Usually I don't have anything positive to say nowadays, so I choose to keep my mouth shut most of the time :D
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
The reviews of Safari for Windows I've seen were less than favourable. Mainly saying that the small increase in rendering speed wasn't worth the loss of features and usability.
It's one of the greatest guarded public secrets that Macs do suck, they just suck different-ly. Still trying to figure out how this fact qualifies as being better though.
But in purple they probably look stunning. :csmile:
Well Hi there. Thank you for downloading another fine quality comedy product from Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and your friends at MP3.com - good for you. Of course, if you've downloaded this from Napster - Screw You! You know what - free isn't good enough for ya? You've gotta rip us off? That's okay! I will find you, and I *will* kill you, ha ha ha.
You see, I come from a time in the nineteen-hundred-and-seventies when computers were used for two things - to either go to the moon, or play Pong... nothing in between. Y'see, you didn't need a fancy operating system to play Pong, and the men who went to the moon--God Bless 'em--did it with no mouse, and a plain text-only black-and-white screen, and 32 kilobytes of RAM.
But then 'round 'bout the late 70's, home computers started to do a little more than play Pong... very little more. Like computers started to play games, and balance checkbooks, and why you could play Zaxxon on your Apple II, or... write a book! All with a computer that had 32 kilobytes of RAM! It was good enough to go to the moon, it was good enough for you.
It was a golden time. A time before Windows, a time before mouses, a time before the internet and bloatware, and a time... before every OS sucked.
*sigh*
Well, way back in the olden times,
my computer worked for me.
I'd laugh and play, all night and day,
on Zork I, II and III.
The Amiga, VIC-20 and the Sinclair II,
The TRS 80 and the Apple II,
they did what they were supposed to do,
wasn't much... but it was enough.
But then Xerox made a prototype,
Steve Jobs came on the scene,
read "Of Mice and Menus," Windows, Icons
a trash, and a bitmap screen.
Well Stevie said to Xerox,
"Boys, turn your heads and cough."
And when no-one was looking,
he ripped their interfaces off.
Stole every feature that he had seen,
put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen,
Mac OS 1 ran that machine,
only cost five thousand bucks.
But it was slow, it was buggy,
so they wrote it again,
And now they're up to OS 10,
they'll charge you for the Beta, then charge you again,
but the Mac OS still sucks.
Every OS wastes your time,
from the desktop to the lap,
Everything since Apple Dos,
Just a bunch of crap.
From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to Lih-- lie-- lih-- lie... nux,
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.
Well then Microsoft jumped in the game,
copied Apple's interface, with an OS named,
"Windows 3.1" - it was twice as lame,
but the stock price rose and rose.
Then Windows 95, then 98,
man solitaire never ran so great,
and every single version came out late,
but I guess that's the way it goes.
But that bloatware'll crash and delete your work,
NT, ME, man, none of 'em work.
Bill Gates may be richer than Captain Kirk,
but the Windows OS blows!
And sucks!
At the same time!
I'd trade it in, yeah right... for what?
It's top of the line from the Compuhut.
The fridge, stove and toaster, never crash on me,
I should be able to get online, without a PHD.
My phone doesn't take a week to boot it,
my TV doesn't crash when I mute it,
I miss ASCII text, and my floppy drive,
I wish VIC-20 was still alive...
But it ain't the hardware, man.
It's just that every OS sucks... and blows.
Now there's lih-nux or lie-nux,
I don't know how you say it,
or how you install it, or use it, or play it,
or where you download it, or what programs run,
but lih-nux, or lie-nux, don't look like much fun.
However you say it, it's getting great press,
though how it survives is anyone's guess,
If you ask me, it's a great big mess,
for elitist, nerdy shmucks.
"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run,
the Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!"
Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done,
the Linux OS SUCKS.
(I'm sorry to say it, but it does.)
Every OS wastes your time,
from the desktop to the lap,
Everything since the abacus,
Just a bunch of crap.
From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to lih-lie-lih-lie... nux.
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.
Every computer crashes... 'cause every OS sucks![/I]
google for the actual song, it's well worth it (if it's still available) :)
A Mac in purple?
[img]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/sc/30049659-2-200-0.gif[/img]
Yeah they looked stunning.
And in Green, and Orange, and Blue, and Red, too
[IMG]http://lowendmac.com/imacs/imac5clr.jpg[/IMG]
Though nowadays they look stunning in white only...
BTW, I have yet to see an encouraging review of Safari for Windows myself, and actually even the Mac version does lack some usability, e.g. no HTML editor for OpenWebMail (which is what my workplace has available) nor Gchat capabilities built into Gmail.
Safari for Windows is still far from really being... something
I never really cared much for Safari. It was always an odd product that produced oddly rendered pages.
Now, iMacs and iBooks, on the other hand... I rather like the colorful Rev.b and Rev.c versions. I'm also the proud owner of a fairly useless Rev.a blue iBook.
yah, it said 2 pages yesterday before croxis posted and no posts were on page 2.
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
The page count is calculated from the total number of posts in the thread, irrespective of if you have someone on ignore (and hence can't see their posts) or not.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
You know, I didn't recall until someone pointed it more recently out that you had posted here and at the B5MG. Of course, in almost a decade (oh dear God) of posting on various message boards, I can understand how I might totally blank on a couple names after I haven't seen them for a few years. ;)
The user name change probably doesn't help matters. I must admit that the B5MG was so long ago, I don't remember ever posting there, even thinking about it now.
