As someone that has never really liked Chrome, I've tried to stick with Firefox mostly because of its reliable blockers (AdBlock Plus and NoScript) but the direction FF has been taking has really not been that great. It's trying to be slick and basically turn into Chrome; all I've wanted is a simple, classic browser, and SeaMonkey is that, exactly, while keeping compatibility with many of FF's addons, like the all important ABP and NS.
My hope is that SM doesn't decide to go down the same dark road as Firefox in the future.
Despite the flamebait tendencies of this post, SeaMonkey is damn good. I'm using it in place of Firefox and don't really see myself going elsewhere unless they decide that they need to copy Firefox too closely.
Failed companies are pathetic trolls trying to steal money from companies who rightfully and successfully use what is available. Oracle, you're irrelevant now. Leave Java to the community, accept that OOo has been taken over, and let everything else you are hoarding go as well, and find some other thing to do.
When companies make such desperate acts to gain money and fame, they deserve neither.
If I went blind, I wouldn't expect to be able to use computers and the internet, a primarily VISUAL medium. Why limit what can be done to half-ass a method for blind people to stumble around on?
I know this sounds very un-PC but damn, when you have a disability, deal with it, there are going to be some things closed off to you. You'll just have to do what you can.
Start something that promotes open software, open ideas, and open standards. Take on Microsoft and other companies head on. Show people what quality software and open standards do for everyone.
As someone that is extremely left-eye dominant, 3d does not work for me. Period. I always wondered what the big deal about ViewMasters were when I was a kid, not realizing the things should be 3d (I saw them as two images of the same thing, well, one adjusted for the 3d effect everyone else was getting). If TV, movies and everything else starts following this the way everyone followed HD to screens that weren't compatible with my eyes either (any motion makes me sick, as I see horrible tearing and delays with LCD and plasma displays, even ones that are apparently the highest quality), I'm going to have to give up watching anything new.
Not only did someone get so defensive about this as to MOD DOWN AN AC DOWN TO -1, but have flooded this discussion with replies that only show how corrupted people have gotten from Microsoft's way of doing things.
Let me tell you kids how things work in the real world, instead of Microsoft's imaginary fantasy land come to life:
Video cards are made that can do X and Y and Z. THEN -- as in AFTER THE CARDS ARE MADE -- APIs are created that give programmers the ability to access the video card's ability to do X and Y and Z.
The concept that it works the other way around -- that Microsoft creates an API that says "we want programmers to be able to do X and Y and Z" then TELLS VIDEO CARD MAKERS -- THE COMPANIES THAT CREATE THE VERY HARDWARE AND LOW-LEVEL THINGS THAT ENABLE GRAPHICS TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE -- to create cards that implement X and Y and Z -- is completely backwards and proof that we have really stopped understanding how things are supposed to function.
Here's a hint -- look up what API actually MEANS before spouting your Microsoft-centric garbage. I wouldn't be surprised if you were all Microsoft-paid trolls and marketers that are placing your twisted spin on things and making people continue to believe in your garbage. I know Microsoft hires people for this reason -- I've had people inside Microsoft admit to me that they do.
So either you're a bunch of paid trolls, or have been brainwashed by them to believe things that are completely backwards from the way things are supposed to be.
Now can we really make M&Ms (and tons of other foods) better by getting rid of the awful yellow dye garbage (tartrazine)? It's been shown to affect tons of people negatively and some even link it to childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder and hyperactivity.
Seriously, we can do without yellow foods or find something much safer, can't we? Why do we continue to put use this as a food dye when there are so many issues with it?
It's a real pain in the ass to analyze ingredient lists of every single thing I buy to make sure it doesn't have that in it, and it's in very non-obvious things as well (things that don't even look that yellow). Plus they don't draw attention to it like other food allergies, it's just hidden near the bottom of ingredient lists. And I'm sure I've accidentally had it at restaurants causing me to feel like crap and get headaches and feel sick afterwards.
Exactly. XHTML is not that hard to get right, and it makes a web page "clean" in that there doesn't have to be any guessing going on in the browser to figure out what a page designer wants.
The best thing in the world would have been browsers adapting a rigid HTML standard to begin with and browsers simply saying "Sorry, this page has invalid HTML" on bad pages.
As someone that is allergic and/or hypersensitive to everything except Tylenol, I guess I'm screwed if I need one of those types of drugs then, huh?
Wonder how long it will take them to ban Tylenol itself.
Thanks a lot for treating me like an idiot.
These FDA morons are going to get a letter from me. Not that it'll do any good, since modern government doesn't listen to the people anymore. Not really.
You have no right to complain about it opening its home page if you know how to disable it. It's beneficial because it describes any changes, like THE VERY ONE BEING COMPLAINED ABOUT IN THIS ARTICLE.
"Barely use" noscript? You "use" it every single time you go to a page, unless you're dumb enough to use it as a script blacklister instead of whitelisting as you should.
I've said it many times in the past, and I'll continue to say it: people that complain about NoScript don't understand how it works.
Yes, I'm a rabid NoScript fan and will defend this awesome piece of software to my death if need be.
