As an Opera fan, I find it redundant that people mention how IE is going to steal features from Firefox and how it stole features from Opera. They all had to start somewhere, and here is a brief history of tabbed browsing. I don't mind the borrowing of ideas because if a product has created something innovative, many people are going to want that feature in a cheaper product (I.E... Firefox and Other browsers having Tabbed Browsing). Unless a product really takes false credit for something useful as Tabbed browsing, I don't really mind the borrowing of ideas.
Though I still can't figure out how I can get my TV shows considering that I live in an area where that particular channel isn't offered and the only other option is to wait another year to get the DVD.
Yea, the only way they can't is only if you make them stream only. But I'm sure even then, someone will try to find a way to rip them. At the same time, while the RedVsBlue idea is interesting, I highly doubt that that will work. I ultimately hope that some one will consider offering TV shows available for download online (legally of course).
I see that these ads are perfect for putting on the side of Yahoo Launch Radio windows. Or any free internet radio services. Short 30 second clips and at the end is a link to Firefox. I'd imagine that they'd sway in quite a bit amount of users.
I can't believe you didn't add dry ice bombs to that list. Take a two liter bottle, put some crushed up dry ice in it, add some water, immediately close it up tightly and run away. You got yourself a homemade bomb right there. How much fun it is to do with a bunch of friends (ah, the good times).
Firefox's memory usage is part reason why I ditched it and went Opera mostly full time. (Of course, Opera's innovative features are hard to beat so that is why I mainly switched). Being on a really old machine, Firefox would often use 112 MB of RAM with only around two-four tabs open, now with Opera at that many tabs, It'd only use around 25 MB of RAM with the same pages open. When Firefox is started up with no pages open, it'd be around 21 MB of RAM or so, with Opera, it is only around 13-14.
I believe it is 97.9% of statistics that are made up on the spot.
Re:What about an OS which "can not crash"???
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Really, I think past Win2k performance has been really excellent (*ducks*). I think it's time for all this windows and redundant statements to end. I can say for a fact that until Windows NT, Windows was pretty much useless in the sense that it would always crash. Isn't it time that we give credit to MS? They've done a fairly decent job when it comes to crashes with win2k and xp (security wise, not so much)
Vidalinux is a gentoo-like system but the installation process is that of Fedora's with the usage of RedHat's anaconda installer. It also uses Portage as it's package manager and I've heard many impressed with it, here is a review stating that Vidalinux is Gentoo done right. Here is the review of Vidalinux and you can compare it with a review of Gentoo
certain domains given a preference?
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Google TrustRank
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Does this still mean that.edu,.gov, and.org domains will be given a bit more trust over.com and other domains? (just like pagerank)
At the same time, not every work place will let you do things like that. I know of workplaces that prohibit the use of any other browser besides IE. Sure IE presents security risks, but tell that to the boss, (s)he couldn't care less. If you are provided with certain tools, you are expected to use them, even if it is something that you don't prefer.
In the month of april so far, slashdot has been posting around 1.04761904 entries concerning google per day. I don't mind all the entries on google, but if you are going to post entries on google, why not make them breaking news? Take for example, the gmail with rss feed reading ability, that's a week's old news.
That's because MSN is a portal, Google is strictly search engine (though that's starting to change after google introduced Gmail, Maps, and such services). Why does Yahoo get more traffic when clearly, Google is the way to go? Because Yahoo offers much more, Yahoo is a complete portal that has been offering mail service for years now, it's music (launch.yahoo.com), probably gets millions of users per day, games service gets thousands of visitors, etc...
It's about time that Google got into the whole RSS arena. Yahoo and MSN have had support for RSS for a while now, Yahoo with it's rss support for news, MSN with it's rss support for search results. Isn't it about time that Google also done the same? I've been anxious to hear of any news of google providing RSS feeds for it's news service.
Being one of the biggest Opera fan, I'd have to say that Firefox is fine just the way it is. I use Opera as my full time browser, but Firefox doesn't need all those features. Why? Firefox isn't meant for power hungry users by default. It's something that IE users can use. Opera on the other hand, provides all those features to users that are looking for some heavy features. While I'd have to say this, Opera is a bit intimidating when you first start it up with all the panels opened up. I haven't upgraded just yet to 8.0 (I'm on 8.0 Beta 3) or did a fresh install on Opera 8, I hope it is something that Opera fixed. All those panels are really intimidating once I came from Firefox. After spending about twenty or thirty minutes, I really cleaned things up to have it look like how I wanted it to and I just love it. Opera just works.
I say that it won't be too long until comcast loses quite a few customers from this. Besides from what comcast just did, all I've been hearing recently from the blogosphere is how bad Comcast's service has been.
I'd be willing to wait until 2007...
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Heh, personally I couldnt care if MS releases longhorn in 2007, I would like to see a windows version that isnt half assed up. Id like to (for once) not worry so much about security too much. Id be willing to wait a few months/a year or two for MS to really make LH as good as they can.
I personally couldn't care less that people are noticing that google is coming out with more and more features. So what if it's come so that you no longr have to visit other search engines? Rather than visit many other places, I'd rather just stick to one place which will provide me all the info that I need.
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As an Opera fan, I find it redundant that people mention how IE is going to steal features from Firefox and how it stole features from Opera. They all had to start somewhere, and here is a brief history of tabbed browsing. I don't mind the borrowing of ideas because if a product has created something innovative, many people are going to want that feature in a cheaper product (I.E... Firefox and Other browsers having Tabbed Browsing). Unless a product really takes false credit for something useful as Tabbed browsing, I don't really mind the borrowing of ideas.
