OTOH that might be possibly the thing which could really alienate people from RIAA/MPAA/etc....or force the latter to change their ways (people need their circus)
Don't look at the stated purpose of any random elements of religion. Look what it actually does, why that characteristic proved beneficial; how it improved the chances of given faith in competition with others.
And you give it yourself - we see how it makes them more wary of "non believers", how solidifes them as a group over pretty arbitrary criteria. In the past, by making this rule quite strict upfront, probably prevented schisms on the grounds of easy disagreements over art. That's all very useful, as far as given religion being more fit for survival goes.
...It's the same thing with Christians that follow the rules by the book.
And those that don't either can't be called strictly Christians or...give the "by the book" group power, give them validity; so there's really not much difference.
Every religion is the "true" one according to its followers. "Blasphemy", in this context, is really only the case when it is done to the mythology held dear by...those who determine whether it is blasphemy or not.
If only there was such long-lasting netbook with a clit...;/
Portability when it comes to battery life, and in a cheap package, is here already. But I have this dream of being able to play Diablo2 in a cathedral during organ concert, on a cemetery during the night of 1st-2nd November, or in a train compartment (especially with some nouns present). Only clit or mouse would be sufficient; and mouse is mostly just luggable, not fully portable...;/
Seems like a decent fit for grave / graveyard info screens, embedded software used for some equipment required for transplants, controlling the morgue, etc.
Of course Opera blocks elements, doesn't download them...
Adblocker is built-in, you just have to provide it with a list (btw, one buddy of mine who used FF for a long time and then switched to Opera says the above list + whitespace removal work somewhat better than what he was used to). If, somehow, something would be able to come through (I don't remember that happening...) - there's also GUI element blocker (RMB, "Block content")
Those are not from "add-ons page at the Opera site" - this is a functionality which is built in; already available in the install you've made. And of couse Opera Link stores bookmarks (and speed dial, and personal bar, and notes (Opera has built-in, searchable outliner), and typed browser history, and custom searches) online...how could it work otherwise?... (especially since you can access stored data also via webpage on any random machine)
And all this time some browsers have built-in and light adblock, one which just has to be provided with a list; plus GUI element blocker if something goes through.
There's somewhat more than one billion PCs, total (that certainly includes quite old ones, where efficient software is important). Probably quite close to the number of mobile phones sold annually (1.3 billion now, something like that); while at the end of 2008 there were 3 billion mobile subsribers IIRC, tear later that number was 4.6 billion (so probably 5 billion by now easily)
Most of those mobile phones can access sensibly "full" web.
Opera had sidebar since...a long, long time; one if its defining features (might be different than what you're used to of course). Likewise synchronization, working for a bit more than just bookmarks; and across all Opera browsers (also Mobile; or Mini, the one for j2me phones) plus accessible via webpage. It has also integrated dev tools.
Color tabs - no (afaik...;) ). However, it has few nice ways of dealing with large number of tabs that you should know of. Tab bar can work basically spatially after one change in prefs; there's "Window" menu (off by default in recent builds, but can be enabled in prefs / works just as well as ever) which lists all open tabs without the need for scrolling the menu if there's too many of them (it's a nested menu); a treeview of all open tabs in sidebar...with search; and "hold down right mouse button and move scrollwheel", that's sort of an overlay list presenting tabs in the sequence depending on "last viewed", quite useful.
Average user would want a light browser because they certainly don't have a machine with 4GB. There's somewhat more than one billion PCs in the world, total (that includes quite old machines for sure); the same amount of mobile phones is sold annually (with total number of users probably around 5 billion by now). Already most of them can access sensibly "full" web.
And anyway, the desktop browser you use is rather conservative with its resource usage; ability to run comfortably on older machines.
In Voyager-like mission, sure. But in some cases which were until recently a no-go, it's "...made solar panels rather impractical", not strictly "make". At least for missions to Jupiter; they will use solar panels soon (and I wouldn't be too surprised if the progress in solar panels gave us that at Saturn at least, at some point)
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Hey, that's what most cults either do or strive for...
I suspect a lot of people said, basically, just that when currently "mainstream" faiths were just being started...
OTOH that might be possibly the thing which could really alienate people from RIAA/MPAA/etc. ...or force the latter to change their ways (people need their circus)
Hmm...
Don't look at the stated purpose of any random elements of religion. Look what it actually does, why that characteristic proved beneficial; how it improved the chances of given faith in competition with others.
And you give it yourself - we see how it makes them more wary of "non believers", how solidifes them as a group over pretty arbitrary criteria. In the past, by making this rule quite strict upfront, probably prevented schisms on the grounds of easy disagreements over art. That's all very useful, as far as given religion being more fit for survival goes.
