The last thing you want is for your child to have to end up thinking for themselves.
Definitely try to work out a way where the combination of a better computer filter and a national government can think for them. That way it saves them the hassle of conscious thought and decision making, and it leaves you free to not have to talk about to them about such horrific nightmare topics like when men and women touch each other. Hell, worse yet, your child might even be gay, or at least turned gay by spam.
A child seeing references to sex will quickly become depraved and very likely will just rape their way through the rest of their lives.
I have a script that does a lot of basic math (stock market analysis) in lots of loops - written in Perl (not Perl's strongest suit).
I run it on any new machine I'm going to be using for awhile. It is very processor intensive, yet what it does isn't very RAM or disk intensive, so it (IMO) is a pretty good test of the CPU of said device.
On my new Powerbook 15" (aluminum) with 512MB RAM and 1.25ghz G4, it ran for N seconds (don't recall what N is, but it isn't important). My server that is located elsewhere is what I use for testing things that are going to need to be fast and/or run for awhile. That machine is an Athlon 2400+ (actually, it might be a 2200+ - I don't recall and it isn't somewhere that I can look now) with a gig of RAM running FreeBSD. The same script on that machine took 1/4 of the time to finish.
So for that particular script, the Athlon of either 2200+ or 2400+ with 1GB of RAM is 4 times as fast as a G4 1.25ghz with 512MB RAM.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is 4 times as fast for everything, but it helps put some perspective on things.
From my own personal experience with it, having used a variety of different processors and OSes in the past few years - I wouldn't say that the G4 is all that fantastic. It serves me well in a laptop since I really only use this as the interface into larger projects (ssh into servers and have them do the work).
My laptop right now gets royally buttfucked after one day of Safari use and after about 15 days of uptime (laptop style of sleep/awake/repeat) it needs a total reboot. I personally wouldn't think of it as an ideal scenario - but I still love it.
I had installed the developer preview of Java 1.4.2 because I had heard it might fix problems in Safari - while it did help, it broke tons of other things.
Now that this it out, developers will be movin' on up.
Hopefully this fixes whatever issue my Mac is having where it will show that it isn't using all of the RAM, yet there is a TON of disk paging going on which gets worse over time. It seems to be very related to Safari.
After my first year of college I worked the summer at a high value resistor factory. They made the resistors the went into pacemakers, guided missiles, and other random things that needed obscure resistor types.
I would bike to work, which was about 10 miles away from where I lived. I got hit by cars 2 times that summer. If it was pouring rain, I would pack a backpack of extra clothes to wear once I got there - not that the dress code was strict, I just didn't want to be wet.
The place was essentially just a huge warehouse with different stations in it. My friend and I would maintain the network, and then do any odd job that needed to be done - usually because whoever was supposed to do it didn't show up that day (without warning).
Nearly everyone that worked there on the floor was Russian and worked at least one other job - they barely spoke English at all. They nearly all had PhDs and were professors and other random cool things in Russia, but left for whatever reasons one leaves such a place - likely due to whatever religion they felt they wanted to practice. Everyone that worked in the office was related since it was a privately run/owned company. The owner of the company just sat at his desk all day and would demand the fastest/best computer. We tested him by "installing" new parts which meant that we took his computer apart one component at a time so after a few days was just an empty shell. He never complained - just kept bragging about how his was faster and that we needed to keep him updated.
My manager went to a community college about 5 years after she graduated high school - she hadn't heard of the college that my friend and I went to - so we told her it was a community college. The fact that it was in another state from the one in which we lived didn't seem to phase her or make her take pause. She fancied herself to be quite the artist and she would post up her work around the office - usually of wolves, the moon, and desert scenes - it wasn't truly awful - but it was in no way good and at best she could have sold it on the side of the road in Mexico and a few trailer park types might have bought it.
The Russians would smoke every single chance they go - the instant they got outside, they were smoking. They also would taunt us with "BOTTLEOFVODKA!!" which seemed to be interchangeable for really anything you wanted it to be - an insult, a question, slang... I think they just liked the way it sounded. One of the Russians told us that his daughter worked "at the salad bar vendor Vendy's" - I always found that amusing - as if they sold salad bars there.
