One nice feature, though, is
emacs-style navigation in type-in forms! Alas, that feature is a bit buggy, but I was very happy to see it.
The reason why the emacs style navigation is there is because Safari is a Cocoa app written in Objective-C. You get all sorts of great stuff free when using that API. Not only do you have emacs navigation, you can also turn on spell-checking as you type in form fields. Cocoa apps just plain rule! To paraphrase Mike Meyers, if it isn't a Cocoa app (or GnuStep) written in Objective-C, it's
crap!
There are couple of tools for Linux that will run MS-DOS executables. One that comes to mind is dosexec. Although I've never had the need/desire to run MS-DOS programs under Linux so I can't tell you how well any of them work.
Apple should at least try to seek some compensation from the RIAA for all the wasted man-hours spent taking support calls for people using these non-standard CDs.
No matter what, you're still watching the commercials with your PVR anyways. They're just going by really fast.:-) The user has to pick up the remote and press the fast forward button, watch the commercials go by, and then switch to normal speed when the show starts back up again. While you're watching the commercials go by, you still are aware that it's a Toyota commercial and a Tide detergent commercial, etc. Sometimes you even see a commercial that you *want* to watch like a movie trailer and stop the fast forwarding to watch that commercial and then speed through the rest. PVR's are by no means a magical box that get rid of commercials so that the user is never aware they exist.
You might check out ign.com. I used to use it to keep track of dreamcast games. Don't know how it is for PS2.
IGN.com is just about unreadable now. I used to visit there to read about the Nintendo systems. Now most of the content you want to read is pay only and what little free stuff on the site there is, they make you go through a page of ads before you can get to a story. It's also not always obvious what content is free and what is pay only. Sometimes if they remember to, they put a little lock icon there, often they don't. The only way you find out is by clicking the links and get taken to a page asking you to subscribe. It's very annoying.
(b) provide for an adult-only domain such as.prn where all non-child-safe sites (pr0n, hate speech, etc.) would be relegated--the sites would have to give up their.com/.org/.net domains they own today.
How would they make the determination that a particular site in a "non-child-safe" site and who makes the determination? It sounds like censorship if someone can arbitrarily make that determination and then force the site to give up the their.com/.org/.net domain that they payed for and force them to change their domain (probably making them pay for the new.prn domain as well).
Surely when you get asked to enter your root password (as you always do whenever you install new software) the attacker could jump to root. Guess the small amount of effort to trick/follow the user is more than any attacker would bother to do.
Actually, you're usually not entering in the root password when the dialog comes up during a softwate install. Typically you enter in your password if you are the primary user and you are in the admin group. You can of course enter in the root username and password in that dialog if you wish but it is possible to install programs without being root. This way when grandma gets her new iMac, she when she creates an account for herself she is placed in the admin group by default (if it was the first account created on that machine) and she can install/remove programs to her heart's content without actually having root privileges.
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There are couple of tools for Linux that will run MS-DOS executables. One that comes to mind is dosexec. Although I've never had the need/desire to run MS-DOS programs under Linux so I can't tell you how well any of them work.
Neelix!
It's about time Berman gets taken to task. Trek has been awful for years under his reign.
Apple should at least try to seek some compensation from the RIAA for all the wasted man-hours spent taking support calls for people using these non-standard CDs.
No matter what, you're still watching the commercials with your PVR anyways. They're just going by really fast. :-) The user has to pick up the remote and press the fast forward button, watch the commercials go by, and then switch to normal speed when the show starts back up again. While you're watching the commercials go by, you still are aware that it's a Toyota commercial and a Tide detergent commercial, etc. Sometimes you even see a commercial that you *want* to watch like a movie trailer and stop the fast forwarding to watch that commercial and then speed through the rest. PVR's are by no means a magical box that get rid of commercials so that the user is never aware they exist.
I agree. It wouldn't be the first time something was taken out of context. Maybe the student actually did cheat.