As long as you're not using an IBM Microdrive in it, you're fine. All MP3 players that use CompactFlash, or other types of "flash" memory are completely electronic with no moving parts. So if you're jogging, there's no skipping and no harm done to the player. My girlfriend jogs with her NEX II and loves it. It comes with a protective case that has a belt clip which attaches to her water pack. You can still operate the buttons while its in the case, too.
Yes. It plays 32Khz encoded MP3s. I haven't tried anything lower. It does variable bitrate MP3s as well, although it mis-calculates the duration the track has been playing by +/- 3 seconds usually. No big deal, though... sounds good. I usually encode using LAME and the "--abr 80" parameter to get tiny but OK-sounding mp3s.
The CyberAngels are a branch of the ever-popular Guardian Angels vigilante group. When they formed, sometime around 1996-ish, they attracted a lot of attention because they drew a lot of concerns about individual's rights online and free speech. I don't remember exactly what the problem was, but for a long time they had a bad name with free speech supporters. I though they'd fizzled out and disappeared. But I guess not. A search through old EFF newsletters or something similar should turn up some info.
Re:Why can't you just rent them?
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There used to be a couple places here in Austin, TX that would rent software. You would pay full price for the boxed software and then had like 3 days to return it for a full refund, minus a small rental charge (like $5.00). But this was like about ten years ago. All those places seem to have magically disappeared. But I can remember being in high school and guys pooling money to go rent the latest game and then they'd install it on each of their computers and then return it. (I didn't do this because I had an Amiga at the time)
I reckon that they'll have Gnutella declared a copyright circumvention device (whatever that really means) and then send out the C&D letters to everyone that offers it for download, a la DeCSS. Since Gnutella was originally written by our llamma-whipping friends at Nullsoft, which is now owned by AOL-Time-Warner, it's yet another instance where, as one poster has already put it, AOLTW should be sueing themselves out of existance.
Interestingly, they seem to be going not in the order of the volume of MP3s traded, as you (miahrogers) proposes. But instead, they seem to be going in order of usability & familiarity. So I reckon AudioGalaxy is next before Gnutella. This seems to point to the fact that the people turning the wheels in the RIAA aren't too technically saavy (as if we didn't already know that).
The one thing that 450s have going for them is that they have better on-board monitoring. The 420R has no on-board temperature sensors. Usually not a big deal, but we were having some cooling problems in our datacenter once and it sure would have come in handy.
But otherwise, they're pointless old machines.
If you haven't already, look at the blackbox window manager. It's very minimalist, yet with JUST enough features. I use it every day, and it uses just barely over ONE meg of RAM.
Wouldn't this proposed program partially fall under the rule of the COPPA since it's asking children to submit information online?
Looks like this would be a good legal stance to fight it from, however it'd probably just make them take the "squeal on the kid you hate" webpage offline and refer you to their 1-800 number.
But still, aren't there laws against collecting the marketing data from minors that could be used against this? Or has Matel, Sega, Sony and Nintendo gutted our children's privacy now?
It's a toolkit for clustering MySQL, which may or may not provide the failover facilities that you need. It looks beta, but may work... I haven't played with it yet. And of course, this is only if you're willing to use MySQL. Looks fun, though.
Otherwise, if you're doing serious enough work to need serious RDBMS backend, I hope you're making enough serious dough to afford a serious RDBMS. But before I invested big bucks into a failover setup using a commercial RDBMS, I'd cover my other bases first. Most DB failures I've seen were not a fault of the RDBMS itself, but hardware, power, diskspace, OS, human error, etc. The only time I've seen an RDBMS crap the bed at work, it was Micros~1 SQL Server and you should know better than to buy that. With our Sybase machines, it's always NT that takes down the box, not Sybase. Get these bases covered (hi-quality hardware, reliable power with a big UPS or generator, non-Micros~1 OS, and a DBA that knows what they're doing) and you most likely won't need a failover system.
So this is why the Justice Department is trying to break them up now?
I don't think so. If they had all these little buggers hidden within the code on each windows box, I think that the Justice Department would have "dropped the case" by now.
To me, the point of this isn't to protect the consumer from SPYING... but as with any "innovation" involving digital media these days, it's designed to stick it to the consumer in the ass. The only reason I can see the established media companies wanting this is to prevent interception and recording of their content on its way to the display device.