The two other Americans on the floor other than myself and my friend (it was his extended family that owned and ran the place), there was an older woman that was very nice, and very very dumb. Her sole job was to run the powder coater, and she had done this for many years. Technically it wasn't a particularly healthy job, but she was happy if they had the radio on and she could take smoking breaks. Then there was a guy that was our age, but instead of the college route post high school, he dropped out of high school and got a few girls pregnant. He drove a brand new Neon Sport which he installed a very loud stereo system into. He would drive us to lunch in that, the stereo so loud and distorted that you didn't really know what was playing, and the only thing keeping you from shitting yourself was if you focused on how much the glass in the car was rattling. He would routinely find great amusement in swerving out into the oncoming traffic if he could scare high school students trying to learn to drive with their driving school placards on the roof of their car. He would also lean out the window and whistle and hoot at elderly women telling them the sexual acts he wished to perform on them. And he would yell at women pushing strollers that their child was "hot" but in fact "too old" for his tastes. As classy as this guy sounds, he was actually relatively smart all things considered. He
Perhaps it is naive of me to think that this would be the case - but I would assume that they serve their ad content off of separate servers than the regular content - if that is the case, then it would seem easy enough to block it via the firewall or via the hosts file (redirect that server to localhost).
I had a job doing Flash projects and it is impressive - but I can think of very few examples on the web where it isn't totally useless (HomestarRunner of course being a great reason to keep it).
If I can't block it, then I just won't be going to the sites, that is for sure. I only go to about 10 sites now as it is anyway. At least regularly.
I have a 256K connection at home and I pay about $120 to the network folks and then also have to pay about $120 to the phone company as well.
There is at least one DSL provider here that will charge $80 for the internet side, but it doesn't change the phone side.
If your house is in an area of coverage, there is a wireless system which I think is at 512K, and I'm not sure on the cost - but it is close to the DSL.
At work we have a 128K frame relay connection and it costs over $100 a month for the phone line (I haven't seen this bill, but I know it is over $100, I suspect it is closer to $300) and then over $500 for the network side. If we want to go up to 256K, then it would cost over $750 on the network side.
We have tried to get in and share a T1 with a neighboring building, but they can't do that without running a cable outside over roofs, and they don't want that as a security risk. We can't get the wireless system at work because for half of the year, the cruise ships in town block our signal.
At a population of 65K people, there is no economy of scale, so while the island needs to bring in lines to other countries just as the way the States does - the cost is distributed over a much smaller pool of people/companies.
Like any good Slashdot reader, I haven't read the article, but if it says that the event killed off 2/3rds of the creatures here, then that implies that 1/3 were fine and survived.
If that is the case, then they would have some protection strategy towards UV - are those animals currently still here? Humans sure as hell don't have that protection.
And is that number only considering land/air based creatures - would it have any impact on sea life?
It just would seem that if the ones that could survive the UV were the only one's to remain, then there would be a larger amount of creatures on earth (do plants care?) that were UV agnostic than there currently are.
I have very much enjoyed OpenMOSIX and how easy it is with RedHat - so I am very much interested in this new Mac XGrid.
It is far more expensive when you consider the straight costs but it might make sense for corporate projects where you want it up and fast and more people to be able to maintain it. When running OpenMOSIX systems, there seems to be (in my experience) fewer people that grasp the concepts - I'm only guessing/assuming that if XGrid is coming out of Apple, it will be much easier to use/maintain.
I have Panther and it has iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie on it for free (well, it comes with it).
But I don't see iDVD on here and I'm assuming GarageBand isn't free either.
What determines if someone is free or not? Is it how likely it is to be desired? I could see GarageBand being very popular, so it could be that they are just sitting on it.
Or do they make them free if there are paths to profit from the use of the app? iTunes lets you buy music, and iPhoto lets you order pics to be printed... not sure if there is any way to make it off of iMovie since I've never even opened the app.
The GarageBand looks really cool - but I am not sure I want to spend the money if it will be free soon enough.
I am new to Macs, so I'm still trying to get used to how they do things.
The actual Google Toolbar - as it is implemented by the good folks at Google - has many features beyond just allowing you to type in a word and have it shoved off to their search page.
What I want is not the ability to do the search pass off - that is easy - what I want is the extra functionality that I have mentioned multiple time (although perhaps not in this thread, but in this story - I have lost track).
The actual Google Toolbar (the real one) creates a button for each search term that you type in. They remain on the toolbar as long as they are in the query box. When you click on them, it searches the page that is loaded and finds that word in the text - adjusting the page to where that word is.
It also has the ability to click a button and all of the search terms are hilighted in any page that you are at - each in a different color.
