Maybe someone will start a tech news site where users can submit stories, and editors pick the most accurate ones for posting... It can even feature user-run moderation for comments -- kinda like "digg up" and "digg down".
It's much better on x86 -- it used to be absolutely horrid on the PowerPC platform. Given my past experience with Flash on non-x86 architectures, I'm not surprised that Flash on ARM isn't a high-performance solution.
So does Safari. Yet from my experience it has way more rendering bugs than most other browsers I've used and tested against. Safari does? Hmm... that's odd. Typically, I've found WebKit to be the best renderer out there as far as standards go. I use it as my "reference" renderer when designing sites, as something that renders fine w/ WebKit will almost certainly render the same in every other standards-compliant browser.
Sometimes its standards support becomes an issue -- especially when I forget that Gecko doesn't support things like inline-block.
Do you have any examples of its buggy behavior? (Not contesting that it has bugs, I'm just curious to see what sort of bugs.)
I'm not a fan of the MacBook Air -- but in all honesty, how many times have you been using a subportable only to think "Hmm... if only this thing had a better fill rate." The onboard chip supports PS 2.0, albeit slowly -- it's only a performance limitation, not a restriction on functionality.
That's the same way the Dreamcast's GDROM worked. Same with the optimizations -- I remember that if you burned your pirated games incorrectly, you'd end up with a poor-performing game...
Those were the days, backing up my Dreamcast games over a serial connection... waiting 4 days or so for a transfer to complete... walking in the snow up hill both ways...
my laptop MUST have a built in DVD drive as I use it as an entertainment station for the kids while we're away This sentence alone indicates that you're not Apple's target market for the MacBook Air.
This is censorship. Wrong censorship. People download stuff available to download. Whatever it is. Video, text file, program...... just see more of this world. They should explain it why it is wrong, not forbid to see an other point of view at all. I don't know if you grew up during the BBS era, but what you're saying sounds _exactly_ like the philosophy that I and many other BBS users subscribed to.
Just imagine if downloading material related to illegal things was illegal during the BBS era... Christ, my text file collection would've guaranteed me life in prison. I had files on picking locks, building explosive devices, model rocketry, detailed write-ups of every drug known to mankind, instructions on reverse-engineering various things, war-dialers.... the list goes on and on. Not once did I use any of those files illegally: I downloaded and read the files because I was interested in them. The BBSs provided interesting libraries of completely uncensored information -- and that lack of censorship was a large part of their attraction.
Maybe I'm from a different era, but the concept of the spread of information itself being illegal is quite alien to me.
Apple, get your head out of your arse and realise that there is a world outside the USA. I'm sure they realize that there's a world outside of the USA. I'm also sure that they're quite happy with their current profit margins, and see no reason to change business practices that have given them year after year of record sales and a three digit stock price.
Speed/memory tradeoff, sure.... but as is, it's just comically inefficient. I've got 5 tabs open now, have had Firefox open for about 12 hours, and it's taking up 413MB of memory. That's completely unacceptable. There is _NO_ possible reason for a browser to consume that much memory. None.
The fact that the Firefox team seems to think that theming and gimmicky anti-phishing tools are more important than sane memory usage and decent rendering speed has driven me to WebKit -- given that it gets _faster_ and uses _less_ memory with subsequent releases, I may make the switch permanent.
What makes this any better than adding your name or email address to the metadata, as most cameras allow you to do now? Adding your name/e-mail to the metadata is free. This requires you to buy more hardware from Canon.
As Apple have no idea whether the songs are still under copyright & what license they're under, I don't see what business Apple have in preventing you copying your data around. They're not. You can copy every file from an iPod using the Finder (or cp, if you're like me). There's absolutely nothing in the OS that prevents you from recovering the songs off of an iPod. Nothing in the iPod firmware either.
You're complaining because they haven't made it as easy as you'd like to copy that data with a particular program (iTunes). There's a ton of software out there that will make it as easy as you seem to want it to be -- or you could use the built-in capabilities of the OS, as you would with any other files.
