@pgriffin24

i was pretty sure when i saw the picture that thats a slot loading drive on the side there.

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uh, lee works for project natal,
as one of the lead on the technical aspects team.
so well. this might start to get a little ugly.

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did you consider that paper companies dont grow the wood, but rather chop down existing trees? even if they did grow the trees, to leave the trees there and let them continually produce oxygen rather than chopping it as soon as it gets mature enough to produce enough oxygen to be significant would be more environmentally friendly. or the fact that chopping those trees, and their conversion process into paper uses up a lot more resources than downloading an e book onto a device. or maybe the fact that if a book is thrown away and not properly recycled, that paper eventually releases carbon upon decomposition.

maybe you'd even get into really large details and get into transportations of trees, papers, books, the resources taken by lumber mills, paper manufacturing plants, publishing houses, and bookstores.

think before you post.

@Infinity yeah. i know. its really a shame. the people at opera have a really really great browser on most every platform they've been on, they have great advertising, staff, and just normal publicity campaigns.

but even with possibly the best product out there, the whole team has really become a bunch of babies for this case. im sure there's a large amount of employee's there moaning at their executives complains.

opera has worked really closely and well with the platform specific browsers it's installed, and HTC even chose to default it on the diamond and i believe all its other devices. if OEMs wanted, like htc, they could default opera instead of IE. so opera should lay out business deals with them, not complain to the makers of IE for having a product bundled with their platform.

i wish microsoft would just buy opera out and get them to make the next browser in sync with the IE team. no more whining, amazing browsers to begin with, all around amazingness.

@artist i would respect your argument, except that you're defending an open source browser by calling out on another browser for being open source. infact, google chrome publicly takes it to the next level by declaring that they themselves only do basics and process handling, whereas features are all planned to be user developed.

i think randomizing this will cause people to chose the left most thing, like safari or chrome. and then people who chose it will complain a week later that their browser isnt what their friends have, and those customers will blame microsoft. it seems like irregardless of what happens, it will only hurt microsoft from every single aspect of this, and the EU will somehow take a spin on those customer complains of too much choice + randomization and then put it against microsoft.

@Evan. THIS is the kind of comment that makes people hate fanboys in general. seriously, IE, i understand, but i would use it just for the fact that microsoft is putting up with all your shit. opera is an amazing browser by far, with a very high level of customization and just load of well built unique features. something that firefox and a large portion of its developer base openly and gratefully borrows from all the time.

Infact, even chrome and safari take a lot of features from opera every new make and then say something like, "we've put together the best of everything you love."

safari on the mac isnt that bad, their speed dial front is really really nice, and their interface isnt as bad a chrome.

and for chrome, even though being the worst piece of shit software ever, i have to give kudos to its threading system and process handling.

oh no no,
i hear they made the icons 20% icon-ier.

this is pure genius o.o

same thing windows 7 you.