I like Mozilla just as much as the next guy, but yeah, AOL cutting off 4-5% (which is Macintosh and Linux combined), of all desktop computers is really going to hurt it. Please. I doubt a "leet" Linux user would be caught dead using AOL in the first place.
As far as Windows and IE, I think both AOL and Microsoft are smart enough to realize that not everyone will upgrade to Longhorn, at least initially. AOL might offer two versions of their AOL software, one for Windows 2000/XP users using Ie 6, and one for Longhorn users using IE 7 or something. In the mean time, I'm sure their subscribers will be inudated with ads telling them how great Longhorn is, and how easy it will be to upgrade.
Let's see. Boycott the MPAA and the RIAA! And as someone else suggested in a recent thread a few days ago, boycott books as well. If you don't want to support something, that's all fine and dandy, but you have to pick your battles. If you start or join too many, you wind up injuring yourself, and not the intended party(ies).
There's only so much that geeks enjoy. Outside of computer hobbies such as programming and gaming, books, movies, and music make up the vast majority of down time for the average geek. What do we do when we decide to boycott all of them? Our down time will start to seem like work and become down-right depressing, because you're straining yourself to find something to do, when there's something you enjoy but you're forcing yourself not to.
For instance, I boycott McDonald's and the Olive Garden. As to why, I won't get into that. But if I decide to boycott all fast-food chains and restaurants altogether, I'm severely limiting myself as to what I can eat if I'm not at home, and even limiting myself when I am home, if everyone else feels like ordering out and such. I wouldn't be able to partake in dinner with my family and friends, which is considered by many to be a bonding experience. Why hurt me and hurt others and not eat and share dinner with my family and friends at the four star Chinese restaurant down the street, just because I don't like McDonald's and the Olive Garden?
Personally, I'm waiting for the fourth Matrix movie, "The Domimatrix." It stars a whip-wielding Carrie Ann Moss. She already has the leather part down. I figure that movie would make more sense than "Matrix Reloaded," and would also be more entertaining.
I wasn't even referring to the whole Monica Lewinsky bit. There are several things that Bill Clinton did that was completely "un-American." I'll list a few off, and let the educated person look up the information to find out more if he or she wishes.
1) Bill Clinton made severe cuts to the U.S. military's funding, shutting down bases, and limiting our military might.
2) Bill Clinton is as much responsible for the war crimes and horror that was the Bosnian-Serb conflict in Yugoslavia as Milosevic. Over 1,000 civilians were directly killed by NATO forces, not to mention all the historic buildings that were destroyed. Bill Clinton and several other members of his administration were even indicted for war crimes related to the 1999 Yugoslavia operations.
3) Under the Clinton administration, regulations against exports of technology to China were greatly relaxed. In 1996, China had no high-end computers capable of testing nuclear weapons. By 1999, they had 350. Besides that, there were Chinese spies found in Los Alamos stealing our nuclear secrets, but nothing was done about it until 1999!
4) Clinton's election campaigns received considerable contributions from communist China. In fact, it is believed that Chinese donors were the biggest donors over-all for the 1992 Clinton election campaign. Effectively, Clinton was bribed by China, and committed treason against the U.S.
5) The supposed "suicide" of Vincent Foster, with a suicide note that was declared a forgery by three different hand-writing experts. Read into that what you will.
6) Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons. That was yet another form of bribery. Marc Rich anyone?
7) The rape of Juannita Broaddrick by Bill Clinton. The nurse that attended Juannite Broaddrick after her rape released a statement a month or so ago as a matter of fact, backing her up and stating her belief that Bill Clinton is a rapist.
I could go on and on, but I won't. Suffice it to say, in my opinion Bill Clinton was one of the worst, if not the, worst President the United States has ever seen, and I hope it never has one as self-centered, arrogant, and brutal as him again.
Nah. Bill Clinton and his friends were exposed for their un-American activities on several occasions, but the public just didn't seem to give a damn for the most part, thanks to all the spin-doctoring from the liberal media.
Nah. while those attributes may lead one to think the ship should be named after Bill Clinton, it could only be named after him if the ship was entirely manned by communist Chinese sailors.
Funny. I don't see many other countries tackling those either, but I do see many countries depending on the U.S.'s military might for world security for the past half century, including much of Europe.
Honestly, if a country tries to be a jack of all trades, it will eventually spread itself too thin and be good at nothing. For a world community and economy that we're leading to, the world might be better off having nations specializing in one thing or another, and let the U.S. specialize on what it does best... its military. Let other countries handle solving global warming, cancer, AIDS, and what have you. Not to say that other countries can't contribute, but trying to be the best at everything runs the risk of being good at nothing.