You don't really think that they're trying to protect you from Big Brother, do you? They're trying to protect THEMSELVES from THE CONSUMER.
Previously, this has been the Achilles heel of all content protection schemes... the fact that somewhere it had to be decoded in order to play it. You could just stick your recording device (be it hardware like a VCR or just software that grabs audio on its way out to your soundcard) inbetween the decrypttion device and the display and happily record away, circumventing whatever "protection" that media content might come with. But with this, it moves that vulnerable "clear text" link from outside your display device to inside of it, where it's much harder to intercept.
Think about this new development... and the fact that recordable DVD technology for consumers seems to be seriously lagging behind, and you've got yourself a nice little conspiracy theory going. Pretty soon, some new "innovation" will make our recordable analog VHS video cassette machines unusable with new technology and we'll be left high and dry without a way to record _The Simpsons_ unless we pay the proper fees to get the one-time decryption key programmed into our digital recording device.
Looks like it's time to print up another batch of "Big Brother Inside" stickers...
Being a salaried web developer, the hours I work a week really varies. I'll put in close to 70 hours the week a project is due, and then completely slack the next week. It probably all averages out to around 45-50 a week. But how many of us would be able to go home, get a drink, turn on the TV and RELAX knowing that there was a bug in their code? Much my overtime is self-enforced by my very nature of being a programmer. I wouldn't be able to sleep unless I fixed that "one last bug" before I went home. I think that this speaks to our nature, and our very reasons that we are programmers, sysadmins, DBAs, etc. We _LOVE_ what we do. Being rational people, we would have become laywers or doctors or politicians if our goal in life was to be wealthy and play golf. I know this was a conscious decision I made... to forego wealth to do what I love. For those of you stuck in yucky jobs, get out! There are PLENTY of good tech jobs out there. If necessary, improve your skills at the expense of your soon-to-be former employer, make yourself marketable, and get a new gig. I was stuck in a crap job for six months and it was amazing how much happier and healthier I felt when I left. With a job market like this, there's no reason for whining!
I'd be tempted to try out some of the free solutions. Several of my family members use Juno.com for e-mail service and they have dialups in almost every city in the US larger than 20k. However, their free service only covers e-mail and they require you to use their goofy windows-only software that displays banner ads while you work offline. You dial up only to transfer mail.
Also, I believe that Altavista is offering some sort of free internet as well. My brother tried it and couldn't get it to work. However, they seemed to have dialups all across the country as well. Of course, it's Windows only, and it appeared to borgify your dialup networking. But hey, it's free.
I'm sure there are other free services out there, but those are the two I'm familiar with.
Most hotels I've stayed in had a regular phone jack, or had a convenient "data" jack for traveling business people to use. But most of these have been nicer places... not your average $25 a night roadtrip motels. But even those may have a jack available in the lobby, if nothing else. Frequently, larger truck stops will have booths or tables in their resturaunt area that have phones. I've never noticed if they have usable jacks, though. Frequently, airports have payphones that have data jacks available for laptops... but I doubt they'd be at a train or bus stations (generally Americans don't use buses or trains... and especially not business travelers).
But otherwise, I hope you have a great trip to America! Don't waste your time at Disney World like so many other foreign visitors I've known. Get out and see the diverse landscape, people and culture that exists all in one country! And remember to drive on the RIGHT side of the road.
Uhhh... Wumpus is included in the bsdgames.tgz package for Slackware, on the Y diskset. It also includes startrek and many other classics. Slackware is cool like that.
I find it VERY interesting that he was required to give the passwords to his computer. As I understand it, in the United States, you cannot be required to do this, because of the 5th Ammendment right to be free from self-incrimination. I guess the same does not apply in Norway.
This news article bears a great resemblance to the current DVD crypto debacle. They're both examples of engineers assuming that no one will figure out their proprietary scheme because they're proprietary, instead of using a good design with strong crypto.
But if you think that the RDS situation is bad, wait until someone figures out the EAS system. This is the emergency warning system in the US that replaced the old EBS system. Having worked in college radio, I've had a small amount of experience with it. From what I understand of it, the network is basically a big tree structure with the FCC on top. They have a super secret code that can transmit across the network that will allow the President to interrupt all TV and Radio broadcasts and transmit what he wanted. I'm just waiting for a modern-day "Captain Midnight" to figure this out and hijack every single broadcast across the nation. Heh.