It would cost them basically nothing to throw the people who eat their shit 9 to 5 a bone. And they don't. Why? Because so far, these people have proven they're willing to keep buying regardless of how nice an experience it is.
switching to the classic skin (and saving system resources in the process)
That saves a tiny bit of memory, but you get far more substantial savings by disabling the Windows Theme service entirely. After you've switched to the classic skin, disable the service using services.msc, and XP won't bother loading the uxtheme engine at all. Or you could use 2000 and avoid even installing the theme engine;-)
The only downside: it makes your login window look a bit unattractive.
Germany's privacy, at least as far as hosting goes, is completely GONE. By law, ISPs are required to keep logs of all inbound and outbound connections. I moved a site from there when the laws were announced for just that reason.
These are done on the phone, because 1) the guy will never put anything like that in writing, and 2) he can draw you in and escalate your time and energy commitment since there's no clear record of what you agreed to do on the project.
Amen. I had a client of mine do that once. I kept him, as he was willing to pay a good rate for easy stuff, except I pointed out that I'd bill for any time spent trying to decipher any such e-mails. Funny thing, but I've noticed that his e-mails got a whole lot clearer after that.
If I were an iPod touch owner, I'd be pretty offended that I have to pay $20
I wouldn't be offended, because I never expect a free upgrade to the latest and greatest for anything else -- why should I expect it for an iPod? My car lacks the GPS system of the latest model, but it's not Ford's job to upgrade my car for free. It's awesome that they've chosen to upgrade the AppleTV and iPhone -- but in the case of the iPod touch (adding functionality that in no way existed in the first version), they're under no obligation to provide the upgrades to previous purchasers. I fail to see why people hold Apple to a different standard on this...
I believe the MacBook Pros also suffer from this however I haven't tested this
I have -- at least I've used a first-gen MBP, a first-gen C2D MBP, and a first-run Santa Rosa MBP all for a fairly substantial amount of time -- and I've yet to get a shock. I've used a two-prong adapter for the brick in all instances (makes it easier to travel). I have only ever gotten a shock from one laptop, and that was a Dell with a faulty battery.
Well... a quick disasm of your binary doesn't show anything blatantly malicious, which is good... but I also don't see anything really useful. Pretty much everything your program does (and much, much more) can be done with OnyX. For free.
Oh, and you mis-spelled "purchase" in two methods in MacSweeperDaemon.;-)
(void) purchaise (void) purchaiseThread
I also noticed you left a somewhat interesting TODO list in the app bundle.
The binaries have references to KIVViSoftware throughout them -- you wouldn't happen to be one and the same with these guys, would you?
Disclaimer: I didn't find anything blatantly malicious -- but I only took a quick look. Given the folders that it tinkers around with, any bugs could do some damage to your Mac, so be careful.
Whoa. I'm amazed there hasn't been more of an outcry. That's completely unacceptable. If I put my car in a garage (sorry guys), I don't have to call up Ford. What's next, authorizing each bit of software functionality?
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Maybe someone will start a tech news site where users can submit stories, and editors pick the most accurate ones for posting... It can even feature user-run moderation for comments -- kinda like "digg up" and "digg down".
Anyone wanna start such a site?
It's much better on x86 -- it used to be absolutely horrid on the PowerPC platform. Given my past experience with Flash on non-x86 architectures, I'm not surprised that Flash on ARM isn't a high-performance solution.
Sometimes its standards support becomes an issue -- especially when I forget that Gecko doesn't support things like inline-block.
Do you have any examples of its buggy behavior? (Not contesting that it has bugs, I'm just curious to see what sort of bugs.)
I'm not a fan of the MacBook Air -- but in all honesty, how many times have you been using a subportable only to think "Hmm... if only this thing had a better fill rate." The onboard chip supports PS 2.0, albeit slowly -- it's only a performance limitation, not a restriction on functionality.
That's the same way the Dreamcast's GDROM worked. Same with the optimizations -- I remember that if you burned your pirated games incorrectly, you'd end up with a poor-performing game...
Those were the days, backing up my Dreamcast games over a serial connection... waiting 4 days or so for a transfer to complete... walking in the snow up hill both ways...
What is this "buying" of which you speak? Since when did hackers decide they were going to bow down to the FCC?
