They are; so why don't they bundle OmniWeb while they're at it?
It's the best argument for Cocoa I've seen yet; the better font readability is amazing.
I did try the Mozilla-based product whose spelling I can't remember (Chimera? [1]) - it does render text well, but it won't let you change your font. It's way behind OW, although it is nice to see another browser with font rendering that doesn't make me wince.
For some reason, Mozilla's font rendering looks better than IE's, but worse than OmniWeb's. Anyone know why?
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(*) Marketing hint, guys: When you name a product, make it easy to spell:-(.
Since my web pages contain enormous amounts of text and are largely based on my hobby photography, interests in video and the like, they are really best viewed with graphical browsers.
Most graphical interface designs, no matter how designed, have little to no mercy on text browsers. I would be better off having:
In a hurry? Text mode | Search [ ]
(flash page)
That might serve everyone effectively. I really need to put my sprawling pages in a database, but I just don't have the time. My other problem is that my pages are all formatted differently - there should be something that ties them together. But again, time's a huge problem.
I should consider server side includes, I suppose.
At any rate, I really should do something soon, since the only way to properly view my main page right now is Netscape 4:-(. Oops.
Interesting to see so many D30 owners. I bought mine in early January and really love it to death. I've taken over 2500 pictures since I bought it, while I took only 1,100 pictures in a year when I had a Coolpix 990, so obviously the design has been a major success for me.
I think your delay is because of one of the more aggraviting features of the D30 - if you press the shutter the moment the autofocus is confused by something, it will refuse to take the picture. There should be some kind of override (say pressing the shutter release harder or something). Problem is that you lose pictures which would be useful to have even if the focus wasn't perfect, such as birds outdoors at f/22, which are going to be in decent focus no matter what you do.
I solve the problem by using manual focus most of the time, but sometimes you really need the speed of an autofocus system, especially for the aforementioned birds.
Other than that and with continuous shooting filling up the buffer, I've never had any trouble with the D30's responsiveness.
And it's probably just as well I didn't wait and get the D60, since the pictures would be double the size, and they're already plenty big. Or maybe that's a rationalization. You decide.
If you want Final Cut Pro cheap, look to the archaeologists on eBay. There are a lot of people who sell ancient, shrink-wrapped versions of old software like Final Cut Pro 1.0 for about $200. Then upgrade to 3.0 for $299 and you have it for $500.
I've done this with a couple of programs (Final Cut Pro, After Effects production bundle), and it's always gone splendidly well for me. And yes, they are full, registerable versions. Just watch out for Academic versions; if there's any ambiguity at all in the listing, ask.
I'm not sure if the actual impact was intentional, and to give them credit, once they saw how seriously the government took the situation, they dropped the case. It was the government's decision to continue prosecuting.
But that aside, this is an interesting test case to show that what many of us really hate about Microsoft is not its monopoly, or its bundling policies, or its bullying ways, but a combination of product quality problems(*) and persistent privacy invasions.
If they'd made a wonderful operating system, I'm betting we wouldn't be nearly as mad at them as we are.
Adobe has always made great products, and hopefully will always make great products. So we forgive them their monoply, and I'd say even their treatment of that unfortunate Russian.
If it had been Microsoft, can you imagine the furor?
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(*) Persistent rumours exist that Microsoft has improved its quality greatly and cleaned up its act. But in a couple of hours of creating a simple resume for a friend using the new MacOS X version of Word for Windows, I got it to crash. Lost a lot of work, too.
Despite all the opposition I see from others, I have to chime in to agree.
I was asked to do some PowerPoint presentations, and I said "How about Flash instead?"
Fortunately, my employer was open-minded enough to let me give it a try, and I must say it worked out quite well.
I am seriously thinking of redoing my main page in Flash, primarily because it would be compatible with Netscape 4.x and the latest spiffy browsers. Flash seems to be more cross-platform than anything. It's not perfect, but sadly neither is Dynamic HTML.