Enough pornography, especially of the "really bad" kinds?
Heck, "show your tits in av" movement might be enough...
...It's the same thing with Christians that follow the rules by the book.
And those that don't either can't be called strictly Christians or...give the "by the book" group power, give them validity; so there's really not much difference.
Every religion is the "true" one according to its followers. "Blasphemy", in this context, is really only the case when it is done to the mythology held dear by...those who determine whether it is blasphemy or not.
If only there was such long-lasting netbook with a clit... ;/
Portability when it comes to battery life, and in a cheap package, is here already. But I have this dream of being able to play Diablo2 in a cathedral during organ concert, on a cemetery during the night of 1st-2nd November, or in a train compartment (especially with some nouns present). Only clit or mouse would be sufficient; and mouse is mostly just luggable, not fully portable... ;/
Laptops with (barely...) no battery were the norm for many years. Still are, actually.
And the size of that power supply is so because you want "speed", "big screen", etc.
Nowadays, with cheap cellular access, you can have plenty good enough internet "while commuting on a bus, train, or carpool"...
When will people just use more efficient software?...
That's also quite common throughout large areas of ex-Soviet Block. From bigname manufacturers, too.
And don't tell /. fairytales about "a dollar or two extra install fee + price of the OS"; typically those OS installs are not licensed.
You know, other solution would be to install software which makes more efficient use of available resources...
No software? I'm dissapointed...
Seems like a decent fit for grave / graveyard info screens, embedded software used for some equipment required for transplants, controlling the morgue, etc.
Of course Opera blocks elements, doesn't download them...
Adblocker is built-in, you just have to provide it with a list (btw, one buddy of mine who used FF for a long time and then switched to Opera says the above list + whitespace removal work somewhat better than what he was used to). If, somehow, something would be able to come through (I don't remember that happening...) - there's also GUI element blocker (RMB, "Block content")
Almost looks like they purposely choose codenames which don't have a chance of becoming popular ;)
So there's just...Theora.
Those are not from "add-ons page at the Opera site" - this is a functionality which is built in; already available in the install you've made. And of couse Opera Link stores bookmarks (and speed dial, and personal bar, and notes (Opera has built-in, searchable outliner), and typed browser history, and custom searches) online...how could it work otherwise?... (especially since you can access stored data also via webpage on any random machine)
And all this time some browsers have built-in and light adblock, one which just has to be provided with a list; plus GUI element blocker if something goes through.
That functionality can be in very optimised common libraries, right?
Heh, heh, heh...
There's somewhat more than one billion PCs, total (that certainly includes quite old ones, where efficient software is important). Probably quite close to the number of mobile phones sold annually (1.3 billion now, something like that); while at the end of 2008 there were 3 billion mobile subsribers IIRC, tear later that number was 4.6 billion (so probably 5 billion by now easily)
Most of those mobile phones can access sensibly "full" web.
Opera had sidebar since...a long, long time; one if its defining features (might be different than what you're used to of course). Likewise synchronization, working for a bit more than just bookmarks; and across all Opera browsers (also Mobile; or Mini, the one for j2me phones) plus accessible via webpage. It has also integrated dev tools.
Color tabs - no (afaik... ;) ). However, it has few nice ways of dealing with large number of tabs that you should know of. Tab bar can work basically spatially after one change in prefs; there's "Window" menu (off by default in recent builds, but can be enabled in prefs / works just as well as ever) which lists all open tabs without the need for scrolling the menu if there's too many of them (it's a nested menu); a treeview of all open tabs in sidebar...with search; and "hold down right mouse button and move scrollwheel", that's sort of an overlay list presenting tabs in the sequence depending on "last viewed", quite useful.
Average user would want a light browser because they certainly don't have a machine with 4GB. There's somewhat more than one billion PCs in the world, total (that includes quite old machines for sure); the same amount of mobile phones is sold annually (with total number of users probably around 5 billion by now). Already most of them can access sensibly "full" web.
And anyway, the desktop browser you use is rather conservative with its resource usage; ability to run comfortably on older machines.
In Voyager-like mission, sure. But in some cases which were until recently a no-go, it's "...made solar panels rather impractical", not strictly "make". At least for missions to Jupiter; they will use solar panels soon (and I wouldn't be too surprised if the progress in solar panels gave us that at Saturn at least, at some point)
"Having greater means of customisation" (of which Opera has still plenty) != "FF UI"
Why other browsers wouldn't act that way?