What do you feel are the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Opera?
What do you feel are the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Safari?
What do you feel are the greatest strengths of IE7...
>And there's nothing wrong with a company "locking you in" with their products as long as there are other products you could choose from
Come on - do you read what you write ? And if you do... do you think while you read ? "There's nothing wrong with 'locking you in' as long as you don't get locked in...."
One of my friends has neglected to download several copies of Firefox, I'm sure that many others do the same. This might make things add up in the end ?
National governments are, by and large, greedy, self centred, b*stards. They want to treat their own population and screw everyone else...
Multinational companies are, almost by definition, greedy, self centred, b*stards. They want to make profit and screw anything else...
This question cuts in to the core of capitalism. Just because capitalism has prevailed, doesn't mean it's the answer.
IIRC Hotmail at one point had a stylesheet targeted for Opera, that would brake Opera's rendition of Hotmail. Opera had a page on their website where they showed that, if Opera spoofed itself as IE, there were no probs, but if it identified itself correctly, Hotmail would break.
> I gave up fighting with it, and moved back to Windows and IE. Yes, hotmail sucks, but it's at least reachable when my computer breaks
Eh..., How do you reach Hotmail with a broken computer ?
> Hotmail is reachable just about anywhere, and you don't need to install special software on other people's computers to use it.
Cool - that's why Hotmail in IE on Win rules then ? I hear the next big thing is the Internet, but who knows ?
"find a friend other than your hand and get a grip.."
D'oh man - it's exactly BECAUSE of the grip, my hand is my friend.... jeeez.... imagine not knowing that
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1) The market values cheaper priced cars over
higer-quality cars - that is good capitalism because the market
demand is being satisified. You may not agree with that demand, but
it will continue to exist regardless and attempting to deny that
demand would be an expensive, long-term loser.
Yup I
can't disagree with the niceness of cheaper priced goods. However the
corps are all governed by one thing to maximize profit as
much as possible. That is the sole goal. And because of this you get
corporatism and monopolism (The motorcompanies speculating in cost of
carproduction vs. the cost of lawsuits from people who lost
familymembers in accidents caused by crappy carquality,
Tobacco-companies that keeps on trying to hook new customers, even
though they are quite aware of the health-dangers involved, Software
companies releasing unsecure buggy software that in turn is feature
bloated in order to gain marketshare)
I can accept that
it is not a flaw of capitalism per se, but rather our current
implementation of it, if you in return would be so kind as to tell me
how it is supposed to work in a more ideal implementation of
capitalism ?
2) The market has been manipulated through
non-free-market forces such as government regulation (protectionism
and the like)
To me the trend
seems to be that govt. all over are touting the holy freedom of the
individual to let big corps do whatever they want. This happens
because money are concentrated in few and very big private entities,
and in our capitalism money rules much more than any office
you can hold.
or information-hiding (like lawsuit settlements with
non-disclosure requirements). That is capitalism diluted with
corporate welfare and is completely bad and should not be allowed to
happen in a true free-market.
I am not a native
english speaker, and I don't know the expression corporate
welfare, but I suspect that is something along the line of my
arguing ?
At any rate
letting profits be the sole motivator has some severe downsides to it
(many of them resulting in downright criminal acts). Since the
obvious failure of Soviet Communism it seems that the west has gone
all 'SEE we were right all the time!' forgetting the fact that if two
idiots argue, and one of them looses the argument the winner
is still an idiot.
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You are making a fundamental (and frequent) mistake here. The job of Ford Motor Company is not to make money. It is to make cars. The job of BMG is not to make money, it is to distribute music. The job of the software industry is not to make money, it is to make software.
That - unfortunately - is not true. In todays capitalistic economy, any company's prime directive is to make money. If you build shitty cars and make lots of money you are more successful than if you make great cars and have a small profit, you are not successful. May The Almighty Buck help you if you create a vastly superiour car and come out with a deficit
Shareholders are in it for the money NOT for the product. The board of directors are in it to take care of the shareholders interests NOT the consumers.
This - in my view - is one of the deficiancies of capitalism. It takes the eyes off what was supposed to be the ball, and instead force focus to profits
'Because of a recently discovered (and fixed) security vulnerability in the underlying engine of Netscape, we regret to inform you that release has been delayed one day - we hope you will try again tomorrow'
or summat like that, would that have garnered/anything/ but respect, sympathy and understanding ?
Slashdot Mirror
Drat! - It should've said "What do you feel are the greatest strengths and weaknesses of IE7, bar security?"
Excellent !