There is more functionality beyond that as well, but for the most part - THAT is what I want.
Hence why I think typing in "google@balls" is a fairly weak implementation of what the Google Toolbar really is.
Interesting - they both use the same engine right? I have 4.5 that I am trying out now and it hasn't crashed in the whole 2 hours that I've had it open. No change from Safari so far, but it has features that I like.
This is a brand new laptop with a brand new install of Panther.
But it does have the security updates, so perhaps it is that.
I had the Safari problem from day one of having this. I don't ever reboot except for when a security update makes me (this is a laptop) and I tend to leave Safari open with 4 web pages open all of the time - one of them Etrade, one of them Slashdot, one of them a Mac chat board, and one of them a fitness chat board.
I open and close a few other pages over the course of the day - during trading hours I use a page that I can reload for realtime quotes (Java tickers make Safari crash sooner).
I upgraded to the newest developer release of Java on Mac, and that of course broke a lot of other apps on here, but it did help Safari out a little - but it still crashes - just not as soon as before.
Just getting an easy Google search is less desirable to me (still great, don't get me wrong) than having the toolbar functionality where the words you typed in to the search show up on the toolbar and then if you click on them, it will go to that word in the text. You can also turn on/off via a button highlighting the search terms in the text in different colors. It helps you find exactly the parts of a page that you are interested in if it is text heavy.
Do you have to pay to be a developer for it?
OmniWeb really does look fantastic - especially this version 5 - I won't mind at all paying for it if it is really good - and it looks like it is. Also very nice that it doesn't have a frustrating user experience if you haven't registered yet.
My three reasons for sticking with Safari are: 1) The Google Toolbar (although not implemented in the same full and correct way as the real thing on Windows).
2) Ad blocking
3) Pith Helmet - it allows ad content (or really any content) in a web page to be blocked. So banners and images can be stopped and not downloaded - saving my slow connection from having to bother with them, as well as not even seeing the ads.
I also like the bookmark bar, but I suppose many of the browsers have that now.
I know little to nothing about OmniWeb, will have to check it out more.
I like Safari enough, but there are a few annoyances I have with it and if they could be fixed, I would be one happy fellow.
The biggest of all of them being the crashes - my Safari crashes once a day and it drives me nuts. There is the crash that sucks up all of the CPU and freezes up the machine (well, doesn't entirely freeze it up, but slows it down to being unusable until you force quit the app), and there is the crash where the entire program and all of its windows disappear with no warning - fantastic.
It would be nice if I could open a window that is an entirely different entity than any of the other windows that are open. If I have Safari open to Slashdot, and it crashes, then it shouldn't also bring down all other Safari windows. IE on Windows allows me to spawn new instances of IE and have them on a site - that way, if it crashes, only the windows associated with that instance crash. On a Mac, I don't know of a way to do that.
I'm going to have a look at OmniWeb here and see if it is my new browser of choice or not (IE on Mac and Camino sure as hell aren't).
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To be fair, the unit sucks nuts. It is a sub par HRM, a sub par GPS unit, and a decent watch, packaged together at a fairly good price.
I have a Timex HRM that isn't really all that great, and the watch is bulky and not so great (the band is a fabric material and smells bad as it fills with sweat - takes some time to dry out too). But all in all, it suits my needs. I would rather have a Polar, but they cost much more (for good reason, they are high quality) - and I don't really need all that much.
I also have a Garmin ETrex (Venture I think, too lazy to find it and look).
Between the two of those, I can track my runs, speed, and heart rate.
There is a guy in Japan (I had a link, but it is on my other laptop) that tracks his heart rate and GPS position, elevation, and change in speed and graphs it all out on a 3D topological map - it is really quite cool to see the graph change in color as the speed and heart rate change.
This sort of thing has been going on with human runners for a few years now - it would seem that for tracking horses that are running on a track, the GPS system is a bit overkill since all you need to know is the number of laps really. If you are tracking them over hill and dale, then the GPS helps more - even though there is the error always present.
They make different sizes - Very Busy Man is one of the larger ones (might even be the biggest).
The "leg strap" thing? Don't know - when I am on the Vespa and I need to actually wear the bag instead of have it in the cargo box, I put on the bag so that it is on my right side and to the back and then I put the strap under my left arm so that it connects to the upper strap thing and to do the bag.
Not sure if that is the right way or not, but it helps hold the bag in close.
