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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [rick@linuxmafia.com: Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal]
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Quoting Michael T. Halligan (michael-at-halligan.org):
> Oh, so you disable the functionality, and consider it usable?
See, Michael, if you bothered to understand what you were talking about,
you wouldn't make embarrassing errors like that:
Flashblock is a Firefox extension that substitutes a good-looking "Play"
icon for any Macromedia Flash page inclusion sent with your HTML. _If_
you also have a Flash player installed, you then have the option of
hitting the Play button for any Flash code actually of interest to
_you_, as opposed to something merely dumped at you by an advertiser.
Pay attention, now, because this is just a wee bit subtle, and plainly
you weren't bothering to read properly the first time I said it: If you
_don't_ have a Flash player installed, you still win, because
advertising sites will (upon doing a browser check) think you _do_ have
a player, avoid sending you the animated-GIF advertisements you would
normally have gotten, and instead send Flash (which you then don't have
to be bothered by).
Apple doesn't want to give you that degree of control. They're too busy
withdrawing features:
http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/digital_music/features_lost_in_itunes_upgrades.php
...and taking formerly open source software proprietary:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/17/closesdown/index.php
> Sounds like the typical linux desktop experience to me.
Funny, _your_ stuff sounds like typical MacOS cheerleading for depriving
the user of control over his/her computing environment and then calling
it a feature, to _me_.
> I've never used a G3 iBook, but then again, those are about 5 years old
> at this point.
Yes, did I mention that, with Ubuntu Linux, performance doesn't suck? I
only do hardware upgrades on _my_ timetable, sir, not the Church of
Steve's.
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