, e.g. where extremely dominent players would have a maximum of 10 health, and the bad players respawn with 1000 health or something. At least the noobs would have time to learn and get good weapons instead of dying instantly every time they spawn.
Gee, I wonder if their TCO study calculations will include the cost of worms and virii(?) that only affect Windows platforms/outlook/IE? Every time a new worm comes along I wonder if people realize the hidden TCO costs that sticking with MS incurs.
> 2. Some features (AIM integration for instance)
:-( )
There are some nice things that Netscape has that Mozilla doesn't that I seldom or never hear mentioned:
1. If you use netscape.com for a free web email account, you can use it just like an IMAP account in the mail/newsgroups window (unless you're behind a firewall
2. You can sync your local address book with the netscape.com free web email account, which is useful for keeping home and work address books in sync. (sync at home, sync at work, every address book is latest and greatest)
3. Mozilla docs say you are supposed to uninstall old versions before installing a new version (and wipe out your profile I believe). Netscape lets you install over the old version and migrates your profile.
4. On Linux, Netscape (7.02 at least) comes with it's own fonts, and it's own way of doing fonts. If you like small fonts, and hate how they look blurry when using anti-aliasing, (like I do) the Netscape fonts are much better (IMHO). The adobe-helvetica is as good as MS Arial for a small proportional, sans-serif font. Unfortunately, with Netscape I can't get some system fonts to work like with Mozilla (I can't use my beloved 6x13 font for monospace like with Mozilla).
So when you get into the details, there are things that may make Netscape worthwhile over Mozilla IMHO.
Think of Australia. Non-native, introduced species are wiping out native species. Until we are positive that there is no life there, we would be risking wiping out (or damaging) the native life by seeding life forms ourselves.
> Unlike you I don't conduct my actions out of fear.
Do you fear that innocent Iraqis will die?
Do you fear that George W Bush is making the world hate the U.S. more than it already did?
Do you fear that we are destroying the environment?
Do you fear that the statement you made isn't very well thought out?
You should.
For me, I would dual boot and only use Windows for games, if the hardware support was as good and easy as it is with Windows. Here are the things I would expect to be difficult/crappy/impossible with Linux: -PhotoRET (high quality) printing with my HP P1100 customized for media type (i.e. glossy photo paper) -access to CF/SmartMedia slots with my HP P1100 -access to the cheapo Memorex USB SD card reader -USB support for my APC UPS -Sony Clie' USB hot-sync base (probably possible, but a pain) -HP 5300 USB scanner (probably possible with SANE, but a pain) -DVD writer support, or any software to do video editing/DVD creation Plus, even with the hardware support, I would miss the nice HP printing application that lets me do any size prints and photo album pages.
The gap can prevent heat from migrating back to the cool side through conduction or convection, but radiation (infrared light) can still jump the gap. The hotter the hot side gets, the more heat will radiate back to the cold side. So the efficiency of the system would be inversely proportional to how hot the hot side is allowed to get. Just using a simple heat sink/radiator might ruin the efficiency of the system.