Given that PC Pro News uses Vibrant "mouse over" pop-ups and does not allow them to be disabled, they are in absolutely no place to complain about ANYONE's advertising.
That's the joy of the Internet. You make what you think is a joke and it turns out someone's already doing it and it turns out to be the next big thing, and you don't get diddly. Like, you know, when Microsoft made the first email program that actually supported the Good Times virus hoax.
Next time I think of something funny I'll file a patent application instead.
And it comes in a new kind of package file (well, new to me), in "xar!" format. XAR is a new archive format, with an annoying command line.
To see what's in the package if you want to see what Apple's doing before you let them do it:
$ mkdir xartmp $ cd xartmp $ xar -x -f ~/Downloads/Safari3.2.1Leo.pkg $ file * Bom: Mac OS X bill of materials (BOM) file PackageInfo: XML 1.0 document text Payload: gzip compressed data, from Unix Scripts: gzip compressed data, from Unix
In other words, the usual.pkg file, just stored in a gratuitous new archive format. Explanation for "why do we need yet another archive format" in the project's source. At least they're open-sourceing their new format instead of making everyone reverse-engineer it like <include src=usualsuspects> would.
To make file(1) know about this:
$ sudo sh Password: # cd/usr/share/file # echo "0 string xar! XAR Archive" >> magic # file -C # ^D $ file Safari3.2.1Leo.pkg Safari3.2.1Leo.pkg: XAR Archive
Webkit's really not Cocoa, but I guess it's not politically correct to say that it's Carbon.:)
Integration with OS X is a lot easier for Cocoa applications, of course. It's harder if you're using code not written in Objective C, as Safari and Camino both do (Webkit and Gecko), but it's certainly possible... as both Safari and Camino demonstrate.
Safari and Camino use the keychain for passwords. Firefox doesn't. Safari and Camino use the OS X proxy settings. Firefox doesn't. Safari and Camino integrate with Services fully. Firefox doesn't.
Safari and Camino are well integrated with OS X. Firefox isn't.
I use Safari because it's well integrated with OS X. Firefox isn't, and Camino (which I use by preference) has a couple of bugs that are supposed to be fixed Real Soon Now that make it lock up behind a proxy and don't let me disable Apple's stupid insecurity dialogs.
I also use Safari and Camino because they don't use XUL the way Firefox does. I don't trust the security model for XUL nor the technique Firefox uses for the XUL installer, XPI. And in fact there's been at least one XPI-related vulnerability (quickly patched, but it shows that the class of problems I'm concerned about are real).
This doesn't mean I love Apple, or that I think the folks on the Camino team are cooler than the ones on the Mozilla team. This just means I'm more interested in the best tool for the job than where it comes from.
Yes, I was wondering about that. I go to my user page now and I've got a bunch of spam about features of slashdot I don't care a damn about instead of the list of my recent comments I was looking for.
I'm pretty sure I haven't read "First Contract" though the precis reminds me of a couple of other stories I ought to go back and re-read. SO that makes at least *two* novels or short stories this idea's shown up in. ^^
I got sick and tired of the software-geek fanfic in Cryptonomicon pretty quick, and the Baroque Cycle was so full of unlikely and lucky coincidences that it was like reading "Swiss Family Robinson". At least as far as I could get into it... which was almost to the end of the first book. Then I bulled through to the end, and was sorry I did.
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I *loved* "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" when I was a kid. Heinlein's juveniles are still top notch.
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His early books were pretty good, but I some time while he was writing Cryptonomicon he became a "fan" of his subject matter instead of a student of it. Heinlein had the same problem... after Stranger in a Strange Land his books turned into well-written fan fiction.
... in some SF novel or another. The design wasn't exactly the same, but the drinking vessel described used the same basic idea of surface tension wicking water out of the container. As the article noted, this is based on a common fuel-tank design. The story had an enclosed container because, well, even in free fall you've got to deal with the occasion fumble-fingered astronaut imparting acceleration to the container along an inappropriate vector.:)
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Yes, sir, it's two wrongs. The fact that Apple's ad is deceptive doesn't give them to right to use pop-ups.
There's sites that are engaged in abusive behavior on the Internet. Slashdot should avoid providing them with eyeballs by linking to them.
Given that PC Pro News uses Vibrant "mouse over" pop-ups and does not allow them to be disabled, they are in absolutely no place to complain about ANYONE's advertising.
I implemented a multiplayer online game before the Internet had converted to TCP, and I am but an egg compared to Bartle. LPMUD is a newcomer.
TELL US! Explain it to use! WHYYY are you changing the default layout?