The people that modded me down and responded negatively have apparently never been exposed to a sensible server operating system. Locking a system down that tight is just ridiculous. Use your brains for a minute -- what is the only reason an OS has to be locked down absolutely that tight on boot? Because it's so insecure that any leaks can infect it before the admins have a chance to properly patch and secure it.
I know there are people paid by Microsoft to troll, mod down and post ridiculous responses to anything anti-Microsoft and/or pro-*nix (really -- I was told this by a Microsoft insider when the company I used to work for was doing some work with them), but it has really stepped up lately. One has to wonder the amount of sheer panic Microsoft has right now, and how good that looks for other OSes.
I've never tried 2k8. Does it come with the horrible lockdown of every single thing on the machine when you first bring the system up like 2k3 did, meaning you can't even browse outside of Microsoft's site to get other necessary server bits/programs/etc without doing some obscure fix to open that up (I never could get IE to allow me to go anywhere besides Microsoft unless I did that!)?
That made me laugh -- apparently even Microsoft knows the security on its product is so bad that they have to ship it locked completely down. If they can't even trust their product, why should I?
Except that such a thing would protect against accidental shifts, bumps, and any other problems that might happen, as well as any necessary adjustment of the position of the console for any known reason while playing. It's called "quality", and Microsoft doesn't give a shit about it, or they'd have fixed the goddamn RROD problem by now instead of just sending people new XBoxes (and likely counting that as a new sale) every time it happens. And yes, the problem has not been fixed, despite rumors to the contrary, new XBoxes still get the RROD.
Microsoft only cares about its bottom line, and not its products. People who support them are bad consumers. If this were any other industry, Microsoft would be out of business.
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I don't use a cellphone. Exactly because I haven't accepted Big Brother as my lord and savior like everyone else has.
This invasion of privacy in modern society is a huge problem we need to stop, now.
There are other PDF readers, you know. All much better than Adobe's bloated viewer.
As someone that has never really liked Chrome, I've tried to stick with Firefox mostly because of its reliable blockers (AdBlock Plus and NoScript) but the direction FF has been taking has really not been that great. It's trying to be slick and basically turn into Chrome; all I've wanted is a simple, classic browser, and SeaMonkey is that, exactly, while keeping compatibility with many of FF's addons, like the all important ABP and NS.
My hope is that SM doesn't decide to go down the same dark road as Firefox in the future.
Despite the flamebait tendencies of this post, SeaMonkey is damn good. I'm using it in place of Firefox and don't really see myself going elsewhere unless they decide that they need to copy Firefox too closely.
Anonymous won't do anything productive. They're too busy trying to get doubles.
Failed companies are pathetic trolls trying to steal money from companies who rightfully and successfully use what is available. Oracle, you're irrelevant now. Leave Java to the community, accept that OOo has been taken over, and let everything else you are hoarding go as well, and find some other thing to do.
When companies make such desperate acts to gain money and fame, they deserve neither.
If I went blind, I wouldn't expect to be able to use computers and the internet, a primarily VISUAL medium. Why limit what can be done to half-ass a method for blind people to stumble around on?
I know this sounds very un-PC but damn, when you have a disability, deal with it, there are going to be some things closed off to you. You'll just have to do what you can.
Start something that promotes open software, open ideas, and open standards. Take on Microsoft and other companies head on. Show people what quality software and open standards do for everyone.
That's what I'd do.
I will never buy any CFL bulb from you or any other company. If you want my continued business, restore your production of incandescent bulbs.
You now join LCDs on my shitlist of useless, inferior technology being forced on consumers for no goddamn reason.
I hate you all.
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THIS is the Neo-Geo song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGHHMfk9Ew
Am I the only one that sang along to it like "Neeee-ooooo-geeeeoooo... Neeeee-ooo-geooooooo..."
As someone that is extremely left-eye dominant, 3d does not work for me. Period. I always wondered what the big deal about ViewMasters were when I was a kid, not realizing the things should be 3d (I saw them as two images of the same thing, well, one adjusted for the 3d effect everyone else was getting). If TV, movies and everything else starts following this the way everyone followed HD to screens that weren't compatible with my eyes either (any motion makes me sick, as I see horrible tearing and delays with LCD and plasma displays, even ones that are apparently the highest quality), I'm going to have to give up watching anything new.
Oh wow. Oh, fucking wow.
Not only did someone get so defensive about this as to MOD DOWN AN AC DOWN TO -1, but have flooded this discussion with replies that only show how corrupted people have gotten from Microsoft's way of doing things.
Let me tell you kids how things work in the real world, instead of Microsoft's imaginary fantasy land come to life:
Video cards are made that can do X and Y and Z. THEN -- as in AFTER THE CARDS ARE MADE -- APIs are created that give programmers the ability to access the video card's ability to do X and Y and Z.
The concept that it works the other way around -- that Microsoft creates an API that says "we want programmers to be able to do X and Y and Z" then TELLS VIDEO CARD MAKERS -- THE COMPANIES THAT CREATE THE VERY HARDWARE AND LOW-LEVEL THINGS THAT ENABLE GRAPHICS TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE -- to create cards that implement X and Y and Z -- is completely backwards and proof that we have really stopped understanding how things are supposed to function.