It is still waterproof for me and has a ton of space - by far the best bag IMO. If anything it might be overengineered (straps made of seat belt material, and lots of material in the bag).
I have been able to hold my 15" powerbook and my 15" HP in there at the same time - that was a little snug, but worked (wouldn't want to do that all of the time). Have also had smaller laptops in there as well with the 15" Powerbook and they are fine as well.
I don't think they offer many different color combos (any?), so if that is something you care about, that is perhaps an issue.
Great bag and I don't recall it being terribly expensive - I got it from J&R.
The fact that they ignore ads is likely not web page specific - it is likely just human nature. Things that we see all of the time, we stop registering when we take in a scene and we assume they are there. It is just an economy thing - the same reason learning to drive a car is confusing and complicated at first, and over time it is no big deal to take your eyes off of things briefly.
It is very likely that I don't scan the slashdot logo anymore or the icons at the top either.
The left to right scanning is likely a factor of 1) the way the web page is designed in the first place - which is leads to 2) the language that the page is written in. English is a left to right language, so we are used to that. Right to left languages likely won't scan a page like that at first - but if the page is designed that way, they will likely adjust.
This study would have been far more impressive if they did it with randomly designed pages. Don't let them out on the web, instead have a shape and text generator that with each load mixes up the design structure so that it isn't that they are reading based on its structure, but based on some innate reading style. Again, it will change with languages/cultures which will be more dramatic with geographic changes as well (but not universal).
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For the record - while I agree with this anon comment - it wasn't made by me.
I never post anon on Slashdot unless there is some sort of cookie problem going down.
The last thing you want is for your child to have to end up thinking for themselves.
Definitely try to work out a way where the combination of a better computer filter and a national government can think for them.
That way it saves them the hassle of conscious thought and decision making, and it leaves you free to not have to talk about to them about such horrific nightmare topics like when men and women touch each other.
Hell, worse yet, your child might even be gay, or at least turned gay by spam.
A child seeing references to sex will quickly become depraved and very likely will just rape their way through the rest of their lives.
There was a record store in DC in 1995 that had a device like that which I can recall using one summer.
I would guess that it wasn't likely mp3s back then - but it is an interesting idea of whether or not at the time it was a compressed file or not.
I wonder if it is the same company doing it now?
I have a script that does a lot of basic math (stock market analysis) in lots of loops - written in Perl (not Perl's strongest suit).
I run it on any new machine I'm going to be using for awhile. It is very processor intensive, yet what it does isn't very RAM or disk intensive, so it (IMO) is a pretty good test of the CPU of said device.
On my new Powerbook 15" (aluminum) with 512MB RAM and 1.25ghz G4, it ran for N seconds (don't recall what N is, but it isn't important).
My server that is located elsewhere is what I use for testing things that are going to need to be fast and/or run for awhile.
That machine is an Athlon 2400+ (actually, it might be a 2200+ - I don't recall and it isn't somewhere that I can look now) with a gig of RAM running FreeBSD. The same script on that machine took 1/4 of the time to finish.
So for that particular script, the Athlon of either 2200+ or 2400+ with 1GB of RAM is 4 times as fast as a G4 1.25ghz with 512MB RAM.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is 4 times as fast for everything, but it helps put some perspective on things.
From my own personal experience with it, having used a variety of different processors and OSes in the past few years - I wouldn't say that the G4 is all that fantastic. It serves me well in a laptop since I really only use this as the interface into larger projects (ssh into servers and have them do the work).
My laptop right now gets royally buttfucked after one day of Safari use and after about 15 days of uptime (laptop style of sleep/awake/repeat) it needs a total reboot.
I personally wouldn't think of it as an ideal scenario - but I still love it.
I had installed the developer preview of Java 1.4.2 because I had heard it might fix problems in Safari - while it did help, it broke tons of other things.
Now that this it out, developers will be movin' on up.
Hopefully this fixes whatever issue my Mac is having where it will show that it isn't using all of the RAM, yet there is a TON of disk paging going on which gets worse over time. It seems to be very related to Safari.
I'm installing it now and hoping for the best.
After my first year of college I worked the summer at a high value resistor factory. They made the resistors the went into pacemakers, guided missiles, and other random things that needed obscure resistor types.
I would bike to work, which was about 10 miles away from where I lived. I got hit by cars 2 times that summer. If it was pouring rain, I would pack a backpack of extra clothes to wear once I got there - not that the dress code was strict, I just didn't want to be wet.
