I'm using Safari 1.2.4 on OS X 10.3.6. Right now Safari is taking up about 116 MB of real memory, the most of any app by far (and I've got Word, Excel, and Firefox open too). It's also consuming more CPU time than any other app by far, and I only have six simple pages open in two windows. I fully expect it to crash any time now.
Safari crashes a lot -- at least once a day -- and takes up well over 100 MB of memory. For people weaned on UNIX, it may be jarring to see a process other than the X Window system be so monolithic and brittle.
Windows users, on the other hand, will feel right at home if they're used to such unreliable and slow programs. My G4/1.33 GHz with 768 MB RAM can't even keep up with my typing in Safari right now.
You can't use an iPod Photo to view images that you have downloaded off a digital camera.
You can use the Belkin media reader to pull JPEG images off a memory card, but they won't appear in the iPod Photo's interface. The reason is that the photos are handled through iTunes, which shrinks them down to 320x240 (unless you ask not to) and syncs them with the iPod.
So the iPod Photo can't even be used as a full-featured image tank even with a $80-$100 accessory bolted onto it.
Most "professional pundits" have to go through a process of editorial review. On the Internet where nobody is there to review content, you get a morass of terrible content with a few islands of coherency in it.
I enjoy reading good professional writing and good amateur writing. Please consider that editors have a real, actual, useful purpose the next time you see "Bush is a moran!!!! Click hear to see an funnie flash video! Comments (0) TrackBack (0)"
Slashdot provides very little original content -- it just links to others' web sites and provides a central forum for people to discuss others' articles.
In much the same way, but on a much smaller scale, the "blogosphere" is a bunch of individuals posting articles and TrackBacking to each other in a futile struggle to gain influence.
Furthermore, the community of people who call themselves the "blogosphere" are absolutely infuriating with all the manifestos and rants and such about how blogging will transform society.
If you consider a comments engine to be "participatory journalism," then I congratulate you. You've managed to make money off of people so deluded as to think that a couple of web applications will transform people's psyches.
Replace "ipodder" with "Shoutcast" and you have an equally meaningless rant about how the Internet was supposed to destroy evil centralized corporate radio about 5 years ago.
News blogs aren't going to destroy CNN, and webcasted radio shows aren't going to break anyone's hegemony. What's amazing is that people hold annual conferences to make assloads of money off of people deluded enough to believe that blogs will do any more for the Internet than, say, Geocities ever did.
Keyhole will be renamed "Google Keyhole [BETA]." The entire application will be rewritten in JavaScript and will only work with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox 1.1preview4b(v) with Google Keyhole [BETA] extension installed.
Slashdot will run at least four front-page stories on the subject (including "Google Acquires Keyhole Corp." and tomorrow's "Google Aquires Keyhole Corpany"). Comments will range from "This is cool" to "This sucks" to "Well it's BETA, what do you expect."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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So what you're saying is that it's normal for a web browser to use 100 MB of memory?
Perhaps the fine folks at Opera might like to know that. They must be breaking the rules by using a tiny fraction of that amount.
I've been offered insurance at EB for controllers (about $3 for a year of protection) and even games ($2-$3 depending on the game's price). Given how cheap these items are, I'm sure that the insurance is quite profitable. Even if a controller breaks, the odds are low that you saved the little slip proving that you bought the insurance.
On the other hand, I have yet to see a store that offers a protection plan for the PlayStation 2 itself. From my experience, PS2s are fragile enough to break for just about any reason. I would imagine that a $25 extended warranty on a $150 unreliable console would lose money for whoever's offering it.
The same exact thing is being done for the Game Boy Advance. You can buy various kids' cartoons in cartridge form.
I don't know how successful they've been, but Majesco keeps pushing out more and more of these cartridges. Clearly there's a demand for multimedia content on a game console, no matter how proprietary the format may be.
I've found that Best Buy never shoves a Product Service Plan (or "PSP," oddly enough) down my throat for video game stuff. They know that the risk is too great.
Notice how Best Buy offers a "Protect Your Investment" link for televisions and laptops, but not for the PS2, PS1, or GameCube. They do offer protection for the Xbox, but we all know how many Slashdot users actually use an Xbox as an Xbox-game player.