Here's a hint -- look up what API actually MEANS before spouting your Microsoft-centric garbage. I wouldn't be surprised if you were all Microsoft-paid trolls and marketers that are placing your twisted spin on things and making people continue to believe in your garbage. I know Microsoft hires people for this reason -- I've had people inside Microsoft admit to me that they do.
So either you're a bunch of paid trolls, or have been brainwashed by them to believe things that are completely backwards from the way things are supposed to be.
No wonder gaming these days is a horrible mess.
Now can we really make M&Ms (and tons of other foods) better by getting rid of the awful yellow dye garbage (tartrazine)? It's been shown to affect tons of people negatively and some even link it to childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder and hyperactivity.
Seriously, we can do without yellow foods or find something much safer, can't we? Why do we continue to put use this as a food dye when there are so many issues with it?
It's a real pain in the ass to analyze ingredient lists of every single thing I buy to make sure it doesn't have that in it, and it's in very non-obvious things as well (things that don't even look that yellow). Plus they don't draw attention to it like other food allergies, it's just hidden near the bottom of ingredient lists. And I'm sure I've accidentally had it at restaurants causing me to feel like crap and get headaches and feel sick afterwards.
Ban tartrazine.
If hating a company that lies, cheats, and steals its way to the top is a "disease", then I don't want to be well.
Just don't use cookies. Or at the very least, allow people to opt *in* rather than out.
What a concept, right?
Exactly. XHTML is not that hard to get right, and it makes a web page "clean" in that there doesn't have to be any guessing going on in the browser to figure out what a page designer wants.
The best thing in the world would have been browsers adapting a rigid HTML standard to begin with and browsers simply saying "Sorry, this page has invalid HTML" on bad pages.
I can dream, can't I?
As someone that is allergic and/or hypersensitive to everything except Tylenol, I guess I'm screwed if I need one of those types of drugs then, huh?
Wonder how long it will take them to ban Tylenol itself.
Thanks a lot for treating me like an idiot.
These FDA morons are going to get a letter from me. Not that it'll do any good, since modern government doesn't listen to the people anymore. Not really.
How to do nothing and still think you're accomplishing something.
You have no right to complain about it opening its home page if you know how to disable it. It's beneficial because it describes any changes, like THE VERY ONE BEING COMPLAINED ABOUT IN THIS ARTICLE.
"Barely use" noscript? You "use" it every single time you go to a page, unless you're dumb enough to use it as a script blacklister instead of whitelisting as you should.
I've said it many times in the past, and I'll continue to say it: people that complain about NoScript don't understand how it works.
Yes, I'm a rabid NoScript fan and will defend this awesome piece of software to my death if need be.
The people that modded me down and responded negatively have apparently never been exposed to a sensible server operating system. Locking a system down that tight is just ridiculous. Use your brains for a minute -- what is the only reason an OS has to be locked down absolutely that tight on boot? Because it's so insecure that any leaks can infect it before the admins have a chance to properly patch and secure it.
I know there are people paid by Microsoft to troll, mod down and post ridiculous responses to anything anti-Microsoft and/or pro-*nix (really -- I was told this by a Microsoft insider when the company I used to work for was doing some work with them), but it has really stepped up lately. One has to wonder the amount of sheer panic Microsoft has right now, and how good that looks for other OSes.
I've never tried 2k8. Does it come with the horrible lockdown of every single thing on the machine when you first bring the system up like 2k3 did, meaning you can't even browse outside of Microsoft's site to get other necessary server bits/programs/etc without doing some obscure fix to open that up (I never could get IE to allow me to go anywhere besides Microsoft unless I did that!)?
That made me laugh -- apparently even Microsoft knows the security on its product is so bad that they have to ship it locked completely down. If they can't even trust their product, why should I?
The real solution, of course, is to stop using stupid Windows-copycat methods for launching programs for the sake of "ease of use".
The more Linux tries to copy Windows (dbus, hald, .desktop, etc), the more insecure it will get.
You can, but they'll throw you out.
Because gambling is for stupid people, you know. Any advantage smart people can use in their little games isn't tolerated.
All the more reason to avoid gambling garbage in the first place.
Doesn't seem to help. Still brings up things in the middle of freaking titles and URLs as a first match.
If I wanted to search my history, I'd bring up History and use the search feature. I want to complete URLs as typed when I type in the damn URL bar.
Awesomebar is garbage, and whoever thought it up should be ashamed of themselves.
Except that such a thing would protect against accidental shifts, bumps, and any other problems that might happen, as well as any necessary adjustment of the position of the console for any known reason while playing. It's called "quality", and Microsoft doesn't give a shit about it, or they'd have fixed the goddamn RROD problem by now instead of just sending people new XBoxes (and likely counting that as a new sale) every time it happens. And yes, the problem has not been fixed, despite rumors to the contrary, new XBoxes still get the RROD.
Microsoft only cares about its bottom line, and not its products. People who support them are bad consumers. If this were any other industry, Microsoft would be out of business.