My only real problem has been a combination of lack of time and lack of Flash for MacOS X. The latter finally came out, so it may be about time for me to exercise my creativity a bit.
I have to admit, I find it amusing at times that people protest like crazy about Microsoft the monopoly, but don't say anything about Adobe, which has at least as commanding a presence in graphic arts as Microsoft has in the OS market.
Perhaps it's because people actually LIKE Adobe stuff?
Naaawwww... that would be too simple:-).
(Okay, this doesn't disturb me at all, actually, but it does make me laugh. Maybe if Microsoft was actually NICE to its customers and partners, it would do better in the PR wars.)
D (Who has willingly spent over $1,000 with Adobe in the past year).
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Great - but as I said, if I'm a Windows user, I need Windows technical support. (Fortunately, I'm not:-) ).
So I guess I would have to selectively unblock parts of Microsoft's empire if I needed their technical support.
Or, I suppose, search through Google Groups instead... might be more effective, too. I haven't had to get technical support for a MS product in some time (since I no longer use them enough to need it), but when I was in a position to need it, it was usually just plain impossible to find stuff without professional help..
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If I were Microsoft, I'd send the data through port 80, which you can't block because you can't otherwise use the web.
I liked the suggestions some had to block Microsoft's web sites. Of course if you use Windows, you probably need Windows technical support.
If you don't want your search queries broken down and analyzed by Microsoft - an eerie thought even if you're not uniquely identified - simply type
http://www.google.com
into your web browser instead of using Microsoft's "easy" search tool. And if you're really (quite reasonably) paranoid, use Mozilla, Opera or some other competing program just in case there's special code in IE to recognize leading search engines.
Of course if you're REALLY paranoid, go ahead and use MacOS X or Linux.
Finally, bear in mind that they claim not to save the IP addresses, but it's so useful and so trivial to do that I wouldn't take their word for it. Even they admit it was done during testing. And for many people - including myself, when I'm on my home DSL connection - the IP address really is a unique identifier.
You can lose money in a busines for up to three years and get all the writeoffs you want. After that, the IRS lowers the boom and won't let you declare expenses unless they make them up with income.
eBay is using it, but only alongside their existing authentication mechanism. I'm not sure (since I haven't tried it) whether there's a way to tie an existing eBay account (with feedback and such) to the Passport ID. In any event, it doesn't look like they're pushing it too strongly; it's just presented as something else you can do. With the enormous pre-existing base of eBay users, I doubt that it's going to have much effect.
Passport isn't going away, since it's the authentication mechanism for Microsoft's sites. The single sign-on still seems like a good idea. At the same time, it's pretty obvious that most companies don't want to give Microsoft access to their data, and that's where it ends.
I think they are wise, so I think it's going to be really tough (if it's even possible) to turn it around.
I believe this feature was first invented in OmniWeb, which is certainly one of the best-designed browsers around.
It's not widespread because it only runs under MacOS X, but it has a really high market share among Mac users. It's made by a bunch of really cool people (who also do game porting, for those who like that sort of thing).
I don't use it because I want the sites I visit to stay alive, and I realize pop up/pop under ads may be a necessary evil in that direction.
But if things start downloading into my computer, I'd have to think twice. I'm just glad I use MacOS X and Linux, neither of which have a large enough market share to provoke this kind of stunt.
Has anyone else had this problem? It's been around for quite a while on my PowerMac G4, and no matter how many security updates I install it doesn't change.
When I try running SSH, I get
OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90581f, you have 90602f
So how do I get 90581f, or whatever I actually need?
It costs serious bucks in fuel and maintenance costs to get a 200-odd foot object the size of a modest mansion up to, say, 30mph. There are a few that do it, but, again, costs are fantastic.
The 143' Octopussy is one of the more famous yachts capable of this kind of speed. According to this page, she has a cruising speed (optimal efficiency) of 22knots, which is about 25mph. At this dizzying speed, she burns up 343 US gallons of diesel per hour. So if you bought your diesel at the bulk rate of around $1/gallon, each hour of operation would cost $343. If you're going to cruise at that speed for a day, we're talking about $8,232 a day. Charter cost is $90,000 per week on season.
