If the BSA figures of "1 in 3" pirated applications being used today are anywhere near correct
As one who has dabled in piracy I think I should clear up this myth.
BSA's figure of 1 i 3 is way off the scales. Look at MP3s. A lot of people I know have *huge*, 100+ CD collections of MP3s. Do they listen to all of this music? Would they have bought all of it even if they had the money? No way. And it's the same mechanizm with software. I don't know a single person who would have Illustrator, Freehand and Corel Draw installed at the same time if they had to buy the software.
What China is doing is not producing traditional pirated CDs, which - unless you are blind or really, really dumb - you can not mistake for the original product. They are producing forgeries, packages of pirated software designed to look exactly like the original and - in the same way - to be sold as originals. That's why a lot of the BSA's anti-piracy advertising is along the lines of 'are you legit?' If you're buying Bulgarian 10-in-1 CDs filled with apps you know you're not.
A lot of companies have a 'no foreign software' policy. You cannot bring in your favorite app/game from home because it might be illegal and your company has no intention of paying for your copyright violation.
Another of the many, many 'features' of the new (since '95 I think) Polish currency is that each banknote denomination is marked with a slightly raised symbol: 10zl - square; 20zl - circle; 100zl - cross.
If it deters counterfiting then I'm all for it. The amount of protection put into a single 100zl banknote (worth ~25USD) is incredible. Holograms, light sensitive inks, microthreads, stamps, different bill sizes among dominations. Not to mention the tried and true watermarks and serial numbers. These things cost a lot of money to produce, and all of that money is coming from taxes.
Counterfiting is a serious crime because it is, all in all, a crime against the state. It's not a matter of stealing money from the government but, in our current economic system, it's a matter of stealing money from every single person who uses that money. By increasing the amount of money in circulation you're making everybody elses money worth less. That's the reason counterfiting carries a higher sentence than theft, that's why the Secret Service is responsible for fighting it. Something like this chip would be a godsend.
Cons:
If these chips can be actually be read from 'up to 12"' then I'm a bit scared. Giving someone the ability to check the monetary contents of my wallet from afar is not something I'm to hot on. The ability to track individual purchases is actually a moot point, especially with the amount of small-sum lending that I do among my friends ('Can you spot me 10zl, man?') =)
The tracking data might only be actually useful to someone who's curious about 'the migration of the dollar bill' or something. Credit, debit and chip cards are much, much more dangerous as far as invasion of privacy goes.
The test you're thinking of is actually to fold the bill into a 1 x 1cm 'cube' (it's no longer resembles a square after that many folds) and press down on it. Paper money is *extremely* durable in comparison to almost any other paper most people would have contact with.
to the question of "are all their creative juices dry?" I have to answer that this is not just a Disney problem - more a Hollywood problem.
Look a little more closely and you'll see that it's not just Hollywood that's run out, and it's not as bad in Hollywood as it is elsewhere. Tinseltown has been picking off ideas (plotlines, charachters) from many, many 'sources' for as long as it's been an institutuion. What I belive is happening now is people gaining better access to sources that hollywood rips from.
Disney's been doing Andersen's tales for years, no one's complained. Many plots steal (and pervert) european folk stories, something especially noticable in the 50s. (And, of course, they fact that 80% of Hollywood movies follow one of maybe 10-15 plots.) But there are still some good, original stories being produced in Hollywood. Let's remember that Disney is about as LCD as you can get.
The industry that has lost almost all hope, on the other hand, is the music industry. While it's not as bad as in Poland, where the big 5 'majors' constantly releasing the same artists that had hits back when most of the music buying public was being born, it's not getting any better. You have Britney Spears releasing one song twenty-four times (just listen to the beats on her album, it's all the same song). Bands making careers off on a single *cover* of some 80s hit. Everybody doing house and hip-hop remixes. Covers of old songs being hyped as the 'best new thing'. Producers recycling beats between artists...
Fortunately, it is exponentially cheaper to record, produce and release an album then it is a film. This gives the music industry to be constant flow of new ideas while allowing the them to take risks. At 10, 20, 50 million dollars a picture, the motion picture industry's not too keen on letting much go to chance. So unless the storyline has 'universal appeal' or, better yet, is tested (a book, a anime version =)) it's going to have a hard time getting made.