Whew, at least it's not the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, or the U.S. Navy would be in big trouble. I mean, Gerald Ford tumbling while getting out of a helicopter is one thing, but I can only imagine what kind of manuever problems the U.S.S. Gerald Ford would have. It could potentially destroy half a sea port while attempting to dock.
This could make for an excellent convenient excuse... "I'm serius honey, I have no idea how that Jill Kelly lesbian porn AVI got on our computer. Our computer must be being used as one of those porn bots we heard about on the news last night. Damn those hackers!"
This is nothing new. It only boils down to: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Microsoft and Sun don't like each other, but they have a common enemy: Linux. Thus it makes sense for them both to provide funds to SCO and help contribute to all the anti-Linux FUD. Once Linux is sufficently taken care of, Microsoft and Sun can go back to hating each other, or that's their plan anyway.
I agree. Watching seven astronauts die slowly on television would be terrible. However, I'm quite sure that Al-Jazeera and the BBC would have been more than willing to air it. Anything to make America look bad. Dead soldiers, dying astronauts, what's the difference?
Personally, while I prefer Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird as browsers, I wouldn't touch Mozilla as an e-mail client. When people have problems with Mozilla or Thunderbird, the two most frequent answers are: "completely uninstall and reinstall Mozilla/Thunderbird," and/or "completely remove your profile and make a new one." Umm, thanks, but no thanks. What's the point of using an e-mail client where you delete your e-mail archive/profile if there's a problem, especially if your e-mail archive dates back a while? And since Thunderbird isn't even in beta yet, and "risky" changes are supposed to be made in Mozilla 1.5 and 1.6, I would stay far away from using Mozilla as an e-mail client.
If you're looking for decent e-mail clients, I'd recommend Pegasus Mail or The Bat! for Windows machines, or KMail or Evolution for *nix machines. All four are specialized for e-mail and are damned good at what they do. Test them out to see which works better for you and your organization.
You know, a Slashdot tee shirt featuring Natalie Portman would sell like hot cakes, 'cause that's the only method any Slashdotter could ever possibly have to get Natalie to touch his body. The real Natalie would run screaming in horror.
Great... between a topless Senator Debra Bowen, and a pantsless Senator Ted Kennedy, we could make a fully naked Senator! Of course, that full naked Senator would look scary as Hell and send shivers down any sane person's spine, but...
Yes, I do care about Netscape. Not necessarily because I think Netscape is the raddest, most elite browser out there, but because without Netscape, there would be no Mozilla. Let's face it, Mozilla relies on Netscape, and as a result, AOL, for life support.
If AOL should decide that Netscape isn't worth developing anymore, and decides to pull the plug on the few full-time Netscape/Mozilla developers remaining, as well as the resources dedicated to Netscape/Mozilla (such as the web servers), Mozilla would be in some serious doo-doo.
To show my support and to show AOL that indeed at least someone is interested in Netscape, I have already pre-ordered a Netscape 7.1 CD with Guide book. I may not ever use it, but at least AOL and Netscape knows that someone out there appreciates their efforts and may continue developing the core for one of the finest browsers out there, Firebird.
As far as I am concerned, this is an excellent thing. I have not used any variation of Java in four years now. I use Windows 2000 Professional as my main operating system at home, and have Microsoft's Java VM completely disabled, as well as any and all scripting support for Java. I also have no other version of Java installed as I make sure everything I download doesn't include Java, so my system is effectively Java-free.
IMO, Java is extremely slow and very much open to exploits, to the point that I feel it is absolutely useless to implement. If a web site I visit requires it, then I just move on to a different web site without giving a second thought.
Yeah right. Slashdotters will say they're boycotting the RIAA. Then they'll go right out and buy the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King soundtrack en masse when it comes out.
Personally, I wouldn't touch anything that has the word "Kazaa" in it with a ten foot pole. Best to stay far away from that advertisement & spyware-ridden beast. Advertisements I can deal with. Spyware on the other hand is intolerable.
Your wish has already been granted. It's called NetCaptor, a terrific shell for Internet Explorer. I use it every day, and glady paid its registration fee. It's my primary browser until Mozilla Firebird becomes more stable.
Yes, I realize that this post is about to be modded down as -1 Troll, but it has to be said regardless.
And the problem with having tax dollars spent on blocking sites on gay rights is... ?
The U.S. was based on Christian ethics. If you doubt this, please read anything and everything written by the founders of the country. You'll very clearly see Christian ideals and religion among their writing.