Just imagine if downloading material related to illegal things was illegal during the BBS era... Christ, my text file collection would've guaranteed me life in prison. I had files on picking locks, building explosive devices, model rocketry, detailed write-ups of every drug known to mankind, instructions on reverse-engineering various things, war-dialers.... the list goes on and on. Not once did I use any of those files illegally: I downloaded and read the files because I was interested in them. The BBSs provided interesting libraries of completely uncensored information -- and that lack of censorship was a large part of their attraction.
Maybe I'm from a different era, but the concept of the spread of information itself being illegal is quite alien to me.
>>> Spammers are truly evil; the people who buy from them are merely stupid.
Sorry -- I have to step in here and say: spammers are not "evil." Hitler was evil. Killing someone in cold blood for enjoyment is evil.
Someone sending you adverts for cheap Viagra is not evil.
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Speed/memory tradeoff, sure.... but as is, it's just comically inefficient. I've got 5 tabs open now, have had Firefox open for about 12 hours, and it's taking up 413MB of memory. That's completely unacceptable. There is _NO_ possible reason for a browser to consume that much memory. None.
The fact that the Firefox team seems to think that theming and gimmicky anti-phishing tools are more important than sane memory usage and decent rendering speed has driven me to WebKit -- given that it gets _faster_ and uses _less_ memory with subsequent releases, I may make the switch permanent.
That saves a tiny bit of memory, but you get far more substantial savings by disabling the Windows Theme service entirely. After you've switched to the classic skin, disable the service using services.msc, and XP won't bother loading the uxtheme engine at all. Or you could use 2000 and avoid even installing the theme engine
The only downside: it makes your login window look a bit unattractive.
Neither is the iPhone. Just saying...
Even if they did, it might not Mach [wikipedia.org] any difference.
You never were one of the kids to be in a Hooked on Phonics ad, were you...?
Germany's privacy, at least as far as hosting goes, is completely GONE. By law, ISPs are required to keep logs of all inbound and outbound connections. I moved a site from there when the laws were announced for just that reason.
These are done on the phone, because 1) the guy will never put anything like that in writing, and 2) he can draw you in and escalate your time and energy commitment since there's no clear record of what you agreed to do on the project.
Amen. I had a client of mine do that once. I kept him, as he was willing to pay a good rate for easy stuff, except I pointed out that I'd bill for any time spent trying to decipher any such e-mails. Funny thing, but I've noticed that his e-mails got a whole lot clearer after that.
If I were an iPod touch owner, I'd be pretty offended that I have to pay $20
I wouldn't be offended, because I never expect a free upgrade to the latest and greatest for anything else -- why should I expect it for an iPod? My car lacks the GPS system of the latest model, but it's not Ford's job to upgrade my car for free. It's awesome that they've chosen to upgrade the AppleTV and iPhone -- but in the case of the iPod touch (adding functionality that in no way existed in the first version), they're under no obligation to provide the upgrades to previous purchasers. I fail to see why people hold Apple to a different standard on this...
I believe the MacBook Pros also suffer from this however I haven't tested this
I have -- at least I've used a first-gen MBP, a first-gen C2D MBP, and a first-run Santa Rosa MBP all for a fairly substantial amount of time -- and I've yet to get a shock. I've used a two-prong adapter for the brick in all instances (makes it easier to travel). I have only ever gotten a shock from one laptop, and that was a Dell with a faulty battery.
Just my $0.02
Oh, and you mis-spelled "purchase" in two methods in MacSweeperDaemon.
The binaries have references to KIVViSoftware throughout them -- you wouldn't happen to be one and the same with these guys, would you?
Disclaimer: I didn't find anything blatantly malicious -- but I only took a quick look. Given the folders that it tinkers around with, any bugs could do some damage to your Mac, so be careful.
Macs use remote pairing to avoid precisely that sort of problem.
No it doesn't. It just requires that the uneducated, irrational consumers be allowed to face the consequences of their actions.
Whoa. I'm amazed there hasn't been more of an outcry. That's completely unacceptable. If I put my car in a garage (sorry guys), I don't have to call up Ford. What's next, authorizing each bit of software functionality?