There is salvation. As technology has made the production of music dirt cheap (and it is, it really, really is) it's bringing down the costs of film production. Of course, we're nowhere near the quality of celuloid (although I've seen filtered digital film that, at PAL/NTSC resolutions looked better) you can actually put a small film studio together for the price of a small recording studio. We're seeing a proliferation of independant films, fresh, new story lines. That's definately something to look out for.
And if you're not into 'independant' cinema (as it is often lacking) check out movies from around the world. Asia and India have a thriving movie 'scene', putting out litteraly hundreds of titles each year, many of the best ones are transfered to DVD and released subtitled. Europe's movie industry is a bit tattered (especially Poland's) but you can still get a lot of good movies. (I'm currently going through my love affair with 'Fucking Amal')
You are totally correct. A *lot* of the movies that I pick up here in Poland have a feature list that reads like this:
* Scene selection.
* Interactive menu.
* Polish subtitles.
That's just a joke. There are, of course, exceptions, but this it what it generaly looks like. And director's commentary? Forget it, I don't own a single European DVD with director's commentary.
So I've ordered 70% of my movies from the US. Some of them have come in before the movie played in the cinemas in Poland (Iron Giant, Under Suspicion) and others have *never* been released here (The In Crowd, Belly, Bjork's All Is Full Of Love).
Not true. In Vogue, Byte and a lot of other magazines (especially trade magazines and Computer Shopper) the ads ARE the content. A lot of people buy the magaznies to see what's new in the ads, what products are new.
I too love NTP, especially since my old (p133) computer would lose about 57s daily. But you don't need to be on Linux to take advantage of getting your clock synced on the hour. WinNT and 2K have NTP built in, letting you sync via the 'net.exe' tool, although I'm not 100% sure on that.
The rest of the Win32 crowd can use on of many, many utils to synchronize their clocks. It's enough to search for 'synchronize' on download.cnet.com to find a bunch of them. I recommend Sync-It With Atom, but that's just a personal preference.
In all these instances the Windows2000 answer could have included a reboot as well.
I can't seem to understand where people's hatred for Win2K comes from, especially when they haven't used it. It's not *nix but there's no need to reboot after *any* of these tasks, as well as network configuration changes, disk formats, re-partitions, software installation. In fact, many programs that claim you need to reboot after installation can be ignored, the software will work.
I get good, multi-week uptimes on my Win2K at home. In fact, I move my computer around more often then I 'need' to reset.
I'm not saying that Win2K is the cure all, the best OS on the market, bla bla bla. I'm just saying that it's not the demon you make it out to be.
This is the first version of Mozilla (including that NS6.0 bullshit) that will render my personal link page correctly (or at all actually). Compared to 0.6 it's great, I'm really satisified.
Lets see how it goes after I put it through it's paces, maybe I'll finally be able to change...
When many of you were dicking around with a guitar, learning to play chords 'Ironman' and 'Smoke on the Water' (c'mon, you know you did it) I was writing up rhymes in my rhyme book, working on a mic I managed to find, borrowing singles from friends because they had instrumental tracks. Of course, I soon realized I have no buisness being on the mic, and I killed that idea.
I've been listening to hip-hop, r&b, soul, blues, whatever, about as long as I've been computing, something around 12 years. So yeah, I guess there's someone out there like you Mike.
Hip-hop culture is as much a reality as geek culture. I've been involved in both, although the former is much more creative. And doesn't pay as well =). But it's hip-hop (actually, graffiti) that got me into what I feed myself and my close ones with, and that's web design and web development.
Anyway, as I sit here, writing this, I'm humming along to the new Outkast single 'Ms. Jackson'. Incredible track, just incredible.
Yeah, nothing like some good old lack of knowledge to get me started in the morning. Although a lot of Slashdoters would have anything east of the Oder River to be BFE I assure you it's not. The hardware we have (and have had for more than 10 years [at least that's when I moved back]) has been par for course with our American counterparts (that would be you, mofo).
After I finish writing this reply on my dual celeron 20gb 256mb dual-monitored machine I'll head over to my p3-733 at work. After comming home after some socializing I'll probably turn on my dreamcast or my new PS2.