Back on topic, though, I think the big issue is that a lot of us have [URL="http://babcom.firstones.com/"]switched to IRC[/URL] as our primary method of communication. Those of us who used to talk a lot on the forums
Comments
That's gotta be Something!
(P.S. Safari for WIndows sure is beta, the forums page displays wrong, and is slow)
But in purple they probably look stunning. :csmile:
Oh, and I almost forgot: something!
Well Hi there. Thank you for downloading another fine quality comedy product from Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and your friends at MP3.com - good for you. Of course, if you've downloaded this from Napster - Screw You! You know what - free isn't good enough for ya? You've gotta rip us off? That's okay! I will find you, and I *will* kill you, ha ha ha.
You see, I come from a time in the nineteen-hundred-and-seventies when computers were used for two things - to either go to the moon, or play Pong... nothing in between. Y'see, you didn't need a fancy operating system to play Pong, and the men who went to the moon--God Bless 'em--did it with no mouse, and a plain text-only black-and-white screen, and 32 kilobytes of RAM.
But then 'round 'bout the late 70's, home computers started to do a little more than play Pong... very little more. Like computers started to play games, and balance checkbooks, and why you could play Zaxxon on your Apple II, or... write a book! All with a computer that had 32 kilobytes of RAM! It was good enough to go to the moon, it was good enough for you.
It was a golden time. A time before Windows, a time before mouses, a time before the internet and bloatware, and a time... before every OS sucked.
*sigh*
Well, way back in the olden times,
my computer worked for me.
I'd laugh and play, all night and day,
on Zork I, II and III.
The Amiga, VIC-20 and the Sinclair II,
The TRS 80 and the Apple II,
they did what they were supposed to do,
wasn't much... but it was enough.
But then Xerox made a prototype,
Steve Jobs came on the scene,
read "Of Mice and Menus," Windows, Icons
a trash, and a bitmap screen.
Well Stevie said to Xerox,
"Boys, turn your heads and cough."
And when no-one was looking,
he ripped their interfaces off.
Stole every feature that he had seen,
put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen,
Mac OS 1 ran that machine,
only cost five thousand bucks.
But it was slow, it was buggy,
so they wrote it again,
And now they're up to OS 10,
they'll charge you for the Beta, then charge you again,
but the Mac OS still sucks.
Every OS wastes your time,
from the desktop to the lap,
Everything since Apple Dos,
Just a bunch of crap.
From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to Lih-- lie-- lih-- lie... nux,
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.
Well then Microsoft jumped in the game,
copied Apple's interface, with an OS named,
"Windows 3.1" - it was twice as lame,
but the stock price rose and rose.
Then Windows 95, then 98,
man solitaire never ran so great,
and every single version came out late,
but I guess that's the way it goes.
But that bloatware'll crash and delete your work,
NT, ME, man, none of 'em work.
Bill Gates may be richer than Captain Kirk,
but the Windows OS blows!
And sucks!
At the same time!
I'd trade it in, yeah right... for what?
It's top of the line from the Compuhut.
The fridge, stove and toaster, never crash on me,
I should be able to get online, without a PHD.
My phone doesn't take a week to boot it,
my TV doesn't crash when I mute it,
I miss ASCII text, and my floppy drive,
I wish VIC-20 was still alive...
But it ain't the hardware, man.
It's just that every OS sucks... and blows.
Now there's lih-nux or lie-nux,
I don't know how you say it,
or how you install it, or use it, or play it,
or where you download it, or what programs run,
but lih-nux, or lie-nux, don't look like much fun.
However you say it, it's getting great press,
though how it survives is anyone's guess,
If you ask me, it's a great big mess,
for elitist, nerdy shmucks.
"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run,
the Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!"
Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done,
the Linux OS SUCKS.
(I'm sorry to say it, but it does.)
Every OS wastes your time,
from the desktop to the lap,
Everything since the abacus,
Just a bunch of crap.
From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to lih-lie-lih-lie... nux.
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.
Every computer crashes... 'cause every OS sucks![/I]
google for the actual song, it's well worth it (if it's still available) :)
[img]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/sc/30049659-2-200-0.gif[/img]
Yeah they looked stunning.
And in Green, and Orange, and Blue, and Red, too
[IMG]http://lowendmac.com/imacs/imac5clr.jpg[/IMG]
Though nowadays they look stunning in white only...
BTW, I have yet to see an encouraging review of Safari for Windows myself, and actually even the Mac version does lack some usability, e.g. no HTML editor for OpenWebMail (which is what my workplace has available) nor Gchat capabilities built into Gmail.
Safari for Windows is still far from really being... something
Now, iMacs and iBooks, on the other hand... I rather like the colorful Rev.b and Rev.c versions. I'm also the proud owner of a fairly useless Rev.a blue iBook.
[edit] Yay! :D
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
(What now? Do I do the clinking or the omnious sound?)
Good to see you back around these parts. Bygones are bygones... ;)
Byegones be byegones...
or more properly, bye-gones...
sort of like Phirstones in a way
A current example where they use "bygone"... what strikes me the most is that there were, at one time, Soviet arcade games!!! WOW! :D
Unbelievable... electricity? WOW! :D