If you look at the picture on the link, you will note that the Octopussy is not level; it's actually moving over the surface of the water. This means a less comfortable ride, and it also means everything you own is pretty much continuously at an angle. Slower yachts glide through the water at lower speeds and are generally more comfortable.
I know someone who chartered his 120' yacht on an informal basis for $45,000 per week with all expenses included. If my memory serves, his yacht could go about 15 knots, or about the same as the submarine. That should give you an idea of how much speed costs, and why truly fast yachts are relatively rare.
You have to have - literally! - money to burn to run one of those things.
The HD is brand new as of this month and appears to have specs even better than the Cinema Display. I've played with the Cinema Display and it's definitely awesome; I expect the HD version to be even more so.
I'm using a SGI 1600SW flat panel display. It's about a 17" flat screen but it runs at 1600x1024 resolution on its wide screen. If you're familiar with the Apple Cinema Display, the 1600SW looks like a darker 3/4 scale model.
If finances permit, I'm planning to replace it with the new Apple Cinema HD display (1920x1200 resolution). A shade expensive at $3,500.
I love the LCD monitors because they have incredibly sharp text, and as you probably know most geeks spend more time looking at text than pictures. High ext sharpness reduces fatigue and eyestrain significantly, making the LCD well worth the extra bucks.
My understanding - and I'm sure someone will rush in to correct me if I'm wrong - is that the pixels themselves last virtually forever (like LEDs), but the backlight (a flourescent lamp) burns out after a time.
I think that could be as short as two years of constant use. I hope I'm wrong:-(.
I have a 1600SW, but their newer panel is a more or less typical 18" unit which doesn't seem very distinguished compared to the competition.
It does have a very fast pixel response; I can send my mouse on long voyages to the mysterious worlds on the right of the screen, and it never seems to echo.
I like it a lot but want to get the Apple Cinema Display HD thanks to the huge number of pixels it has and the physically much larger screen. Curiously, it claims excellent pixel response, but for some reason the spec doesn't give figures - anyone know what it is? (List for either the plain Cinema Display or the new HD).
What does seem odd is that Apple's specs put it in the middle of the pack for LCD screens per the c|net article, but when I actually use an Apple Cinema Display, it seems brighter than anything out there. So either the article's wrong or Apple is quite a bit more conservative in its specs than one might think.
Interesting to see a fellow Irix + Mac user. MacOS X is a lot better in software availability terms, but the Irix interface is still the best Unix I know of. MacOS X looks better, but Irix has superior usability. And my Irix system has been super-stable - it's up for more than half a year now, which by an astonishing coincidence is the amount of time since my last hardware upgrade.
Anyway, the solution to your problem is to hook up an external SCSI hard drive. Even though SGI wants god-awful amounts of money for a certified drive, you can choose any SCSI drive you want without any trouble and minmal expense.
Easy to set up, too. I don't remember the details, but it went very smoothly for me.
The program he wanted to import the files on probably wouldn't run under Linux.
You could probably find a Windows version of it, but he would have to go to the trouble of using the Windows command line, which in my experience is miles away from the Linux or MacOS X.
So on balance, this is a unique MacOS X advantage - a great crossover between Unix and the Mac.
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They are; so why don't they bundle OmniWeb while they're at it?
:-(.
It's the best argument for Cocoa I've seen yet; the better font readability is amazing.
I did try the Mozilla-based product whose spelling I can't remember (Chimera? [1]) - it does render text well, but it won't let you change your font. It's way behind OW, although it is nice to see another browser with font rendering that doesn't make me wince.
For some reason, Mozilla's font rendering looks better than IE's, but worse than OmniWeb's. Anyone know why?
D
(*) Marketing hint, guys: When you name a product, make it easy to spell
Macromedia dumped the product when the development team missed too many deadlines, so Apple picked it up, presumably for a song.