Eastern Europe has gone ahead leaps and bounds over the last 10 years, don't negate that.
I have a friend that works in graphic design and won't even consider the gimp
Along with many friends, I too work in graphic design. Most of us have had contact with Linux at some time or another (I played around with GIMP quite a bit last summer) and I've only heard one opinion: Linux is not ready for prime time as a graphics design platform.
Why? Problems with fonts. A total lack of graphic card support (especially for the ultra-high-end graphics cards). An appaling lack of software. Where I can chose among two excellent vector editing apps on the PC (Freehand and Illustrator) Linux gives me Corel Draw. Corel Draw is crap, it's one of the most unstable and buggy software packages I've ever seen. (The running joke is that we've all been Corel Beta Testers since Corel Draw 3.0 because every release since then has been a beta.) Two 3D modeling packages (as opposed to at least *FOUR* excellent packages on the Wintel platform). GIMP's serious lack of pre-press tools... The list goes on.
Anyway, I think that Linux is great as far as server/programming stuff goes. Hell, I use it myself - always SSHing into servers, writing PHP scripts.
But to do graphics professionaly... No. Not gonna do it.
BTW, as far as stability goes, I've run Photoshops 3.0 -> 5.5 on my NT box and have had something like 10 crashes over the past three *years*. Somehow, that downtime doesn't scare me.
C'mon guys, this is the VCR replacement we've all been looking for. The only reason VCRs are still selling is because they are recordable. My mom isn't even considering a DVD right now, she wants a VCR for christmas. Why? Most of the movies she wants to see are on TV but usually at some late time. She just wants to record them and watch them at her convenience (I'd get her a TiVO but I haven't seen a PAL version yet)
The ability to record and re-record TV channels on a disc is the function most consumers have been looking for. They want to do more than just watch movies, they want to record Sex in the City, The Sopranos and watch them when they want to.
I can't wait till I can toss my VCR and free up an extra EuroSCART port.
HTML Source options: IE (IE opens the source in Notepad; Netscape just shows it to you)
One of this things I absolutely hate about IE is a lack of developer-friendy options. Netscape is much better about it.
When I do a 'view source' I want to SEE the source. I don't want to edit it. I just want to hit CTRL-U and see it in all it's glory. Hell, Netscape will even highlight more glaring syntax errors in the code.
When I view an image I like being able to see it's actual size. I like how I can view info about a page and see all it's dependencies. And I just love how when I right click on something the menu shows up right away, not after 10s.
Of course, this all pertains to Netscape 4.x because the 6.0 I just downloaded *blows*. Crashed on my 5 times, including 2 crashes while changing the skin.
I know this is a troll, I'm taking that bait, hook,line and sinker.
If not for the despotism, lack of natural resources, and CIA interventions, the third world nations would have passed us up long ago while we were too busy hyping the latest useless product to even take notice.
At the end of the day it comes down to this: Third world countries rather buy weapons than food. Saying 'third world nations would have passed us up long ago' is just trolling, a lack of commercialism didn't help the Soviet Union. If you take away competition you take away reasons to excell, you push mediocracy and 'getting by' as opposed to 'doing your best'. But that's a whole different discussion.
IBM claimed there was a need for about 10 computers in the world. I've come to realize that they were right. What IBM forgot to take into account is the number of products you can sell to people who don't need them
<sarcasm>
Sure, you don't need a computer. All you do is troll on Slashdot, right? I, along with millions of other people don't need it, it's only our worktool. Small companies don't need them because all they do is increase efficency and let them be more competitive.
</sarcasm>
None of us *need* the cinema but it's alive and kicking. The same goes for cars, motorcycles, televisions, sports equipment, audio equipment, etc, etc. And I don't understand why that's such a problem.
Somehow I don't think this is the best thing Netscape should be doing. I recall a lot of people complaining that NSpr2 was 'too early' -- not ready enough for any kind of release -- even though it was released concurrently with Mozilla M17. Remember, this version is being dropped even though M18 hasn't come out yet.
