I'm talking about their failure to deliver Longhorn. As far as I can tell, when it finally comes out it will be behind Tiger in just about every way, and behind Jaguar overall, in its capabilities. Unless you count the third-party software available for it, which isn't really Microsoft's doing.
Based on your name, you are in/from Europe. If I'm wrong, please accept my apology. If I'm correct, I'd like to remind you that the U. S. has saved your asses at least twice.
FireFox has its security advantages, including better design reviews on code check-in and forcing its users to manually launch downloaded programs. But I've got to admit, FireFox is designed more with features and compatibility in mind than security. The.xpi plug-in architecture is far from secure.
I think a better example would be Opera, Konqueror, or Safari.
That's just it. I don't like them, but I can't find many good reasons to argue my stance.
I think it's mainly the users. Most of the ones I've met are total jerks. I won't go through any of the names they're called, but suffice it to say there are people who agree with me.
And I am a BSD and Linux user. So I am all about alternatives. I just wish it was Be and not Apple.
Yeah. That would be very reasonable. They should have called 1.2 2.0. Java 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 (1.2), 2.1 (1.3), 2.2 (1.4), and now 3.0 (Tiger). That would have been a very reasonable naming scheme.
Calling it 5.0 will not be a good move, IMO. I'm going to e-mail Sun about this, and suggest they call it 3.0. Then it will be a short explanation, followed by understanding, instead of a lengthy argument.
Because someone thinks mod points are better used as a reward system than a way of improving discussions. Moderation involves bringing the best arguments to the front while sending offtopic comments and poor arguments to the back.
For example, dell cannot ship a dual boot system, nor can they ship firefox on the windows platform. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Mozilla FireFox is pre-release software. The Mozilla Foundation is pretty clear about this. That said, why would you expect Dell to bundle FireFox? I don't want to futz around with beta software at work.
I just started an internship with USGS. I probably would have been laughed at if I asked them to install FireFox. They have a policy of only using software that has been approved. The Windows computer I was assigned to had Internet Explorer installed, so I asked for the newest version of Netscape. They had Netscape 7.1 at a local FTP site and installed it for me (I am a programmer, not a sysadmin).
Netscape 7.1 is a fantastic piece of software. It is very robust and stable. It has all of the important advantages of FireFox, that would be used in a work setting (sorry, it doesn't have features such as Click-For-Flash plug-ins that are useful for looking at gaming sites).
Now, please, don't discount the Mozilla-based Netscape 7.1. If you're going to clamour for Dell to install a better browser, don't ask for a constantly moving target like FireFox. Ask for something that was DESIGNED just for that PURPOSE. Otherwise you'll just look like an ignorant OSS zealot.
All of the others have recommended FireFox, and I'm a Linux user, and am into web standards. But for the sake of information, there is a program called Avant Browser that has tabs and lets you use the IE engine to render the pages.
No, because that would be really stupid. A drop-down (or up) menu with one option. Pure genius.
I've seen it before. The Help->About menu. I know that toolkits allow a plain About menu. Why someone would want to add a popup menu just for the sake of having all menu items leading to a popup menu is beyond me.
An "instructions" item would be in order. Perhaps they were too lazy but wanted a screenshot to show a help menu.
Most hosting companies allow you to choose whether you use Windows or UNIX. I have/never will buy a hosting plan that uses Windows or that doesn't say what it uses.
I think the grandparent raised a good point.
Hopefully Steve doesn't pick up on this and decide it's time to deface the website.
I could have told that it was correct pretty quickly. A hundred kilometers is roughly sixty miles. I've known that since elementary school.
I also could have carried out the whole conversion, because I know that 1 in = 2.54 cm.
There are a lot of math illiterates. The poster is obviously one of them. I don't think the poster should take any comfort in the fact that other people got the wrong answer as well. I think that (s)he should realize that it's time to become educated.
This is just basic common knowledge that everyone should have.
The parent to your post probably doesn't care about these features. Neither do I. I care about the standard support not because I want to use IE, but because I don't want to have to design around IE.
If you like all the features you list you can just use Firefox. But if you want to use the features in his list as a developer, IE needs to get some support for them.
I've got to declare your post off-topic. You used the grandparent's discussion to start your own, unrelated rant.
Yeah, but they are in the minority. Most of the morons who start flamewars on mailing lists about licensing barely know how to program. When someone asks them under what license they contribute their software (if they have contributed anything) they usually back off.
Here is a funny (if not silly and a little immature) piece on all the stupid open source assholes that don't know how to program but will be happy to start a licensing war with any of the real programmers.
When I was in college it was common to purchase Wrod 6.0 and then pay a $100 downgrade fee in order to obtain Word 5.1a. Of course this was on the Mac, and 6.0 was an abomination on the Mac since it was an oddball port of the Windows version.
Was the misspelling of "word" when referring to the version that sucked intentional?