Homosexual acts go against the very nature of Christian ethics. They are not only a detriment to the people involved comitting them, but to society as a whole, as it teaches others that it is okay to defy nature and God, and jeopardizes the whole Human race as a whole. I'm not saying homosexuals should be hated, not at all. They should be loved, just as everyone else. But the acts have to be hated, and can not be tolerated. Their toleration would lead to the downfall of society, just as it is leading to the downfall of ours. See Sodam and Gommorah for a fine example. See the Roman Empire for another.
When a civilization becomes so decadent that it openly allows and endorses severe immoral behavior, as the Roman Empire has, and just as ours has begun to, it is *doomed* to destruction. It's just a matter of time.
As such, I think filtering gay rights from our children is an excellent thing, as it keeps them shielded from one of the most despicable of evils, and helps enforce in them that it is not okay to allow and endorse immoral acts. If he or she wants to learn about them, he or she can do so when they are an adult, but they will not learn that crap as a child in my house.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. If gaming is an art, I'd consider it at the bottom of the art ladder. I've bought and played many PC games over the years, and I even bought a PlayStation 2 after a friend bugged me enough to get one. I'll play a game on my computer for a day, if that, before uninstalling it. The graphics are fine, but I find the plot and gameplay severely lacking in every graphical game I've tried. Then it was suggested to me that I try Dark Age of Camelot and the Sims Online, that maybe I'd enjoy an on-line multi-player game more than the regular games. They were both dull, boring, and felt like more along the lines of watching paint dry than enjoyment. I uninstalled both and canceled both accounts within three days.
Since then, I realized that most, if not all, of the computer and video games made the past ten years or so are utter crap. I even sold my PS2 and all my games. I haven't played a graphical game in months. But yet, every day I come back to playing MUDs, which are text-based on-line games. Using a simple telnet client, I find more plot and imaginination in text lines than I do in stunningly beautiful graphical games. Plus, I find that they rely more on intelligence and ingenuity than graphical games, which seem to primarily rely on eye candy and a gamer's reflexes.
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I like Mozilla just as much as the next guy, but yeah, AOL cutting off 4-5% (which is Macintosh and Linux combined), of all desktop computers is really going to hurt it. Please. I doubt a "leet" Linux user would be caught dead using AOL in the first place.
As far as Windows and IE, I think both AOL and Microsoft are smart enough to realize that not everyone will upgrade to Longhorn, at least initially. AOL might offer two versions of their AOL software, one for Windows 2000/XP users using Ie 6, and one for Longhorn users using IE 7 or something. In the mean time, I'm sure their subscribers will be inudated with ads telling them how great Longhorn is, and how easy it will be to upgrade.
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Let's see. Boycott the MPAA and the RIAA! And as someone else suggested in a recent thread a few days ago, boycott books as well. If you don't want to support something, that's all fine and dandy, but you have to pick your battles. If you start or join too many, you wind up injuring yourself, and not the intended party(ies).
There's only so much that geeks enjoy. Outside of computer hobbies such as programming and gaming, books, movies, and music make up the vast majority of down time for the average geek. What do we do when we decide to boycott all of them? Our down time will start to seem like work and become down-right depressing, because you're straining yourself to find something to do, when there's something you enjoy but you're forcing yourself not to.
For instance, I boycott McDonald's and the Olive Garden. As to why, I won't get into that. But if I decide to boycott all fast-food chains and restaurants altogether, I'm severely limiting myself as to what I can eat if I'm not at home, and even limiting myself when I am home, if everyone else feels like ordering out and such. I wouldn't be able to partake in dinner with my family and friends, which is considered by many to be a bonding experience. Why hurt me and hurt others and not eat and share dinner with my family and friends at the four star Chinese restaurant down the street, just because I don't like McDonald's and the Olive Garden?
Personally, I'm waiting for the fourth Matrix movie, "The Domimatrix." It stars a whip-wielding Carrie Ann Moss. She already has the leather part down. I figure that movie would make more sense than "Matrix Reloaded," and would also be more entertaining.
I wasn't even referring to the whole Monica Lewinsky bit. There are several things that Bill Clinton did that was completely "un-American." I'll list a few off, and let the educated person look up the information to find out more if he or she wishes.
1) Bill Clinton made severe cuts to the U.S. military's funding, shutting down bases, and limiting our military might.
2) Bill Clinton is as much responsible for the war crimes and horror that was the Bosnian-Serb conflict in Yugoslavia as Milosevic. Over 1,000 civilians were directly killed by NATO forces, not to mention all the historic buildings that were destroyed. Bill Clinton and several other members of his administration were even indicted for war crimes related to the 1999 Yugoslavia operations.
