Nothing tops when Apple had to recall those PowerBooks shipped with bad batteries. That model lives forever in the hearts of techs, dubbed "the hindenbook".
I suppose this incident will be forever remembered by whatever fire-related acronym for UPS is funniest. My vote is for "Unexpected Pyrotechnics Show". Hah!
Well, this was posted in the Apple section of Slashdot, so it's directed firmly at that 7%. Theoretically, this is a huge deal, because the targetted reader could very well be a user of this program.
Apple has the resources to kill anything, open source or not. This reminds me of the Trillian vs. AOL battle that waged for quite a while. In this case, however, the 3rd-party software is going to lose.
I think there's a nice middle-ground to be found. I agree that software is getting sloppy, but if sharing of code is only done when it's completely refined, it's going to slow progress. There is a reason for alpha and beta releases.
I'd be OK with buggy graphics, or link behavior, but deleting home directories is tough to defend.
Honestly, I used to be able to get some friday-night-action for 20 bucks and a smile. Now I'm shelling out 100 dollar bills, and I can't even smile, because I'm paranoid "Victoria" or "Jasmine" is really an undercover cop trying to bust my ass...and not in the good way either.
Good points. I haven't used Konqueror, so I really didn't know.
Regardless, even if it was bugless, I'm not impressed. Chimera seems to hang less downloading pages, and I can't tell a difference in rendering times. When you have a Dual 1GHz G4, everything is fast.:)
A friend who is considering updating to Jaguar asked me if I liked Safari. I had to think for a second. I've switched between iCab, Netscape 6, Mozilla, IE, OmniWeb, and Chimera since I started using OS X. I had finally settled on Chimera as my primary browser before Safari got released.
So what did I respond? I told him that it seemed to me like it was a rush job. I didn't really see any signs that Apple had spent much time or effort developing the software. Yes, I fully realize it's beta. It should have bugs. But bugs as big as are mentioned in this story? Good gracious no. I've been beta testing Apple software for a long time, and bugs this big are usually taken care of with internal builds. Even seeds delivered to ADC members shouldn't have bugs this big. Safari is a widely publicized public beta.
Does anybody see any features that really show work? I know they did a lot of under-the-hood stuff, but what did they start with? What was the state of KHTML before Apple started contributing? I'm sure Apple is going to make the browser a large priority, but how much did they really put into Safari before it was released?
I've been wondering how long it would take before something like this would hit the market. I've always had the fantasy of using robots with set paths as dog walkers. Can you imagine driving through a residential area, with a bunch of robots leading dogs around? Well....maybe only rich neighborhoods at first, but things only get less expensive.
Of course, it would be a mixed blessing. It would take away another reason to get out of the house, and I don't imagine the robots would be able to clean up after the dogs at first. Plus you're going to need a huge robot to lead a big dog around. And there's nothing to pull the dog away when it bites the mailman.
Well, it seamed like a good fantasy. I'd buy one for my dog.
This is the 4th young girl I've heard about this week succumb to the evils of Richard Simmons videos. Which is her favorite? The "Disco Blast Off", or the "Best of Latin Buns Burning"?
Or is it....no....it couldn't be...."Getting Dirty with the 80s"? Oh, the humanity!
...you see, it's all component forces. If you look at the free body diagram of my car travelling on the road, you'll see the normal force, force of gravity, and my velocity in the x direction. As I mentioned, one of these component forces is gravity, labelled FsubG. It was recently discovered, and posted on slashdot, that the speed of said force is 3x10^7m/s.
And THAT'S why, officer, your radar reported that I was going 60 in a 40 zone!
Yup. The company I use is skypipeline. The nice thing about microwave is that not any idiot can offer the service, and so the level of support I've gotten has been excellent.
Actually, I've thought of all that. After becoming frustrated with the telco's, I switched to microwave. With a redundant dish, there's very little which can go wrong. They've got redundant lines from several providers to different cities. It bursts through clouds and rain. Aside from someone coming to the office with a ladder and bashing both dishes to sheet metal, it's hard to make the connection go down. I've had 100% uptime since I made the switch half a year ago.
I can't begin to comment on how accurate this is. As part of a hobby, I began hosting websites for free on a Linux box attached to a cable modem. Demand was big, and I liked what I was doing, so I turned it into a business. However, I had no idea about the costs involved.
