That's a very touching thought. I should be a more sensitive IT guy and empathize with users' lack of technical knowledge and understanding...nah, I'll be an ass.
Being a member of said "IT department", I am responsible for installing, configuring, updating the email client on every machine in the company. This would be a nightmare if I had to keep track of everyone's favorite email client.
I am in the process of rolling out Mozilla Mail as the company default email client (for Windows - Apple Mail is the Mac default - Mac Mozilla Mail is sssllllooooowwww). We are moving to Mozilla after using Netscape 4.7x for the past 4 years or so. Overall, it's a really good client - although our sales people like to copy and paste from Word into emails and the formatting gets all fscked up (surprise, surprise). Unfortunately, IE is still the default Windows browser...
It seems to me, from my experience with Mozilla, that after 4 years and starting from scratch, it has nearly reached the quality and usability of Netscape 4.7x. I have yet to see any really major feature enhancements (besides tabbed browsing and support for multiple mixed - IMAP, POP3 - email accounts) that would prompt me to replace IE with it as my or my company's default browser or replace Netscape 4.7x as our default email client. And it is still too darn slow!
I desperately want to replace IE - please give me a reason to believe!
We do some socializing - a few of us went out to the woods to cut firewood a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I was a little nervous about one of them attacking me and leaving me for dead in the forest, but that's beside the point.
We also went, as a department, to see Harry Potter last weekend, and every month we have a "geek lunch" where our manager buys lunch and we all eat together in awkward silence interrupted occasionally by bursts of stimulating conversation.
I hope you used more than bubble wrap or even packing peanuts - when shipping computers always use form-fitting styrofoam, or if not available, that spray-in stuff that hardens up. That'll increase the odds of getting stuff delivered in one piece, but not guarantee - I shipped a computer once with the spray foam, and it was delivered with the processor bouncing around the inside of the case. Still worked, thankfully.
The lesson here: never ship computers - always move them by car.
The woman in this article is obviously clinically insane. The idea of going back to a modem connection is crazy talk. Once you get broadband, there is no going back. I would sell my soul to the devil (Bill Gates) and my first-born child and my internal organs before cutting broadband out of my budget. The very idea is preposterous!
I am as much of a non-Microsoft fan as the next guy, however, I don't believe a break up at this point would make sense. The court case the decision has stemmed out of is irrelevant now. Technology changes too fast. I mean even Apple is making a comeback. The break up really won't accomplish anything.
Ender's Game, and the whole series is very good. Also, Clarke's Rama series was interesting and enjoyable. Someone else posted about "The Lord of the Rings," and I agree - even though they're not really sci-fi, I think they are must reads.
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ahem, that would be: Bork, Bork, Bork.
Step 1: Get a burlap sack
Step 2: Place cat gently in burlap sack
Step 3: Tie burlap sack shut
Step 4: Toss burlap sack in the river
Problem solved!
Sheesh, some people have no sense of humor.
"Instead of being a condescending ass"
That's a very touching thought. I should be a more sensitive IT guy and empathize with users' lack of technical knowledge and understanding...nah, I'll be an ass.
>It's like calling the burger flipper at McDonalds a chef!
You're not going low enough. It's more like calling a jizz mopper a chef.
>The GPL allows unlimited copies, the copyright law allows one. Therefore, the GPL is invalid.
ERROR: DOES...NOT...COMPUTE...
Being a member of said "IT department", I am responsible for installing, configuring, updating the email client on every machine in the company. This would be a nightmare if I had to keep track of everyone's favorite email client.
There is a mail icon in 1.4.
I am in the process of rolling out Mozilla Mail as the company default email client (for Windows - Apple Mail is the Mac default - Mac Mozilla Mail is sssllllooooowwww). We are moving to Mozilla after using Netscape 4.7x for the past 4 years or so. Overall, it's a really good client - although our sales people like to copy and paste from Word into emails and the formatting gets all fscked up (surprise, surprise). Unfortunately, IE is still the default Windows browser...
QuarkXPress has deservedly gained a reputation for reliable printing, offering consistent and dependable output that prevents costly mistakes.
That's gotta be a typo - I'm sure it was supposed to say "causes costly mistakes."
> According to Apple, it "runs flawlessly" under OS X
Yeah, as long as you don't do anything with it. That includes printing.
It also requires you to create an AOL screen name. There's no frickin' way I'm doing that. Chimera shows a lot of potential on OS X.
It seems to me, from my experience with Mozilla, that after 4 years and starting from scratch, it has nearly reached the quality and usability of Netscape 4.7x. I have yet to see any really major feature enhancements (besides tabbed browsing and support for multiple mixed - IMAP, POP3 - email accounts) that would prompt me to replace IE with it as my or my company's default browser or replace Netscape 4.7x as our default email client. And it is still too darn slow!
I desperately want to replace IE - please give me a reason to believe!
In my IT shop, none of us are 80lbs overweight.
We do some socializing - a few of us went out to the woods to cut firewood a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I was a little nervous about one of them attacking me and leaving me for dead in the forest, but that's beside the point.
We also went, as a department, to see Harry Potter last weekend, and every month we have a "geek lunch" where our manager buys lunch and we all eat together in awkward silence interrupted occasionally by bursts of stimulating conversation.
I hope you used more than bubble wrap or even packing peanuts - when shipping computers always use form-fitting styrofoam, or if not available, that spray-in stuff that hardens up. That'll increase the odds of getting stuff delivered in one piece, but not guarantee - I shipped a computer once with the spray foam, and it was delivered with the processor bouncing around the inside of the case. Still worked, thankfully.
The lesson here: never ship computers - always move them by car.
The woman in this article is obviously clinically insane. The idea of going back to a modem connection is crazy talk. Once you get broadband, there is no going back. I would sell my soul to the devil (Bill Gates) and my first-born child and my internal organs before cutting broadband out of my budget. The very idea is preposterous!
I agree, Brittney could whup Christina's ass any day of the week. Now that's something I'd like to see...
I am as much of a non-Microsoft fan as the next guy, however, I don't believe a break up at this point would make sense. The court case the decision has stemmed out of is irrelevant now. Technology changes too fast. I mean even Apple is making a comeback. The break up really won't accomplish anything.
Ender's Game, and the whole series is very good. Also, Clarke's Rama series was interesting and enjoyable. Someone else posted about "The Lord of the Rings," and I agree - even though they're not really sci-fi, I think they are must reads.