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Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program
coolmacdude writes "This morning Safari beta v67 was leaked to the Internet. Because this is the third time it has happened (v62 and v64 were leaked), Apple has apparantly had enough and decided to terminate the seed program that provided unreleased beta verisons to selected developers. In a email sent to all developers and posted on Mike Wendland's blog, Apple says:
'Due to Safari 67 postings to the internet, we have closed the Safari Seed project. We know that the majority of you are not responsible for the leaks to the internet, and we sincerely appreciate your feedback, time and effort with this project.'"
you got 2nd post? better luck next time.
How did you do that?
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Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
pardon the Typo.
Mozilla can look like:
A kitchen sink
Mac OS X
Internet Explorer
the linux kernel. (it has as many lines of code as the linux kernel!)
Does this mean that there is still hope that Ep3 won't suck ass?
whoever mod'ed that down... BITE ME When I hit reply there were no comments at all.
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I Love Safari!!
Maya Angelou!!
I LOVE her pancake mix!!!
For me to do that I'd have to pull my fist out of my own ass. And my other fist is up Steve Jobs' ass right now. Maybe another Apple fag has a free fist or foot.
hahahha!! Excellent ;o) Very funny.
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The Power Mac G4 can be built-to-order to fit any professional use. You can fill it with 2 GB of high-speed DDR SDRAM, get it with a 4x SuperDrive that's twice as fast at burning DVDs, choose up to four internal hard disk drives up to a mind-boggling 720GB, get unwired with an AirPort Extreme Card or with a Bluetooth wireless connectivity module and add scorchingly fast graphics. Every new Power Mac G4 also gets the benefit of a built-in FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports, four USB ports (two on the computer, two on the keyboard) and four full-length 64-bit, 33MHz PCI slots and Gigabit Ethernet for shooting large files across your LAN at phenomenal speeds. What's more, FireWire, PCI expansion and Gigabit Ethernet are integrated directly into the main system controller, reducing latencies and providing superior I/O performance.
Be went down the tubes because for several reasons, but the switch to x86 was not one of them. Intel literally paid them to port their OS to the x86 and if they had not done so they would have gone out of business long before they did.
Be failed because of Linux. If Linux and would-be replacement products, such as FreeBSD, did not exist, then Be might have been more successful. The problem is that strong competition hurts weak competitors far more than it does strong ones. Linux is strong competition when it comes to the market for operating systems. Microsoft is hurting because of Linux, what does that say about companies that are not in Microsoft's position? Linux obliterated SCO, and if it wasn't for the fact that Sun sells big iron it would be hurting more than it already is because of Linux. IBM is pushing Linux on their big iron for the simple reason that IBM sells big iron, what OS is running on it is irrelevant to them. If hackers will create a top-notch commodity OS for them for free then they're going to laugh all the way to the bank. Sun will likely follow suit if they know what is good for them.
BeOS was a commercial desktop operating system, and that means its survival was dependent upon the applications that could be run on it. It lacked the applications that Windows has, and the niche applications that ran on it were not enough to sustain the company. The problem with niche products is that they MUST fulfill a specific requirement that other more popular or widely used products cannot. BeOS was unable to find such a role, or at least one that was significant enough to keep them afloat.
I was sorry to see them go. Just as I'll be sorry to see Apple go believe it or not. I started out on an Apple II+ and until the mid-80's 6502 based Apple's were all I used. I switched to PC's when EGA became popular and because the 286 was a speed demon compared to a 1 Mhz 6502. I didn't switch to the Mac because 1) I was a kid and couldn't afford one, and 2) they simply weren't expandable the way the PC was. The lack of expansion slots really hurt the early macs in my opinion. Apple had a golden opportunity back then to move to an open hardware platform, and they missed it. The Mac clones in mid 90's was a case of too little, too late. Being proprietary works for big iron, for now at least, but it doesn't work when you are competing with commodity hardware based upon an open standard.
People blame Microsoft for Apple's decline, but they're wrong. Microsoft didn't cripple Apple. Compaq did, Dell did, Gateway did. Every mom and pop PC chop shop and Taiwaneese producer of standard PC components did. Along the way they killed off Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, and a host of other companies whose names are lost to history. Microsoft merely rode the PC wave to the top. The only reason Apple survived back then was because they were the strongest producer of proprietary systems. The Mac was truly a killer computer back then. Even so, open standards always win in the end, even if they are technically inferior. A PC circa 1988 was a bad joke compared to the Mac-II. But because there was competition within the PC market continuous improvement were made at a greater rate than what Apple could do on its own.