As a 'business' decision I couldn't really care less about Netscape as a company. Politically though, NS6 is the browser to watch for for a lot of people, not Mozilla, and a lot of people are mistaking NS6prx with 'the new Netscape'. And they're getting scared off. As a webdesigner, I do not want to use MSIE but it's slowly getting so I have to use it more and more often - both professionally and personaly.
Incidentally I have never seen any software that can take down win2k. One or two programs do appear to have memory and resource holes that drain the systems power away slowly but if you restart those apps then it springs back.
I run Windows 2000. Want to crash your system? Watch two Real Video movies under Real Player 7 without restarting RP between them. It'd reset my system every time. Nowe, after installing SP1 and removing the offending RP the only thing that crashes my system is WinOnCD 3.7 and my Hollywood+ MPEG decoding card software.
On the other hand, Win98SE will lock up afterbeing on over the weekend while Win98 has been up on my home DVD/MP3/scanner machine for the past couple of weeks without a reset.
How come you didn't start questioning these things when you started paying tens of thousands of dollars per annum to go to the college as opposed to us Europeans
Please, cut the 'Europe is so cool' bullshit. The art school I wanted to go to in England costs 16,000 GBP per year. Why? Although I'm a European, I'm not a European Union Brand (tm) European. Besides, scholarships in America are a *dream*. My brother got a 25% scholarship at the school of his choice through some bullshit foundation just for writing a letter.
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If the BSA figures of "1 in 3" pirated applications being used today are anywhere near correct
As one who has dabled in piracy I think I should clear up this myth.
BSA's figure of 1 i 3 is way off the scales. Look at MP3s. A lot of people I know have *huge*, 100+ CD collections of MP3s. Do they listen to all of this music? Would they have bought all of it even if they had the money? No way. And it's the same mechanizm with software. I don't know a single person who would have Illustrator, Freehand and Corel Draw installed at the same time if they had to buy the software.
What China is doing is not producing traditional pirated CDs, which - unless you are blind or really, really dumb - you can not mistake for the original product. They are producing forgeries, packages of pirated software designed to look exactly like the original and - in the same way - to be sold as originals. That's why a lot of the BSA's anti-piracy advertising is along the lines of 'are you legit?' If you're buying Bulgarian 10-in-1 CDs filled with apps you know you're not.
A lot of companies have a 'no foreign software' policy. You cannot bring in your favorite app/game from home because it might be illegal and your company has no intention of paying for your copyright violation.
jedrek
Another of the many, many 'features' of the new (since '95 I think) Polish currency is that each banknote denomination is marked with a slightly raised symbol: 10zl - square; 20zl - circle; 100zl - cross.
jedrek
I have mixed feelings about this whole idea.
Pros:
If it deters counterfiting then I'm all for it. The amount of protection put into a single 100zl banknote (worth ~25USD) is incredible. Holograms, light sensitive inks, microthreads, stamps, different bill sizes among dominations. Not to mention the tried and true watermarks and serial numbers. These things cost a lot of money to produce, and all of that money is coming from taxes.
Counterfiting is a serious crime because it is, all in all, a crime against the state. It's not a matter of stealing money from the government but, in our current economic system, it's a matter of stealing money from every single person who uses that money. By increasing the amount of money in circulation you're making everybody elses money worth less. That's the reason counterfiting carries a higher sentence than theft, that's why the Secret Service is responsible for fighting it. Something like this chip would be a godsend.
Cons:
If these chips can be actually be read from 'up to 12"' then I'm a bit scared. Giving someone the ability to check the monetary contents of my wallet from afar is not something I'm to hot on. The ability to track individual purchases is actually a moot point, especially with the amount of small-sum lending that I do among my friends ('Can you spot me 10zl, man?') =)
The tracking data might only be actually useful to someone who's curious about 'the migration of the dollar bill' or something. Credit, debit and chip cards are much, much more dangerous as far as invasion of privacy goes.
jedrek
'Blanking' and reprinting currency is a recognized problem by many central banks, that's why most new currencies produce bills of different sizes.
