Many Google properties stopped working with Safari 3.? earlier this year (I saw gmail and calendar cease working personally, don't know how widespread it was) and boy was that a headache here at my workplace.
I've been using it for about a year on my netbook and I think it's great for that platform. Boots quick, runs official Google Chrome, and it pretty much just works[1]. I use it as a netbook and not as a laptop replacement, so maybe other people will be disappointed they can't run an office suite and the latest 3D games. Meanwhile, I'm digging their panel-like interface - just feels so fresh and different.
I'm also intrigued by the under-the-hood directions they are taking with the Meego project - for example, zypp for package management (it's RPM based) rather than the atrocity that is yum and mutter as a window manager. It feels like their driving innovations in these areas more than that traditional desktops OSs with legacy hardware and users to support.
It's not perfect by any means, though, but try it out if you get a chance. Its depressing that people don't seem to know Meego is more than just a smartphone OS and that the netbook version has been shipping for a while now. I'd love to see this in a tablet, more than Android, because at the end of it all, it's Linux, and that opens up so much more.
[1] broadcom wifi driver complications notwithstanding on my HP Mini MIE
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Interesting - you don't get the constant barrage of trophy errors with Borderlands? I also copied a game save to another PS3 to play splitscreen co-op but it resulted in the game being gimped that way. It was playable, just annoying to get those errors constantly and annoying that we couldn't get trophies.
Maybe it wasn't the right combination of PSN ids and game saves for me.
Anyway, it would be nice if there was a database of information on this.
Hmm, I'm curious which games you've been doing with this. A number of them do not work right or even flat out do not work when transferring games saves like that. In fact, I think for me the majority did not.
Off hand, I recall Arkham Asylum and Resident Evil 5 did not work at all, and Borderlands does not work right (you can no longer earn trophies and you get constant error messages about it).
Recently, I noticed a new section under Videos in my XMB called Trailers. I was puzzled as to when that had shown up and given the number of trailers listed there, I knew I would've noticed all those HD videos downloading.
It dawned on me it came on the Gran Turismo 5 disc...
I don't know what you mean by "entire rest of the market" but Mac OS never had a convention for middle-clicking insofar as it barely had conventions for right-clicking for the longest time so I don't know what you mean by "follow the conventions" since all 3 platforms had different behaviors regarding the matter.
Or do you think The Windows Way should be the only way? Is that what you meant?
I stick to Firefox because the Chrome devs show a complete disregard for the Linux platform and its conventions by refusing to support middle-click loading of URLs:
I dunno, while I'm *mostly* certain you're a good guy and that link is legit, it seems like downloading a random mediafire link isn't really in the spirit of things here...
Here's where you are very wrong. Twitters service failures are legendary and persist to this day. And they are still around, bigger than ever.
Just to give you a sense of how long people have put up with them: I "quit" Twitter in July of 2008 because of aggravation with their service failures which was already a running joke *THEN*. I thought for sure no way people would put up with that amount of downtime and unreliability.
Also you get the dealership slapping their name on it too. Often the dealer will not only put their name on the body of the car, but also around the license plate.
I live in southern California and you don't see this much around here- in fact I'd never seen it at all until I moved out of state for a while (Wisconsin, where it seemed all cars had it).
I imagine particularly in the Los Angeles region (where I am), this would not fly. I personally would not stand for it. If I'm dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a car, I would demand that dealer badges be removed or there would be no sale. Period.
I find it curious that other people (like you, apparently) don't, and just accept it.
As far as the PS3, the issue is that Sony have been consistently removing features since launch - not just as hardware revisions, but removing features through mandatory (if you want to go online / play recent games) firmware upgrades - and THAT is something that neither MS nor Nintendo have done.
Can you give some examples? I'm genuinely curious. I've had the PS3 since 2007 (1st gen) and the only feature removed by firmware upgrades that I can recall is the Linux compatibility. That sucked, but I can understand their motivations.
I learned to type circa 1982, on old manual typewriters bolted to the tables in typewriting class. We were taught the double space.
A decade or so later of heavy keyboard use, I switched to typing single spaces after sentences. It was no big deal (though honestly, I thought it would be harder).
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I swear to god, I read what you wrote and it's like I was reading my own words - well, except for the part about emacs ;-).
WindowMaker user since 1999 here, still using it on Ubuntu 11.10.
Where on earth are you finding Galaxy Tabs for $200???
Spot check on Google Shopping shows $279 as the cheapest from a seller with at least some rating and more commonly in the $300-$400 range.
True, but I'm frequently at a location where I lose my cell signal but have WiFi available, so it can go the other way, too.
YouTube already did this, last year...
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/1353205/YouTube-To-Kill-IE6-Support-On-March-13
Many Google properties stopped working with Safari 3.? earlier this year (I saw gmail and calendar cease working personally, don't know how widespread it was) and boy was that a headache here at my workplace.
Anyway, we're getting there!