Obviously I couldn't use a cable modem anymore, so I bought a t-1. The costs in that are huge. Local loop charges. Setup fees. Hardware fees. Then, when it's all set up, you still have to pay huge monthly bills. Not cheap.
And obviously you can't run a web hosting company on a single linux box. Add more hardware to the bill. Now that you've got more hardware, you need more electricity, more UPS systems, more cables, more switches, etc. etc.
A large part of what people pay for bandwidth is also advertising. The sad thing is, the customer pays for their own courting. When I pay hundreds of dollars to advertise on a website, the money comes from the customers I gain from doing so. You might think you're paying for bandwidth, but you're really paying for banner ads.
About the 15% capacity. They could be referring to fiber capacity, as was already brought up, or they could simply be referring to their actual capacity. I run a web serving company, and even at peak hours I only use 30% of my line. The reason for this being that nobody wants to be served by a server that's running at max capacity. It's dreadfully slow.
My rule of thumb is if I'm nearing 50% capacity, I buy more bandwidth for my customers to use. So far I've never received a complaint.
Just because an open source codec was released to add quicktime support, doesn't mean Apple is working to add iPod support. If anything, it means Apple probably ISN'T working on Ogg support. After all, these people wouldn't have done it themselves if Apple was going to do it.
Unless iPods also have the ability to accept open source codecs...
I don't think Apple has ever encouraged easter eggs, but we've seen them anyway. Just because some stupid PDF on the net says they can't do it, doesn't mean they won't.
I don't think this one is real, however. I loaded lots of photos yesterday, and nothing happened. Maybe the guy was playing a CD with a bonus track (you know, where the last song ends....and then there's a bunch of silence....and then something comes on at the very end).
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I stand corrected.
Nothing tops when Apple had to recall those PowerBooks shipped with bad batteries. That model lives forever in the hearts of techs, dubbed "the hindenbook".
I suppose this incident will be forever remembered by whatever fire-related acronym for UPS is funniest. My vote is for "Unexpected Pyrotechnics Show". Hah!
Well, this was posted in the Apple section of Slashdot, so it's directed firmly at that 7%. Theoretically, this is a huge deal, because the targetted reader could very well be a user of this program.
Apple has the resources to kill anything, open source or not. This reminds me of the Trillian vs. AOL battle that waged for quite a while. In this case, however, the 3rd-party software is going to lose.
Oh yeah? Well can it run Linux?
What? It does? Oh...damn. I guess I'll have to heckle somebody else's weather balloon.
I think there's a nice middle-ground to be found. I agree that software is getting sloppy, but if sharing of code is only done when it's completely refined, it's going to slow progress. There is a reason for alpha and beta releases.
I'd be OK with buggy graphics, or link behavior, but deleting home directories is tough to defend.
I can top you with one word: prostitutes.
Honestly, I used to be able to get some friday-night-action for 20 bucks and a smile. Now I'm shelling out 100 dollar bills, and I can't even smile, because I'm paranoid "Victoria" or "Jasmine" is really an undercover cop trying to bust my ass...and not in the good way either.
Jesus. They take the fun out of everything!
Good points. I haven't used Konqueror, so I really didn't know.
:)
Regardless, even if it was bugless, I'm not impressed. Chimera seems to hang less downloading pages, and I can't tell a difference in rendering times. When you have a Dual 1GHz G4, everything is fast.
Haha. Reminds me of this SNL skitch.
I have a feeling I'm about to slashdot myself...
A friend who is considering updating to Jaguar asked me if I liked Safari. I had to think for a second. I've switched between iCab, Netscape 6, Mozilla, IE, OmniWeb, and Chimera since I started using OS X. I had finally settled on Chimera as my primary browser before Safari got released.
So what did I respond? I told him that it seemed to me like it was a rush job. I didn't really see any signs that Apple had spent much time or effort developing the software. Yes, I fully realize it's beta. It should have bugs. But bugs as big as are mentioned in this story? Good gracious no. I've been beta testing Apple software for a long time, and bugs this big are usually taken care of with internal builds. Even seeds delivered to ADC members shouldn't have bugs this big. Safari is a widely publicized public beta.
Does anybody see any features that really show work? I know they did a lot of under-the-hood stuff, but what did they start with? What was the state of KHTML before Apple started contributing? I'm sure Apple is going to make the browser a large priority, but how much did they really put into Safari before it was released?
