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From: Ron Johnson on 30 Dec 2007 19:20
On Sunday December 30 2007 12:57:26 Kelly Clowers wrote:
[snip]
>
> Truly incompatible websites are few and far between. Of the few
> "incompatible" websites I encounter, most are just forcing
> incompatibility by looking at the user-agent string. There is
> an extension called user-agent switcher that lets FF identify
> as IE or any other browser.
>
> If a web site is incompatible, you should write to them an
> point out that they are shutting out over 15% of American users
> and more like 20%-25% of European users.

Our company's intranet timesheet app doesn't work well with
Windows FF. Seems to be a Java windowing issue. It's the only
reason why I need IE.

(I still use MSO a "lot", though, because OOo is such a slow-
loading pig.)

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From: Dan H on 31 Dec 2007 03:20
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote:

> "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and
> the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
> Wernher von Braun

That quote is just sick. Remember who W.v.B. was, and his attitude towards mass production and labor. I'd advise against superficially witty quotes from mass murderers.

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From: Marc Shapiro on 31 Dec 2007 04:00
Adrian Levi wrote:
> On 31/12/2007, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Adrian Levi wrote:
>>
>>> On 30/12/2007, Celejar <celejar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600
>>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and
>>>>> the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
>>>>> Wernher von Braun
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Reminds me of Asimov's "The Feeling of Power":
>>>> http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html
>>>>
>>>> Celejar
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed reading that. I Asimov was a
>>> forward thinker. To write that in his time(1958), even now it has
>>> context and is believable...
>>>
>>>
>> But at only 49 years old it is unlikely to be out of copyright! A lot
>> of the items on that site may be in the public domain, but an Asimov
>> short story is unlikely to be one of them. I see nothing on the site
>> that suggests that this individual has checked for copyright on the text
>> that he has posted. He only says that the items are things that
>> interest him.
>>
>> I know that most people don't think about these things, but my wife is a
>> librarian, so she always does, and it has gotten me into the habit of
>> thinking about it, too.
>>
>> --
>> Marc Shapiro
>> mshapiro_42(a)yahoo.com
>>
>
> It's also available on this website and does attribute copyright, go figure.
> http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.htm
>
> Adrian
>
Yes, the copyright notice is displayed. That still does not mean that
the text is now in the public domain and can be put up on anyone's site
who happens to like it. The copyright is almost certainly still in
affect and posting the entire text to the web is breaking copyright.

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From: David Brodbeck on 31 Dec 2007 13:10

On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, 'Netscape' is a good name. I always wondered
> how names like 'Seamonkey', 'Iceape' or 'Firefox' could ever make
> their
> way into a serious, corporate environment.

Silly names seem to be all the rage with start-ups these days, so
maybe the open source community was just ahead of the curve. ;)

For that matter, at one place I worked we used to buy submersible
pumps from a company that was in the habit of casting smiley faces
onto all of their float switch counterweights. We sort of rolled our
eyes, but we kept buying pumps from them anyway. People will tolerate
a bit of whimsy if your product is good.


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From: Ron Johnson on 31 Dec 2007 13:20
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On 12/31/07 12:06, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
>> As far as I'm concerned, 'Netscape' is a good name. I always wondered
>> how names like 'Seamonkey', 'Iceape' or 'Firefox' could ever make their
>> way into a serious, corporate environment.
>
> Silly names seem to be all the rage with start-ups these days, so maybe
> the open source community was just ahead of the curve. ;)

That's been a trend now (in the US, at least) for about 20 years.
Started with stupid wussy product names and moved to stupid and or
meaningless company names.

> For that matter, at one place I worked we used to buy submersible pumps
> from a company that was in the habit of casting smiley faces onto all of
> their float switch counterweights. We sort of rolled our eyes, but we
> kept buying pumps from them anyway. People will tolerate a bit of
> whimsy if your product is good.

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