For more info on the EAS check out:
http://www.fcc.gov/cib/easfact.html
Re:Plenty of games already do this, too, and why.
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Your point about Starseige Tribes is completely irrelevent. When a person hosts a game, a person expects a certain amount of their personal information to be published in order for people to play the game they're hosting. It's part of playing the game. The information that Q3 is collecting has nothing to do with gameplay at all and the user does not expect it to happen, nor are they made aware that it is happening.
Furthermore, your argument that it isn't an invasion of privacy because they're not collecting your name and e-mail address is also invalid. They get your IP address, whether they actually record it or not. In most cases, having a person's IP address is just as personal as having a person's e-mail address or name.
Finally, your point about information included in SMTP headers is also irrelevent. It is commonly known that this information is being sent, and you control who this information is sent to. This information is voluntarily revealed, unlike the information in Q3.
Face it, Toasty, if it was Microsoft Word that was doing this, you'd have a completely different opinion.
I have a motherboard I salvaged from a friend's junkpile that's a bogus 386SX-20 system. The motherboard has "386-20Mhz" silkscreened onto the board, and all the chips (bios, etc) have a little "20Mhz" stamped onto them. But the CPU itself is a surface-mount 386SX-16 (clearly marked as 16), and there's a hand-soldered 20Mhz crystal on the board (messy solder job, I might add).
I'm not sure if this machine was sold under dubious circumstances... for all I know it may have been sold honestly as a "souped up" CPU. But I seriously doubt it...:)
I think it's pretty cool, so I keep it around. One of these days, I'm going to try to pop a 25Mhz crystal in there.
When I read NT vs Linux comparisons like this, I find myself laughing for the fact that the two are even being compared. The mere fact that Microsoft cares enough (or is scared enough) to compare the two is a success. The mere fact that people consider it a viable alternative is a success. Other x86 OSes -- commercial x86 OSes -- would kill to get top billing beside NT, even if they lost the benchmark race.
Like many of you, I've been using Linux since about 1994 -- since before Windows NT or Windows 95 even existed. At that time, Linux was little more than just a cool hobby. We were making and using our very own operating system. For me, just being cool has always been enough for me. Back then, we didn't care how it compared to commercial OSes because we had no need for commercial OSes.
In the "early days" of Linux, we were exstatic if Linux merely got MENTION in a magazine article about operating systems. Now, you can't get away from it. Everywhere I look I see Penguins on magazine covers and cars and T-shirts. This would have been unthinkable when I first became enamoured with Linux.
Someimes I worry that we're unknowingly hurting Linux by making it come into the parlour and perform amazing tricks for our visiting guests, like a child prodigy. But I think in the end, as long as I have a cool operating system, that is MY operating system, and as long as I can continue my fun little hobby the world of Linux will be well, I will be happy.
Micros~1 can be split up, go bankrupt, or fall into the Pacific ocean. Linux will always exist as long as people use it and want to improve it.
-- In a one-against-many struggle, the individual always loses in the end. What is Micros~1 going to do? Hire more people?
Most C, C++, and Perl programmers with 0-2 years of experience that I know of living in Austin, TX make around 35-40k. Most everyone in Austin is underemployed, it seems. I know personally I could double my salary if I moved somewhere else. But it's not worth it to me to live in NYC or California.
I haven't been too terribly impressed by any of my co-workers that have CS degrees from UT. But with a school that size, it's hard to make too many generalizations, since there's always an exception.
While I don't support the silly actions of WaReZ D00Dz, you've really got to wonder if the University applies the same high standards to on-campus software licensing, the distribution of photocopied materials in class, and the use of trademarked names and logos in its publications.
This thing is amazing! I saw it once when I was but a mere lad and it left quite an impression on me. The great thing is that when they do the demostration and explain about their van de Graaf, they mention that it is running at only half-power (they removed one of the belts or something). I'd love to see that sucker running at full-force!
I can think of a few mis-implementations of the open standards that you tout that your MSIE so faithfully implements. However, I'll spare the drudgery of listing them and instead say this:
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It comes with a case that has a beltclip. Best of all, you can still view the display and operate the buttons while its in the case.
