[ILUG] Rant: M17 - Latest Mozilla Milestone Out

[Robert Elliott (Admin)]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:49:06PM +0100, Niall O Broin uttered:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:50:47PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> 
> > Bike: fraction of the weight, fraction of the cost, far higher
> >       performance, far better avg A to B times. 
> 
> And when the bike crashes, you're definitely dead - no maiming, no broken
> legs, just death. 
> 
Rubbish. Just because you've no legs or arms doesn't mean you're dead. Look at
Christopher Reeve. His horse crashed, and he's still here. 

> Well, Netscape crashes all time - is it a motorbike ? Or does it crash
> because motorbikes become unstable when you weld shopping carts to them ?
> 
Not if you weld one to each side. In fact, that'd make it stabler, albeit
slower. Unless there were SRBs attached to the carts. 

BTW: am I the only one who thinks this analogy has been stretched to crashing
point? I prefer to think of lynx as a video tape, and Mozilla as a DVD. Loads of
extra features, but you don't have to watch them if you don't have to. The mail
is a director's commentary, the obligatory AIM (don't want it? tough) is the
trailer for the film you've just seen, and the news reader is the deleted
scenes.

Jesus, I'm bored. But I'll be going home in an hour.

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