Macromedia seems like a pretty stupid company now, no?
I hope the development folks are well-compensated; they've earned it.
D
Since my web pages contain enormous amounts of text and are largely based on my hobby photography, interests in video and the like, they are really best viewed with graphical browsers.
:-(. Oops.
Most graphical interface designs, no matter how designed, have little to no mercy on text browsers. I would be better off having:
In a hurry? Text mode | Search [ ]
(flash page)
That might serve everyone effectively. I really need to put my sprawling pages in a database, but I just don't have the time. My other problem is that my pages are all formatted differently - there should be something that ties them together. But again, time's a huge problem.
I should consider server side includes, I suppose.
At any rate, I really should do something soon, since the only way to properly view my main page right now is Netscape 4
D
Interesting to see so many D30 owners. I bought mine in early January and really love it to death. I've taken over 2500 pictures since I bought it, while I took only 1,100 pictures in a year when I had a Coolpix 990, so obviously the design has been a major success for me.
I think your delay is because of one of the more aggraviting features of the D30 - if you press the shutter the moment the autofocus is confused by something, it will refuse to take the picture. There should be some kind of override (say pressing the shutter release harder or something). Problem is that you lose pictures which would be useful to have even if the focus wasn't perfect, such as birds outdoors at f/22, which are going to be in decent focus no matter what you do.
I solve the problem by using manual focus most of the time, but sometimes you really need the speed of an autofocus system, especially for the aforementioned birds.
Other than that and with continuous shooting filling up the buffer, I've never had any trouble with the D30's responsiveness.
And it's probably just as well I didn't wait and get the D60, since the pictures would be double the size, and they're already plenty big. Or maybe that's a rationalization. You decide.
D
If you want Final Cut Pro cheap, look to the archaeologists on eBay. There are a lot of people who sell ancient, shrink-wrapped versions of old software like Final Cut Pro 1.0 for about $200. Then upgrade to 3.0 for $299 and you have it for $500.
I've done this with a couple of programs (Final Cut Pro, After Effects production bundle), and it's always gone splendidly well for me. And yes, they are full, registerable versions. Just watch out for Academic versions; if there's any ambiguity at all in the listing, ask.
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Yes, that was a really sick thing to do; I agree.
I'm not sure if the actual impact was intentional, and to give them credit, once they saw how seriously the government took the situation, they dropped the case. It was the government's decision to continue prosecuting.
But that aside, this is an interesting test case to show that what many of us really hate about Microsoft is not its monopoly, or its bundling policies, or its bullying ways, but a combination of product quality problems(*) and persistent privacy invasions.
If they'd made a wonderful operating system, I'm betting we wouldn't be nearly as mad at them as we are.
Adobe has always made great products, and hopefully will always make great products. So we forgive them their monoply, and I'd say even their treatment of that unfortunate Russian.
If it had been Microsoft, can you imagine the furor?
D
(*) Persistent rumours exist that Microsoft has improved its quality greatly and cleaned up its act. But in a couple of hours of creating a simple resume for a friend using the new MacOS X version of Word for Windows, I got it to crash. Lost a lot of work, too.
Despite all the opposition I see from others, I have to chime in to agree.
...
I was asked to do some PowerPoint presentations, and I said "How about Flash instead?"
Fortunately, my employer was open-minded enough to let me give it a try, and I must say it worked out quite well.
I am seriously thinking of redoing my main page in Flash, primarily because it would be compatible with Netscape 4.x and the latest spiffy browsers. Flash seems to be more cross-platform than anything. It's not perfect, but sadly neither is Dynamic HTML.
My only real problem has been a combination of lack of time and lack of Flash for MacOS X. The latter finally came out, so it may be about time for me to exercise my creativity a bit.
Unless someone can convince me otherwise
D
I have to admit, I find it amusing at times that people protest like crazy about Microsoft the monopoly, but don't say anything about Adobe, which has at least as commanding a presence in graphic arts as Microsoft has in the OS market.