As long as you're not using an IBM Microdrive in it, you're fine. All MP3 players that use CompactFlash, or other types of "flash" memory are completely electronic with no moving parts. So if you're jogging, there's no skipping and no harm done to the player. My girlfriend jogs with her NEX II and loves it. It comes with a protective case that has a belt clip which attaches to her water pack. You can still operate the buttons while its in the case, too.
Yes. It plays 32Khz encoded MP3s. I haven't tried anything lower. It does variable bitrate MP3s as well, although it mis-calculates the duration the track has been playing by +/- 3 seconds usually. No big deal, though... sounds good. I usually encode using LAME and the "--abr 80" parameter to get tiny but OK-sounding mp3s.
The CyberAngels are a branch of the ever-popular Guardian Angels vigilante group. When they formed, sometime around 1996-ish, they attracted a lot of attention because they drew a lot of concerns about individual's rights online and free speech. I don't remember exactly what the problem was, but for a long time they had a bad name with free speech supporters. I though they'd fizzled out and disappeared. But I guess not. A search through old EFF newsletters or something similar should turn up some info.
There used to be a couple places here in Austin, TX that would rent software. You would pay full price for the boxed software and then had like 3 days to return it for a full refund, minus a small rental charge (like $5.00). But this was like about ten years ago. All those places seem to have magically disappeared. But I can remember being in high school and guys pooling money to go rent the latest game and then they'd install it on each of their computers and then return it. (I didn't do this because I had an Amiga at the time)
I reckon that they'll have Gnutella declared a copyright circumvention device (whatever that really means) and then send out the C&D letters to everyone that offers it for download, a la DeCSS. Since Gnutella was originally written by our llamma-whipping friends at Nullsoft, which is now owned by AOL-Time-Warner, it's yet another instance where, as one poster has already put it, AOLTW should be sueing themselves out of existance. Interestingly, they seem to be going not in the order of the volume of MP3s traded, as you (miahrogers) proposes. But instead, they seem to be going in order of usability & familiarity. So I reckon AudioGalaxy is next before Gnutella. This seems to point to the fact that the people turning the wheels in the RIAA aren't too technically saavy (as if we didn't already know that).
The one thing that 450s have going for them is that they have better on-board monitoring. The 420R has no on-board temperature sensors. Usually not a big deal, but we were having some cooling problems in our datacenter once and it sure would have come in handy. But otherwise, they're pointless old machines.
If you haven't already, look at the blackbox window manager. It's very minimalist, yet with JUST enough features. I use it every day, and it uses just barely over ONE meg of RAM.
http://blackbox.alug.org
Wouldn't this proposed program partially fall under the rule of the COPPA since it's asking children to submit information online?
Looks like this would be a good legal stance to fight it from, however it'd probably just make them take the "squeal on the kid you hate" webpage offline and refer you to their 1-800 number.
But still, aren't there laws against collecting the marketing data from minors that could be used against this? Or has Matel, Sega, Sony and Nintendo gutted our children's privacy now?
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/01/15/9479
It's a toolkit for clustering MySQL, which may or may not provide the failover facilities that you need. It looks beta, but may work... I haven't played with it yet. And of course, this is only if you're willing to use MySQL. Looks fun, though.
Otherwise, if you're doing serious enough work to need serious RDBMS backend, I hope you're making enough serious dough to afford a serious RDBMS. But before I invested big bucks into a failover setup using a commercial RDBMS, I'd cover my other bases first. Most DB failures I've seen were not a fault of the RDBMS itself, but hardware, power, diskspace, OS, human error, etc. The only time I've seen an RDBMS crap the bed at work, it was Micros~1 SQL Server and you should know better than to buy that. With our Sybase machines, it's always NT that takes down the box, not Sybase. Get these bases covered (hi-quality hardware, reliable power with a big UPS or generator, non-Micros~1 OS, and a DBA that knows what they're doing) and you most likely won't need a failover system.
So this is why the Justice Department is trying to break them up now?
I don't think so. If they had all these little buggers hidden within the code on each windows box, I think that the Justice Department would have "dropped the case" by now.
To me, the point of this isn't to protect the consumer from SPYING... but as with any "innovation" involving digital media these days, it's designed to stick it to the consumer in the ass. The only reason I can see the established media companies wanting this is to prevent interception and recording of their content on its way to the display device.
