On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 05:16:15PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message > news:mailman.439.1331415624.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... [...] > > Sad to say, recent versions of Opera (and Firefox) have become > > massive memory and disk hogs. I still mainly use Opera because I > > like the interface better, > > I couldn't beleive that Opera actually *removed* the native "skin" > (even what joke it was in the first place) in the latest versions. > That's why my Opera installation is staying put at v10.62.
While I noticed that Opera's UI seems to be undergoing all sorts of overhauls recently, I didn't bother to find out what changed/didn't change. My custom setup disables most of the toolbars anyway, so I don't really notice. :-) > Which reminds me, I still need to figure out what domain it contacts > to check whether or not to incessently nag me about *cough* > "upgrading" *cough*, so I can ban the damn thing via my hosts file. Umm... you *could* just point Opera at opera:config, then search for "Disable Opera Package AutoUpdate", y'know... > > And people keep talking about web apps and the browser as a > > "platform". Sigh. > > Yea. There's even an entire company dedicated to pushing that moronic > agenda (*and* tracking you like Big Brother). They're called > "Microsoft Mark 2"...erm...wait...I mean "Google". lol... [...] > > We get a kickback from our hardware manufacturers and we sell more > > software without actually adding any new features! It's a win-win > > situation!" > > > > That's one of the reasons I despise the modern-day Epic and Valve: > *Complete* graphics whores (not to mention Microsoft sluts, > particularly in Epic's case), and I don't believe for a second that > what you've described isn't the exact nature of...what does Epic call > it? Some sort of "Alliance" with NVIDIA and ATI that Epic was so > *publically* proud of. Fuck Cliffy, Sweeny, "Fat Fuck" Newell, et al. > Shit, and Epic actually used to be pretty good back in their > "Megagames" days. [...] I root for indie games. That's where the real creativity's at. Creativity has died in big-budget games years ago. > > Or solving the travelling salesman problem. > > That's aready been solved. Haven't you heard of eCommerce? j/k ;) [...] lol! T -- Public parking: euphemism for paid parking. -- Flora