Why a threesome? Two-three men so they can fuck each other in the ass redistributing the bacteria or what do you mean?
I can understand it's hard to move them to the colon using your own penis (for some of us at least..), an alternative solution would had been to simply use the finger.
Anyway: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utgivningsbevis It's my impression _he_ don't need to be Swedish, as long as the organization is Swedish or something such. But their lawyers and he himself probably knows more about that than I do from reading Wikipedia and/or whatever I may have read before. Kinda weird how you need to register to enjoy the freedom and aren't anonymous and free of any responsibility (I can see why people think that's not acceptable, but do we really need all the exceptions of rights which are always added to things like this? Sure it sucks if people do evil.. But.)
Swedish: "En behörig utgivare för webbplatsen ska alltid finnas. Webbplatsen får inte kunna ändras av någon annan än den som driver verksamheten, den måste vara tillgänglig för allmänheten, ha anknytning till Sverige, till exempel genom att redaktionen finns i Sverige och ha ett namn som är unikt och ett domännamn som inte kan förväxlas med namnet på en annan webbplats som finns registrerad hos Radio- och TV-verket.[3] Webbplatsens och utgivarens namn samt vem som har utsett utgivaren ska publiceras på webbplatsen."
Google translation: "A competent editor of this page will always be. The site may not be modified by anyone other than the operator of the business, it must be available to the public, have ties to Sweden, for example by the editorial staff are located in Sweden and have a name that is unique and a domain name can not be confused with the name at another site that is registered with the Radio and Television Authority. [3] The site and the publisher name, and who has appointed the publisher will be published on the website."
"I Sverige är tryckfriheten en grundlagsskyddad rättighet som regleras i tryckfrihetsförordningen. Sveriges första tryckfrihetslag antogs 1766 [4], vilken var den första i världen.[5] I Sverige slås tryckfriheten fast i Regeringsformen, tryckfrihetsförordningen och yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen. Dessa lagar är grundlagar vilket innebär att förändringar måste beslutas av två riksdagar mellan vilka nyval skett.[6] Om något brottsligt trycks i text, som inte ingår i periodisk skrift, är det författaren eller den ansvarige utgivaren som kan lagföras (dömas) enligt 8 kap. 5 TF.Juridiskt skiljer lagen mellan tryckta texter såsom böcker och tidningar för vilka tryckfrihetsförordningen gäller och andra medier såsom radio och TV för vilka yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen gäller.[4] Det finns undantag för hur långt tryckfriheten sträcker sig och dessa finns uppräknade i 7 kap. 4 TF.Rent kommersiellt material är inte lika skyddat av tryckfrihetsordningen som annan information.[7]"
Translated: "In Sweden the freedom of the press a constitutional right granted under the Freedom of the Press. Sweden's first press law was adopted in 1766 [4], which was the first in the world. [5] In Sweden switched press freedom in the Constitution Act, Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Expression. These laws are basic laws which means that changes must be decided by the two parliamentary sessions between which the election occurred. [6] If a criminal is printed in the text, not included in the periodical, is the author or the editor that can be prosecuted (sentenced) under Chapter 8. 5 TF.Juridiskt distinguishes law from printed texts such as books and magazines for which Freedom of the Press and in other media such as radio and TV for the Freedom of Exp
It's not perfect though. * It lacks an uninstaller(1). * Things like the H.264 acceleration for Flash took forever. * Lots of large changes make new application versions incompatible with old OS versions. (* It's probably slow in areas such as OpenGL, JAVA and such to.)
And before anyone complain on (1), it's a disadvantage! Sure just throwing things away is intuitively nice, but it doesn't work! If it launched some sort of clean-up-script or something such then fine. But as is it may leave a bunch of crap lying around. There's plenty of applications which tries to fix this issue but it should be there in the OS from the beginning. Or applications should keep themselves very clean from littering other places.
Personally I liked how things where on the Amiga, preferably without any installer and managed by oneself so one knew what happened. (Put the application in a drawer with things like libs/ fonts/ c/ whatever within the same drawer, eventually assigning say Photoshop: to dh1:applications/Photoshop if it needed to know it's own application drawer, or copy everything in libs, fonts and so on over to sys:fonts or fonts: (later being an assign to the same thing as the first one) and everything else will be able to use them to (works great for libs and datatypes to.) One issue could had been versions but either include the version name in the library name if it will change or make future versions backwards compatible, applications such as Directory Opus knew how to tell the library version anyhow so it just said things like You're copying iCrap.library version 3.20 onto libs: but already have iCrap.library version 3.24 do you want to continue?)