... that would be too simple :-).
Perhaps it's because people actually LIKE Adobe stuff?
Naaawwww
(Okay, this doesn't disturb me at all, actually, but it does make me laugh. Maybe if Microsoft was actually NICE to its customers and partners, it would do better in the PR wars.)
D
(Who has willingly spent over $1,000 with Adobe in the past year).
Great - but as I said, if I'm a Windows user, I need Windows technical support. (Fortunately, I'm not :-) ).
... might be more effective, too. I haven't had to get technical support for a MS product in some time (since I no longer use them enough to need it), but when I was in a position to need it, it was usually just plain impossible to find stuff without professional help..
So I guess I would have to selectively unblock parts of Microsoft's empire if I needed their technical support.
Or, I suppose, search through Google Groups instead
D
If I were Microsoft, I'd send the data through port 80, which you can't block because you can't otherwise use the web.
I liked the suggestions some had to block Microsoft's web sites. Of course if you use Windows, you probably need Windows technical support.
If you don't want your search queries broken down and analyzed by Microsoft - an eerie thought even if you're not uniquely identified - simply type
http://www.google.com
into your web browser instead of using Microsoft's "easy" search tool. And if you're really (quite reasonably) paranoid, use Mozilla, Opera or some other competing program just in case there's special code in IE to recognize leading search engines.
Of course if you're REALLY paranoid, go ahead and use MacOS X or Linux.
Finally, bear in mind that they claim not to save the IP addresses, but it's so useful and so trivial to do that I wouldn't take their word for it. Even they admit it was done during testing. And for many people - including myself, when I'm on my home DSL connection - the IP address really is a unique identifier.
D
You can lose money in a busines for up to three years and get all the writeoffs you want. After that, the IRS lowers the boom and won't let you declare expenses unless they make them up with income.
D
eBay is using it, but only alongside their existing authentication mechanism. I'm not sure (since I haven't tried it) whether there's a way to tie an existing eBay account (with feedback and such) to the Passport ID. In any event, it doesn't look like they're pushing it too strongly; it's just presented as something else you can do. With the enormous pre-existing base of eBay users, I doubt that it's going to have much effect.
Passport isn't going away, since it's the authentication mechanism for Microsoft's sites. The single sign-on still seems like a good idea. At the same time, it's pretty obvious that most companies don't want to give Microsoft access to their data, and that's where it ends.
I think they are wise, so I think it's going to be really tough (if it's even possible) to turn it around.
D
I believe this feature was first invented in OmniWeb, which is certainly one of the best-designed browsers around.
It's not widespread because it only runs under MacOS X, but it has a really high market share among Mac users. It's made by a bunch of really cool people (who also do game porting, for those who like that sort of thing).
I don't use it because I want the sites I visit to stay alive, and I realize pop up/pop under ads may be a necessary evil in that direction.
But if things start downloading into my computer, I'd have to think twice. I'm just glad I use MacOS X and Linux, neither of which have a large enough market share to provoke this kind of stunt.
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That fixed it!
Many thanks.
D
Has anyone else had this problem? It's been around for quite a while on my PowerMac G4, and no matter how many security updates I install it doesn't change.
When I try running SSH, I get
OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90581f, you have 90602f
So how do I get 90581f, or whatever I actually need?
Thanks for any help.
D
It costs serious bucks in fuel and maintenance costs to get a 200-odd foot object the size of a modest mansion up to, say, 30mph. There are a few that do it, but, again, costs are fantastic.
The 143' Octopussy is one of the more famous yachts capable of this kind of speed. According to this page, she has a cruising speed (optimal efficiency) of 22knots, which is about 25mph. At this dizzying speed, she burns up 343 US gallons of diesel per hour. So if you bought your diesel at the bulk rate of around $1/gallon, each hour of operation would cost $343. If you're going to cruise at that speed for a day, we're talking about $8,232 a day. Charter cost is $90,000 per week on season.
