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Posted at 22:27 by Brad

Free Opera for everybody.

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  1. tigrismus said,

    August 30, 2005 at 22:48

    Hey, there are no opera performances at that link. Way to get a girl’s hopes up.

  2. mdhatter said,

    August 30, 2005 at 22:58

    better than most real operas

  3. tigrismus said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:01

    Nuh-uh! And here I thought you were all classy an’ stuff, what with that badass haiku-fu.

  4. Sadly, No! said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:01

    As classy as a BLT sandwich.

  5. Sadly, No! said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:04

    Still, we’re sorry about the crushed hopes and stuff.

  6. Lucy said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:08

    Ugh, BLT. You had to say it. He just responded on that other thread to something I said and accused me of being cynical about the disaster down south, but he misunderstood the point. My post was unrelated to his song about New Orleans, MS (it had to do with his earlier postings), but as someone (Dan Someone?) predicted, Dr. Bad Louisiana Tunes dragged us back to the point that we should all be crying due to the feelings his song elicited, apparently more than by the devastation from the hurricane itself.

  7. Lucy said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:10

    (oops, wish I could edit–that “by the devastation” makes no sense and is an artifact of my sloppy editing. I hope it makes sense anyway.)

  8. tigrismus said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:29

    Someone needs to put him back in the fridge, his bacon has lost its bounce, his once dewy lettuce has languished, and his tomato is a pale pink shadow of its former piquancy.

  9. agrippacash said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:37

    His hot side got cold and his cold side got hot.

  10. mdhatter said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:43

    I thought we discussed keeping him to one thread.

    quite right though

    Opera now free
    It will not help much with their
    popularity

  11. zuzu said,

    August 30, 2005 at 23:59

    Is Opera less sucky than Firefox?

  12. Sadly, No! said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:05

    Is Opera less sucky than Firefox?

    We’re not sure but we did notice it doesn’t render our stylesheet properly, so maybe sadly, no!?

  13. Dr. BLT said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:09

    Lucy, you liberals are more sensitive than I gave you credit for. I take back the “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” comment. I shouldn’t assume that you left-wingers are all a bunch of druggies— that you are high on anything but the cyanide of cynacism. And I don’t take it personally that you feel nothing but cold in response to New Orleans (In the Wake of Katrina), or in response to the idea that a right-wing hatemonger—someone so unspeakably evil, and so ineffably sinister, would take advantage of your bleeding hearts and try to manipulate you with a song. My motives here must be pretty transparent. How could a conservative possibly be acting out of a sense of genuine compassion? Compassionate conservative–now there’s an oxymoron for you! Limited to only one thread? That reminds me of how my mother used to limit me to only using one sheet of toilet paper per bathroom visit. There, now it’s out in the open. I’m the one with a mother who employed fascist techniques during my formative years in toilet training.

  14. Lucy said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:13

    Jesus Christ, BLT, I wasn’t talking about your song.

  15. BruceH said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:19

    Less sucky than Firefox? Well, you’ll have to be the judge of that, but I think Opera is a fine browser. Sadly, No! rendered in Opera exactly as it did in Firefox — for me anyway. Opera does offer a few features that Firefox does not, and vice-versa.

    Personally, I recommend everyone follow the link and getting your free registration code, install Opera, and register it if you can. Yes, even you Dr. BLT. More browsers are good. I’m typing this in Opera right now and have not noticed any problems.

    Having said all that, I still think Firefox is the best browser around.

  16. BruceH said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:23

    Oh, and for those who don’t know, the free version of Opera displays advertising banners. To get rid of them, you would ordinarily have to pay 40 bucks. IMO, it’s not worth it, but the free registration changes all that.

    Get it while you can, it won’t last long.

  17. zuzu said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:31

    I have terrible crashing problems with Firefox, often in relation to Haloscan.

  18. mdhatter said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:38

    firefox crashes
    one too many ‘extentions’
    go ‘auto-update’

    /haiku

  19. Karl said,

    August 31, 2005 at 0:38

    OK, I’m officially a perv., ’cause this picture makes me hot:
    http://my.opera.com/community/graphics/party/music.jpg

    Almost makes me want to switch browsers!

  20. Dr. BLT said,

    August 31, 2005 at 1:09

    You’ve got me completely confused, Lucy. Are there two of you?

  21. mdhatter said,

    August 31, 2005 at 2:29

    I like the ‘yahoo personals’ girl

    grrrrrrrrrowl.

  22. Clif, aka Dr. Tuna Salad on Rye said,

    August 31, 2005 at 3:50

    Opera doesn’t render SadlyNo! correctly even though it looks the same in IE or Firefox. Same thing with my site. My vote is to ban Opera because it’s hard enough to validate a site for IE, Firefox and Safari. Perhaps Dr. BLT can write a song “OperaSucks.mp3″ which would be a better use of his time than anything else I could imagine. We can probably convince him to do it by saying that Opera is written by a bunch of Scandinavian left wingers. That should get his lather up.

  23. Jillian said,

    August 31, 2005 at 4:38

    We can probably convince him to do it by saying that Opera is written by a bunch of Scandinavian left wingers.

    It’s soooo true about the Scandanavians. They’re all atheist commie pinkos with no sexual morals. Everyone knows “Norwegian Wood” is a coded reference to Nordic tumescence. They have no shame - none of them.

  24. Hemlock Echo said,

    August 31, 2005 at 5:56

    Hey Doc. BLT, what would it take to get some of your raw vocal tracks? I’m thinking “Sadly, No: The Remix” (and I don’t mean that Sadly, Yes! site)

  25. Marq said,

    August 31, 2005 at 6:03

    Regarding the way Opera renders pages, it has a setting for how you wish it to present itself: as Opera, as Mozilla, or as IE 6. It’s under the Opera>Quick Preferences menu, at the bottom, or in the Preferences>Advanced pane>select Network and it’s the last drop-down menu on that pane. All of this is from the Mac OS X version, though the location of these things should be in roughly the same locations on Windows, Linux, etc.

  26. merlallen said,

    August 31, 2005 at 6:14

    It isn’t free anymore. And it kind of seems to suck just a little.

  27. Dr. BLT said,

    August 31, 2005 at 15:25

    A “…Sadly, No…” remix? Raw vocal tracks? Food for thought, Hamlock. I would possibly be honored to obligue, but no promices at this point. My e-mail address is accessible via my website. Have you people get in touch with my people.

  28. Father Tyme said,

    August 31, 2005 at 16:13

    Dr. BLT,

    ‘That reminds me of how my mother used to limit me to only using one sheet of toilet paper per bathroom visit.’

    Bet your fingers still stink, too.

  29. Anonymous said,

    August 31, 2005 at 16:49

    Father, he’s a crank-yanker. nothing (s)more

  30. Marq said,

    September 1, 2005 at 3:47

    Yeah, the free Opera was on Tuesday, 8-30-05 only. Glad I snagged mine in time.

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