The selfish part of this is our willfull overpopulation of the planet, not the food. This is how food should be produced to be sustainable and environmentally friendly. If we would have to plow up too much land to grow locally to support our communities, this should tell you something about the size of our communities. We live on this huge planet and we could fill it to the brim with people, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. We're not the only inhabitants. Don't get me started on the third world nation crap. It's great that we're helping feed them, but we're going about it the wrong way. Instead of bringing them sustainability, we're feeding them reliability. Then add in fundamentalists in other countries that will push the bible all day but won't spend the time pushing sex education and birth control...
I think the bigger problem with Xbox Live right now are the insane number of just unspeakably bad trash that gets put up there. I don't know if it's still up there, but there used to be a game actually called "Don't Buy This Game" or something to that extint. I think the zinger was, if you did, it basically said "I told you so." There was no game there really. It was 400 points and whether on accident or intentionally I'm sure someone bought it. This is an extreme example, but Microsoft was not monitoring submittals for this kinda garbage. It got to the point where at least I would never visit the indie game section.
And now? Well, if there's 35 slots that's a good thing, it means the cream of the crop will rise. I honestly couldn't name you over 10 of the "indie" games on Live worth buying. Basically, this means that MS can actually push the indie games section and encourage people to visit it instead of slightly burying it like they have now. Giving indie developers an outlet on a console is a great thing, but all the craps been pulling everyone down. I only see this as a positive. And, if there's a resurgence of great talent and great games that start to spill in from the indie community, I'm sure MS will change their stance...but for now, this limit is doing exactly what it should, it's going to discourage people from spending 2 days programming "Poop II: Revenge of the Turds" and hoping someone actually buys it.
Where's the part of the summary telling people that they can upgrade for $49.99 by pre-ordering?
"Finally, as a way of saying thank you to our loyal Windows customers, we are excited to introduce a special time limited offer! We will offer people in select markets the opportunity to pre-order Windows 7 at a more than 50% discount. In the US, this will mean you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium for USD $49.99 or Windows 7 Professional for USD $99.99. You can take advantage of this special offer online via select retail partners such as Best Buy or Amazon, or the online Microsoft Store (in participating markets).
This program begins tomorrow in the U.S., Canada and Japan. The offer ends July 11th in the U.S. and Canada and on July 5th for Japan or while supplies last. Customers in the UK, France and Germany, can pre-order their copy of Windows 7 starting July 15th and will run until August 14th (or supplies last) to ensure folks donâ(TM)t miss out on this. Act fast if you want to be the first in line to get Windows 7 at this screaming deal! Note: The special low pre-order price will vary per country."
Granted, it's a small window for a bloated Windows, but you have to applaud Microsoft for this. If you hate Vista and are convinced you want an upgrade, it's only $49.99 if you do in in the next few weeks.
I agree, if it keeps companies from watering down games, I'm all for it.
I think the better solution for this would be a "demo" mode that showed the player how to beat the stage and then let the player at it or an in game "ghost mode" that would show the player how to beat the stage as they play. Heck, even enabling something akin to the "rewind" in Braid or a retro NES "slow motion" mode might help alleviate some frustrations.
Games such as Mario Galaxy have proved that you can make games that appeal to casual players but have enough challenge to test avid gamers when you get into the weeds. This might help bridge the gap even more.
Right, but it's also much more expensive than the regular PSP. So, does this sell on the shelf next to the PSP? Can the old PSP play the new PSP Go games? If it's not supposed to replace the traditional PSP, it just opens up a whole new world of confusion on the part of consumers.
Sony seems to be the master at making devices that blur so many lines that people aren't sure if they should buy it and why they should buy it, especially lately with their game consoles.
Well, if you're not playing a disc (i.e., listening to streaming radio) the 360 is pretty dang quiet. The noisy part of the system is when all the fans and disc drive kick on while playing games.