If you copied such things over would removing the directory remove everything? No. But you would most likely only copy rather "system wide" items over that way so it didn't mattered because chances where something else would had wanted to use the same item.
You get used to it. Now I think it's ok to be able to close browser windows and up with none and understand that yes, I've closed them all, and then open a new one (Though restarting the application would probably had brought some memory back.)
Anyway, if I want to quit, I quit. Use keyboard shortcuts and you know what you're doing. Check the dock if you wonder (don't launch applications through the dock, remove everything and launch them through spotlight or quicksilver, that way your dock will only keep open applications and minimized windows.)
Spyker also announce a co-operation with American Axle for developing a four-wheel drive system with regular engine on one wheel pair and electronic on the other one afaik.
Ok, now I've got one _HUGE_ issue with Firefox for you to digest.
I run the latest Firefox 3.x in OS X 10.4.6.
When under load thanks to multiple tabs (I uninstalled Flash so that's not it, but I guess all the javascriptcrap is enough to fuck it up) it simply drops lots of keyboard (and mouse?) input.
I may start to write a mail to someone, click the subject field, write some, change to the actual message, write a lot more, and the browser lags and nothing happens. Then after a while it fills in with a few of the last keys and that's it. How the fuck is that even possible? But sure as hell it happens the whole freaking time.
Often I also lick send / post when I'm done and it doesn't notice that either.
Pure shit. It ignores some script/action and that includes the UI to or what?... like now, I clicked Preview, nothing happened. Great! But much worse than you've typed four sentences and only get a half one back and then have to try to remind what you had typed and rewrite it, the whole fucking time.
People with hearing issues get help, people with seeing issues don't.
Dental care is always up for the discussion but it's not free. There is some limits for how much it's allowed to cost though.
Regular medical care though is 900 SEK / year at most. Unless you're old and need to live in a home with people around because then you have to pay for the service as long as you can afford it.
I think the price for receipt drugs is 1800 sek at most, with half the price and then less and less beyond 900. Or something such.
Personally I think more of the "well-fare" stuff should be guarantees for everyone and not depending on need. Because as long as they are based on need you always give benefits to people who don't take responsibility for their own economy and lives. Sure you can argue whatever people should pay taxes to pay for things someone could afford themselves. But the reality is that the people who can pay for themselves have most likely contributed more than the people who can't. So why not? In general our taxes pay for the wrong things, people should get more benefits themselves for what they "save" for the future so to speak.
Also I read that our 50 biggest companies where all started before 1970, and how many of them where started with help from some local individual with money willing to risk it to help someone lift of with their ideas. But these days the system fights against accumulation of money, but who's going to do that then? Or start smaller companies if it's to much paper work and small profit? How likely is it that the government would support the start up of our next SKF, H&M, Atlas-Copco, Volvo,... ?
Haven't we benefited from the rich guy who helped start up SKF? A company which has been around for over 100 years? How many jobs and economical growth haven't that given to our society? What good would the money had been used for if they had been stolen as taxes?
Currently our immigration is supposed to cost around 70 (us) billion SEK / year, I think we where going to raise our economical support to organizations/poorer companies by an additional 4 billion SEK now (we're one of few countries above the goal set for EU), currently they are talking about if we're going to offer free medical aid for anyone lacking papers like if that won't be abused, and I assume we let plenty of people in on the same ground because we can't check them up. The pension system is only funded (?) up for 15% if I remember right, the other 85% of 23-26(?)% of your salary goes to pay for the people who are old now. Even though people would have had much more money if they saved for themselves / they would only had needed to save much less.
How much nuclear substances are we likely to be able to / want to extract from the surface?
How long would they do if we used them to 100% for electricity, transporatation, space travel, space exploration and mining. I do understand that we can get more while in space but =P
If we want to reach nearby stars and terraform or start to live on their planets how much energy would the ships require if we want to get there in a reasonable amount of time? (and would we crash and burn while doing so?)
They are even moving the whole city afaik because they have mined so much underneath it or if it's that they want to mine underneath it so it has to be moved.
