Force Quit button (was Re: Youtube killed Epiphany dead)

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Andrew Conkling wrote:

> On 8/3/06, Beartooth <beartooth at adelphia.net> wrote:

>> Maybe I'd better skip the Al Gore parody ...
>
> This is what happens when the government controls the internet. Sorry, 
> had to bite. :P

 	Gummint, aka gdgummint, has morphed in recent decades from a 
standing joke to a bad joke, to a dirty joke. But I don't think Epiphany's 
flash troubles are due to it; I doubt it'd have the intelligence nor the 
decisiveness to do such things, much less control the Net, if it made up 
its bureaucratic mind that it wanted to. Note that I'm neither trusting 
gummint, advocating control by it, nor apologizing for it, but just 
doubting its ability.

>>         Epiphany reminds me of the gray squirrels I hunt in Southern 
>> Appalachia. You can get a good clean hit, so that they fall out of the 
>> top of a tree like a sack of meat, landing with a loud thud -- and see 
>> them in a few minutes forget they're dead, and start to crawl off.
>
> This analogy fails me completely, but I'd be interested to know what you 
> mean by it. :)

 	Force Quit is a great new GUI; I don't always know how to use ps 
ax, but I can *see* what to click on. Not having seen it fail before, 
however, I took for granted that Epiphany was as dead as a squirrel that 
falls fifty feet without any attempt to brace himself -- and the 
assumptions, while eminently reasonable, both fail at times. "Forgetting 
he's dead" is my figure of speech for coming to, after having given every 
sign of extinction.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast
A wanderstaff like an Elvish rope should be long,
and strong, and light. And gentle to the hand.