Yah. WEll I still think Microsoft's infighting with Sun is gonna hurt poor
innocent users caught in the middle. Gazillions of Web pages have Java
applets in them and people will have to download a HUMONGOUUS third-party
JVM to get them to work. Perhaps somebody could ship a JVM on CD-ROM for
folks with slow connections? Helllllloo, he average web surver doesn't
know or care whose technology is behind the page! He or she just wants it
to download correctly, in whatever browser he or she is using!!!!
Of course, if you can get Unixshell or similar dumb terminal access, and
find a real geeky site that is completely TEXXT ONLY, you can cut the
crap and use Lynx!! Hey, it worked for a buncha guys sharing scientific
data back when, didn't it?
Kristin
My dad had Netscape for awhile, but went back to IE 5.5 - on his ancient
PEntium II 200 that cost $3,000 and didn't even have MMX. Yes, that was
once a bleeding-edge machine, with shortages making it expensive, a
whopping two gigabyte drive, 32 meg of RAM (since upgraded to 64)... (I
think it had to do with waht his ISP was supporting..naW, it was what
worked with Eudora better, Qualcomm told him to get the MS browser.) If
Windows XP is delayed more (by the govt,or if word gets out it is too
buggy on release date...he says he wants to wait a year til it's stable
even though the betas are pretty stable now....aw, he's a
procrastinator. anyway, my dad won't buy a new PC even though we're all
tellng him it's a doorstop. WEll at least he isn't waiting for the end of
Moore's Law yet -I think he finally figured out (at age 67) that Moore's
Law might outlive *him.*
