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Topic: Doesn't this just suck?
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Tao Yue
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 209
From: Princeton, NJ
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-24-2001 07:26 AM
Netscape is still around, and probably will be for a while now that it's owned by AOL Time Warner.Netscape still handles many things better than Internet Explorer, which is why I still use it as my primary browser. For example, its cross-platform support is much better than IE's -- the Mac port of IE is inconsistent in many respects from the Windows version, and the UNIX port is still very incomplete. Netscape handles certificates and authentication much better than IE. I also feel more comfortable running a browser as just another application than as a part of the operating system. Sure, there are still JavaScript and other security exploits that can wreak havoc on my system, but fewer with Netscape than with IE. And when Netscape crashes, it's less likely to take the whole system down with it than IE. And don't forget -- if AOL gets really mad at Microsoft, they could instantly give Netscape back its leading position by making it the default browser on AOL and Compuserve. Whether this would help or hurt their customers is another matter -- most likely, it'll result in a bunch of newbies very confused about why sites they once visited regularly now give errors. But AOL does have that leverage now that it owns Netscape -- probably one of the reasons they bought Netscape in the first place. ------------------
Tao Yue
MIT '04: Course VI-2, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Projectionist, MIT Lecture Series Committee
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Danny Hart
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Posts: 50
From: St Andrews, Scotland
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-24-2001 06:54 PM
Haven't had the time to real all of the posts in this thread, so I apologise if this has already been said:Here in the UK, cinemas receive every week a reel of adverts for each film they're showing. I'm not joking but these can be up to 13 minutes in length, and very often are over that limit. The chain I work for also has a policy of three trailers after the adverts. Then after the trailers, for all cinemas, there is the "premium ad slot", a single 30 or 40 second advert directly after the trailers and before the film. Plus, of course, you'll have your on-screen idents, "Thank you for not smoking/turn off your mobile" etc, Kodak Screencheck trails...... When we were showing "Bridget Jones' Diary", the total running length of the pre-film stuff was 27 minutes. If I had paid my money and gone to the cinema at the advertised time, I would be enraged at having to sit for half-an-hour to see what I had paid for. As a result, people are now in the habit of going to the auditorium when they guess the film will be starting, and it will have already started - adding to the distraction and annoyance of people who have been there from the advertised time.
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
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