Sorry for such a long delay in posting, but I just bought a copy of Black and White, so I’ve been playing pretty much non-stop. I felt guilty for not posting much, so here’s several various tidbits.
- I would like to repeat, once again, my undying love for annna from Things I Hate. This article has only strengthened my feelings.
- I sat down at my friend Urn’s work computer and found this note taped to the monitor: “Urn- Some woman called and said something- could have been about you, or someone else, or something like that. Call her back. I think her number was 1-900-something, but I can’t remember. -Colin”
- Netscape sucks. I feel bad saying this, since up until a year ago, I was a strong supporter of the “Netscape is better than Microsoft” mentality… Until Netscape proved me wrong. IE is faster and more stable (on my system) than Netscape 4.7, and WAY more stable than Netscape 6, which is awful. This is old news, though. What’s new to me is that I recently discovered that Outlook Express is better than Netscape’s mail client! I put it on Annie’s computer in desperation to find something that would crash her computer less than Netscape Mail. Outlook not only loads faster and crashes less, it was WAY easier to set up. The configuration just make more sense.
- In Black and White, the villagers express their needs to you by raising little flags around the village store. These flags have little icons on them to tell you what they mean. Little pictures of grain mean they need food, the little heart means they need to breed, and the little tree means they need wood. So I was walking around campus in a bit of a daze, and I saw this banner they have hanging from all the light posts, which just has an image of a flower on it. My first reaction: VILLAGERS NEED FLOWERS.
- A few years ago a coworker of mine from Egghead set up a website called the Psychic Dog Network. In a freakish coincidence, Jill just gave me a link to the amazingly similar, but wholly separate Psychic Puppy Network.
- Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus!
- Oh, and also, Annie and I may be moving back to Portland in mid-June instead of late July. More on that as we get details firmed up.
m1les
OK, I’m in geek-mode right now, so:Netscape can’t keep up with IE on the Mac, either. But!… Opera lays out pages faster than either browser, and handles HTML, JavaScript, and CSS competently. It’ll even run the DHTML demos at assembler.org!There are plenty of decent mail clients out there without resorting to M$. The Bat, for one: http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.htmluhm… PURL… wait, what’s that about you coming back to Portland early? Hooray! I hope it’s not as the result of some new financial disaster…
E. Megas
>groan< I’m telling you, NS6 isn’t nearly as stable as Mozilla is. You want stability in a Netscape-related product? Get a Mozilla nightly. NS6 was based on a very EARLY Alpha of Mozilla-The way its codebase is now is squeaky-clean compared to the way 6.x is when the development tree branched! Really, If you follow the nightlies, all you have to do is track http://www.mozillazine.org/build_comments/ every week or so-If the build isn’t broken(Which is getting less and less likely nowadays the closer the thing gets to 1.0), you pick it up.(If you find a problem, and it isn’t already listed in Bugzilla, you file a bug and it’s taken care of within a couple of days.) End of story. (No, it’s got nothing to do with open-source. The truth of the matter is that it IS more stable the way it is now. Just saying…)
KT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…thats what happened when I read that last comment from Miles..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..
Alex
That may be, but I for one think that if I have to update a product more than once in a few months, preferably longer, then why even bother using it?The plain and simple fact is that NS crashes a lot and has a lot of bugs.IE doesn’t crash very much, may have a lot of bugs, but they’re well hidden, and is a lot easier to maintain (read: no maintanence).I’ve been using outlook express ever since it came out. I have yet to find an email client that’s even close to its equal.Face it, MS 0wnz j00!And frankly, it IS because NS is open-source. There is no money behind it. Open-source as a engineering paradigm is fine, but motivation out of love is not. IE gets fixed and updated because people love to crucify MS for "not fixing the security hole" or for whatever other reason. When was the last time you heard about people bitching that NS is all buggy and shit? NEVER, Why? Because no one cares… it always will be shit, so why bitch and moan about something that will not change. It’s been shit for YEARS.If no one is dangling a carrot in front of the programmers noses… it will never be as good as the product the carrot chasing guys will make.–Alex
E. Megas
Umm…Maybe you didn’t hear me. I said Mozilla being stable had NOTHING to do with open-source. I’m speaking of Mozilla on a practical level, not an idealogical one. I won’t go after the bait. So don’t bother to use it as a point of argument. (Or have I inadvertantly triggered the paradox of Not Looking At the White Kodiak Bear? =P ) It’s because all the bugs are openly DOCUMENTED that Mozilla is more stable than NS6-Because they are rooted out and fixed with less delay than MS takes to put out a service pack. The only reason you may want to download a new build is if a bug crops up that you want to get rid of, or you want to try out a new feature, just like IE. If you don’t want to deal with it, you can either try a 0.x release or wait a few months for 1.0. (I mean, it’s no more a problem to get a release than, say, waiting for an IE service pack at the same rate. At least between point releases, you won’t have the unfortunate problem of SPs opening up more bugs than they fix!) Oh, and if you want to keep using Outlook, YOU DON’T HAVE TO INSTALL NSMAIL NOW. It’s a separate .xpi component. Ditto for Composer. =) Anyway, it’s getting into a browser war now, so I’d better shut the hell up…
Alex
The only way you’ll get IE offa my komputar is when you pull it from my cold dead fingers!!!RARR!!!!–Alex
mi|es
christ, if I’d known this was going to turn into Slashdot, I never would have posted.
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teh faws
HELLO EMEGAS HOW I HAVE MISSED OUR LONG ROMANTIC CHATS ON IRC I DO WISH YOU WOULD COME BACK SO WE CAN MAKE SWEET LOVE INTO THE NIGHT!still got that alien dude living with you?
Alex
Black & White OWNS YOU!!!IT OWNS ME TOO!–Alex
urn
Yeah, I still just don’t get Colin. I mean, I know he’s referencing a phone message I left him, but the joke just isn’t that funny to me…
KT
I like to read Sean’s stuff at thingsihate.org
David
True, true. I did the only thing I could do and loaned it to my brother. There’s this stuff called homework that requires a little more attention and with Black & White on my computer it was getting jealous.