We have this in Poland with the smallest (10zl) banknote being about 2.5cm more narrow and 1cm shorter than the 2nd to largest bill (100zl).
jedrek
The test you're thinking of is actually to fold the bill into a 1 x 1cm 'cube' (it's no longer resembles a square after that many folds) and press down on it. Paper money is *extremely* durable in comparison to almost any other paper most people would have contact with.
jedrek
to the question of "are all their creative juices dry?" I have to answer that this is not just a Disney problem - more a Hollywood problem.
Look a little more closely and you'll see that it's not just Hollywood that's run out, and it's not as bad in Hollywood as it is elsewhere. Tinseltown has been picking off ideas (plotlines, charachters) from many, many 'sources' for as long as it's been an institutuion. What I belive is happening now is people gaining better access to sources that hollywood rips from.
Disney's been doing Andersen's tales for years, no one's complained. Many plots steal (and pervert) european folk stories, something especially noticable in the 50s. (And, of course, they fact that 80% of Hollywood movies follow one of maybe 10-15 plots.) But there are still some good, original stories being produced in Hollywood. Let's remember that Disney is about as LCD as you can get.
The industry that has lost almost all hope, on the other hand, is the music industry. While it's not as bad as in Poland, where the big 5 'majors' constantly releasing the same artists that had hits back when most of the music buying public was being born, it's not getting any better. You have Britney Spears releasing one song twenty-four times (just listen to the beats on her album, it's all the same song). Bands making careers off on a single *cover* of some 80s hit. Everybody doing house and hip-hop remixes. Covers of old songs being hyped as the 'best new thing'. Producers recycling beats between artists...
Fortunately, it is exponentially cheaper to record, produce and release an album then it is a film. This gives the music industry to be constant flow of new ideas while allowing the them to take risks. At 10, 20, 50 million dollars a picture, the motion picture industry's not too keen on letting much go to chance. So unless the storyline has 'universal appeal' or, better yet, is tested (a book, a anime version =)) it's going to have a hard time getting made.
There is salvation. As technology has made the production of music dirt cheap (and it is, it really, really is) it's bringing down the costs of film production. Of course, we're nowhere near the quality of celuloid (although I've seen filtered digital film that, at PAL/NTSC resolutions looked better) you can actually put a small film studio together for the price of a small recording studio. We're seeing a proliferation of independant films, fresh, new story lines. That's definately something to look out for.
And if you're not into 'independant' cinema (as it is often lacking) check out movies from around the world. Asia and India have a thriving movie 'scene', putting out litteraly hundreds of titles each year, many of the best ones are transfered to DVD and released subtitled. Europe's movie industry is a bit tattered (especially Poland's) but you can still get a lot of good movies. (I'm currently going through my love affair with 'Fucking Amal')
* Scene selection.
* Interactive menu.
* Polish subtitles.
That's just a joke. There are, of course, exceptions, but this it what it generaly looks like. And director's commentary? Forget it, I don't own a single European DVD with director's commentary.
So I've ordered 70% of my movies from the US. Some of them have come in before the movie played in the cinemas in Poland (Iron Giant, Under Suspicion) and others have *never* been released here (The In Crowd, Belly, Bjork's All Is Full Of Love).
Not true. In Vogue, Byte and a lot of other magazines (especially trade magazines and Computer Shopper) the ads ARE the content. A lot of people buy the magaznies to see what's new in the ads, what products are new.
Hell, I've done it myself. =)
jedrek
Stop whining...
Here in Central Europe we're paying:
$0.30 for the cheapest CD-R's (1.20zl)
$3.00 for a galon of gas (3.50zl/l)
Except that the average monthly salary is aprox. $400 (1600zl) after taxes and a lot lower ($250) in more rural parts of the country.
Imagine if your entire monthly salary would buy you 1000 CD-Rs.
jedrek
Oblivion/2 was coded in Turbo Pascal. I know, i learned a lot from that code back at the end of the '80s.
You think pirates don't do holograms? Hahahaha.... get real.
I too love NTP, especially since my old (p133) computer would lose about 57s daily. But you don't need to be on Linux to take advantage of getting your clock synced on the hour. WinNT and 2K have NTP built in, letting you sync via the 'net.exe' tool, although I'm not 100% sure on that.
The rest of the Win32 crowd can use on of many, many utils to synchronize their clocks. It's enough to search for 'synchronize' on download.cnet.com to find a bunch of them. I recommend Sync-It With Atom, but that's just a personal preference.
jedrek
In all these instances the Windows2000 answer could have included a reboot as well.