I don't know how much the gulf stream (eventually quite a bit?) help but if people can mine there I assume they can mine in Alaska to, why shouldn't they be able to? Heck I live in Örebro at around the same latitude as Stockholm and the location of this city is 5916N 1513O, so even that is more north than the southern parts of Alaska.
I don't understand you basis of comment in the least unless you're being a dick and trolling.
It's quite simple actually: If you have used it once and then never used it again you probably don't know much about it...
So your saying any user experience is invalid unless its YOUR user experience?
No. But actually having experience, and recent such, does make a difference.
What are the reasons to switch to Opera? Just because I don't see a reason doesn't mean there are not. I never asserted I was representing every user; which your comment seems to imply you believe you are.
I never stated my opinion at all. All I said was that yours probably doesn't matter much since you're not even an Opera user. But thanks for giving it anyway.
So rather than troll and troll moderation, why should people switch when firefox is plenty good for loads of people?
Why should they switch to Firefox when... is good for loads of people? I don't say people should do anything at all.
If so, clarify.
I used Opera around the same time as Mozilla 0.7 when no browser was really good.
Switched from Firefox 1.0.7 to Opera 8.52 when Firefox had huge memory leaks.
Have used very shitty Safari 2 for long.
Safari 3 wasn't good either if 5 is the current version. 4 worked.
I haven't used Firefox 4 since it doesn't run on my OS, Firefox 3 is decent, Opera is decent, Chrome is probably decent to, heck even IE 9 is supposed to be decent and I assume Safari 5 work to.
I doubt any of them really suck. Judging from history I would probably had chosen Opera or Chrome. But there is plenty of good browsers around and standard support seem to be a more and more important point for the developers of all of them.
Well, if one take it one step further if you have an idea but can't make money of it how does it matter if someone else use it? What have you lost?
If you can make money of it, do it, and do as much as possible until someone else start to compete with you. And in that case it's not obvious that they will have an advantage so you may still not lose all of your income.
If it's too risky investing in the idea knowing someone else can just take it and start compete with you maybe it's best to just abandon it and let it be. Nothing lost there either.
Does it stop future products? Maybe, at least yours.
On the opposite side it definitely allow more development of competing evolved versions of the product.
I doubt many of the great thinkers would had been like, "Ok, I've set a new common ground level for science in this area, now I don't want anyone else to think more about it and develop it further because I've raised the bar from here to here and I won't anyone pass the stage I started of from."
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Why a threesome? Two-three men so they can fuck each other in the ass redistributing the bacteria or what do you mean?
I can understand it's hard to move them to the colon using your own penis (for some of us at least ..), an alternative solution would had been to simply use the finger.
Yes, if it gives him legal freedom of speech protection that he doesn't have at the moment.
He could post it on:
https://www.flashback.org/
or even:
http://thepiratebay.org/
Both has left Sweden to get even _more_ freedom.
Want more safety (not freedom)?
https://www.flashback.name/
https://www.vpntunnel.se/
Maybe we could had blamed the muslims? :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDeeoUNvAk
imaginary pony named Mr. Bubblecatcher.
Sure you don't mean a robotic unicorn catching farries and stars accompanied by Erasure?
Anyway:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utgivningsbevis
It's my impression _he_ don't need to be Swedish, as long as the organization is Swedish or something such. But their lawyers and he himself probably knows more about that than I do from reading Wikipedia and/or whatever I may have read before. Kinda weird how you need to register to enjoy the freedom and aren't anonymous and free of any responsibility (I can see why people think that's not acceptable, but do we really need all the exceptions of rights which are always added to things like this? Sure it sucks if people do evil.. But.)
Swedish:
"En behörig utgivare för webbplatsen ska alltid finnas. Webbplatsen får inte kunna ändras av någon annan än den som driver verksamheten, den måste vara tillgänglig för allmänheten, ha anknytning till Sverige, till exempel genom att redaktionen finns i Sverige och ha ett namn som är unikt och ett domännamn som inte kan förväxlas med namnet på en annan webbplats som finns registrerad hos Radio- och TV-verket.[3] Webbplatsens och utgivarens namn samt vem som har utsett utgivaren ska publiceras på webbplatsen."
Google translation:
"A competent editor of this page will always be. The site may not be modified by anyone other than the operator of the business, it must be available to the public, have ties to Sweden, for example by the editorial staff are located in Sweden and have a name that is unique and a domain name can not be confused with the name at another site that is registered with the Radio and Television Authority. [3] The site and the publisher name, and who has appointed the publisher will be published on the website."
