iCab is a browser that isn't on your list. You might want to give it a try. I prefer OmniWeb -- it's a shame you're having trouble getting it to work, because it really takes the MacOSX UI to heart. Try the latest nightly build (Omni calls them sneakypeaks). It might help.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a good DVD player? Creative seems fairly popular, but I'm curious as to what the alterantives are
I've owned several, and the ones I have been most happy with are Pioneer's models and the Ricoh CDRW/DVD combo drives.
Go here to make sure that a modified version of the firmware for you drive is availble so you can easily play discs from more than one region. The Ricoh drives are especially nice because they are not region free, but region switchable, with the propper firmware modification. Region switchable is preferred to region free because some recent discs can detect if your DVD drive is region free and will refuse to play if it is. Region switchable drives avoid that problem. There are other drives that are region switchable, the Ricoh ones just happen to be the ones I am familiar with.
The author lost all credibility when he tried to portray Cardcaptors (the americanized version of Card Captor Sakura) as extremely violent and targeted at young boys. This show is about as violent as an episode of CareBears. It was also created for young girls. The cuteness factor alone should make pretty clear, along with the girl-power storyline, except, apparently, to writers for the NYT.
Akira was originally released in the US by Streamline. When they went out of business, no more copies were produced. Eventually, Pioneer picked up the movie. The film is being digitally remastered, probably so an anamorphic transfer can be done. A new dub track is also being produced, to fix the translation errors (and poor acting) in the original release.
While CDs work well as coasters, I remember fondly the old days of the 8" floppy, which worked perfectly as placemats, or with a bit of string, as a bib.
There's lots of talk about how archaic the US voting system is. So what. In almost every case it works flawlessly. Paperless computer voting is tempting disaster. There is no evidence a computerized voting system would be more accurate than the current system, or more resistant to tampering, and without physical ballots marked by the voters, there would be nothing to recount if that were needed. Just because it's new and sounds techie, that doesn't make it better, contrary to the Slashdot mentality.
A good compromise is what has been done in San Francisco. We use a paper ballot, you mark your choices with a pen on the ballot. When you put your ballot into the box, it passes through something like a scantron scanner, and is automatically counted. There is still a paper ballot which is the ultimate record of your vote, and can be recounted if needed.
2) If Steve Jobs curses them and doesn't release anything for those 'renegade' platforms, I'll sigh as I always do when Apple doesn't get it.
Frankly, I'm not sure that you "get it" either. Apple doesn't just sell software, they sell hardware too. If they ported to other platforms, they would undermine their own hardware business. Seeing as selling hw is where Apple makes most of their money, such a move probably wouldn't be all that wise.
Be was once a hardware company too; look how well they have fared after ditching the BeBox, and eventually porting to Intel -- not all that great. Its sad too, BeOS on a BeBox was incredible -- so much fun to tinker with. Hopefully OS X on a dual Mac will be too.
I'm certainly not the first person to say it in this discussion, but I'm going to add my voice to the chorus./.'s influence has grown tremendously over the last couple of months. Major news agencies regularly read here now. A news story on/. can have huge repercussions, as the story at the head of this thread and other recent articles here have demonstrated. With/.'s growth must come more respnsibility. Its one thing to yell "fire" out in the wilderness, quite another to yell it in a crowded building. When a news story that is bound to generate a lot of activity, such as something on privacy, or your rights online, at the very least, the parties involved should be contacted, and invited to present their side of the story here.
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iCab is a browser that isn't on your list. You might want to give it a try. I prefer OmniWeb -- it's a shame you're having trouble getting it to work, because it really takes the MacOSX UI to heart. Try the latest nightly build (Omni calls them sneakypeaks). It might help.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a good DVD player? Creative seems fairly popular, but I'm curious as to what the alterantives are
I've owned several, and the ones I have been most happy with are Pioneer's models and the Ricoh CDRW/DVD combo drives.
Go here to make sure that a modified version of the firmware for you drive is availble so you can easily play discs from more than one region. The Ricoh drives are especially nice because they are not region free, but region switchable, with the propper firmware modification. Region switchable is preferred to region free because some recent discs can detect if your DVD drive is region free and will refuse to play if it is. Region switchable drives avoid that problem. There are other drives that are region switchable, the Ricoh ones just happen to be the ones I am familiar with.
The author lost all credibility when he tried to portray Cardcaptors (the americanized version of Card Captor Sakura) as extremely violent and targeted at young boys. This show is about as violent as an episode of CareBears. It was also created for young girls. The cuteness factor alone should make pretty clear, along with the girl-power storyline, except, apparently, to writers for the NYT.
Akira was originally released in the US by Streamline. When they went out of business, no more copies were produced. Eventually, Pioneer picked up the movie. The film is being digitally remastered, probably so an anamorphic transfer can be done. A new dub track is also being produced, to fix the translation errors (and poor acting) in the original release.
While CDs work well as coasters, I remember fondly the old days of the 8" floppy, which worked perfectly as placemats, or with a bit of string, as a bib.
There's lots of talk about how archaic the US voting system is. So what. In almost every case it works flawlessly. Paperless computer voting is tempting disaster. There is no evidence a computerized voting system would be more accurate than the current system, or more resistant to tampering, and without physical ballots marked by the voters, there would be nothing to recount if that were needed. Just because it's new and sounds techie, that doesn't make it better, contrary to the Slashdot mentality. A good compromise is what has been done in San Francisco. We use a paper ballot, you mark your choices with a pen on the ballot. When you put your ballot into the box, it passes through something like a scantron scanner, and is automatically counted. There is still a paper ballot which is the ultimate record of your vote, and can be recounted if needed.
2) If Steve Jobs curses them and doesn't release anything for those 'renegade' platforms, I'll sigh as I always do when Apple doesn't get it.
Frankly, I'm not sure that you "get it" either. Apple doesn't just sell software, they sell hardware too. If they ported to other platforms, they would undermine their own hardware business. Seeing as selling hw is where Apple makes most of their money, such a move probably wouldn't be all that wise.
Be was once a hardware company too; look how well they have fared after ditching the BeBox, and eventually porting to Intel -- not all that great. Its sad too, BeOS on a BeBox was incredible -- so much fun to tinker with. Hopefully OS X on a dual Mac will be too.
I'm certainly not the first person to say it in this discussion, but I'm going to add my voice to the chorus. /.'s influence has grown tremendously over the last couple of months. Major news agencies regularly read here now. A news story on /. can have huge repercussions, as the story at the head of this thread and other recent articles here have demonstrated. With /.'s growth must come more respnsibility. Its one thing to yell "fire" out in the wilderness, quite another to yell it in a crowded building. When a news story that is bound to generate a lot of activity, such as something on privacy, or your rights online, at the very least, the parties involved should be contacted, and invited to present their side of the story here.