Pardon me if I assume that everything Comcast does is anti-consumer unless proven otherwise. Their record certainly reinforces this skepticism. Sounds to me like they are trying yet again to scare people who torrent or use P2P oftware. Of course since they "can't" throttle, they are coming up with new ways to encourage their paying customers to use less of their "unlimited" bandwidth. Thanks for loking out for us Comcast.
No offence, but you get what you pay for (in effort). I for one have zero interest ever buying a program based on Flash thanks to the slow, ugly, non-standard interfaces. I know I'm not alone on this either.
Forgive me if I don't trust a company that can't write a plug-in that will give me less than 80% CPU usage (480p) on my brand new Macbook Pro. The Linux and Windows version are also glacially slow, and resource hogs. Frankly I want less Flash, not more. If Adobe can't get their shit together on the 2nd largest OS platform, how the hell are they going to get it working well on a teeny mobile ARM core?
Frankly multi-touch is really needed to help modernize the mouse. As somebody who uses a Macbook Pro at work I can honestly say it is the first trackpad I have ever used that doesn't make me not long for a mouse. In fact I would say with the exception of gaming I actually prefer the trackpad and its many gestures. The amount of things that can be done is both more intuitive and more elegant than simply strapping more buttons on a mouse. Now obviously multi-touch only works well if its implementation is great, so only time will tell. Thankfully it seems many companies are involved in this effort, so we don't have to only rely on MS "innovation"
If the public pays for the research and creation they should have access to the intellectual product for no additional fee. It's silly that it isn't this way now. Of course we can all thank our corrupt congress critters for that.
Sadly I agree. But the vorbis mp3 example is too kind. Ogg Vorbis was significantly better than mp3 at a given bitrate, and it still didn't get much traction. Theora on the other hand, like you said, doesn't compare to modern proprietary codecs. It's too bad, but it's true.
Is this new? Or is this the 10 second ad I have to suffer through before the page loads? WTF kind of retarded person wrote this thing? Apparently writing an iPhone app can make one godlike. Geez now the $99 registration to Apple doesn't seem half as bad.
I think the reason OS 9 sucks is sadly the only really horrible thing about an otherwise nice OS. It is terribly unstable compared to OSX or Win2000+. I realized it then, but going back it is really a major advancement. All G3's can run some flavor of OSX albiet sometimes slowly. I'd take some sluggish behavior over single application caused crashes.
A quick google search doesn't show any version port or otherwise of FF on OS 9. I think you are thinking of the Mozilla Classic Suite or whatever they called it then.
Judging by the success of almost every recent 3D movie in the US, I would say there are here to say. And yeah multitouch obviously is great for a phone, which kinda defeats the idea that is a "dead idea" not worth revisiting. Tho I agree using multitouch on a monitor over a few inches is an insane stupid concept, except for tradeshows of course.
I think the point you make is proven when we look at app sales and browser marketshare. Both cases where the iPhone kicks ass despite it's diminutive sales in global share.. The point being people buy the iPhone by choice, and get Symbian because it is cheaper- but never actually use the device.
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So do we hate IBM now?
Pardon me if I assume that everything Comcast does is anti-consumer unless proven otherwise. Their record certainly reinforces this skepticism. Sounds to me like they are trying yet again to scare people who torrent or use P2P oftware. Of course since they "can't" throttle, they are coming up with new ways to encourage their paying customers to use less of their "unlimited" bandwidth. Thanks for loking out for us Comcast.
No offence, but you get what you pay for (in effort). I for one have zero interest ever buying a program based on Flash thanks to the slow, ugly, non-standard interfaces. I know I'm not alone on this either.
Forgive me if I don't trust a company that can't write a plug-in that will give me less than 80% CPU usage (480p) on my brand new Macbook Pro. The Linux and Windows version are also glacially slow, and resource hogs. Frankly I want less Flash, not more. If Adobe can't get their shit together on the 2nd largest OS platform, how the hell are they going to get it working well on a teeny mobile ARM core?
Opera has had a similar feature as well and I agree it is quite handy, though good multitouch would be another leap ahead.
Frankly multi-touch is really needed to help modernize the mouse. As somebody who uses a Macbook Pro at work I can honestly say it is the first trackpad I have ever used that doesn't make me not long for a mouse. In fact I would say with the exception of gaming I actually prefer the trackpad and its many gestures. The amount of things that can be done is both more intuitive and more elegant than simply strapping more buttons on a mouse. Now obviously multi-touch only works well if its implementation is great, so only time will tell. Thankfully it seems many companies are involved in this effort, so we don't have to only rely on MS "innovation"
Does that imply there was a contract between you and Verizon? If so you should pursue them for breach.
Whooosh!
If the public pays for the research and creation they should have access to the intellectual product for no additional fee. It's silly that it isn't this way now. Of course we can all thank our corrupt congress critters for that.
Yeah I noticed that too. XP64 has always been the redheaded stepchild, but now MS isn't even trying to hide it.
to make everybody on Slashdot rush to defend MS.
Seriously great. And created by a noted Mac dev to bootl. Delicious.
What is this VCR you speak of? Is it better than Blu-Ray?
Sadly I agree. But the vorbis mp3 example is too kind. Ogg Vorbis was significantly better than mp3 at a given bitrate, and it still didn't get much traction. Theora on the other hand, like you said, doesn't compare to modern proprietary codecs. It's too bad, but it's true.
Interesting? More like Incomprehensible . I don't for the life of me understand what the hell you are ranting about.
Is this new? Or is this the 10 second ad I have to suffer through before the page loads? WTF kind of retarded person wrote this thing? Apparently writing an iPhone app can make one godlike. Geez now the $99 registration to Apple doesn't seem half as bad.
Cursive replacing the far faster and efficient typing? Insightful? Well I have seen it all.
OS/2 is really quite amazing as you say, but a quick correction. The last version of Opera for OS/2 was 5.12.
amen to that!
I think the reason OS 9 sucks is sadly the only really horrible thing about an otherwise nice OS. It is terribly unstable compared to OSX or Win2000+. I realized it then, but going back it is really a major advancement. All G3's can run some flavor of OSX albiet sometimes slowly. I'd take some sluggish behavior over single application caused crashes.
A quick google search doesn't show any version port or otherwise of FF on OS 9. I think you are thinking of the Mozilla Classic Suite or whatever they called it then.
Judging by the success of almost every recent 3D movie in the US, I would say there are here to say. And yeah multitouch obviously is great for a phone, which kinda defeats the idea that is a "dead idea" not worth revisiting. Tho I agree using multitouch on a monitor over a few inches is an insane stupid concept, except for tradeshows of course.
Oh boy you brightened my day. I love dark dry humor! Cheers!
Yeah but do they use the browser or download apps? Evidence suggests few do. Unlike Android and iPhone users.
I think the point you make is proven when we look at app sales and browser marketshare. Both cases where the iPhone kicks ass despite it's diminutive sales in global share.. The point being people buy the iPhone by choice, and get Symbian because it is cheaper- but never actually use the device.