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryckfrihet
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryckfrihetsförordningen
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen
"I Sverige är tryckfriheten en grundlagsskyddad rättighet som regleras i tryckfrihetsförordningen. Sveriges första tryckfrihetslag antogs 1766 [4], vilken var den första i världen.[5] I Sverige slås tryckfriheten fast i Regeringsformen, tryckfrihetsförordningen och yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen. Dessa lagar är grundlagar vilket innebär att förändringar måste beslutas av två riksdagar mellan vilka nyval skett.[6]
Om något brottsligt trycks i text, som inte ingår i periodisk skrift, är det författaren eller den ansvarige utgivaren som kan lagföras (dömas) enligt 8 kap. 5 TF.Juridiskt skiljer lagen mellan tryckta texter såsom böcker och tidningar för vilka tryckfrihetsförordningen gäller och andra medier såsom radio och TV för vilka yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen gäller.[4]
Det finns undantag för hur långt tryckfriheten sträcker sig och dessa finns uppräknade i 7 kap. 4 TF.Rent kommersiellt material är inte lika skyddat av tryckfrihetsordningen som annan information.[7]"
Translated:
"In Sweden the freedom of the press a constitutional right granted under the Freedom of the Press. Sweden's first press law was adopted in 1766 [4], which was the first in the world. [5] In Sweden switched press freedom in the Constitution Act, Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Expression. These laws are basic laws which means that changes must be decided by the two parliamentary sessions between which the election occurred. [6]
If a criminal is printed in the text, not included in the periodical, is the author or the editor that can be prosecuted (sentenced) under Chapter 8. 5 TF.Juridiskt distinguishes law from printed texts such as books and magazines for which Freedom of the Press and in other media such as radio and TV for the Freedom of Exp
but they did the desktop RIGHT
It's not perfect though.
* It lacks an uninstaller(1).
* Things like the H.264 acceleration for Flash took forever.
* Lots of large changes make new application versions incompatible with old OS versions.
(* It's probably slow in areas such as OpenGL, JAVA and such to.)
And before anyone complain on (1), it's a disadvantage! Sure just throwing things away is intuitively nice, but it doesn't work! If it launched some sort of clean-up-script or something such then fine. But as is it may leave a bunch of crap lying around. There's plenty of applications which tries to fix this issue but it should be there in the OS from the beginning. Or applications should keep themselves very clean from littering other places.
Personally I liked how things where on the Amiga, preferably without any installer and managed by oneself so one knew what happened.
(Put the application in a drawer with things like libs/ fonts/ c/ whatever within the same drawer, eventually assigning say Photoshop: to dh1:applications/Photoshop if it needed to know it's own application drawer, or copy everything in libs, fonts and so on over to sys:fonts or fonts: (later being an assign to the same thing as the first one) and everything else will be able to use them to (works great for libs and datatypes to.)
One issue could had been versions but either include the version name in the library name if it will change or make future versions backwards compatible, applications such as Directory Opus knew how to tell the library version anyhow so it just said things like You're copying iCrap.library version 3.20 onto libs: but already have iCrap.library version 3.24 do you want to continue?)
If you copied such things over would removing the directory remove everything? No. But you would most likely only copy rather "system wide" items over that way so it didn't mattered because chances where something else would had wanted to use the same item.
You get used to it. Now I think it's ok to be able to close browser windows and up with none and understand that yes, I've closed them all, and then open a new one (Though restarting the application would probably had brought some memory back.)
Anyway, if I want to quit, I quit. Use keyboard shortcuts and you know what you're doing. Check the dock if you wonder (don't launch applications through the dock, remove everything and launch them through spotlight or quicksilver, that way your dock will only keep open applications and minimized windows.)
It's the definition. Think what you want about it.
There will soon be an electronic Saab 9-3 to.
Spyker also announce a co-operation with American Axle for developing a four-wheel drive system with regular engine on one wheel pair and electronic on the other one afaik.
http://www.electroengine.se/true-electric/index.php
http://newsroom.saab.com/news/news/saab93epowersaabsfirstev.5.6a0ed975128ec1d13f17ffe2327.html
http://www.nitrobahn.com/news/saab-american-axle-form-joint-venture-for-electric-drive-systems/
They have also announce co-operation with BMW for engines (but most likely not related to this) and talks with Volvo.