I've been wondering how long it would take before something like this would hit the market. I've always had the fantasy of using robots with set paths as dog walkers. Can you imagine driving through a residential area, with a bunch of robots leading dogs around? Well....maybe only rich neighborhoods at first, but things only get less expensive.
Of course, it would be a mixed blessing. It would take away another reason to get out of the house, and I don't imagine the robots would be able to clean up after the dogs at first. Plus you're going to need a huge robot to lead a big dog around. And there's nothing to pull the dog away when it bites the mailman.
Well, it seamed like a good fantasy. I'd buy one for my dog.
To be fair, Safari has popup blocking too.
**sigh**
This is the 4th young girl I've heard about this week succumb to the evils of Richard Simmons videos. Which is her favorite? The "Disco Blast Off", or the "Best of Latin Buns Burning"?
Or is it....no....it couldn't be...."Getting Dirty with the 80s"? Oh, the humanity!
Ooops. It's been awhile since I took physics.
...you see, it's all component forces. If you look at the free body diagram of my car travelling on the road, you'll see the normal force, force of gravity, and my velocity in the x direction. As I mentioned, one of these component forces is gravity, labelled FsubG. It was recently discovered, and posted on slashdot, that the speed of said force is 3x10^7m/s.
And THAT'S why, officer, your radar reported that I was going 60 in a 40 zone!
Yup. The company I use is skypipeline. The nice thing about microwave is that not any idiot can offer the service, and so the level of support I've gotten has been excellent.
It's expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Actually, I've thought of all that. After becoming frustrated with the telco's, I switched to microwave. With a redundant dish, there's very little which can go wrong. They've got redundant lines from several providers to different cities. It bursts through clouds and rain. Aside from someone coming to the office with a ladder and bashing both dishes to sheet metal, it's hard to make the connection go down. I've had 100% uptime since I made the switch half a year ago.
Thanks, but actually I'm considering selling colo myself.
:)
I may complain about the costs, but I need to fulfill my power complex of maintaining my own servers.
I can't begin to comment on how accurate this is. As part of a hobby, I began hosting websites for free on a Linux box attached to a cable modem. Demand was big, and I liked what I was doing, so I turned it into a business. However, I had no idea about the costs involved.
Obviously I couldn't use a cable modem anymore, so I bought a t-1. The costs in that are huge. Local loop charges. Setup fees. Hardware fees. Then, when it's all set up, you still have to pay huge monthly bills. Not cheap.
And obviously you can't run a web hosting company on a single linux box. Add more hardware to the bill. Now that you've got more hardware, you need more electricity, more UPS systems, more cables, more switches, etc. etc.
A large part of what people pay for bandwidth is also advertising. The sad thing is, the customer pays for their own courting. When I pay hundreds of dollars to advertise on a website, the money comes from the customers I gain from doing so. You might think you're paying for bandwidth, but you're really paying for banner ads.
About the 15% capacity. They could be referring to fiber capacity, as was already brought up, or they could simply be referring to their actual capacity. I run a web serving company, and even at peak hours I only use 30% of my line. The reason for this being that nobody wants to be served by a server that's running at max capacity. It's dreadfully slow.
My rule of thumb is if I'm nearing 50% capacity, I buy more bandwidth for my customers to use. So far I've never received a complaint.
Just because an open source codec was released to add quicktime support, doesn't mean Apple is working to add iPod support. If anything, it means Apple probably ISN'T working on Ogg support. After all, these people wouldn't have done it themselves if Apple was going to do it.
Unless iPods also have the ability to accept open source codecs...
At least this guy is honest about being a geek. You have to have balls to take your senior pictures with your computer.
Man, and I thought that I had to get out of the house more...
I don't think Apple has ever encouraged easter eggs, but we've seen them anyway. Just because some stupid PDF on the net says they can't do it, doesn't mean they won't.
I don't think this one is real, however. I loaded lots of photos yesterday, and nothing happened. Maybe the guy was playing a CD with a bonus track (you know, where the last song ends....and then there's a bunch of silence....and then something comes on at the very end).
*sigh*
Silly Linux people. BSD is my only friend.
Except for OpenBSD. I could do without that.
I hope you're joking. :)
Does trying to get Linux press forbid Sun from releasing the code to OpenBSD? Isn't it possible to send it to both parties?
Last I checked, supporting Linux doesn't null and void also supporting BSD.