Not really, it's still a nice feature. Many people have their 360's plugged through their entertainment system. It's a nice way to have internet radio without having to plug in a computer...although it would be nice to have in game as well. Funny thing though, these days I don't find myself listening to music while playing games very often unless I'm playing a puzzle game or something of the sort. With all the 3D games today, I usually have the game audio playing for positional information. Depending on the game I might even put on headphones for more detailed positional information than what my tv puts out. It's not like the old NES/SNES days where I'd mute the game (unless it was something like Mega Man of course) and turn on the stereo.
Due to ludicrous Florida laws, all new used media stores are to be treated as pawn shops. In other words, you have to fill out paperwork and, I believe, give a thumb print to be able to trade in a videogame...
2 1/2 hours later she got it working. Granted, she seemed to be one of those rare older folks who still have the energy of someone half their age. She didn't have anyone to help her, so we went along with the procedure. I told her if she breaks any of the parts trying to replace this, it was our responsibility to replace them so she wasn't scared. It was a pain, but at the end of the day the computer worked. Everyone was amazed we pulled it off, even though it killed my call center stats for that week.
Apparently the monitor is the computer and the computer is the CPU.
In addition to being called the computer, the monitor is also often referred to as the t.v. and the "window." I once had a lady that was adamant that they called the operating system Windows because you viewed it in the window.
Both the monitor and computer both have their separate power cable. Just because you have your monitor cable going between the monitor and computer doesn't mean that one is going to power the other.
Unfortunately, there isn't a fuse to replace when the computer won't turn on. Also, they stopped using tubes in computers some ages ago.
Laptop's are actually "labtops," because the original intent was to make a computer that was easy to use in a lab environment. It's just coincidental that they also work nicely in your lap.
When someone says the word "memory," don't even try to figure out what they mean. Just troubleshoot. Not enough memory for their program could mean anything from hard drive space to ram to having integrated video and not being able to play a game.
There is really no need to have a fire extinguisher close to the computer. Honestly. The cd burner isn't really burning anything.
Your best costumer is the one who knows absolutely nothing and doesn't claim to know anything. I successfully walked an 85 year old lady through a motherboard replacement on the phone once. On the other hand, I often had a hard time getting "IT guys" to follow simple instructions for troubleshooting devices. I don't care who you are, I'm not going to send you a replacement modem when there is a known registry fix that will make it work just fine....
It's funny, you almost develop an entirely knew "language" when dealing with laypeople over the phone. I could go on and on...
The problem with Windows hasn't been speed. Well, it has, but it's not because it's innately slow. It's just been a resource hog. Windows 7 has a substantially smaller footprint than Windows Vista and one that equals and sometimes beats Windows XP in my own experience.
If the systems in the test were decked out in RAM, of course you're not going to see an improvement. Also, you're not going to see a difference if you open one application and test its speed. Windows 7 is markedly better at multitaking, though.
In the long run, it all depends on what you're looking for. Windows 7 isn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it's the best thing that a Windows user has seen since Windows 2000. And it definitely has real world pro's against OSX and Ubuntu, not the typical straw man arguments and the "it runs all my applications and games" deal.
Dig past the benchmarks and you'll see the improvements. It's not going to switch a Mac user from OSX or an open source junkie from Linux, but it should make a PC user happy. Windows and OSX are on fairly equal playing fields so it's not longer a choice of "do you want house brand ice cream or Ben & Jerry's" and more of a question of "do you like chocolate or vanilla?"
I fully agree. I usually get each new MMORPG just to give it a shot but, really, no one's touched EQ's dungeons. They were challenging, required strategy and planning for the worst (trains, etc), crowd control, a variety of skills, skilled players, and most importantly they were fun. Then you had the high level Planes and Raids that were all of that bumped to the next level. And then Lost Dungeons of Norrath was released and it once again reinvented itself.
It's a shame that people are in such a race to hit the finish line in these games that they don't want to stop and smell the roses on the way and enjoy them.