The place was essentially just a huge warehouse with different stations in it. My friend and I would maintain the network, and then do any odd job that needed to be done - usually because whoever was supposed to do it didn't show up that day (without warning).
Nearly everyone that worked there on the floor was Russian and worked at least one other job - they barely spoke English at all. They nearly all had PhDs and were professors and other random cool things in Russia, but left for whatever reasons one leaves such a place - likely due to whatever religion they felt they wanted to practice.
Everyone that worked in the office was related since it was a privately run/owned company.
The owner of the company just sat at his desk all day and would demand the fastest/best computer. We tested him by "installing" new parts which meant that we took his computer apart one component at a time so after a few days was just an empty shell. He never complained - just kept bragging about how his was faster and that we needed to keep him updated.
My manager went to a community college about 5 years after she graduated high school - she hadn't heard of the college that my friend and I went to - so we told her it was a community college. The fact that it was in another state from the one in which we lived didn't seem to phase her or make her take pause.
She fancied herself to be quite the artist and she would post up her work around the office - usually of wolves, the moon, and desert scenes - it wasn't truly awful - but it was in no way good and at best she could have sold it on the side of the road in Mexico and a few trailer park types might have bought it.
The Russians would smoke every single chance they go - the instant they got outside, they were smoking. They also would taunt us with "BOTTLEOFVODKA!!" which seemed to be interchangeable for really anything you wanted it to be - an insult, a question, slang... I think they just liked the way it sounded.
One of the Russians told us that his daughter worked "at the salad bar vendor Vendy's" - I always found that amusing - as if they sold salad bars there.
The two other Americans on the floor other than myself and my friend (it was his extended family that owned and ran the place), there was an older woman that was very nice, and very very dumb.
Her sole job was to run the powder coater, and she had done this for many years.
Technically it wasn't a particularly healthy job, but she was happy if they had the radio on and she could take smoking breaks.
Then there was a guy that was our age, but instead of the college route post high school, he dropped out of high school and got a few girls pregnant. He drove a brand new Neon Sport which he installed a very loud stereo system into. He would drive us to lunch in that, the stereo so loud and distorted that you didn't really know what was playing, and the only thing keeping you from shitting yourself was if you focused on how much the glass in the car was rattling.
He would routinely find great amusement in swerving out into the oncoming traffic if he could scare high school students trying to learn to drive with their driving school placards on the roof of their car.
He would also lean out the window and whistle and hoot at elderly women telling them the sexual acts he wished to perform on them.
And he would yell at women pushing strollers that their child was "hot" but in fact "too old" for his tastes.
As classy as this guy sounds, he was actually relatively smart all things considered. He
Perhaps Andrew Wiles would be a good resource on this then :)
(or perhaps Taniyama/Shimura - I forget which killed himself, I want to say the former)
Perhaps it is naive of me to think that this would be the case - but I would assume that they serve their ad content off of separate servers than the regular content - if that is the case, then it would seem easy enough to block it via the firewall or via the hosts file (redirect that server to localhost).
I had a job doing Flash projects and it is impressive - but I can think of very few examples on the web where it isn't totally useless (HomestarRunner of course being a great reason to keep it).
If I can't block it, then I just won't be going to the sites, that is for sure. I only go to about 10 sites now as it is anyway. At least regularly.
Is this Windows specific? Mac too?
Is it Flash? What technology?
Can Safari and PithHelmet block it? New OmniWeb?
I have a 256K connection at home and I pay about $120 to the network folks and then also have to pay about $120 to the phone company as well.
There is at least one DSL provider here that will charge $80 for the internet side, but it doesn't change the phone side.
If your house is in an area of coverage, there is a wireless system which I think is at 512K, and I'm not sure on the cost - but it is close to the DSL.
At work we have a 128K frame relay connection and it costs over $100 a month for the phone line (I haven't seen this bill, but I know it is over $100, I suspect it is closer to $300) and then over $500 for the network side.
If we want to go up to 256K, then it would cost over $750 on the network side.
We have tried to get in and share a T1 with a neighboring building, but they can't do that without running a cable outside over roofs, and they don't want that as a security risk.
We can't get the wireless system at work because for half of the year, the cruise ships in town block our signal.
At a population of 65K people, there is no economy of scale, so while the island needs to bring in lines to other countries just as the way the States does - the cost is distributed over a much smaller pool of people/companies.
Like any good Slashdot reader, I haven't read the article, but if it says that the event killed off 2/3rds of the creatures here, then that implies that 1/3 were fine and survived.