You don't really think that they're trying to protect you from Big Brother, do you? They're trying to protect THEMSELVES from THE CONSUMER.
Previously, this has been the Achilles heel of all content protection schemes... the fact that somewhere it had to be decoded in order to play it. You could just stick your recording device (be it hardware like a VCR or just software that grabs audio on its way out to your soundcard) inbetween the decrypttion device and the display and happily record away, circumventing whatever "protection" that media content might come with. But with this, it moves that vulnerable "clear text" link from outside your display device to inside of it, where it's much harder to intercept.
Think about this new development... and the fact that recordable DVD technology for consumers seems to be seriously lagging behind, and you've got yourself a nice little conspiracy theory going. Pretty soon, some new "innovation" will make our recordable analog VHS video cassette machines unusable with new technology and we'll be left high and dry without a way to record _The Simpsons_ unless we pay the proper fees to get the one-time decryption key programmed into our digital recording device.
Looks like it's time to print up another batch of "Big Brother Inside" stickers...
Being a salaried web developer, the hours I work a week really varies. I'll put in close to 70 hours the week a project is due, and then completely slack the next week. It probably all averages out to around 45-50 a week. But how many of us would be able to go home, get a drink, turn on the TV and RELAX knowing that there was a bug in their code? Much my overtime is self-enforced by my very nature of being a programmer. I wouldn't be able to sleep unless I fixed that "one last bug" before I went home. I think that this speaks to our nature, and our very reasons that we are programmers, sysadmins, DBAs, etc. We _LOVE_ what we do. Being rational people, we would have become laywers or doctors or politicians if our goal in life was to be wealthy and play golf. I know this was a conscious decision I made... to forego wealth to do what I love. For those of you stuck in yucky jobs, get out! There are PLENTY of good tech jobs out there. If necessary, improve your skills at the expense of your soon-to-be former employer, make yourself marketable, and get a new gig. I was stuck in a crap job for six months and it was amazing how much happier and healthier I felt when I left. With a job market like this, there's no reason for whining!
I'd be tempted to try out some of the free solutions. Several of my family members use Juno.com for e-mail service and they have dialups in almost every city in the US larger than 20k. However, their free service only covers e-mail and they require you to use their goofy windows-only software that displays banner ads while you work offline. You dial up only to transfer mail.
Also, I believe that Altavista is offering some sort of free internet as well. My brother tried it and couldn't get it to work. However, they seemed to have dialups all across the country as well. Of course, it's Windows only, and it appeared to borgify your dialup networking. But hey, it's free.
I'm sure there are other free services out there, but those are the two I'm familiar with.
Most hotels I've stayed in had a regular phone jack, or had a convenient "data" jack for traveling business people to use. But most of these have been nicer places... not your average $25 a night roadtrip motels. But even those may have a jack available in the lobby, if nothing else. Frequently, larger truck stops will have booths or tables in their resturaunt area that have phones. I've never noticed if they have usable jacks, though. Frequently, airports have payphones that have data jacks available for laptops... but I doubt they'd be at a train or bus stations (generally Americans don't use buses or trains... and especially not business travelers).
But otherwise, I hope you have a great trip to America! Don't waste your time at Disney World like so many other foreign visitors I've known. Get out and see the diverse landscape, people and culture that exists all in one country! And remember to drive on the RIGHT side of the road.
Come on, you know you played it. You kept that 5.25" disk hidden away so your dad wouldn't find it and ground you from the PCjr or Tandy 1000.
We all need a faithful port of this classic CGA boobie game, complete with the gerbil startup screen.
Uhhh... Wumpus is included in the bsdgames.tgz package for Slackware, on the Y diskset. It also includes startrek and many other classics. Slackware is cool like that.
I find it VERY interesting that he was required to give the passwords to his computer. As I understand it, in the United States, you cannot be required to do this, because of the 5th Ammendment right to be free from self-incrimination. I guess the same does not apply in Norway.
This news article bears a great resemblance to the current DVD crypto debacle. They're both examples of engineers assuming that no one will figure out their proprietary scheme because they're proprietary, instead of using a good design with strong crypto.
