Or Carlsbad Caverns National Park, or Miles Davis or the Heavy metal umlaut or Buddhism or Elizabeth I or Horatio Nelson or....
Are you saying those are worthless entries? Besides the heavy metal umlaut, those are all pretty important, especially Buddhism which is a major world religion.
I guess my question is: what do you like about Opera that Firefox doesn't do? It seems to me that you switched from IE to Opera because of the ads, which isn't a good reason when Firefox handles ads better than Opera. Is there something else unique to Opera?
The fact that such a thing doesn't exist is proof that people have learned to live with and expect ads. What do they care if yet another sits atop their browser?
People only put up with ads because they usually have to (TV, radio, etc). If you tell them about an ad-free browser, it'll probably sound very refreshing.
Does it ever occur to you people that maybe not everyone likes the same things you do?
Yes, it did occur to me, and I was curious why the poster chose Opera. He left IE because of the ads, so why did he choose Opera which still has some ads rather than Mozilla which has none?
Good observation. There are a lot of Opera users (myself included) who don't mind them, either. They take up littel screen real estate and are easy to ignore. Worst case sceario: they lead you to a good deal on a product, or something.
The browsing experience is full of ads to begin with. Pop ups, click throughs, banners, flash ads, etc. For an IE user migrating, the trade off of pop-ups for another banner is a good one.
That's mind-boggling. Why not just switch to Firefox? It's completely free, you don't have to put up with any banners in the browser, you can get as much screen real estate back as you desire, and you can easily block the banners in webpages with extensions like AdBlock.
It's a shame this nasty bug is still in GTK. When you view a profile that has characters in Symbol or some other weird font, such as a heart or fancy icon, Gaim will crash. The only work around for now is to go to Preferences, Message Text, and turn on "ignore font faces."
People haven't adopted SACD or DVD-Audio even thought it sounds better. They think 128kbps MP3s are fine. I've tried showing different quality video clips to people on the PC and they really don't care about the difference as long as the info gets across.
You're forgetting that most Americans like watered-down crap. They won't buy a better quality DVD simply because they don't care about the quality (if they did, they would've adopted HDTV much more quickly). DVD offered a lot of new features over VHS (random access, no rewinding, extras, small and shiny), but the next DVD will offer nothing new except higher quality.
His company's site is even coded with valid HTML, something that can't be said for many major sites.
I love the fact that his channel broadcasts all movies in their original aspect ratio with 5.1-channel sound. And this part made me laugh:
"We have a show called HDNet World Report where we put cameras in all kinds of hot spots--Iraq, wherever. And when we show a firefight or some sort of bombing, we don't have the reporter say anything. They just say, "We're in Iraq, we're in Baghdad, and there's a firefight going on, I'll shut up and let you watch it." And being able to see it in wide-screen high resolution with 5.1 sound, if you have a tank firing, you hear it coming out of one ear and see it leaving out of the other ear. It's just incredible. Just to be able to see it like you're actually sitting there is amazing."
After ripping my whole collection a couple times because I changed my mind on formats, I finally did a once-and-for-all backup. I carefully ripped my CDs with Exact Audio Copy and encoded them with FLAC (free lossless audio codec). I burned the FLAC files to DVDs (along with a copy of the FLAC source code on each disk). I put my CDs in a box in the closet. Now whenever I decide to change formats, want to rerip a song, whatever, I just grab the little spindle of DVDs from my desk and transcode the necessary files. Much, much faster than re-ripping every time. Plus since the CDs are not being handled they'll probably last a lot longer.
Google is already working on support for Opera, POP3 access, a plain HTML version of Gmail, and many other things. I think Gmail will continue to add more freedom, not take it away.
Who says Google is trying to stifle 3rd party apps? It is still beta, they are still fixing things, and nothing has been finalized. Instant Messenger services change their protocols occasionally but they don't block 3rd party apps.
Looks like you have to use two hands to control the thing. This isn't a GameBoy, it's an mp3 player, and as such you it needs to be something you can hold in one hand or pocket and operate easily. Plus it still doesn't have iTunes, which is huge.
(Whereas I can diagram on a map the Canadian provinces, many Canadian cities, European countries and cities, and various countries around the world. I'm special like that I guess.)
I know how you feel. I remember back in my 11th grade Honors social studies class when we were given a blank map of the U.S. and asked to label each state. I finished in the time it took me to write out the names (i.e., I didn't have to think). The teacher had to stop us after 15 minutes, and no one else was able to do it. This was a pretty well-off suburb in New York state, and most kids couldn't get all of the New England states correct. It was both pitiful and depressing.
Besides, if slashdot used the real MS logo they're probably get sued into the ground for infringing the trademark every time someone made a bad comment about MS.
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It's no better than no ads and no tracking.
I guess my question is: what do you like about Opera that Firefox doesn't do? It seems to me that you switched from IE to Opera because of the ads, which isn't a good reason when Firefox handles ads better than Opera. Is there something else unique to Opera?
Let's just hope that Gmail still works with other browsers.
It's a shame this nasty bug is still in GTK. When you view a profile that has characters in Symbol or some other weird font, such as a heart or fancy icon, Gaim will crash. The only work around for now is to go to Preferences, Message Text, and turn on "ignore font faces."
It's funny what can be accomplished with money. You can just pay to cover up your dirty deeds.
People haven't adopted SACD or DVD-Audio even thought it sounds better. They think 128kbps MP3s are fine. I've tried showing different quality video clips to people on the PC and they really don't care about the difference as long as the info gets across.
You're forgetting that most Americans like watered-down crap. They won't buy a better quality DVD simply because they don't care about the quality (if they did, they would've adopted HDTV much more quickly). DVD offered a lot of new features over VHS (random access, no rewinding, extras, small and shiny), but the next DVD will offer nothing new except higher quality.
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I love the fact that his channel broadcasts all movies in their original aspect ratio with 5.1-channel sound. And this part made me laugh:
"We have a show called HDNet World Report where we put cameras in all kinds of hot spots--Iraq, wherever. And when we show a firefight or some sort of bombing, we don't have the reporter say anything. They just say, "We're in Iraq, we're in Baghdad, and there's a firefight going on, I'll shut up and let you watch it." And being able to see it in wide-screen high resolution with 5.1 sound, if you have a tank firing, you hear it coming out of one ear and see it leaving out of the other ear. It's just incredible. Just to be able to see it like you're actually sitting there is amazing."
Well if you like Phish you can download good old fashioned DRM-free FLAC files at livephish.com.
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Click here for that link.
After ripping my whole collection a couple times because I changed my mind on formats, I finally did a once-and-for-all backup. I carefully ripped my CDs with Exact Audio Copy and encoded them with FLAC (free lossless audio codec). I burned the FLAC files to DVDs (along with a copy of the FLAC source code on each disk). I put my CDs in a box in the closet. Now whenever I decide to change formats, want to rerip a song, whatever, I just grab the little spindle of DVDs from my desk and transcode the necessary files. Much, much faster than re-ripping every time. Plus since the CDs are not being handled they'll probably last a lot longer.
Who says Google is trying to stifle 3rd party apps? It is still beta, they are still fixing things, and nothing has been finalized. Instant Messenger services change their protocols occasionally but they don't block 3rd party apps.
Either way, if you've got a Gmail account, be sure to give them your two cents.
Looks like you have to use two hands to control the thing. This isn't a GameBoy, it's an mp3 player, and as such you it needs to be something you can hold in one hand or pocket and operate easily. Plus it still doesn't have iTunes, which is huge.
Add MBNA and HSBC to those lists.
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