The point is, despite being an excellent browser, Firefox is not very innovative. Opera, IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, etc. all have features 'stolen' from other browsers.
"The wooden models spring forward several meters (yards) after a pair of back wheels are wound up, much like a kid's car zooms forward after the wheels are revved up against a surface."
Only several meters? Not a very quick machine, I imagine. A Supra rear wing and a dozen Type-R stickers would surely help.
I was a McAfee user until I got sick of my XP box taking *forever* to shut down; switching to Norton AntiVirus 2002 fixed that issue. I tried the 2004 version but it used up far too many ressources.
My security unaware friends continuously have their PCs infected with viruses because they refuse to install virus scanners. The most common excuse is "too expensive" (which I disagree with; the minimal price is worth it).
I give them a link to AVG Free Edition, and they still have virus problems afterwards when they refuse to install AVG. They'res no excuse for that. I guess people are just (very, very) stubborn.
After trying KDE 3.2 Beta2 a while back, I noticed a big difference in the way it renders Websites; CSS support has been improved considerably.
From what I've seen, it's still not as good as Mozilla's Gecko engine, but it's making quick progress. A new challenger in the browser war? Bring it on! =)
I remember reading about how something like 90% of the content on P2P networks is provided by only 10% of the users (I don't remember the exact figures). Those people are certainly the RIAA's biggest targets.
I've been using XP Pro since shortly after its release, and stability has been rock-solid. I was strongly considering installing Win2K instead, but decided to give XP a try. It's a decision I never regretted.
I agree that this is better than going after the people that make and distibute P2P software, but they still wasted a whole lot of money with pointless lawsuits. They must have spent millions, even billions suing the creators of Morpheus, KaZaA, etc. All that for nothing.
For an industry that's not doing well financially (the RIAA is always complaining about declining revenues), they sure have a lot of money for lawsuits.
You're right that people don't want to pay $20 for CDs anymore, especially now that so many CDs now have DRM that limits your rights. But will the RIAA do anything about it? Unlikely. They're afraid of change.
They'd rather sue ISPs and P2P companies instead of giving customers what they want.
Heck, I'm surprised at the number of people who never even heard of Linux. The OS definitely needs more marketing.
A few months ago I was at Staples shopping for a new mouse. When I found one that I liked, just for fun I asked the salesman in the computer department if it works with Linux. He replied with "what's that... a game?"
Artists understandably complain about their music being bootlegged on the Internet, but now that people are downloading music legitimately and are actually making a profit from it, they're still complaining?? Sounds like they've been brainwashed by the RIAA. They must face reality: things change! People no longer want to spend $18 on CDs, since it's such a ripoff. Unless CD prices drop drastically, downloading songs individually at a cheap price is the way to go.
So if you download a CD worth $18, they can destroy your $1500 PC as payback? Riiiight.
And just how accurate would this system be? The RIAA's "anti-MP3" web bots have been known to falsely label legit MP3s as illegal. How many PCs would Hatch's proposed technology wrongfully destroy?
I'm not against protecting copyrighted material, but this is absolutely ridiculous.
My Pentium II 266 computer gave me many years of great service. Most of its components are now in storage at my brother's house, and I plan on putting it back together this summer. Add a stick of RAM and install Mandrake, and it'll be a good second computer.:)
I don't really claim to be a "programmer" per say, but from HTML I moved on to server and client side scripting languages, the to using databases, and even took a C++ class at college for fun. HTML was certainly my gateway into programming.
That's what I'm planning on doing. I started with HTML, then CSS and XML. I since moved on to server-side (currently learning ASP) and planning on taking a programming course in college. We'll see where it goes from there.
Even if I don't end up programming professionally, it's still something I want to keep learning. It's an interesting hobby.
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The point is, despite being an excellent browser, Firefox is not very innovative. Opera, IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, etc. all have features 'stolen' from other browsers.
Adding to that, Opera spoofed as IE has the following UA:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.54 [en]
Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Automobile and Road and Track. Being a former mechanic, I love cars. Once a gearhead, always a gearhead. ;-)
it would be nice for it to mention what makes it "cut-down".
;-)
I believe they removed just about everything from the \WINDOWS directory.
"my heart still belongs to good old 2-D action games"
That's why I love the GBA so much; many of its titles are old-school. Ninja Five-0 and Metroid Fusion come to mind.