This is great. I'm glad to see games like this pop up because it reminds me of the old BBS days and games like Legend of the Red Dragon. You know, just with a few pieces of art thrown in.
When I was a kid, I looked forward to getting home from school every day to play Legend of the Red Dragon to use my "10 kills a day" or whatever it was. I can totally see myself looking forward to getting home to use my "30 action points a day" in this game!
The really bad thing is that cable companies will see this as a chance to stick it to you for even more each month. I'm sure that your local cable company would be more than happy to sell you a gaming service for $50 a month on top of what you already pay. The downstream bandwidth would be little more than what an HDTV channel already takes, the upstream to their servers would be little more than data flowing from the controller.
Conveniently enough, it would probably all work through a modified cable box.
This is the last thing I want to see until coper and fiber lines are opened up someday. I don't like the fact that I only have one option for cable and one option for phone service (other than internet phone). Both services suck.
Right, my point was that I didn't have a PSX or PS2 that lasted over 2 years (until the slim PS2...they got something right with that model), yet I've been 4 years on my xbox.
I think MS hatred and the fact that it has these fancy lights on front that flash errors help perpetuate the xbox issue. It's definitely an issue...I'm just curious why people weren't up in arms with their PSX and PS2s.
Also, for what it's worth, I still have my original NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, and now my Wii and they all work. Granted, the NES takes a little work at times (I had no idea that by blowing in the carts when I was a kid I was corroding the connectors and by double stacking games I was loosing the connectors) but it still works.
My question, though, is where were all these complains when the PSX was the dominant system? After my 3rd PSX, I kindly resigned and quit playing PSX games until I finally got a PS2. I'm now on my 3rd PS2 and I've said the same thing. Unfortuantely PS3's aren't backwards compatible now, so I'm kinda stuck.
On the other hand (and I may be one of the lucky ones) I still have my launch 360. I'm a lighter gamer...I don't play FPS's for entire afternoon...which might explain why I don't have problems with my 360. But this surely doesn't explain the list of problems I've had with Sony.
Honestly, I agree that there's a major issue with Xbox hardware, but I think it's been blown up to this degree through MS hatred. From everything I can tell, the original PSX was more unstable than this thing ever thought about being.
I would think you'd need quite a jolt to kill a mosquito too, especially in laser form. What would the electricity bill be on this thing just to shoot down some mosquitoes? Hell, screw that, give me a laser system to kill carpenter bees and you have yourself a sale.
Look, I think we're talking about different things here.
For accuracy (especially positional), nothing can beat a headphone. I've said it. You're isolating your ears and the speakers are meant to drive into your ears in just the right way.
As far as sound quality and fidelity goes, nothing can beat a speaker. It's a lot easier to reproduce real sounds through a speaker.
A good sound room will sound better than headphones because it's more natural. Headphones will always be surreal because they give your positioning that you wouldn't otherwise be able to recreate (without putting someone in a sound booth and surrounding them with speakers). But in order to match a $500 pair of headphones, you'll be spending $2000+ on a setup anyway, so its not a direct comparison in that since.
If the "audio engineers" coming out to your house to measure everything will even sell you Bose equipment, that explains why they're only charging you $200 for setup...
The whole write up was stupid. I think that he was implying that you're getting old and need to get with the times. The whole "this is your new Elvis" is a little sensationalist. This is no different than hip hop producers who've been mixing stuff for 30 years, it's just progressed over the years from mixing vinyl, using samplers, using computer, using computers to mash up songs, to mixing youtube videos now. It's not revolutionary, it's the natural progression.
Once in a while a transition in media is made quickly enough to where one person gets pegged as reinventing or revolutionizing the art. This is not that.
Actually, that's a whole different ball of wax (bad pun intended).
Records provide analog sound which does sound more more natural and warm if the original recording was also analog (using good equipment). This is an extremely hi fidelity medium.
And 128 mp3's are an extremely lo fidelity medium. I can't stand listening to them because it actually cuts out audible portions of the music that I can hear if listening to the cd or a high quality rip.