LSD in the coffee machine at SourceForge?
Next thing, we'll hear that they're going to upgrade from CVS and SVN to Visual SourceSafe.
I don't understand the motivation. The feedback on the "idle" layout was an overwhelming "it sucks", why extend the suckiness to the rest of the site?
Because it worked so well for Yahoo.
I'm not sure if you're serious
That's the joy of the Internet. You make what you think is a joke and it turns out someone's already doing it and it turns out to be the next big thing, and you don't get diddly. Like, you know, when Microsoft made the first email program that actually supported the Good Times virus hoax.
Next time I think of something funny I'll file a patent application instead.
Wait, that's a joke... oh, crap.
Almost as much fun as when Dennis Ritchie demolished SCO's claims about System V code in Linux.
Um, wasn't there prior art on the Palm 7 *last century*?
And it comes in a new kind of package file (well, new to me), in "xar!" format. XAR is a new archive format, with an annoying command line.
To see what's in the package if you want to see what Apple's doing before you let them do it:
In other words, the usual .pkg file, just stored in a gratuitous new archive format. Explanation for "why do we need yet another archive format" in the project's source. At least they're open-sourceing their new format instead of making everyone reverse-engineer it like <include src=usualsuspects> would.
To make file(1) know about this:
Apple needs to do this already. Sheesh.
It's a secret message letting you know about the upcoming integration of slashdot and google.
Except the comments are surrounded by a bunch of extra noise, and they don't seem to be consistently bundled into articles.
If you have "clue" and "no clue", is that zen or just postmodern?
What's that, son, you say the buying public dented a rapper's Audi Quattro?
Given what a patchwork chimera Windows is, the best you can hope for is "separate but equal" status.
Webkit's really not Cocoa, but I guess it's not politically correct to say that it's Carbon. :)
Integration with OS X is a lot easier for Cocoa applications, of course. It's harder if you're using code not written in Objective C, as Safari and Camino both do (Webkit and Gecko), but it's certainly possible... as both Safari and Camino demonstrate.
Safari and Camino use the keychain for passwords. Firefox doesn't.
Safari and Camino use the OS X proxy settings. Firefox doesn't.
Safari and Camino integrate with Services fully. Firefox doesn't.
Safari and Camino are well integrated with OS X. Firefox isn't.
Logical fallacies are also very human, too, but I don't love you for making them. :)
A lot of you seem to love Apple
I use Safari because it's well integrated with OS X. Firefox isn't, and Camino (which I use by preference) has a couple of bugs that are supposed to be fixed Real Soon Now that make it lock up behind a proxy and don't let me disable Apple's stupid insecurity dialogs.
I also use Safari and Camino because they don't use XUL the way Firefox does. I don't trust the security model for XUL nor the technique Firefox uses for the XUL installer, XPI. And in fact there's been at least one XPI-related vulnerability (quickly patched, but it shows that the class of problems I'm concerned about are real).
This doesn't mean I love Apple, or that I think the folks on the Camino team are cooler than the ones on the Mozilla team. This just means I'm more interested in the best tool for the job than where it comes from.
Yes, I was wondering about that. I go to my user page now and I've got a bunch of spam about features of slashdot I don't care a damn about instead of the list of my recent comments I was looking for.
I'm pretty sure I haven't read "First Contract" though the precis reminds me of a couple of other stories I ought to go back and re-read. SO that makes at least *two* novels or short stories this idea's shown up in. ^^
I got sick and tired of the software-geek fanfic in Cryptonomicon pretty quick, and the Baroque Cycle was so full of unlikely and lucky coincidences that it was like reading "Swiss Family Robinson". At least as far as I could get into it... which was almost to the end of the first book. Then I bulled through to the end, and was sorry I did.
I *loved* "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" when I was a kid. Heinlein's juveniles are still top notch.
His early books were pretty good, but I some time while he was writing Cryptonomicon he became a "fan" of his subject matter instead of a student of it. Heinlein had the same problem... after Stranger in a Strange Land his books turned into well-written fan fiction.
Astroturfing is so '90s, dude.
... in some SF novel or another. The design wasn't exactly the same, but the drinking vessel described used the same basic idea of surface tension wicking water out of the container. As the article noted, this is based on a common fuel-tank design. The story had an enclosed container because, well, even in free fall you've got to deal with the occasion fumble-fingered astronaut imparting acceleration to the container along an inappropriate vector. :)
Microsoft should simply offer a free upgrade to Windows XP for everyone who bought a computer with Vista installed that couldn't handle it.