I enjoy modern games (I'm a PC FPS fanatic), but they'll never replace the classics in my game library.
"The wooden models spring forward several meters (yards) after a pair of back wheels are wound up, much like a kid's car zooms forward after the wheels are revved up against a surface."
Only several meters? Not a very quick machine, I imagine. A Supra rear wing and a dozen Type-R stickers would surely help.
I was a McAfee user until I got sick of my XP box taking *forever* to shut down; switching to Norton AntiVirus 2002 fixed that issue. I tried the 2004 version but it used up far too many ressources.
My security unaware friends continuously have their PCs infected with viruses because they refuse to install virus scanners. The most common excuse is "too expensive" (which I disagree with; the minimal price is worth it).
I give them a link to AVG Free Edition, and they still have virus problems afterwards when they refuse to install AVG. They'res no excuse for that. I guess people are just (very, very) stubborn.
True. Spoofed Opera UA strings use this format:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.50
A good UA string sniffer should correctly identify Opera, despite the spoofing.
After trying KDE 3.2 Beta2 a while back, I noticed a big difference in the way it renders Websites; CSS support has been improved considerably.
From what I've seen, it's still not as good as Mozilla's Gecko engine, but it's making quick progress. A new challenger in the browser war? Bring it on! =)
I pay $44.95/month for my 3.0Mbps/384kbps connection.
How about people who call IE "The Internet?"
Just recently I helped someone rid his harddrive of spyware, which was causing his "Internet to scroll slowly."
"This is fucking bullshit. You put wife-beaters in jail for five years. Some fucking rapists and child-molesters don't even go to jail for 5 years."
It's ridiculous, isn't it?
This murderer will most likely go to prison for only 5 years (!): article
Violent criminals get a slap on the wrist, and file-traders are locked away.
Car sales are dropping significantly too. Might as well blame KaZaA for that too! ;)
I remember reading about how something like 90% of the content on P2P networks is provided by only 10% of the users (I don't remember the exact figures). Those people are certainly the RIAA's biggest targets.
I third that. ;)
I've been using XP Pro since shortly after its release, and stability has been rock-solid. I was strongly considering installing Win2K instead, but decided to give XP a try. It's a decision I never regretted.
I agree that this is better than going after the people that make and distibute P2P software, but they still wasted a whole lot of money with pointless lawsuits.
They must have spent millions, even billions suing the creators of Morpheus, KaZaA, etc. All that for nothing.
For an industry that's not doing well financially (the RIAA is always complaining about declining revenues), they sure have a lot of money for lawsuits.
You're right that people don't want to pay $20 for CDs anymore, especially now that so many CDs now have DRM that limits your rights. But will the RIAA do anything about it? Unlikely. They're afraid of change.
They'd rather sue ISPs and P2P companies instead of giving customers what they want.
Heck, I'm surprised at the number of people who never even heard of Linux. The OS definitely needs more marketing.
A few months ago I was at Staples shopping for a new mouse. When I found one that I liked, just for fun I asked the salesman in the computer department if it works with Linux. He replied with "what's that... a game?"
With "and are actually making a profit from it", I'm refering to the artists.
Artists understandably complain about their music being bootlegged on the Internet, but now that people are downloading music legitimately and are actually making a profit from it, they're still complaining?? Sounds like they've been brainwashed by the RIAA. They must face reality: things change! People no longer want to spend $18 on CDs, since it's such a ripoff. Unless CD prices drop drastically, downloading songs individually at a cheap price is the way to go.
So if you download a CD worth $18, they can destroy your $1500 PC as payback? Riiiight.
And just how accurate would this system be? The RIAA's "anti-MP3" web bots have been known to falsely label legit MP3s as illegal. How many PCs would Hatch's proposed technology wrongfully destroy?
I'm not against protecting copyrighted material, but this is absolutely ridiculous.
My Pentium II 266 computer gave me many years of great service. Most of its components are now in storage at my brother's house, and I plan on putting it back together this summer. Add a stick of RAM and install Mandrake, and it'll be a good second computer. :)
We'll see where it goes from there.
Even if I don't end up programming professionally, it's still something I want to keep learning. It's an interesting hobby.
I always thought this was the oldest fossil.