Seems like good things happened as soon as they left GM. Easier to be unique that way I guess.
(The new 9-5 is out to: http://www.realtid.se/ArticlePages/201007/18/20100718032427_Realtid221/20100718032427_Realtid221.dbp.asp)
Ok, now I've got one _HUGE_ issue with Firefox for you to digest.
I run the latest Firefox 3.x in OS X 10.4.6.
When under load thanks to multiple tabs (I uninstalled Flash so that's not it, but I guess all the javascriptcrap is enough to fuck it up) it simply drops lots of keyboard (and mouse?) input.
I may start to write a mail to someone, click the subject field, write some, change to the actual message, write a lot more, and the browser lags and nothing happens. Then after a while it fills in with a few of the last keys and that's it. How the fuck is that even possible? But sure as hell it happens the whole freaking time.
Often I also lick send / post when I'm done and it doesn't notice that either.
Pure shit. It ignores some script/action and that includes the UI to or what? ... like now, I clicked Preview, nothing happened. Great! But much worse than you've typed four sentences and only get a half one back and then have to try to remind what you had typed and rewrite it, the whole fucking time.
Sweden.
People with hearing issues get help, people with seeing issues don't.
Dental care is always up for the discussion but it's not free. There is some limits for how much it's allowed to cost though.
Regular medical care though is 900 SEK / year at most. Unless you're old and need to live in a home with people around because then you have to pay for the service as long as you can afford it.
I think the price for receipt drugs is 1800 sek at most, with half the price and then less and less beyond 900. Or something such.
Personally I think more of the "well-fare" stuff should be guarantees for everyone and not depending on need. Because as long as they are based on need you always give benefits to people who don't take responsibility for their own economy and lives. Sure you can argue whatever people should pay taxes to pay for things someone could afford themselves. But the reality is that the people who can pay for themselves have most likely contributed more than the people who can't. So why not? In general our taxes pay for the wrong things, people should get more benefits themselves for what they "save" for the future so to speak.
Also I read that our 50 biggest companies where all started before 1970, and how many of them where started with help from some local individual with money willing to risk it to help someone lift of with their ideas. But these days the system fights against accumulation of money, but who's going to do that then? Or start smaller companies if it's to much paper work and small profit? How likely is it that the government would support the start up of our next SKF, H&M, Atlas-Copco, Volvo, ... ?
Haven't we benefited from the rich guy who helped start up SKF? A company which has been around for over 100 years? How many jobs and economical growth haven't that given to our society? What good would the money had been used for if they had been stolen as taxes?
Currently our immigration is supposed to cost around 70 (us) billion SEK / year, I think we where going to raise our economical support to organizations/poorer companies by an additional 4 billion SEK now (we're one of few countries above the goal set for EU), currently they are talking about if we're going to offer free medical aid for anyone lacking papers like if that won't be abused, and I assume we let plenty of people in on the same ground because we can't check them up. The pension system is only funded (?) up for 15% if I remember right, the other 85% of 23-26(?)% of your salary goes to pay for the people who are old now. Even though people would have had much more money if they saved for themselves / they would only had needed to save much less.
Super mario bros can be enjoyed by everyone!
Need hearing aid? Here you go.
Need glasses? I don't give a shit!
I fucked up and read/thought about Alaska :)
I had no idea whatever you where doing lots of mining and/or whatever there and whatever the military was around or not :)
My impression was that atleast in some areas of Alaska it shouldn't be to different from here.
The arctic? A different story.
The antarctic? Even more so.
For how long? Really, I'm just curious.
How much nuclear substances are we likely to be able to / want to extract from the surface?
How long would they do if we used them to 100% for electricity, transporatation, space travel, space exploration and mining. I do understand that we can get more while in space but =P
If we want to reach nearby stars and terraform or start to live on their planets how much energy would the ships require if we want to get there in a reasonable amount of time? (and would we crash and burn while doing so?)
Harvest more spice? :D
Ah, it was about antarctic. Oh well, I blame the time :D
Anyway, doubt it matters much as soon as you're a few meters below the surface.
In a free market don't they always?
If you want to restrict usage on purpose I can see a lot of areas where you could do that. For instance start with gasoline, coal, diesel, ...?
Closed borders rule. Just look at North Korea for total awesomeness.
