Fire Fox Four, sounds like a cheesy name for a new Charlies-Angels-kinda-group... But seriously, the new browser looks good with some nice new technologies for web developers and hopefully some better speed for the users... For other waiting: we can expect the beta in June, and the RC in October with a release within a month, so FFF should land this fall.
And when Firefox VI comes out, we can surf the web with "For Fuck's Sake".
Google "windows 7 god mode." You will be well-pleased.
I. Love. You. X
This. Exactly.
Take Windows XP versus Windows Vista or 7 as a classic example.
They wanted to make the Control Panel more accessible to less tech-savvy users, so they started simplifying and conglomerating the options until it no longer represented an index of possible choices - ie. Network Settings, Mouse Settings, Microphone Settings, etc - instead they turned it into a tree format where there are only ever 2-3 options at any given intersection, so you open Control Panel thinking "I want to change my Network Settings, I am looking for something involving the 'Network' and 'Settings'." And instead of being presented with a long and eye-burning list of every setting menu in the system, you are presented with three options which are completely oversimplified to the point of being utterly meaningless. You open Control Panel and you are asked to choose between "Heffalumps, Woozels, or Orange Juice", and not knowing what is what but wanting to find something to do with Network Settings you click 'Orange Juice' only to be presented with more meaningless text like "I see you would like some Orange Juice, would you prefer Toothpaste, Cheques, or Mints with your Orange Juice" and the right answer for Network Settings is that you want Mints with your Orange Juice.
Microsoft tried to make the Control Panel more accessible and more efficient, and instead made it so simplified it lost the meaning of the terms and now requires that I look up online how to open panels and follow the button presses like some archaic ritual at an alien console not understood but by the past reactions to button sequences attempted.
I can feel the "offtopic" coming but never mind. This drives me insane! In windows 7, you can make control panel display the full set of icons, but you have to ask it to do so every time. I downloaded a script to edit the registry that was meant to change this but it didn't work - so god knows what it did do. I wish there was some way to make it permanently show the full list, I'm not that keen on editing my registry by hand. Fail MS, fail.
We? '00? WE aren't all THAT young. '00. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
I was talking about my brother and sister and I. Sorry, I though the context would have made it obvious.
Of course, things aren't exactly the same as they were. But I know that one day I will laugh at how amazing I think my PC is now.
The MS DOS 5 Upgrade rap commercial makes me ashamed to be Caucasian. That guy was a Navin Johnson, tuna fish sandwich eating, with the crusts cut off, and a twinkie for dessert kind of Caucasian. I could actually visualize Bill Gates clapping his hands and stomping his foot, almost in rhythm with the video, just like Navin.
I don't feel so good now.
I'm fairly certain the MS DOS 5 one was meant to be a bit silly, a bit of a joke. And for that reason I think they pulled it off well. I thought it was one of the less dorky ones. You can tell that MS put a fair amount of money into it.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