I think a part of this equation that is being left out is the volume at which the listeners were playing the music. Also, with some of these kids doing nothing but listening to their ipods 24/7, I'm wondering if their earing isn't temporarily damaged.
I would be curious to see what these kids would think about the different samples if they went a month without listening to any music. They like the hiss because they're not used to hearing anything without it (on crappy headphones none-the-less). I wanna know what happens when they "reboot" their ears. This isn't just a matter of some people prefer sennheiser headphones and some people prefer grado headphones, this is a matter of some people liking how things actually sound vs. some people liking distorted music with hiss laid over it. That's kind of unsettling to me.
It looks to me like all they've done is rework Safari to make it emulate Chrome. They stole Chrome's UI, they made a point to rework how javascript is processed to make it faster than IE and Firefox. So, you could use Safari and get the features of Chrome at a larger memory footprint or you could just run Chrome. Chrome isn't as full featured as Safari, but covers 95% of what people need for normal web browser. Personally, I would rather use FireFox as a backup browser...it's more compatible than Safari anyway.
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The selfish part of this is our willfull overpopulation of the planet, not the food. This is how food should be produced to be sustainable and environmentally friendly. If we would have to plow up too much land to grow locally to support our communities, this should tell you something about the size of our communities. We live on this huge planet and we could fill it to the brim with people, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. We're not the only inhabitants. Don't get me started on the third world nation crap. It's great that we're helping feed them, but we're going about it the wrong way. Instead of bringing them sustainability, we're feeding them reliability. Then add in fundamentalists in other countries that will push the bible all day but won't spend the time pushing sex education and birth control...
I think the bigger problem with Xbox Live right now are the insane number of just unspeakably bad trash that gets put up there. I don't know if it's still up there, but there used to be a game actually called "Don't Buy This Game" or something to that extint. I think the zinger was, if you did, it basically said "I told you so." There was no game there really. It was 400 points and whether on accident or intentionally I'm sure someone bought it. This is an extreme example, but Microsoft was not monitoring submittals for this kinda garbage. It got to the point where at least I would never visit the indie game section.
And now? Well, if there's 35 slots that's a good thing, it means the cream of the crop will rise. I honestly couldn't name you over 10 of the "indie" games on Live worth buying. Basically, this means that MS can actually push the indie games section and encourage people to visit it instead of slightly burying it like they have now. Giving indie developers an outlet on a console is a great thing, but all the craps been pulling everyone down. I only see this as a positive. And, if there's a resurgence of great talent and great games that start to spill in from the indie community, I'm sure MS will change their stance...but for now, this limit is doing exactly what it should, it's going to discourage people from spending 2 days programming "Poop II: Revenge of the Turds" and hoping someone actually buys it.
Where's the part of the summary telling people that they can upgrade for $49.99 by pre-ordering?
"Finally, as a way of saying thank you to our loyal Windows customers, we are excited to introduce a special time limited offer! We will offer people in select markets the opportunity to pre-order Windows 7 at a more than 50% discount. In the US, this will mean you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium for USD $49.99 or Windows 7 Professional for USD $99.99. You can take advantage of this special offer online via select retail partners such as Best Buy or Amazon, or the online Microsoft Store (in participating markets).
This program begins tomorrow in the U.S., Canada and Japan. The offer ends July 11th in the U.S. and Canada and on July 5th for Japan or while supplies last. Customers in the UK, France and Germany, can pre-order their copy of Windows 7 starting July 15th and will run until August 14th (or supplies last) to ensure folks donâ(TM)t miss out on this. Act fast if you want to be the first in line to get Windows 7 at this screaming deal! Note: The special low pre-order price will vary per country."
Granted, it's a small window for a bloated Windows, but you have to applaud Microsoft for this. If you hate Vista and are convinced you want an upgrade, it's only $49.99 if you do in in the next few weeks.
I agree, if it keeps companies from watering down games, I'm all for it.