3) Under the Clinton administration, regulations against exports of technology to China were greatly relaxed. In 1996, China had no high-end computers capable of testing nuclear weapons. By 1999, they had 350. Besides that, there were Chinese spies found in Los Alamos stealing our nuclear secrets, but nothing was done about it until 1999!
4) Clinton's election campaigns received considerable contributions from communist China. In fact, it is believed that Chinese donors were the biggest donors over-all for the 1992 Clinton election campaign. Effectively, Clinton was bribed by China, and committed treason against the U.S.
5) The supposed "suicide" of Vincent Foster, with a suicide note that was declared a forgery by three different hand-writing experts. Read into that what you will.
6) Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons. That was yet another form of bribery. Marc Rich anyone?
7) The rape of Juannita Broaddrick by Bill Clinton. The nurse that attended Juannite Broaddrick after her rape released a statement a month or so ago as a matter of fact, backing her up and stating her belief that Bill Clinton is a rapist.
I could go on and on, but I won't. Suffice it to say, in my opinion Bill Clinton was one of the worst, if not the, worst President the United States has ever seen, and I hope it never has one as self-centered, arrogant, and brutal as him again.
Nah. Bill Clinton and his friends were exposed for their un-American activities on several occasions, but the public just didn't seem to give a damn for the most part, thanks to all the spin-doctoring from the liberal media.
Nah. while those attributes may lead one to think the ship should be named after Bill Clinton, it could only be named after him if the ship was entirely manned by communist Chinese sailors.
Funny. I don't see many other countries tackling those either, but I do see many countries depending on the U.S.'s military might for world security for the past half century, including much of Europe.
Honestly, if a country tries to be a jack of all trades, it will eventually spread itself too thin and be good at nothing. For a world community and economy that we're leading to, the world might be better off having nations specializing in one thing or another, and let the U.S. specialize on what it does best... its military. Let other countries handle solving global warming, cancer, AIDS, and what have you. Not to say that other countries can't contribute, but trying to be the best at everything runs the risk of being good at nothing.
Whew, at least it's not the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, or the U.S. Navy would be in big trouble. I mean, Gerald Ford tumbling while getting out of a helicopter is one thing, but I can only imagine what kind of manuever problems the U.S.S. Gerald Ford would have. It could potentially destroy half a sea port while attempting to dock.
This could make for an excellent convenient excuse... "I'm serius honey, I have no idea how that Jill Kelly lesbian porn AVI got on our computer. Our computer must be being used as one of those porn bots we heard about on the news last night. Damn those hackers!"
This is nothing new. It only boils down to: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Microsoft and Sun don't like each other, but they have a common enemy: Linux. Thus it makes sense for them both to provide funds to SCO and help contribute to all the anti-Linux FUD. Once Linux is sufficently taken care of, Microsoft and Sun can go back to hating each other, or that's their plan anyway.
I agree. Watching seven astronauts die slowly on television would be terrible. However, I'm quite sure that Al-Jazeera and the BBC would have been more than willing to air it. Anything to make America look bad. Dead soldiers, dying astronauts, what's the difference?
Personally, while I prefer Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird as browsers, I wouldn't touch Mozilla as an e-mail client. When people have problems with Mozilla or Thunderbird, the two most frequent answers are: "completely uninstall and reinstall Mozilla/Thunderbird," and/or "completely remove your profile and make a new one." Umm, thanks, but no thanks. What's the point of using an e-mail client where you delete your e-mail archive/profile if there's a problem, especially if your e-mail archive dates back a while? And since Thunderbird isn't even in beta yet, and "risky" changes are supposed to be made in Mozilla 1.5 and 1.6, I would stay far away from using Mozilla as an e-mail client.
If you're looking for decent e-mail clients, I'd recommend Pegasus Mail or The Bat! for Windows machines, or KMail or Evolution for *nix machines. All four are specialized for e-mail and are damned good at what they do. Test them out to see which works better for you and your organization.
You know, a Slashdot tee shirt featuring Natalie Portman would sell like hot cakes, 'cause that's the only method any Slashdotter could ever possibly have to get Natalie to touch his body. The real Natalie would run screaming in horror.
Great... between a topless Senator Debra Bowen, and a pantsless Senator Ted Kennedy, we could make a fully naked Senator! Of course, that full naked Senator would look scary as Hell and send shivers down any sane person's spine, but...
