I tried it out for a while about a month ago. My first experience with it was that it was slow and clunky but I forced myself to use it for a while with the hope that it would grow on me.
One thing I noticed is that when I connected to it from a mobile device, it all fell apart and forced me to go back to the pre-beta yahoo web client. I have to wonder what happens if/when the beta becomes the only option. Gmail, in contrast, detects and works nicely with mobile (handheld) devices.
All in all, it was really the culmination of a lot of little things that changed that I didn't like combined with the terrible slowness that caused me to finally give up on it and switch back to the pre-beta version. I use yahoo mail A LOT, but I've been playing with gmail some lately and though it seemed a little weird at first, it's starting to make sense to me and I'm starting to like it better. I've thought of switching over completely but am heavily invested in yahoo mail. If yahoo makes what's in beta now the only option, then it'll certainly encourage me to go ahead and switch.
I'd much rather see yahoo go with a simpler, lightweight, faster webmail client than this horribly slow new piece of bloatware they came up with.
Ok, if you can make it cover page without hurting yourself with laughter, read the first line of the document:
In 2003 AT&T built "secret rooms" hidden deep in the bowels of its central
offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which
taps into the company's popular WorldNet service and the entire Internet. These
installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the Internet
and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation
in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other cities.
Yessir folks they're tappin' into the WHOLE internet right there, readin' yer email and stuff. AT&T *should* be horribly embarassed that they have someone that stupid working for them. Still, it's amazing to me how many people are willing to buy into this mindlessness.
Ok, so considering the history of browsers that were available long before IE, what should we all be using to make it easier on them? Netscape 1.0? Mosaic?
I feel bad even commenting on this, it's just so completely absurd that it doesn't really deserve it.
It's pretty vain of us (as humans) to think that we are single-handedly responsible for the deterioration of our atmosphere. In fact, the truth is it would likely be deteriorating on it's own just as fast, even if we weren't here.
I'm not referring to the vast number of belching cattle that would terrorize the planet if we weren't here to subjugate them, though they are a small part of the equation. A very small part, just as humans and automobiles are.
The truth is, there are plenty of natural events taking place every single day that release more pollution than all the automobiles and factories that exist, or have ever existed. Let's look at just one example: Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. It's one of the many volcanos in that region alone that errupt frequently, nice show, spews lava, etc. Only sometime in the mid 80's it decided to just start continuously dumping about 2000 TONS of sulfur dioxide out, PER DAY.
Somehow I don't think my old truck, even with it's crappy milage, could ever hold a candle to that.
You can bet, that Tuesday night, all the major networks will be airing states as they "know" who has won in them. Here's a tip... read the fine print. I'm always amazed at how people watch this thinking they'll find something out, when if you read the fine print you see that the states where they declare a victor, they often have 1% reporting in at the time.
A lot of people saw the networks flipflopping in the last election especially, because of this. Read your paper on Jan. 1 to see if there's an inauguration. That's the only time you'll know.
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I tried it out for a while about a month ago. My first experience with it was that it was slow and clunky but I forced myself to use it for a while with the hope that it would grow on me. One thing I noticed is that when I connected to it from a mobile device, it all fell apart and forced me to go back to the pre-beta yahoo web client. I have to wonder what happens if/when the beta becomes the only option. Gmail, in contrast, detects and works nicely with mobile (handheld) devices. All in all, it was really the culmination of a lot of little things that changed that I didn't like combined with the terrible slowness that caused me to finally give up on it and switch back to the pre-beta version. I use yahoo mail A LOT, but I've been playing with gmail some lately and though it seemed a little weird at first, it's starting to make sense to me and I'm starting to like it better. I've thought of switching over completely but am heavily invested in yahoo mail. If yahoo makes what's in beta now the only option, then it'll certainly encourage me to go ahead and switch. I'd much rather see yahoo go with a simpler, lightweight, faster webmail client than this horribly slow new piece of bloatware they came up with.
In 2003 AT&T built "secret rooms" hidden deep in the bowels of its central offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which taps into the company's popular WorldNet service and the entire Internet. These installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the Internet and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other cities.
Yessir folks they're tappin' into the WHOLE internet right there, readin' yer email and stuff. AT&T *should* be horribly embarassed that they have someone that stupid working for them. Still, it's amazing to me how many people are willing to buy into this mindlessness.
Ok, so considering the history of browsers that were available long before IE, what should we all be using to make it easier on them? Netscape 1.0? Mosaic? I feel bad even commenting on this, it's just so completely absurd that it doesn't really deserve it.
In other news, Daikatana 2 may not materialize...
They're already popular in Japan.
Yeah, so we would call them "Oxwide" probably.
If you cut off my arms and legs, I could still count on my fingers and toes the number of books about a web browser I've read in my life.
Okay, so XML's not a scripting language
:) It's been done before. See the stax project: http://staf.sf.net/
You sure about that?
It's pretty vain of us (as humans) to think that we are single-handedly responsible for the deterioration of our atmosphere. In fact, the truth is it would likely be deteriorating on it's own just as fast, even if we weren't here. I'm not referring to the vast number of belching cattle that would terrorize the planet if we weren't here to subjugate them, though they are a small part of the equation. A very small part, just as humans and automobiles are. The truth is, there are plenty of natural events taking place every single day that release more pollution than all the automobiles and factories that exist, or have ever existed. Let's look at just one example: Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. It's one of the many volcanos in that region alone that errupt frequently, nice show, spews lava, etc. Only sometime in the mid 80's it decided to just start continuously dumping about 2000 TONS of sulfur dioxide out, PER DAY. Somehow I don't think my old truck, even with it's crappy milage, could ever hold a candle to that.
You can bet, that Tuesday night, all the major networks will be airing states as they "know" who has won in them. Here's a tip... read the fine print. I'm always amazed at how people watch this thinking they'll find something out, when if you read the fine print you see that the states where they declare a victor, they often have 1% reporting in at the time. A lot of people saw the networks flipflopping in the last election especially, because of this. Read your paper on Jan. 1 to see if there's an inauguration. That's the only time you'll know.
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