I think the better solution for this would be a "demo" mode that showed the player how to beat the stage and then let the player at it or an in game "ghost mode" that would show the player how to beat the stage as they play. Heck, even enabling something akin to the "rewind" in Braid or a retro NES "slow motion" mode might help alleviate some frustrations.
Games such as Mario Galaxy have proved that you can make games that appeal to casual players but have enough challenge to test avid gamers when you get into the weeds. This might help bridge the gap even more.
We're earthlings, lets blow up earth things!
Right, but it's also much more expensive than the regular PSP. So, does this sell on the shelf next to the PSP? Can the old PSP play the new PSP Go games? If it's not supposed to replace the traditional PSP, it just opens up a whole new world of confusion on the part of consumers.
Sony seems to be the master at making devices that blur so many lines that people aren't sure if they should buy it and why they should buy it, especially lately with their game consoles.
Well, if you're not playing a disc (i.e., listening to streaming radio) the 360 is pretty dang quiet. The noisy part of the system is when all the fans and disc drive kick on while playing games.
Not really, it's still a nice feature. Many people have their 360's plugged through their entertainment system. It's a nice way to have internet radio without having to plug in a computer...although it would be nice to have in game as well. Funny thing though, these days I don't find myself listening to music while playing games very often unless I'm playing a puzzle game or something of the sort. With all the 3D games today, I usually have the game audio playing for positional information. Depending on the game I might even put on headphones for more detailed positional information than what my tv puts out. It's not like the old NES/SNES days where I'd mute the game (unless it was something like Mega Man of course) and turn on the stereo.
Due to ludicrous Florida laws, all new used media stores are to be treated as pawn shops. In other words, you have to fill out paperwork and, I believe, give a thumb print to be able to trade in a videogame...
2 1/2 hours later she got it working. Granted, she seemed to be one of those rare older folks who still have the energy of someone half their age. She didn't have anyone to help her, so we went along with the procedure. I told her if she breaks any of the parts trying to replace this, it was our responsibility to replace them so she wasn't scared. It was a pain, but at the end of the day the computer worked. Everyone was amazed we pulled it off, even though it killed my call center stats for that week.
The point was, she thought the monitor was called a "window"...
Apparently the monitor is the computer and the computer is the CPU.
In addition to being called the computer, the monitor is also often referred to as the t.v. and the "window." I once had a lady that was adamant that they called the operating system Windows because you viewed it in the window.
Both the monitor and computer both have their separate power cable. Just because you have your monitor cable going between the monitor and computer doesn't mean that one is going to power the other.
Unfortunately, there isn't a fuse to replace when the computer won't turn on. Also, they stopped using tubes in computers some ages ago.
Laptop's are actually "labtops," because the original intent was to make a computer that was easy to use in a lab environment. It's just coincidental that they also work nicely in your lap.
When someone says the word "memory," don't even try to figure out what they mean. Just troubleshoot. Not enough memory for their program could mean anything from hard drive space to ram to having integrated video and not being able to play a game.
There is really no need to have a fire extinguisher close to the computer. Honestly. The cd burner isn't really burning anything.
Your best costumer is the one who knows absolutely nothing and doesn't claim to know anything. I successfully walked an 85 year old lady through a motherboard replacement on the phone once. On the other hand, I often had a hard time getting "IT guys" to follow simple instructions for troubleshooting devices. I don't care who you are, I'm not going to send you a replacement modem when there is a known registry fix that will make it work just fine. ...
It's funny, you almost develop an entirely knew "language" when dealing with laypeople over the phone. I could go on and on...
The problem with Windows hasn't been speed. Well, it has, but it's not because it's innately slow. It's just been a resource hog. Windows 7 has a substantially smaller footprint than Windows Vista and one that equals and sometimes beats Windows XP in my own experience.
If the systems in the test were decked out in RAM, of course you're not going to see an improvement. Also, you're not going to see a difference if you open one application and test its speed. Windows 7 is markedly better at multitaking, though.