The UMD is about as open as all the other gaming formats for portable game systems out there:
Game Boy cartridge
Game Boy Advance cartridge
TurboExpress HuCard
Atari Lynx card
Game Gear cartridge
Sega Genesis cartridge
NeoGeo Pocket (color) cartridge
...and the list goes on.
What successful portable game system has used any sort of "standard" media? The Game Park GP32 doesn't count; it's not successful, and SmartMedia hasn't been "standard" for years.
With all due respect, XM is the clear leader right now in the satellite radio space. XM has over 2 million subscribers whereas Sirius has 700,000 subscribers. I'd also say that XM has a better brand: until the Howard Stern announcement, most people had no idea there was a second company doing satellite radio in the first place.
Have you priced out combo drives recently? The difference at retail between a DVD-ROM and DVD-ROM/CD-RW is negligible. I'm sure Apple gets even lower pricing, making the difference insignificant compared with the benefit of saying "you can burn CDs."
That said, I have a Powerbook 12" with a combo drive. I've burned maybe one CD on it since I got it.
You can buy it with Windows or without Windows. You save a little money if you buy it with Windows (compared to the $200-$300 it costs for Windows XP Full Version normally) but a legally-licensed copy of Windows will install without any problems on the vanilla Virtual PC product.
I use Virtual PC 6.1 on my Powerbook 1.33 GHz G4. I have 768 MB of total RAM on the system. A Windows XP system with 256 MB performs very slowly. Quicken runs about as well in this environment as it did on my Pentium 166 with 40 MB of memory. I can often see the screen redraw element by element.
Now it's still a better option than running the awfully-reviewed Quicken for Mac. I can't convert my giant Quicken data file to run in GNUcash for Mac OS X (which itself takes 1 GB of disk and about 12 hours of compiling to install from Fink) so I'm pretty much stuck with Quicken and VPC. But man is it ever slow.
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I'm using Safari 1.2.4 on OS X 10.3.6. Right now Safari is taking up about 116 MB of real memory, the most of any app by far (and I've got Word, Excel, and Firefox open too). It's also consuming more CPU time than any other app by far, and I only have six simple pages open in two windows. I fully expect it to crash any time now.
That's all well and good, but it's Safari that has been very slow for me. Firefox 1.0 hasn't crashed on me yet.
Safari crashes a lot -- at least once a day -- and takes up well over 100 MB of memory. For people weaned on UNIX, it may be jarring to see a process other than the X Window system be so monolithic and brittle.
Windows users, on the other hand, will feel right at home if they're used to such unreliable and slow programs. My G4/1.33 GHz with 768 MB RAM can't even keep up with my typing in Safari right now.
You can't use an iPod Photo to view images that you have downloaded off a digital camera.
You can use the Belkin media reader to pull JPEG images off a memory card, but they won't appear in the iPod Photo's interface. The reason is that the photos are handled through iTunes, which shrinks them down to 320x240 (unless you ask not to) and syncs them with the iPod.
So the iPod Photo can't even be used as a full-featured image tank even with a $80-$100 accessory bolted onto it.
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It's BETA. Don't worry. They'll add all the features I want before they take it out of beta.
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IE already dropped support for URLs with an @ in them, and some people accused Microsoft of breaking yet another standard.
Most "professional pundits" have to go through a process of editorial review. On the Internet where nobody is there to review content, you get a morass of terrible content with a few islands of coherency in it.
I enjoy reading good professional writing and good amateur writing. Please consider that editors have a real, actual, useful purpose the next time you see "Bush is a moran!!!! Click hear to see an funnie flash video! Comments (0) TrackBack (0)"
Slashdot provides very little original content -- it just links to others' web sites and provides a central forum for people to discuss others' articles.
In much the same way, but on a much smaller scale, the "blogosphere" is a bunch of individuals posting articles and TrackBacking to each other in a futile struggle to gain influence.
Furthermore, the community of people who call themselves the "blogosphere" are absolutely infuriating with all the manifestos and rants and such about how blogging will transform society.
If you consider a comments engine to be "participatory journalism," then I congratulate you. You've managed to make money off of people so deluded as to think that a couple of web applications will transform people's psyches.
Replace "ipodder" with "Shoutcast" and you have an equally meaningless rant about how the Internet was supposed to destroy evil centralized corporate radio about 5 years ago.
News blogs aren't going to destroy CNN, and webcasted radio shows aren't going to break anyone's hegemony. What's amazing is that people hold annual conferences to make assloads of money off of people deluded enough to believe that blogs will do any more for the Internet than, say, Geocities ever did.