I can't seem to understand where people's hatred for Win2K comes from, especially when they haven't used it. It's not *nix but there's no need to reboot after *any* of these tasks, as well as network configuration changes, disk formats, re-partitions, software installation. In fact, many programs that claim you need to reboot after installation can be ignored, the software will work.
I get good, multi-week uptimes on my Win2K at home. In fact, I move my computer around more often then I 'need' to reset.
I'm not saying that Win2K is the cure all, the best OS on the market, bla bla bla. I'm just saying that it's not the demon you make it out to be.
-- jedrek
-- polish ccs mirror
This is the first version of Mozilla (including that NS6.0 bullshit) that will render my personal link page correctly (or at all actually). Compared to 0.6 it's great, I'm really satisified.
Lets see how it goes after I put it through it's paces, maybe I'll finally be able to change...
I wish.
jedrek
-- polish ccs mirror
When many of you were dicking around with a guitar, learning to play chords 'Ironman' and 'Smoke on the Water' (c'mon, you know you did it) I was writing up rhymes in my rhyme book, working on a mic I managed to find, borrowing singles from friends because they had instrumental tracks. Of course, I soon realized I have no buisness being on the mic, and I killed that idea.
I've been listening to hip-hop, r&b, soul, blues, whatever, about as long as I've been computing, something around 12 years. So yeah, I guess there's someone out there like you Mike.
Hip-hop culture is as much a reality as geek culture. I've been involved in both, although the former is much more creative. And doesn't pay as well =). But it's hip-hop (actually, graffiti) that got me into what I feed myself and my close ones with, and that's web design and web development.
Anyway, as I sit here, writing this, I'm humming along to the new Outkast single 'Ms. Jackson'. Incredible track, just incredible.
jedrek
-- polish ccs mirror
Yeah, nothing like some good old lack of knowledge to get me started in the morning. Although a lot of Slashdoters would have anything east of the Oder River to be BFE I assure you it's not. The hardware we have (and have had for more than 10 years [at least that's when I moved back]) has been par for course with our American counterparts (that would be you, mofo).
After I finish writing this reply on my dual celeron 20gb 256mb dual-monitored machine I'll head over to my p3-733 at work. After comming home after some socializing I'll probably turn on my dreamcast or my new PS2.
Eastern Europe has gone ahead leaps and bounds over the last 10 years, don't negate that.
jedrek
-- polish ccs mirror
I have a friend that works in graphic design and won't even consider the gimp
Along with many friends, I too work in graphic design. Most of us have had contact with Linux at some time or another (I played around with GIMP quite a bit last summer) and I've only heard one opinion: Linux is not ready for prime time as a graphics design platform.
Why? Problems with fonts. A total lack of graphic card support (especially for the ultra-high-end graphics cards). An appaling lack of software. Where I can chose among two excellent vector editing apps on the PC (Freehand and Illustrator) Linux gives me Corel Draw. Corel Draw is crap, it's one of the most unstable and buggy software packages I've ever seen. (The running joke is that we've all been Corel Beta Testers since Corel Draw 3.0 because every release since then has been a beta.) Two 3D modeling packages (as opposed to at least *FOUR* excellent packages on the Wintel platform). GIMP's serious lack of pre-press tools... The list goes on.
Anyway, I think that Linux is great as far as server/programming stuff goes. Hell, I use it myself - always SSHing into servers, writing PHP scripts.
But to do graphics professionaly... No. Not gonna do it.
BTW, as far as stability goes, I've run Photoshops 3.0 -> 5.5 on my NT box and have had something like 10 crashes over the past three *years*. Somehow, that downtime doesn't scare me.
jedrek
-- polish ccs mirror
Actually, the answer is to read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
jedrek
-- polish ccs mirror
Well, like I said, I've yet to see a PAL version of the TiVO. I don't care about the TV Guide listing crap, I just want to record.