I hear that Iran is planning to run a Euro () based oil-exchange. Some people think that this is the deeper motief for US' current focus on Iran ?
Must be a bug in your system - not Firefox.
For me Firefox renders text beautifully, and in any size I may care for !
Head and ass ?!? *scratches trousers*
-- Ray Ferrier
trousers -> underwear -> posteriour
So being isolated from other humans means you can't have any ideas ?
Also the originality can be in being able to spot connections where nobody spotted them before.
>And there's nothing wrong with a company "locking you in" with their products as long as there are other products you could choose from
Come on - do you read what you write ? And if you do... do you think while you read ? "There's nothing wrong with 'locking you in' as long as you don't get locked in...."
One of my friends has neglected to download several copies of Firefox, I'm sure that many others do the same. This might make things add up in the end ?
National governments are, by and large, greedy, self centred, b*stards. They want to treat their own population and screw everyone else... Multinational companies are, almost by definition, greedy, self centred, b*stards. They want to make profit and screw anything else... This question cuts in to the core of capitalism. Just because capitalism has prevailed, doesn't mean it's the answer.
IIRC Hotmail at one point had a stylesheet targeted for Opera, that would brake Opera's rendition of Hotmail. Opera had a page on their website where they showed that, if Opera spoofed itself as IE, there were no probs, but if it identified itself correctly, Hotmail would break.
> I gave up fighting with it, and moved back to Windows and IE. Yes, hotmail sucks, but it's at least reachable when my computer breaks
Eh..., How do you reach Hotmail with a broken computer ?
> Hotmail is reachable just about anywhere, and you don't need to install special software on other people's computers to use it.
Cool - that's why Hotmail in IE on Win rules then ? I hear the next big thing is the Internet, but who knows ?
Firefrocks - that's funny, I'd love to see a firefrog logo tho'. Take out that dog and put in a frog :)
"... crabby, hammer-headed officials..."
Do you mean offishials ?
Compared to Firefox - IE sux at surfing porn...
You never do that ?
Should've been modded (Score:4 Yummy)
Crap - exposed AGIAN !!
pooh - bad little coward - you should feel ashamed of your self you should!
"find a friend other than your hand and get a grip.."
D'oh man - it's exactly BECAUSE of the grip, my hand is my friend.... jeeez.... imagine not knowing that
Yup I can't disagree with the niceness of cheaper priced goods. However the corps are all governed by one thing to maximize profit as much as possible. That is the sole goal. And because of this you get corporatism and monopolism (The motorcompanies speculating in cost of carproduction vs. the cost of lawsuits from people who lost familymembers in accidents caused by crappy carquality, Tobacco-companies that keeps on trying to hook new customers, even though they are quite aware of the health-dangers involved, Software companies releasing unsecure buggy software that in turn is feature bloated in order to gain marketshare)
I can accept that it is not a flaw of capitalism per se, but rather our current implementation of it, if you in return would be so kind as to tell me how it is supposed to work in a more ideal implementation of capitalism ?
To me the trend seems to be that govt. all over are touting the holy freedom of the individual to let big corps do whatever they want. This happens because money are concentrated in few and very big private entities, and in our capitalism money rules much more than any office you can hold.
I am not a native english speaker, and I don't know the expression corporate welfare, but I suspect that is something along the line of my arguing ?
At any rate letting profits be the sole motivator has some severe downsides to it (many of them resulting in downright criminal acts). Since the obvious failure of Soviet Communism it seems that the west has gone all 'SEE we were right all the time!' forgetting the fact that if two idiots argue, and one of them looses the argument the winner is still an idiot.
That - unfortunately - is not true. In todays capitalistic economy, any company's prime directive is to make money. If you build shitty cars and make lots of money you are more successful than if you make great cars and have a small profit, you are not successful. May The Almighty Buck help you if you create a vastly superiour car and come out with a deficit
Shareholders are in it for the money NOT for the product. The board of directors are in it to take care of the shareholders interests NOT the consumers.
This - in my view - is one of the deficiancies of capitalism. It takes the eyes off what was supposed to be the ball, and instead force focus to profits
If Netscape had said on the DL page
/anything/ but respect, sympathy and understanding ?
'Because of a recently discovered (and fixed) security vulnerability in the underlying engine of Netscape, we regret to inform you that release has been delayed one day - we hope you will try again tomorrow'
or summat like that, would that have garnered
Spelling Karl with a C instead of a K is forgivable, especially when the language is english.
However, not recognizing that favourable is the British (thus original) spelling of the word is not exactly very bright
It does have sound - something must be wrong on your side