You missed the part where he mentioned "Adobe Editions"
I've been using it for about a year on my netbook and I think it's great for that platform. Boots quick, runs official Google Chrome, and it pretty much just works[1]. I use it as a netbook and not as a laptop replacement, so maybe other people will be disappointed they can't run an office suite and the latest 3D games. Meanwhile, I'm digging their panel-like interface - just feels so fresh and different.
I'm also intrigued by the under-the-hood directions they are taking with the Meego project - for example, zypp for package management (it's RPM based) rather than the atrocity that is yum and mutter as a window manager. It feels like their driving innovations in these areas more than that traditional desktops OSs with legacy hardware and users to support.
It's not perfect by any means, though, but try it out if you get a chance. Its depressing that people don't seem to know Meego is more than just a smartphone OS and that the netbook version has been shipping for a while now. I'd love to see this in a tablet, more than Android, because at the end of it all, it's Linux, and that opens up so much more.
[1] broadcom wifi driver complications notwithstanding on my HP Mini MIE
Palm cries in the corner.
wtf new slashdot, I can't log in to entertainment.slashdot.org???
That was me.
Interesting - you don't get the constant barrage of trophy errors with Borderlands? I also copied a game save to another PS3 to play splitscreen co-op but it resulted in the game being gimped that way. It was playable, just annoying to get those errors constantly and annoying that we couldn't get trophies.
Maybe it wasn't the right combination of PSN ids and game saves for me.
Anyway, it would be nice if there was a database of information on this.
Hmm, I'm curious which games you've been doing with this. A number of them do not work right or even flat out do not work when transferring games saves like that. In fact, I think for me the majority did not.
Off hand, I recall Arkham Asylum and Resident Evil 5 did not work at all, and Borderlands does not work right (you can no longer earn trophies and you get constant error messages about it).
Recently, I noticed a new section under Videos in my XMB called Trailers. I was puzzled as to when that had shown up and given the number of trailers listed there, I knew I would've noticed all those HD videos downloading.
It dawned on me it came on the Gran Turismo 5 disc...
>a threaded Twitter
hey that sounds way better than the current twitter - bring it on!
I lost track of who was defeating which point but I think "uncompressed MPEG-2 video streams" wins it.
I don't know what you mean by "entire rest of the market" but Mac OS never had a convention for middle-clicking insofar as it barely had conventions for right-clicking for the longest time so I don't know what you mean by "follow the conventions" since all 3 platforms had different behaviors regarding the matter.
Or do you think The Windows Way should be the only way? Is that what you meant?
I stick to Firefox because the Chrome devs show a complete disregard for the Linux platform and its conventions by refusing to support middle-click loading of URLs:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11612
>Have we compensated the Americans of Japanese heritage who were rounded up into concentration camps during WWII?
Actually yes, to the tune of $1.6 billion to >82,000 interees and their heirs, back in 1999:
http://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees
>Yeah, sold only by the scam-artists at ECost.
C'mon, really???
http://www.google.com/search?q=Motorola+MOTOFONE+F3&hl=en&prmd=sv&source=lnms&tbs=shop:1&ei=GGjkTMikFozEsAOOz_Bm&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CB0Q_AU&biw=1108&bih=995
They are called "pages" now, but yeah, I like the way you think.
I dunno, while I'm *mostly* certain you're a good guy and that link is legit, it seems like downloading a random mediafire link isn't really in the spirit of things here...
You have a newsletter, don't you?
> will not put up with unstable service for long.
Here's where you are very wrong. Twitters service failures are legendary and persist to this day. And they are still around, bigger than ever.
Just to give you a sense of how long people have put up with them: I "quit" Twitter in July of 2008 because of aggravation with their service failures which was already a running joke *THEN*. I thought for sure no way people would put up with that amount of downtime and unreliability.
Also you get the dealership slapping their name on it too. Often the dealer will not only put their name on the body of the car, but also around the license plate.
I live in southern California and you don't see this much around here- in fact I'd never seen it at all until I moved out of state for a while (Wisconsin, where it seemed all cars had it).
I imagine particularly in the Los Angeles region (where I am), this would not fly. I personally would not stand for it. If I'm dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a car, I would demand that dealer badges be removed or there would be no sale. Period.
I find it curious that other people (like you, apparently) don't, and just accept it.
As far as the PS3, the issue is that Sony have been consistently removing features since launch - not just as hardware revisions, but removing features through mandatory (if you want to go online / play recent games) firmware upgrades - and THAT is something that neither MS nor Nintendo have done.
Can you give some examples? I'm genuinely curious. I've had the PS3 since 2007 (1st gen) and the only feature removed by firmware upgrades that I can recall is the Linux compatibility. That sucked, but I can understand their motivations.
I learned to type circa 1982, on old manual typewriters bolted to the tables in typewriting class. We were taught the double space.
A decade or so later of heavy keyboard use, I switched to typing single spaces after sentences. It was no big deal (though honestly, I thought it would be harder).
Actually, subtitles are in the spec : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_17
Support is pretty shoddy though :(