If you look at the picture on the link, you will note that the Octopussy is not level; it's actually moving over the surface of the water. This means a less comfortable ride, and it also means everything you own is pretty much continuously at an angle. Slower yachts glide through the water at lower speeds and are generally more comfortable.
I know someone who chartered his 120' yacht on an informal basis for $45,000 per week with all expenses included. If my memory serves, his yacht could go about 15 knots, or about the same as the submarine. That should give you an idea of how much speed costs, and why truly fast yachts are relatively rare.
You have to have - literally! - money to burn to run one of those things.
D
The HD is brand new as of this month and appears to have specs even better than the Cinema Display. I've played with the Cinema Display and it's definitely awesome; I expect the HD version to be even more so.
D
I'm using a SGI 1600SW flat panel display. It's about a 17" flat screen but it runs at 1600x1024 resolution on its wide screen. If you're familiar with the Apple Cinema Display, the 1600SW looks like a darker 3/4 scale model.
If finances permit, I'm planning to replace it with the new Apple Cinema HD display (1920x1200 resolution). A shade expensive at $3,500.
I love the LCD monitors because they have incredibly sharp text, and as you probably know most geeks spend more time looking at text than pictures. High ext sharpness reduces fatigue and eyestrain significantly, making the LCD well worth the extra bucks.
My understanding - and I'm sure someone will rush in to correct me if I'm wrong - is that the pixels themselves last virtually forever (like LEDs), but the backlight (a flourescent lamp) burns out after a time.
:-(.
I think that could be as short as two years of constant use. I hope I'm wrong
Anyone have more details?
D
I have a 1600SW, but their newer panel is a more or less typical 18" unit which doesn't seem very distinguished compared to the competition.
It does have a very fast pixel response; I can send my mouse on long voyages to the mysterious worlds on the right of the screen, and it never seems to echo.
I like it a lot but want to get the Apple Cinema Display HD thanks to the huge number of pixels it has and the physically much larger screen. Curiously, it claims excellent pixel response, but for some reason the spec doesn't give figures - anyone know what it is? (List for either the plain Cinema Display or the new HD).
What does seem odd is that Apple's specs put it in the middle of the pack for LCD screens per the c|net article, but when I actually use an Apple Cinema Display, it seems brighter than anything out there. So either the article's wrong or Apple is quite a bit more conservative in its specs than one might think.
D
Read this before you buy or use the program:
w s/ ee/
http://www.radsoft.net/resources/software/revie
They're notorious spammers, and tests showed it's not all that effective.
D
When I visited Fry's about a week ago, there were four available - and at the old lower price.
:-(.
I saw one person wheeling his out of the store on my way in.
So I suspect they're all gone by now
I normally go for the professional line, but I have to admit that I'd love one just to admire the design.
But I'm saving up for that 23" Cinema Display instead. Every home user needs at least one or two of those.
D
You'd probably like MacOS X if you gave it a shot.
You can use a CLI when you feel like it, or a GUI when you feel like it - and both are world-class.
D
Interesting to see a fellow Irix + Mac user. MacOS X is a lot better in software availability terms, but the Irix interface is still the best Unix I know of. MacOS X looks better, but Irix has superior usability. And my Irix system has been super-stable - it's up for more than half a year now, which by an astonishing coincidence is the amount of time since my last hardware upgrade.
Anyway, the solution to your problem is to hook up an external SCSI hard drive. Even though SGI wants god-awful amounts of money for a certified drive, you can choose any SCSI drive you want without any trouble and minmal expense.
Easy to set up, too. I don't remember the details, but it went very smoothly for me.
Hope that helps.
D
The program he wanted to import the files on probably wouldn't run under Linux.
You could probably find a Windows version of it, but he would have to go to the trouble of using the Windows command line, which in my experience is miles away from the Linux or MacOS X.
So on balance, this is a unique MacOS X advantage - a great crossover between Unix and the Mac.
D