Episode 27: IE7, Taxes, WoW and More!

Hello you guys, My name is Miguel, i'm a web develper, i live in Lisbon, Portugal, Europe and i listen to this show since the 4th i guess (and of course i heard the first ones after )

This is my first comment week, i've tried before by skype but i had technicall issues with my MIC, so here i am .... texting...

I'd like to comment these topics:

Well first and unlike Brad, i've also tried out IE7 Beta 2, but what i've found was disaspointing and i tell you why, first it came out a little buggy, and i know this is just a Beta version and i know that this version of IE actually has a lot of recoding, but it's true it's buggy and ..... i wish i wasn't say this, i turn my PC heavy, it's a way too heavy browser, apart from that i found the tab browsing ok, it has some tiny issues with tab browsing not even present on firefox, but in overall i think Microsoft has done too little just to be the best browser actually it's just a little tiny better than firefox and that's not much specially when we have firefox 2 and 3 comming out probably this year.  And specially when with the extensions (great extensions) that firefox has , that overcome IE by far in my opinion, i mean i use fire (yes i'm one of them) and i can have IE on any tab i want..... i surf the web on firefox tabs but if i want i can have any tab turn into IE , and this is just one of the things i can get out of firefox.
Well just to concluded this comment, i just wanna say IE7 Beta 2 was not a big effort i guess to overcome the power that one year of firefox life has become and that's why i'm not surprise by the 20% market share it already have, specially here in Europe. And yes Brad, you can just right click on any image and just COPY and then PAST it where ever you want just like in IE ))

Cingular may soon have a patent on the emoticon .
Cingular is nuts and i have an idea, i could just patent the wheel and then every car brand in the world have to pay me or i sued them...... ohhhh but i'm not an american so i could not sued them so easylly : (just teasing ) )

Ways around the great firewall of China.
I just wanna say this: Once you open it, you can't controled it. That's internet. So it's pointless to control internet over wherever we are. The moment they control it, it's the moment it dies and borns somewhere else......

Spending time on the Internet expands social networks, rather than restricting them.
I actually think this panel it's so very right on this one, i mean and i quote Brad "It's semantics". Internet it's just another channel of speaking, i socialise fisically aswell...... and just like Pearl Jam used to say "It's Evolution Baby" )

Bill Gates is so rich that the IRS has to use a special computer to deal with it.
Well, it's funny this topic because Bill Gates was here in town (Lisbon, Portugal, Europe) last week, to promote a multi-million dollar microsoft project here in portugal for the next 4 years where microsoft will teach 1 million portuguese people in "windows ways". There's questions about what interests are behind the curtain for microsoft (i mean where's the profit of that and so on..). But last week Bill Gates said that on a press meting here, just after he was condecorated with a honor of investing money to reasearch for saving human lives on deseases ....! On this same week in europe there was the biggest Loto Jackpot ever.... it's called "Euro Millions" (www.euromillions.com) and the prize was so big that it could actually turn up (just by 2% to 3% ) a small country (10 million people) like portugal PIB (Internal Production Product = The ammount of money that the coutry produces per year) up if the jackpot was to one of our citizens. The sum was arround 183 million euros (about 200 million dollars) but Bill Gates fortune is 213 times that, or something so....... it's kinda hard to imagine how much is that, but it's not hard to think that the tax guys in the US actually need a speciall computer to do it...... but i'm not an expert on computing numbers ))

Well for ending i just wanna thank you guys, i hope the podcast will reach number one, i told everyone i know about it ( i did my contribution).

Miguel a.k.a Mr JazzMan

Oh and just by curiosity, the euromillions prize come out to 3 persons. Two french and ...... oh yes one portuguese..... and i wasn't me damn......... )

see you next week

Gah! I didn't realise my voice was cutting out :/ Thanks for responding though

Thanks for calling in, Sidewinder! I'll try reinstalling Firefox to see if that works.

the three of you are so normal ! i love it

Normal? You talking about us, xfodder?
Thanks for the comments, we always like to hear from our listeners...even the Aussie Mac users.

MrJazzMan - Good lord! That's alot of info. Thanks for the comments!

do you know that we european can't buy any video clips, or tv series yet on ITunes Store ?

I did not know that! Is that because most of Europe is PAL and the US is NTSC?

Once you open it, you can't controled it. That's internet.

You are right about that, but China wants to control everything and everyone down to the smallest detail. Their political ideologies have not yet caught up with technology.

the euromillions prize come out to 3 persons. Two ..... and i wasn't me

Dang. Too bad! I never win the lottery here, either.

Thanks for listening and commenting.

<I> i could just patent the wheel and then every car brand in the world have to pay me or i sued them...... </I>

Someon in Austrailia already patented the wheel

Apple donated computers for years. they donated my grade school a bunch of Apple IIes in 1993 that they used until 2003.

Wouldn't Warren Buffet also need a computer for the IRS? Its not that much of a difference.

Bill Gates has also lost a lot of money with the domcom fall. His taxes are probably less then a lot of people that rich, lots of loopholes.