Most often, people will get the shows off IRC, create a torrent, upload it to the masses. So ever wondered if MPAA has looked at IRC?
Though I still can't figure out how I can get my TV shows considering that I live in an area where that particular channel isn't offered and the only other option is to wait another year to get the DVD.
Yea, the only way they can't is only if you make them stream only. But I'm sure even then, someone will try to find a way to rip them. At the same time, while the RedVsBlue idea is interesting, I highly doubt that that will work. I ultimately hope that some one will consider offering TV shows available for download online (legally of course).
here is (originally PDF but converted to txt) what ShunTV has recieved by the MPAA explaining why they've been shut down.
I see that these ads are perfect for putting on the side of Yahoo Launch Radio windows. Or any free internet radio services. Short 30 second clips and at the end is a link to Firefox. I'd imagine that they'd sway in quite a bit amount of users.
I can't believe you didn't add dry ice bombs to that list. Take a two liter bottle, put some crushed up dry ice in it, add some water, immediately close it up tightly and run away. You got yourself a homemade bomb right there. How much fun it is to do with a bunch of friends (ah, the good times).
Firefox's memory usage is part reason why I ditched it and went Opera mostly full time. (Of course, Opera's innovative features are hard to beat so that is why I mainly switched). Being on a really old machine, Firefox would often use 112 MB of RAM with only around two-four tabs open, now with Opera at that many tabs, It'd only use around 25 MB of RAM with the same pages open. When Firefox is started up with no pages open, it'd be around 21 MB of RAM or so, with Opera, it is only around 13-14.
Would anyone happen to know if a pocket guide of any sort for Firefox/Thunderbird exists? I find that pocket guides are also quite useful.
Surely, it wouldn't be very peaceful of the commitee to sue for copyright infringement would it?
You mean like this?
I believe it is 97.9% of statistics that are made up on the spot.
Really, I think past Win2k performance has been really excellent (*ducks*). I think it's time for all this windows and redundant statements to end. I can say for a fact that until Windows NT, Windows was pretty much useless in the sense that it would always crash. Isn't it time that we give credit to MS? They've done a fairly decent job when it comes to crashes with win2k and xp (security wise, not so much)
Vidalinux is a gentoo-like system but the installation process is that of Fedora's with the usage of RedHat's anaconda installer. It also uses Portage as it's package manager and I've heard many impressed with it, here is a review stating that Vidalinux is Gentoo done right. Here is the review of Vidalinux and you can compare it with a review of Gentoo
Does this still mean that .edu, .gov, and .org domains will be given a bit more trust over .com and other domains? (just like pagerank)
At the same time, not every work place will let you do things like that. I know of workplaces that prohibit the use of any other browser besides IE. Sure IE presents security risks, but tell that to the boss, (s)he couldn't care less. If you are provided with certain tools, you are expected to use them, even if it is something that you don't prefer.
In the month of april so far, slashdot has been posting around 1.04761904 entries concerning google per day. I don't mind all the entries on google, but if you are going to post entries on google, why not make them breaking news? Take for example, the gmail with rss feed reading ability, that's a week's old news.
That's because MSN is a portal, Google is strictly search engine (though that's starting to change after google introduced Gmail, Maps, and such services). Why does Yahoo get more traffic when clearly, Google is the way to go? Because Yahoo offers much more, Yahoo is a complete portal that has been offering mail service for years now, it's music (launch.yahoo.com), probably gets millions of users per day, games service gets thousands of visitors, etc...
It's about time that Google got into the whole RSS arena. Yahoo and MSN have had support for RSS for a while now, Yahoo with it's rss support for news, MSN with it's rss support for search results. Isn't it about time that Google also done the same? I've been anxious to hear of any news of google providing RSS feeds for it's news service.
Though I wonder if they are planning on adding a sattelite feature any time soon?
Being one of the biggest Opera fan, I'd have to say that Firefox is fine just the way it is. I use Opera as my full time browser, but Firefox doesn't need all those features. Why? Firefox isn't meant for power hungry users by default. It's something that IE users can use. Opera on the other hand, provides all those features to users that are looking for some heavy features. While I'd have to say this, Opera is a bit intimidating when you first start it up with all the panels opened up. I haven't upgraded just yet to 8.0 (I'm on 8.0 Beta 3) or did a fresh install on Opera 8, I hope it is something that Opera fixed. All those panels are really intimidating once I came from Firefox. After spending about twenty or thirty minutes, I really cleaned things up to have it look like how I wanted it to and I just love it. Opera just works.
honestly, as a google fanboy I'd really have to agree with you. Since when has Slashdot become a huge rumor place for google's next move?
I say that it won't be too long until comcast loses quite a few customers from this. Besides from what comcast just did, all I've been hearing recently from the blogosphere is how bad Comcast's service has been.
Heh, personally I couldnt care if MS releases longhorn in 2007, I would like to see a windows version that isnt half assed up. Id like to (for once) not worry so much about security too much. Id be willing to wait a few months/a year or two for MS to really make LH as good as they can.
I personally couldn't care less that people are noticing that google is coming out with more and more features. So what if it's come so that you no longr have to visit other search engines? Rather than visit many other places, I'd rather just stick to one place which will provide me all the info that I need.