If that is the case, then they would have some protection strategy towards UV - are those animals currently still here? Humans sure as hell don't have that protection.
And is that number only considering land/air based creatures - would it have any impact on sea life?
It just would seem that if the ones that could survive the UV were the only one's to remain, then there would be a larger amount of creatures on earth (do plants care?) that were UV agnostic than there currently are.
I have very much enjoyed OpenMOSIX and how easy it is with RedHat - so I am very much interested in this new Mac XGrid.
It is far more expensive when you consider the straight costs but it might make sense for corporate projects where you want it up and fast and more people to be able to maintain it.
When running OpenMOSIX systems, there seems to be (in my experience) fewer people that grasp the concepts - I'm only guessing/assuming that if XGrid is coming out of Apple, it will be much easier to use/maintain.
very cool
I have Panther and it has iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie on it for free (well, it comes with it).
But I don't see iDVD on here and I'm assuming GarageBand isn't free either.
What determines if someone is free or not? Is it how likely it is to be desired? I could see GarageBand being very popular, so it could be that they are just sitting on it.
Or do they make them free if there are paths to profit from the use of the app? iTunes lets you buy music, and iPhoto lets you order pics to be printed... not sure if there is any way to make it off of iMovie since I've never even opened the app.
The GarageBand looks really cool - but I am not sure I want to spend the money if it will be free soon enough.
I am new to Macs, so I'm still trying to get used to how they do things.
I keep repeating myself on this one:
The actual Google Toolbar - as it is implemented by the good folks at Google - has many features beyond just allowing you to type in a word and have it shoved off to their search page.
What I want is not the ability to do the search pass off - that is easy - what I want is the extra functionality that I have mentioned multiple time (although perhaps not in this thread, but in this story - I have lost track).
The actual Google Toolbar (the real one) creates a button for each search term that you type in. They remain on the toolbar as long as they are in the query box. When you click on them, it searches the page that is loaded and finds that word in the text - adjusting the page to where that word is.
It also has the ability to click a button and all of the search terms are hilighted in any page that you are at - each in a different color.
There is more functionality beyond that as well, but for the most part - THAT is what I want.
Hence why I think typing in "google@balls" is a fairly weak implementation of what the Google Toolbar really is.
Interesting - they both use the same engine right? I have 4.5 that I am trying out now and it hasn't crashed in the whole 2 hours that I've had it open.
No change from Safari so far, but it has features that I like.
Will have to see it all.
This is a brand new laptop with a brand new install of Panther.
But it does have the security updates, so perhaps it is that.
I had the Safari problem from day one of having this. I don't ever reboot except for when a security update makes me (this is a laptop) and I tend to leave Safari open with 4 web pages open all of the time - one of them Etrade, one of them Slashdot, one of them a Mac chat board, and one of them a fitness chat board.
I open and close a few other pages over the course of the day - during trading hours I use a page that I can reload for realtime quotes (Java tickers make Safari crash sooner).
I upgraded to the newest developer release of Java on Mac, and that of course broke a lot of other apps on here, but it did help Safari out a little - but it still crashes - just not as soon as before.
I was asking if in order to be one of the developers - making plug-ins and whatnot required one to pay.
As for the text hilighting - it is in the Windows version of the real Google Toolbar and it is extremely useful.
I'm trying out OmniWeb now and it is very very nice. Looking forward to version 5.
Just getting an easy Google search is less desirable to me (still great, don't get me wrong) than having the toolbar functionality where the words you typed in to the search show up on the toolbar and then if you click on them, it will go to that word in the text. You can also turn on/off via a button highlighting the search terms in the text in different colors.
It helps you find exactly the parts of a page that you are interested in if it is text heavy.
Do you have to pay to be a developer for it?
OmniWeb really does look fantastic - especially this version 5 - I won't mind at all paying for it if it is really good - and it looks like it is. Also very nice that it doesn't have a frustrating user experience if you haven't registered yet.
Thanks for the answers.
Yes indeed - I made it over to their site and browsed through all of it - and watched the movies in the links in this /. article. Very impressive.
The nice thing about Safari is that it is free, and I paid for Pitch Helmet to encourage the development of it.
Didn't see if there was any Google Toolbar functionality - but one could probably very weakly fake it with the OmniWeb shortcut thing.
I might have to wait until 5.0 - very nice stuff. Curious to see if it crashes as much as Safari does for me under Panther.