Keyhole will be renamed "Google Keyhole [BETA]." The entire application will be rewritten in JavaScript and will only work with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox 1.1preview4b(v) with Google Keyhole [BETA] extension installed.
Slashdot will run at least four front-page stories on the subject (including "Google Acquires Keyhole Corp." and tomorrow's "Google Aquires Keyhole Corpany"). Comments will range from "This is cool" to "This sucks" to "Well it's BETA, what do you expect."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
So what you're saying is that it's normal for a web browser to use 100 MB of memory?
Perhaps the fine folks at Opera might like to know that. They must be breaking the rules by using a tiny fraction of that amount.
I've been offered insurance at EB for controllers (about $3 for a year of protection) and even games ($2-$3 depending on the game's price). Given how cheap these items are, I'm sure that the insurance is quite profitable. Even if a controller breaks, the odds are low that you saved the little slip proving that you bought the insurance.
On the other hand, I have yet to see a store that offers a protection plan for the PlayStation 2 itself. From my experience, PS2s are fragile enough to break for just about any reason. I would imagine that a $25 extended warranty on a $150 unreliable console would lose money for whoever's offering it.
The same exact thing is being done for the Game Boy Advance. You can buy various kids' cartoons in cartridge form.
I don't know how successful they've been, but Majesco keeps pushing out more and more of these cartridges. Clearly there's a demand for multimedia content on a game console, no matter how proprietary the format may be.
I've found that Best Buy never shoves a Product Service Plan (or "PSP," oddly enough) down my throat for video game stuff. They know that the risk is too great.
Notice how Best Buy offers a "Protect Your Investment" link for televisions and laptops, but not for the PS2, PS1, or GameCube. They do offer protection for the Xbox, but we all know how many Slashdot users actually use an Xbox as an Xbox-game player.
The UMD is about as open as all the other gaming formats for portable game systems out there:
What successful portable game system has used any sort of "standard" media? The Game Park GP32 doesn't count; it's not successful, and SmartMedia hasn't been "standard" for years.
After a day's worth of surfing, Firefox often takes 100 MB of real memory on any operating system.
While not as bad as Safari (170 MB) it's much less memory-efficient than Internet Explorer.
And no, I'm not going to fix the bugs. I'm going to complain on Slashdot, because goddammit that's how open source progress gets made.
MCE doesn't yet have HD support.
Actually, it does.
Microsoft pays me $100 per message to post this information, so it must be true.
As far as I searched, Media Center 2005 does support HDTV.
With all due respect, XM is the clear leader right now in the satellite radio space. XM has over 2 million subscribers whereas Sirius has 700,000 subscribers. I'd also say that XM has a better brand: until the Howard Stern announcement, most people had no idea there was a second company doing satellite radio in the first place.
Have you priced out combo drives recently? The difference at retail between a DVD-ROM and DVD-ROM/CD-RW is negligible. I'm sure Apple gets even lower pricing, making the difference insignificant compared with the benefit of saying "you can burn CDs."
That said, I have a Powerbook 12" with a combo drive. I've burned maybe one CD on it since I got it.
I don't know why this is marked as "Overrated," but it's correct. Her name is Valerie and her official title is "Roboceptionist."
You can buy it with Windows or without Windows. You save a little money if you buy it with Windows (compared to the $200-$300 it costs for Windows XP Full Version normally) but a legally-licensed copy of Windows will install without any problems on the vanilla Virtual PC product.
I use Virtual PC 6.1 on my Powerbook 1.33 GHz G4. I have 768 MB of total RAM on the system. A Windows XP system with 256 MB performs very slowly. Quicken runs about as well in this environment as it did on my Pentium 166 with 40 MB of memory. I can often see the screen redraw element by element.
Now it's still a better option than running the awfully-reviewed Quicken for Mac. I can't convert my giant Quicken data file to run in GNUcash for Mac OS X (which itself takes 1 GB of disk and about 12 hours of compiling to install from Fink) so I'm pretty much stuck with Quicken and VPC. But man is it ever slow.
Gmail works much better in IE than in Safari. When I last checked, Gmail actually loads in Internet Explorer.
Here's a screen shot of what I see when I load Gmail in Safari 1.2.3 half the time:
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I did. I found information about Linux from prosco.com.