The position Apple is in today is not one I would want to be in. They've got the PC hardware industry on one side, and the Linux movement on the other. They can't keep up with Intel and AMD, and if they were to become a pure OS/software company, Linux would eat them alive. They can't stay on their current hardware because Motorola and IBM gave up on the PPC as a desktop processor back when Apple axed CHRP. Neither company is going to pay to develop faster chips just for Apple's sake. That means that staying on PPC is staying on a sinking ship. The only way that Apple could make a successful transition to x86 is if they were able to create killer apps that only ran on OS-X. With even Microsoft's killer apps like Office and IE getting hit with open source alter
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I can give two shits and a fuck about karma, look at my profile... I have all kinds of -1's
I only "login" so I can see what kind of response I get to my comments.
So in closing: Fuck karma and fuck you.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Is slashdot down, or have the editors diesd, because the last submission was on the 22nd.
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My name is Michael Sims; I was horny. I was 19 years old and I was a gay linux twink. I also was still ... some thing. It
living with my mother & her husband after having blown outta college
with a GPA so low that you can't get it by just not showing up, you
actually have to work to get it *that* low!
I had sucked my way in to a job at VAlinux. ($20k,
salaried! Woohoo!)
It was mid-spring and lusciously warm, as spring goes, and I was
going nuts. The neighbor kid who looked like a brick shit house,
hung, dumb, 18-year-old mac zealot, but was only really 14 (barely!) had
been out front wearing football scrimmage shorts (you know, the ones
that lace up the crotch) and nothing else, tossing a football with his
little brother and all I could do was watch. Trollaxor was so redneck
straight it reeked, but had a body that was built to be used.
Unfortunately I knew he only used it on girls.
That was 3 hours ago, just before sunset and I still hadn't had a
moments peace to yank my crank, between my mom yelling for me, the
idiot she was married to wandering around aimlessly, and my sister
coming in and out and in and out. I was near exploding from the semen
build up and testosterone overload.
I decided action had to be taken. Yelling some lame ass excuse as I
hustled out the door, I dove in the p.o.s. Nova I owned and tore outta
there as fast as I could without attracting the attention of the local
small town cop.
Now I wasn't anything great, but I had enough
wasn't cutes, it wasn't hots, it was - let's just call it 'looks', to
get the attention of some of the right people, some of the right time.
Dark hair that was growing out (just below shoulder length), tall
(over 6'2"), and lanky (145lbs on a good day), I had a fair package
(7"-ish) and kept it wrapped tight in string bikinis and thongs I
liked to wear. Usually 501's that were form fitting, and a tee shirt,
and I would prowl.
Tonight I wanted fucked! That simple, that plain, I wanted a fat,
long, thick, cock shoved up my ass *hard*.
I hit the interstate and rolled north a dozen miles to the rest area
that was there, where I had blown a few of the boys from the juco
north of here or a few cocks from the college boys that attended the
school south of here. Toss in a couple of the odd travelers, and I
had gotten to know this place pretty well. Its funny, that was before
the Internet had really gotten strong. I stopped by there the other
day and hung out for a half hour and the only action that I found was
legit travelers and so on. Ah, you can't go back... but I digress.
I pull in to the rest stop, hopped out, locked up my p.o.s. & made a
circuit to see who was what. Nothing to be seen, but on my way back,
a new player pulled in. He's got a faded tan escort looking thing and
when he gets out he also has my full, total, complete attention.
FUCK, he was gorgeous! Young, maybe 19 or 20 like me, a little
shorter, tight built body, dirty blond hair that was fantastic, and he
begged to be used for pleasure. He walked into the men's side and I
followed as soon as I figured he wasn't there for the water.
Inside, I found him primping in front of the mirror, so I tried to
act cool, thinking that maybe he wasn't cruising, but instead just
taking a minute to check his look, but after he was done, he came over
to the pisser beside mine and took a stand, too.
I glanced, he glanced, I glanced, *we* glanced and it was electric!
Oh. My. Gawds!
"Wanna," he asked with jerk of his head.
Oh yeah, I 'wanna' bad, I thought, "Yeah," was all I could manage,
nodding like a back window Chihuahua.
"Wait a few seconds, then follow me in my car after you get out
there," he said, stuffing his cock back in and zipping up. I didn't
care if he was going to hell for a room, I was all his and was going
to follow him for sure.
Well, we pulled outta