My three reasons for sticking with Safari are:
1) The Google Toolbar (although not implemented in the same full and correct way as the real thing on Windows).
2) Ad blocking
3) Pith Helmet - it allows ad content (or really any content) in a web page to be blocked. So banners and images can be stopped and not downloaded - saving my slow connection from having to bother with them, as well as not even seeing the ads.
I also like the bookmark bar, but I suppose many of the browsers have that now.
I know little to nothing about OmniWeb, will have to check it out more.
I like Safari enough, but there are a few annoyances I have with it and if they could be fixed, I would be one happy fellow.
The biggest of all of them being the crashes - my Safari crashes once a day and it drives me nuts. There is the crash that sucks up all of the CPU and freezes up the machine (well, doesn't entirely freeze it up, but slows it down to being unusable until you force quit the app), and there is the crash where the entire program and all of its windows disappear with no warning - fantastic.
It would be nice if I could open a window that is an entirely different entity than any of the other windows that are open.
If I have Safari open to Slashdot, and it crashes, then it shouldn't also bring down all other Safari windows.
IE on Windows allows me to spawn new instances of IE and have them on a site - that way, if it crashes, only the windows associated with that instance crash.
On a Mac, I don't know of a way to do that.
I'm going to have a look at OmniWeb here and see if it is my new browser of choice or not (IE on Mac and Camino sure as hell aren't).
To be fair, the unit sucks nuts. It is a sub par HRM, a sub par GPS unit, and a decent watch, packaged together at a fairly good price.
I have a Timex HRM that isn't really all that great, and the watch is bulky and not so great (the band is a fabric material and smells bad as it fills with sweat - takes some time to dry out too). But all in all, it suits my needs. I would rather have a Polar, but they cost much more (for good reason, they are high quality) - and I don't really need all that much.
I also have a Garmin ETrex (Venture I think, too lazy to find it and look).
Between the two of those, I can track my runs, speed, and heart rate.
There is a guy in Japan (I had a link, but it is on my other laptop) that tracks his heart rate and GPS position, elevation, and change in speed and graphs it all out on a 3D topological map - it is really quite cool to see the graph change in color as the speed and heart rate change.
This sort of thing has been going on with human runners for a few years now - it would seem that for tracking horses that are running on a track, the GPS system is a bit overkill since all you need to know is the number of laps really.
If you are tracking them over hill and dale, then the GPS helps more - even though there is the error always present.
They make different sizes - Very Busy Man is one of the larger ones (might even be the biggest).
The "leg strap" thing? Don't know - when I am on the Vespa and I need to actually wear the bag instead of have it in the cargo box, I put on the bag so that it is on my right side and to the back and then I put the strap under my left arm so that it connects to the upper strap thing and to do the bag.
Not sure if that is the right way or not, but it helps hold the bag in close.
It is still waterproof for me and has a ton of space - by far the best bag IMO. If anything it might be overengineered (straps made of seat belt material, and lots of material in the bag).
I have been able to hold my 15" powerbook and my 15" HP in there at the same time - that was a little snug, but worked (wouldn't want to do that all of the time).
Have also had smaller laptops in there as well with the 15" Powerbook and they are fine as well.
I don't think they offer many different color combos (any?), so if that is something you care about, that is perhaps an issue.
Great bag and I don't recall it being terribly expensive - I got it from J&R.
I have a Crumpler "Very Busy Man" - Australian company - very good bag.
I use my 15" PowerBook in it and it has been great.
The fact that they ignore ads is likely not web page specific - it is likely just human nature. Things that we see all of the time, we stop registering when we take in a scene and we assume they are there. It is just an economy thing - the same reason learning to drive a car is confusing and complicated at first, and over time it is no big deal to take your eyes off of things briefly.
It is very likely that I don't scan the slashdot logo anymore or the icons at the top either.
The left to right scanning is likely a factor of 1) the way the web page is designed in the first place - which is leads to 2) the language that the page is written in.
English is a left to right language, so we are used to that. Right to left languages likely won't scan a page like that at first - but if the page is designed that way, they will likely adjust.
This study would have been far more impressive if they did it with randomly designed pages. Don't let them out on the web, instead have a shape and text generator that with each load mixes up the design structure so that it isn't that they are reading based on its structure, but based on some innate reading style.
Again, it will change with languages/cultures which will be more dramatic with geographic changes as well (but not universal).