Not to mention they like getting pron e-mails that give them their last chance at seeing a naked 20 year-old without paying a large amount of money.
At least this time we have a more pro-active President. With the last President we had, he liked getting blown. Instead, this one likes to blow.
Rumor is that they've just joined the FreeCraft project. :P
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Yes, I'm joking.
Yes, I do care about Netscape. Not necessarily because I think Netscape is the raddest, most elite browser out there, but because without Netscape, there would be no Mozilla. Let's face it, Mozilla relies on Netscape, and as a result, AOL, for life support.
If AOL should decide that Netscape isn't worth developing anymore, and decides to pull the plug on the few full-time Netscape/Mozilla developers remaining, as well as the resources dedicated to Netscape/Mozilla (such as the web servers), Mozilla would be in some serious doo-doo.
To show my support and to show AOL that indeed at least someone is interested in Netscape, I have already pre-ordered a Netscape 7.1 CD with Guide book. I may not ever use it, but at least AOL and Netscape knows that someone out there appreciates their efforts and may continue developing the core for one of the finest browsers out there, Firebird.
Go here for the change log to Windows 2000 Service Pack Four. Some of the changes are quite amusing.
As far as I am concerned, this is an excellent thing. I have not used any variation of Java in four years now. I use Windows 2000 Professional as my main operating system at home, and have Microsoft's Java VM completely disabled, as well as any and all scripting support for Java. I also have no other version of Java installed as I make sure everything I download doesn't include Java, so my system is effectively Java-free.
IMO, Java is extremely slow and very much open to exploits, to the point that I feel it is absolutely useless to implement. If a web site I visit requires it, then I just move on to a different web site without giving a second thought.
Yeah right. Slashdotters will say they're boycotting the RIAA. Then they'll go right out and buy the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King soundtrack en masse when it comes out.
Personally, I wouldn't touch anything that has the word "Kazaa" in it with a ten foot pole. Best to stay far away from that advertisement & spyware-ridden beast. Advertisements I can deal with. Spyware on the other hand is intolerable.
Your wish has already been granted. It's called NetCaptor, a terrific shell for Internet Explorer. I use it every day, and glady paid its registration fee. It's my primary browser until Mozilla Firebird becomes more stable.
Yes, I realize that this post is about to be modded down as -1 Troll, but it has to be said regardless.
And the problem with having tax dollars spent on blocking sites on gay rights is... ?
The U.S. was based on Christian ethics. If you doubt this, please read anything and everything written by the founders of the country. You'll very clearly see Christian ideals and religion among their writing.
Homosexual acts go against the very nature of Christian ethics. They are not only a detriment to the people involved comitting them, but to society as a whole, as it teaches others that it is okay to defy nature and God, and jeopardizes the whole Human race as a whole. I'm not saying homosexuals should be hated, not at all. They should be loved, just as everyone else. But the acts have to be hated, and can not be tolerated. Their toleration would lead to the downfall of society, just as it is leading to the downfall of ours. See Sodam and Gommorah for a fine example. See the Roman Empire for another.
When a civilization becomes so decadent that it openly allows and endorses severe immoral behavior, as the Roman Empire has, and just as ours has begun to, it is *doomed* to destruction. It's just a matter of time.
As such, I think filtering gay rights from our children is an excellent thing, as it keeps them shielded from one of the most despicable of evils, and helps enforce in them that it is not okay to allow and endorse immoral acts. If he or she wants to learn about them, he or she can do so when they are an adult, but they will not learn that crap as a child in my house.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. If gaming is an art, I'd consider it at the bottom of the art ladder. I've bought and played many PC games over the years, and I even bought a PlayStation 2 after a friend bugged me enough to get one. I'll play a game on my computer for a day, if that, before uninstalling it. The graphics are fine, but I find the plot and gameplay severely lacking in every graphical game I've tried. Then it was suggested to me that I try Dark Age of Camelot and the Sims Online, that maybe I'd enjoy an on-line multi-player game more than the regular games. They were both dull, boring, and felt like more along the lines of watching paint dry than enjoyment. I uninstalled both and canceled both accounts within three days.
Since then, I realized that most, if not all, of the computer and video games made the past ten years or so are utter crap. I even sold my PS2 and all my games. I haven't played a graphical game in months. But yet, every day I come back to playing MUDs, which are text-based on-line games. Using a simple telnet client, I find more plot and imaginination in text lines than I do in stunningly beautiful graphical games. Plus, I find that they rely more on intelligence and ingenuity than graphical games, which seem to primarily rely on eye candy and a gamer's reflexes.