I have mixed feelings about this. Opera has so many features that (to me) it is worth paying for. I hope that they will be able to maintain it without the income it's sales generated.
On the other hand, hopefully many people will now check it out and see what a great browser it is.
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Well, I'm in the minority with you. I'd rather have a full fledged PDA (rather than a cell phone with an organizer) and a good cell phone. And then have them talk to each other. Let the PDA do it's thing, like run a web browser and then let the phone give me a high speed connection and let them talk via bluetooth.
It's like the Unix philosophy. Each program does one thing and does it well. And it communicates well with other programs.
I wonder if USB drives being so fast, and being read/write, if one day I could just run the entire OS off this USB drive, and pretty much have my complete system working wherever I go....
You can do this already with some linux distros like DSL or Puppy.
(Course, you probably couldn't do this with windows because of the required activation.)
...the people you would think would be using Linux LiveCDs to look at computers. Running the host operating system could have all kinds of problems. (Like the computer's setup to clear cache files at boot, etc.)
There are quiet a few reasons I use Opera. Without needing extensions, I get all the following:
Tabbed browsing that works better than Firefox's. And I can put the tabs on the bottom where I like them.
Settings for each window can be controled individually. I can have one site open with graphics turned off and another site open with graphics on, at the same time.
Mouse Gestures.
Control-D. This does a "Paste and Go". Instead of taking two steps, pasting in a url and going to it only takes one.
Built in search bar that supports Google, Amazon, Ebay and others.
If it crashes, I have the option of opening the same sites I was at the next time I run it.
Can view a page in "user view". Good if a page is hard to read because of poorly choosen background colors.
You know, Microsoft makes all the computer sellers sign an agreement where they will not put any other OS on a computer that has Windows on it. (No dual boot setups.) But what if, instead, they put a Linux LiveCD in every box? They could include instructions on how to boot it and how to do some stuff with it. They could say something like: "This is a demo of one of our other products. If you like it and what to order a copy call: 1-800-DELL-LIN" This is one way that more people could be exposed to Linux.
In addition to Call for Help, he also hosts the This Week in Tech podcast. And he does a radio show on KFI about computers, which you can also download as a podcast one week after it airs. And he just started doing a security podcast with Steve Gibson (of www.grc.com fame). Wow. I just realized that I know a little too much about Leo!
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The iPod Shuffle can:
1) Play iTunes songs.
2) Be used as a thumb drive.
I didn't see anything on the Dell site mentioning these features, so the Shuffle does have some advantages.
This will never make it to my neck of the woods. In fact, Google, I dare you to bring it here next.
I have mixed feelings about this. Opera has so many features that (to me) it is worth paying for. I hope that they will be able to maintain it without the income it's sales generated.
On the other hand, hopefully many people will now check it out and see what a great browser it is.
See 30 Days to Becoming an Opera7 Lover
Opera does a lot more than most people realize.
...it'd be nice if a group in each state got together and worked to wire the whole state.
Because good help is hard to find...
There's a difference? :-)
In Opera it works for images too!
same place where a doctor can give you a deadly drug without telling you?
Good point. I wonder why the other company didn't register the gmail.com domain.
Well, I'm in the minority with you. I'd rather have a full fledged PDA (rather than a cell phone with an organizer) and a good cell phone. And then have them talk to each other. Let the PDA do it's thing, like run a web browser and then let the phone give me a high speed connection and let them talk via bluetooth.
It's like the Unix philosophy. Each program does one thing and does it well. And it communicates well with other programs.
Why doesn't google just cough up another letter and call it "GoMail"? Or if that's taken "GoogMail", etc.
Obviously, the only sane thing to do is
Nuke the Moon! (A Realistic Plan for World Peace)
I wonder if USB drives being so fast, and being read/write, if one day I could just run the entire OS off this USB drive, and pretty much have my complete system working wherever I go....
You can do this already with some linux distros like DSL or Puppy.
(Course, you probably couldn't do this with windows because of the required activation.)
Are there any quasi-reputable sites (a la Tom's Hardware?) that have reviews on such things?
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Well, Tom's Hardware does have some scanner reviews. Although I don't know if they have the detail you're looking for:
http://www17.tomshardware.com/search/search.html?
http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20020327/ind
translates to roughly 300 miles on 13 gallons. Or about 23 miles to the gallon. My car (a sports car) already does that.
How is this better? Are we talking 500 km on one pellet?
That's suppose to also include some codecs for windows media that they got the rights to as part of there settlement.
...the people you would think would be using Linux LiveCDs to look at computers. Running the host operating system could have all kinds of problems. (Like the computer's setup to clear cache files at boot, etc.)
It's not the use of a middle click, it's how it's being used here.
There are quiet a few reasons I use Opera. Without needing extensions, I get all the following:
You know, Microsoft makes all the computer sellers sign an agreement where they will not put any other OS on a computer that has Windows on it. (No dual boot setups.) But what if, instead, they put a Linux LiveCD in every box? They could include instructions on how to boot it and how to do some stuff with it. They could say something like: "This is a demo of one of our other products. If you like it and what to order a copy call: 1-800-DELL-LIN" This is one way that more people could be exposed to Linux.
I've heard that the Canadain CFH is more like the old Screen Savers, but I've never seen it.
Not quite TV, but she is still around: http://www.katebotello.com/
He still lives in California. And flies to Canada once a month.
In addition to Call for Help, he also hosts the This Week in Tech podcast. And he does a radio show on KFI about computers, which you can also download as a podcast one week after it airs. And he just started doing a security podcast with Steve Gibson (of www.grc.com fame). Wow. I just realized that I know a little too much about Leo!