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
C'mon guys, this is the VCR replacement we've all been looking for. The only reason VCRs are still selling is because they are recordable. My mom isn't even considering a DVD right now, she wants a VCR for christmas. Why? Most of the movies she wants to see are on TV but usually at some late time. She just wants to record them and watch them at her convenience (I'd get her a TiVO but I haven't seen a PAL version yet)
The ability to record and re-record TV channels on a disc is the function most consumers have been looking for. They want to do more than just watch movies, they want to record Sex in the City, The Sopranos and watch them when they want to.
I can't wait till I can toss my VCR and free up an extra EuroSCART port.
Jay
-- polish ccs mirror
HTML Source options: IE (IE opens the source in Notepad; Netscape just shows it to you)
One of this things I absolutely hate about IE is a lack of developer-friendy options. Netscape is much better about it.
When I do a 'view source' I want to SEE the source. I don't want to edit it. I just want to hit CTRL-U and see it in all it's glory. Hell, Netscape will even highlight more glaring syntax errors in the code.
When I view an image I like being able to see it's actual size. I like how I can view info about a page and see all it's dependencies. And I just love how when I right click on something the menu shows up right away, not after 10s.
Of course, this all pertains to Netscape 4.x because the 6.0 I just downloaded *blows*. Crashed on my 5 times, including 2 crashes while changing the skin.
Gotta love that Netscape Stability(tm).
Jay
ps. Netscape 6.0 on Win2K
-- polish ccs mirror
I know this is a troll, I'm taking that bait, hook ,line and sinker.
If not for the despotism, lack of natural resources, and CIA interventions, the third world nations would have passed us up long ago while we were too busy hyping the latest useless product to even take notice.
At the end of the day it comes down to this: Third world countries rather buy weapons than food. Saying 'third world nations would have passed us up long ago' is just trolling, a lack of commercialism didn't help the Soviet Union. If you take away competition you take away reasons to excell, you push mediocracy and 'getting by' as opposed to 'doing your best'. But that's a whole different discussion.
IBM claimed there was a need for about 10 computers in the world. I've come to realize that they were right. What IBM forgot to take into account is the number of products you can sell to people who don't need them
<sarcasm>
Sure, you don't need a computer. All you do is troll on Slashdot, right? I, along with millions of other people don't need it, it's only our worktool. Small companies don't need them because all they do is increase efficency and let them be more competitive.
</sarcasm>
None of us *need* the cinema but it's alive and kicking. The same goes for cars, motorcycles, televisions, sports equipment, audio equipment, etc, etc. And I don't understand why that's such a problem.
jedrek
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Somehow I don't think this is the best thing Netscape should be doing. I recall a lot of people complaining that NSpr2 was 'too early' -- not ready enough for any kind of release -- even though it was released concurrently with Mozilla M17. Remember, this version is being dropped even though M18 hasn't come out yet.
As a 'business' decision I couldn't really care less about Netscape as a company. Politically though, NS6 is the browser to watch for for a lot of people, not Mozilla, and a lot of people are mistaking NS6prx with 'the new Netscape'. And they're getting scared off. As a webdesigner, I do not want to use MSIE but it's slowly getting so I have to use it more and more often - both professionally and personaly.
jedrek
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Incidentally I have never seen any software that can take down win2k. One or two programs do appear to have memory and resource holes that drain the systems power away slowly but if you restart those apps then it springs back.
I run Windows 2000. Want to crash your system? Watch two Real Video movies under Real Player 7 without restarting RP between them. It'd reset my system every time. Nowe, after installing SP1 and removing the offending RP the only thing that crashes my system is WinOnCD 3.7 and my Hollywood+ MPEG decoding card software.
On the other hand, Win98SE will lock up afterbeing on over the weekend while Win98 has been up on my home DVD/MP3/scanner machine for the past couple of weeks without a reset.
Blabber, blabber, blabber.
Jay
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How come you didn't start questioning these things when you started paying tens of thousands of dollars per annum to go to the college as opposed to us Europeans
Please, cut the 'Europe is so cool' bullshit. The art school I wanted to go to in England costs 16,000 GBP per year. Why? Although I'm a European, I'm not a European Union Brand (tm) European. Besides, scholarships in America are a *dream*. My brother got a 25% scholarship at the school of his choice through some bullshit foundation just for writing a letter.
Blah...
Jay
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