Stop hoping, buy other things if that's what you want. It's quite easy (or well, maybe not, but if you ask for them they may come.)
Less itamz = bad, m'key?
Here in Sweden a lot of mining is done in Kiruna:
City(?):
http://www.strangeharvest.com/mt/archive/kiruna3.jpg
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/files/e1ec5f78a79c345d4a3fcf3c86177f0f/resources/ResourceWebImage/thumbnails/flygbild_kiruna_november_2007_large.jpg?1238409989
They are even moving the whole city afaik because they have mined so much underneath it or if it's that they want to mine underneath it so it has to be moved.
The ice hotel (Jukkasjärvi):
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-ingang-natt.jpg
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-rum-japan.jpg
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-ingang2-natt.jpg
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-ute-hjerta.jpg
http://www.kirunabuss.se/taxibestallning-ishotellet/282FCFC53F4D46B483E98F34D627F045
http://fjellfotografen.se/albums/uta/sverige/lappland/Miniatyr_Iskyrka%20och%20Ishotell,%20Jukkasj%E4rvi%20%A9%20uta-bg1044.jpg
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1323606-A_reindeer_fur_covered_bed_in_the_Ice_Hotel-Kiruna.jpg
Aurora:
http://www.ltu.se/polopoly_fs/1.36982!terassen_kiruna_aurora.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/images/2008/04/24/kiruna.jpg
http://www.wintercities.kiruna.se/nytt/kiruna6.gif
Kiruna on a map: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/Christener/Kiruna/Bilder/Kiruna.jpg
Esrange space center is close by to.
Kiruna location: 675118N, 201331O
Alaska: 5440'N - 7150'N, 130W - 173E
I don't know how much the gulf stream (eventually quite a bit?) help but if people can mine there I assume they can mine in Alaska to, why shouldn't they be able to? Heck I live in Örebro at around the same latitude as Stockholm and the location of this city is 5916N 1513O, so even that is more north than the southern parts of Alaska.
Arctic circle:
World: http://www.athropolis.com/map2.htm
Alaska: http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/country/img/15000_AlaskaMap.jpg
Recycling exists you know.
He's from the US :(
... and enough energy.
I don't understand you basis of comment in the least unless you're being a dick and trolling.
It's quite simple actually: ...
If you have used it once and then never used it again you probably don't know much about it
So your saying any user experience is invalid unless its YOUR user experience?
No. But actually having experience, and recent such, does make a difference.
What are the reasons to switch to Opera? Just because I don't see a reason doesn't mean there are not. I never asserted I was representing every user; which your comment seems to imply you believe you are.
I never stated my opinion at all. All I said was that yours probably doesn't matter much since you're not even an Opera user. But thanks for giving it anyway.
So rather than troll and troll moderation, why should people switch when firefox is plenty good for loads of people?
Why should they switch to Firefox when ... is good for loads of people?
I don't say people should do anything at all.
If so, clarify.
I used Opera around the same time as Mozilla 0.7 when no browser was really good.
Switched from Firefox 1.0.7 to Opera 8.52 when Firefox had huge memory leaks.
Have used very shitty Safari 2 for long.
Safari 3 wasn't good either if 5 is the current version. 4 worked.
I haven't used Firefox 4 since it doesn't run on my OS, Firefox 3 is decent, Opera is decent, Chrome is probably decent to, heck even IE 9 is supposed to be decent and I assume Safari 5 work to.
I doubt any of them really suck. Judging from history I would probably had chosen Opera or Chrome. But there is plenty of good browsers around and standard support seem to be a more and more important point for the developers of all of them.
Well, if one take it one step further if you have an idea but can't make money of it how does it matter if someone else use it? What have you lost?
If you can make money of it, do it, and do as much as possible until someone else start to compete with you. And in that case it's not obvious that they will have an advantage so you may still not lose all of your income.
If it's too risky investing in the idea knowing someone else can just take it and start compete with you maybe it's best to just abandon it and let it be. Nothing lost there either.
Does it stop future products? Maybe, at least yours.
On the opposite side it definitely allow more development of competing evolved versions of the product.
I doubt many of the great thinkers would had been like, "Ok, I've set a new common ground level for science in this area, now I don't want anyone else to think more about it and develop it further because I've raised the bar from here to here and I won't anyone pass the stage I started of from."
Rather shoulders, giants, you know.
Grow bigger giants, shoot for new heights.