But if you think that the RDS situation is bad, wait until someone figures out the EAS system. This is the emergency warning system in the US that replaced the old EBS system. Having worked in college radio, I've had a small amount of experience with it. From what I understand of it, the network is basically a big tree structure with the FCC on top. They have a super secret code that can transmit across the network that will allow the President to interrupt all TV and Radio broadcasts and transmit what he wanted. I'm just waiting for a modern-day "Captain Midnight" to figure this out and hijack every single broadcast across the nation. Heh.
For more info on the EAS check out:
http://www.fcc.gov/cib/easfact.html
Your point about Starseige Tribes is completely irrelevent. When a person hosts a game, a person expects a certain amount of their personal information to be published in order for people to play the game they're hosting. It's part of playing the game. The information that Q3 is collecting has nothing to do with gameplay at all and the user does not expect it to happen, nor are they made aware that it is happening.
Furthermore, your argument that it isn't an invasion of privacy because they're not collecting your name and e-mail address is also invalid. They get your IP address, whether they actually record it or not. In most cases, having a person's IP address is just as personal as having a person's e-mail address or name.
Finally, your point about information included in SMTP headers is also irrelevent. It is commonly known that this information is being sent, and you control who this information is sent to. This information is voluntarily revealed, unlike the information in Q3.
Face it, Toasty, if it was Microsoft Word that was doing this, you'd have a completely different opinion.
I have a motherboard I salvaged from a friend's junkpile that's a bogus 386SX-20 system. The motherboard has "386-20Mhz" silkscreened onto the board, and all the chips (bios, etc) have a little "20Mhz" stamped onto them. But the CPU itself is a surface-mount 386SX-16 (clearly marked as 16), and there's a hand-soldered 20Mhz crystal on the board (messy solder job, I might add).
I'm not sure if this machine was sold under dubious circumstances... for all I know it may have been sold honestly as a "souped up" CPU. But I seriously doubt it...
I think it's pretty cool, so I keep it around. One of these days, I'm going to try to pop a 25Mhz crystal in there.
When I read NT vs Linux comparisons like this, I find myself laughing for the fact that the two are even being compared. The mere fact that Microsoft cares enough (or is scared enough) to compare the two is a success. The mere fact that people consider it a viable alternative is a success. Other x86 OSes -- commercial x86 OSes -- would kill to get top billing beside NT, even if they lost the benchmark race.
Like many of you, I've been using Linux since about 1994 -- since before Windows NT or Windows 95 even existed. At that time, Linux was little more than just a cool hobby. We were making and using our very own operating system. For me, just being cool has always been enough for me. Back then, we didn't care how it compared to commercial OSes because we had no need for commercial OSes.
In the "early days" of Linux, we were exstatic if Linux merely got MENTION in a magazine article about operating systems. Now, you can't get away from it. Everywhere I look I see Penguins on magazine covers and cars and T-shirts. This would have been unthinkable when I first became enamoured with Linux.
Someimes I worry that we're unknowingly hurting Linux by making it come into the parlour and perform amazing tricks for our visiting guests, like a child prodigy. But I think in the end, as long as I have a cool operating system, that is MY operating system, and as long as I can continue my fun little hobby the world of Linux will be well, I will be happy.
Micros~1 can be split up, go bankrupt, or fall into the Pacific ocean. Linux will always exist as long as people use it and want to improve it.
--
In a one-against-many struggle, the individual always loses in the end. What is Micros~1 going to do? Hire more people?
Most C, C++, and Perl programmers with 0-2 years of experience that I know of living in Austin, TX make around 35-40k. Most everyone in Austin is underemployed, it seems. I know personally I could double my salary if I moved somewhere else. But it's not worth it to me to live in NYC or California.
I haven't been too terribly impressed by any of my co-workers that have CS degrees from UT. But with a school that size, it's hard to make too many generalizations, since there's always an exception.
While I don't support the silly actions of WaReZ D00Dz, you've really got to wonder if the University applies the same high standards to on-campus software licensing, the distribution of photocopied materials in class, and the use of trademarked names and logos in its publications.
YES!
This thing is amazing! I saw it once when I was but a mere lad and it left quite an impression on me. The great thing is that when they do the demostration and explain about their van de Graaf, they mention that it is running at only half-power (they removed one of the belts or something). I'd love to see that sucker running at full-force!
I can think of a few mis-implementations of the open standards that you tout that your MSIE so faithfully implements. However, I'll spare the drudgery of listing them and instead say this:
MSIE sucks. Netscape sucks.
We need something better. Period.