Lord Kalthorn said:
Have to admit, they are rare
Miniclip however is one that uses it well, and many sites with reasonable programmers could use powerful tools like that that help with Gaming like in MSN's Zone, or for Communities, like in MSN Groups' Picture Uploader.
Exactly, point proven. These sites are in fact rare, and the only sites that really require ActiveX is M$ sites like MSN. So why given ActiveX's insignificance on the web, would Firefox include it? For spyware?
Lord Kalthorn said:
It depends how you look at standards. Surely standards are the standard way a page is rendered. Call me crazy and all, but the standard way things are rendered is how Internet Explorer renders pages. The 'standards' are just a set of ideas some crank group wants people to use, because some people, mainly Linux-Folks, are so pig headed that they wouldn't use the Standard way sites are rendered, because it is how Microsoft does it.
Internet Explorer hence is the standard, the W3C merely tries with Anti-Microsoft Propaganda.
lol, you've got to be kidding me on this one, IE is the standard and not W3C? I mean oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense considering the fact M$ wasn't even involved with the internet when the standards were being created. haha, check out this page:
http://blog.paularms.com/article/too-cool-for-internet-explorer
I suggest you read this over:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
Lord Kalthorn said:
I have tried SuSe and Red Hat Server, alonh with Mandrake and Fedora. But only for short periods, and you know why? Because it doesn't actually run any programs I use. Internet Explorer, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Microsoft Office... nor do many of my Peripherals work well, if at all.
So let me get this straight, you don't run Linux because you can't run your apps like Microsoft Anti-Spyware? Seriously, you enjoy running your anti-spyware software? As for IE and M$ office, theres always wine:
http://www.winehq.com/
But there is good alternatives to these softwares. Open Office is just as good as M$ office, with full support for M$ office files. Well, I don't need to even mention an alternative to IE. You can get any hardware to work in Linux if you have the know how. What hardware was it, and what was the problem?
Lord Kalthorn said:
Yes, very much so. Because without them, I would not be able to control and own my PC. Nor would a good half of everybody else using a PC, not because of stubborness like me, but because they would not have the first clue how to use or install Linux.
You contradicted yourself there.
You said first:
Because without them, I would not be able to control and own my PC
So here you were saying that without M$ you couldn't control and own your own PC because you wouldn't have the knowledge to do so, because Linux is just to complex. But yet here you said it was because of "stubborness"
Nor would a good half of everybody else using a PC, not because of stubborness like me
Just to add, Linux really isn't that hard if you don't want it to be. I mean if the average person can install windows, the average person can install a easy distro like mandrake. Mandrake is heavily GUI based just like windows. If the average person just browses the web, i'm pretty sure they could handle KDE with a firefox icon on the desktop that they could just double-click to open.
Lord Kalthorn said:
I doubt that seriously. It is the power of the Kernal and the Driver Layer that Linux neither has, nor will ever have.
Right...."the power of the Kernal" the windows kernel does nothing special...Your starting to sound like steve balmer. Linux actually has better hardware support than windows, windows runs on one hardware architecture(x86), Linux runs on many.
Lord Kalthorn said:
I don't know, but it doesn't do what Windows does, and that space is used wisely with power.
What doesn't Linux do, that windows does?
At this point in time Linux can do anything that windows can do, maybe it has to be done with some hacks/tweaks but it can be done. You want to talk about using space with power, I have an old pentium100 with a base install of slackware. Totaling about a few hundred megs of disk space. With this setup, I can do many things that windows XP is just incapable of doing, even with its gigabytes of files. For instance I can actually set user permissions to paths in my / to specific users with chmod.