Some of the stories on the site I agree with, but they aren't going to help the case one bit, and they should know that.
QBASIC is one such example. First, it isn't even a quarter century old yet. Second, it is copyright by Microsoft. Third, it's only a trial version. Fourth, I'm sure he could find a copy of it on eBay or somewhere. There are thousands of copies.
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I'm talking about their failure to deliver Longhorn. As far as I can tell, when it finally comes out it will be behind Tiger in just about every way, and behind Jaguar overall, in its capabilities. Unless you count the third-party software available for it, which isn't really Microsoft's doing.
I encourage the mod to come out and argue with me. What a bunch of ungrateful bastards.
Or maybe it's like Wal*Mart, where they have their employees do a "sqiggly" out of loyalty, but customer service will always be shitty.
Based on your name, you are in/from Europe. If I'm wrong, please accept my apology. If I'm correct, I'd like to remind you that the U. S. has saved your asses at least twice.
I think a better example would be Opera, Konqueror, or Safari.
I think it's mainly the users. Most of the ones I've met are total jerks. I won't go through any of the names they're called, but suffice it to say there are people who agree with me.
And I am a BSD and Linux user. So I am all about alternatives. I just wish it was Be and not Apple.
Calling it 5.0 will not be a good move, IMO. I'm going to e-mail Sun about this, and suggest they call it 3.0. Then it will be a short explanation, followed by understanding, instead of a lengthy argument.
But it is getting harder to argue against them every day.
Because someone thinks mod points are better used as a reward system than a way of improving discussions. Moderation involves bringing the best arguments to the front while sending offtopic comments and poor arguments to the back.
Mozilla FireFox is pre-release software. The Mozilla Foundation is pretty clear about this. That said, why would you expect Dell to bundle FireFox? I don't want to futz around with beta software at work.
I just started an internship with USGS. I probably would have been laughed at if I asked them to install FireFox. They have a policy of only using software that has been approved. The Windows computer I was assigned to had Internet Explorer installed, so I asked for the newest version of Netscape. They had Netscape 7.1 at a local FTP site and installed it for me (I am a programmer, not a sysadmin).
Netscape 7.1 is a fantastic piece of software. It is very robust and stable. It has all of the important advantages of FireFox, that would be used in a work setting (sorry, it doesn't have features such as Click-For-Flash plug-ins that are useful for looking at gaming sites).
Now, please, don't discount the Mozilla-based Netscape 7.1. If you're going to clamour for Dell to install a better browser, don't ask for a constantly moving target like FireFox. Ask for something that was DESIGNED just for that PURPOSE. Otherwise you'll just look like an ignorant OSS zealot.
Well, some of us KDE users are just saying we're not going to mourn the loss. If in fact they do get rid of it, or change it.
All of the others have recommended FireFox, and I'm a Linux user, and am into web standards. But for the sake of information, there is a program called Avant Browser that has tabs and lets you use the IE engine to render the pages.
I've seen it before. The Help->About menu. I know that toolkits allow a plain About menu. Why someone would want to add a popup menu just for the sake of having all menu items leading to a popup menu is beyond me.
An "instructions" item would be in order. Perhaps they were too lazy but wanted a screenshot to show a help menu.
No replies. That means you're right and no Republican wants to admit it.
I think the grandparent raised a good point.
Hopefully Steve doesn't pick up on this and decide it's time to deface the website.
If they read, that's their own decision. If they want to influence, they should come up with their own site.
I also could have carried out the whole conversion, because I know that 1 in = 2.54 cm.
There are a lot of math illiterates. The poster is obviously one of them. I don't think the poster should take any comfort in the fact that other people got the wrong answer as well. I think that (s)he should realize that it's time to become educated.
This is just basic common knowledge that everyone should have.
If you like all the features you list you can just use Firefox. But if you want to use the features in his list as a developer , IE needs to get some support for them.
I've got to declare your post off-topic. You used the grandparent's discussion to start your own, unrelated rant.
That's cool, because that's about all I can have after my alcohol episode that ended with a trip to the emergency room a couple years ago.
Yeah, but they are in the minority. Most of the morons who start flamewars on mailing lists about licensing barely know how to program. When someone asks them under what license they contribute their software (if they have contributed anything) they usually back off.
Here is a funny (if not silly and a little immature) piece on all the stupid open source assholes that don't know how to program but will be happy to start a licensing war with any of the real programmers.
Was the misspelling of "word" when referring to the version that sucked intentional?
If not it was still funny.
The guy's post was funny. And why shouldn't someone go through letters after they're done with numbers?
I don't know why you called the guy an ass. In fact, I think you're an ass.
QBASIC is one such example. First, it isn't even a quarter century old yet. Second, it is copyright by Microsoft. Third, it's only a trial version. Fourth, I'm sure he could find a copy of it on eBay or somewhere. There are thousands of copies.
vi is the best.
Amen to that, bro.