From the report (p 24 Chapter 5 "Promoting Public Awareness") "Some of the simplest messages - such as 'do
not open unsolicited emails,' 'do not buy from
spammers' and 'do not provide personal
information if you are not certain who you are
dealing with' - have either not yet reached all
users or not been understood. For example, the Ipsos-Reid Ipsos Trend Report Canada for
May-June 2004 reported that more than one
third of online Canadians open their spam
emails, and that the main reason they give for
doing so is curiosity."
Yes, I am an Opera fanatic. I do use other browsers, and have used many in the years that I have used the 'web.
I have seen an
unbiased comparison (grin) that presents some of this in a tabularised form.
I realise that many people say "b-b-b-but extensions let you pretend you've got Opera!" and that's nice, but with the real thing you don't have to go and find the dang extensions.
For me, Opera is the best browser. There are things that could be improved with it. (Which means that there is a future for Opera.) There are still web sites that (stupidly, unnecessarily) deny access to Opera. [Don't get me started on that.] But, all-in-all Opera is my default browser.
(Disclaimer: I use a filtering proxy with all my browsers...)
Seriously, Chicago does have this problem and every attempt to cleanse the voting roles of dead voters is shot down as being discriminatory against minorities.
I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen.
I think you want to use PDF then... HTML was not originally intended for a consistent visual presentation with various HTML viewers.
I use multiple browsers at various times (yes, even text based browsers), and I always use a filtering proxy (Proxomitron, but there are others - I'm not including links since I don't want to slashdot someone). I don't think I'll use Greasemonkey, but you never know.
I do often use Opera's "User mode" view to get rid of ugly web page formats. (I'm not saying yours is ugly. I didn't look.)
So with all of that, I'm not likely to see your website "the way it was meant to be seen."
Kornbluth was (okay WILL BE) right. Look at the crap that people try to put over as English these days "better then...". The steady decay of intellegence has already started, and I am going to have to rely on these idiots to take care of my health needs when I get old and feeble. Perhaps I'll find a nice ice flow when the time comes.
Or perhaps we'll create "The Little Black Bag" and medical staff can be as incompetent as the rest of the population. I don't think so.
Article says this was the result of
"a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6- foot, 400-pound dolphin."
That sure was one surprised false killer whale!
Good one. It's better than mine - it reminds me of the Dream Police. Now I've got that tune in my head and I won't be able to get it out.
I guess I now have a dilemma as well - am I the tought thief for having the tune in my mind, or is Cheap Trick the culprit for robbing my brain cycles?
"The BlackBerry is great but we're bringing a new approach," he [Bill Gates III] said. "With BlackBerry you need to link to a separate server, and that costs extra. With us, the e-mail function will already be part of the server software."
Huh? For me this parses as: "The RIM device needs to connect to a server for email, and that's bad. With the MS device, you need to connect to an email sever, but that is part of the server software, and that's okay."
It's not like MicroSoft wouldn't charge for email if they could. Oh wait, they do charge Blackberry users.
It's intriguing that people apply the tag "English humour" to these, when the filenames are obviously French. Anyway...
I am a fan of British humour, and of some French humour as well, but it has to be something I find amusing to begin with. The only one of these I found to be amusing was the second one (the Mobile).
It's not a cutural thing (well, not a nationality based cultural thing anyway)... these are just not that funny (well, the second one is).
My spouse's office had a quick trial of OOo. The lack of polish on the interface bothered them. They felt that it took longer to do the same things in OOo than in MSOff.
Personally, OOo has almost everything I need, other than a "Solver" (multivariate optimisation) function. (There are steps towards this, but no full implementation.)
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From the report (p 24 Chapter 5 "Promoting Public Awareness") "Some of the simplest messages - such as 'do not open unsolicited emails,' 'do not buy from spammers' and 'do not provide personal information if you are not certain who you are dealing with' - have either not yet reached all users or not been understood. For example, the Ipsos-Reid Ipsos Trend Report Canada for May-June 2004 reported that more than one third of online Canadians open their spam emails, and that the main reason they give for doing so is curiosity."
Other open source browsers:
- Amaya - from W3
- Links - my current text browser of choice
- W3M - another text browser
Of course, if you want to dig around there are older browsers which, as far as I recall, were open source as well.How about this answer from Opera on the question? (Search for Gates or MicroSoft - it's question four if you want to scroll down.)
I have seen an unbiased comparison (grin) that presents some of this in a tabularised form.
I realise that many people say "b-b-b-but extensions let you pretend you've got Opera!" and that's nice, but with the real thing you don't have to go and find the dang extensions.
For me, Opera is the best browser. There are things that could be improved with it. (Which means that there is a future for Opera.) There are still web sites that (stupidly, unnecessarily) deny access to Opera. [Don't get me started on that.] But, all-in-all Opera is my default browser.
(Disclaimer: I use a filtering proxy with all my browsers ...)
I'm glad that the dead are still a minority in Chicago. Given the city's reputation, one would presume that they were in the majority.
The Lisa was a good machine, but too expensive.
Why don't they just give up on the old user interface and talk to the Maxthon people to steal^H^H^H^H^Hbuy their stuff? --
Warning: Opera user
I don't know, I started with yours first. Aren't you the first poster in this discussion?
I think you want to use PDF then ... HTML was not originally intended for a consistent visual presentation with various HTML viewers.
I use multiple browsers at various times (yes, even text based browsers), and I always use a filtering proxy (Proxomitron, but there are others - I'm not including links since I don't want to slashdot someone). I don't think I'll use Greasemonkey, but you never know. I do often use Opera's "User mode" view to get rid of ugly web page formats. (I'm not saying yours is ugly. I didn't look.)
So with all of that, I'm not likely to see your website "the way it was meant to be seen."
Everyone welcomes robotic overlords, but why is the European Union recognising a Japanese robot at their "European researchers night"?
Turning into an alien race
Will we merge with machines?
Will we all be assimilated?
Seven of Nine - TAKE ME NOW!
Or perhaps we'll create "The Little Black Bag" and medical staff can be as incompetent as the rest of the population. I don't think so.
We're doomed I tell you. DOOMED!!!!!
Ah! So that's where all my users are ... I wondered. Oh well, back to reading their email and deleting their files.
BOfH ...
Article says this was the result of "a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6- foot, 400-pound dolphin." That sure was one surprised false killer whale!
Well, I'll be modded down, but rabbits aren't rodents ... they're lagomorphs.
I guess I now have a dilemma as well - am I the tought thief for having the tune in my mind, or is Cheap Trick the culprit for robbing my brain cycles?
Nope - they'll be the PsiCops. If they're making up the rules for cops and robbers, they get to play who they want to.
Well, that's one way to do it - if you keep releasing security fixes, you drive the download count up.
Huh? For me this parses as: "The RIM device needs to connect to a server for email, and that's bad. With the MS device, you need to connect to an email sever, but that is part of the server software, and that's okay."
It's not like MicroSoft wouldn't charge for email if they could. Oh wait, they do charge Blackberry users.
Technology doesn't have to work to be profitable. Ask Ballmer.
I am a fan of British humour, and of some French humour as well, but it has to be something I find amusing to begin with. The only one of these I found to be amusing was the second one (the Mobile).
It's not a cutural thing (well, not a nationality based cultural thing anyway) ... these are just not that funny (well, the second one is).
I'll wait for the paperback. (Or the Infocom game.)
Time to slashdot: ~2 minutes ... not bad.
Personally, OOo has almost everything I need, other than a "Solver" (multivariate optimisation) function. (There are steps towards this, but no full implementation.)
The niftiest thing of OOo - F2 in "Writer".