In the long run, it all depends on what you're looking for. Windows 7 isn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it's the best thing that a Windows user has seen since Windows 2000. And it definitely has real world pro's against OSX and Ubuntu, not the typical straw man arguments and the "it runs all my applications and games" deal.
Dig past the benchmarks and you'll see the improvements. It's not going to switch a Mac user from OSX or an open source junkie from Linux, but it should make a PC user happy. Windows and OSX are on fairly equal playing fields so it's not longer a choice of "do you want house brand ice cream or Ben & Jerry's" and more of a question of "do you like chocolate or vanilla?"
And that's why they made the Smash Bros series for people like you...
I fully agree. I usually get each new MMORPG just to give it a shot but, really, no one's touched EQ's dungeons. They were challenging, required strategy and planning for the worst (trains, etc), crowd control, a variety of skills, skilled players, and most importantly they were fun. Then you had the high level Planes and Raids that were all of that bumped to the next level. And then Lost Dungeons of Norrath was released and it once again reinvented itself.
It's a shame that people are in such a race to hit the finish line in these games that they don't want to stop and smell the roses on the way and enjoy them.
This is great. I'm glad to see games like this pop up because it reminds me of the old BBS days and games like Legend of the Red Dragon. You know, just with a few pieces of art thrown in.
When I was a kid, I looked forward to getting home from school every day to play Legend of the Red Dragon to use my "10 kills a day" or whatever it was. I can totally see myself looking forward to getting home to use my "30 action points a day" in this game!
The really bad thing is that cable companies will see this as a chance to stick it to you for even more each month. I'm sure that your local cable company would be more than happy to sell you a gaming service for $50 a month on top of what you already pay. The downstream bandwidth would be little more than what an HDTV channel already takes, the upstream to their servers would be little more than data flowing from the controller.
Conveniently enough, it would probably all work through a modified cable box.
This is the last thing I want to see until coper and fiber lines are opened up someday. I don't like the fact that I only have one option for cable and one option for phone service (other than internet phone). Both services suck.
Right, my point was that I didn't have a PSX or PS2 that lasted over 2 years (until the slim PS2...they got something right with that model), yet I've been 4 years on my xbox.
I think MS hatred and the fact that it has these fancy lights on front that flash errors help perpetuate the xbox issue. It's definitely an issue...I'm just curious why people weren't up in arms with their PSX and PS2s.
Also, for what it's worth, I still have my original NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, and now my Wii and they all work. Granted, the NES takes a little work at times (I had no idea that by blowing in the carts when I was a kid I was corroding the connectors and by double stacking games I was loosing the connectors) but it still works.
My question, though, is where were all these complains when the PSX was the dominant system? After my 3rd PSX, I kindly resigned and quit playing PSX games until I finally got a PS2. I'm now on my 3rd PS2 and I've said the same thing. Unfortuantely PS3's aren't backwards compatible now, so I'm kinda stuck.
On the other hand (and I may be one of the lucky ones) I still have my launch 360. I'm a lighter gamer...I don't play FPS's for entire afternoon...which might explain why I don't have problems with my 360. But this surely doesn't explain the list of problems I've had with Sony.
Honestly, I agree that there's a major issue with Xbox hardware, but I think it's been blown up to this degree through MS hatred. From everything I can tell, the original PSX was more unstable than this thing ever thought about being.
I would think you'd need quite a jolt to kill a mosquito too, especially in laser form. What would the electricity bill be on this thing just to shoot down some mosquitoes? Hell, screw that, give me a laser system to kill carpenter bees and you have yourself a sale.
Look, I think we're talking about different things here.
For accuracy (especially positional), nothing can beat a headphone. I've said it. You're isolating your ears and the speakers are meant to drive into your ears in just the right way.
As far as sound quality and fidelity goes, nothing can beat a speaker. It's a lot easier to reproduce real sounds through a speaker.
A good sound room will sound better than headphones because it's more natural. Headphones will always be surreal because they give your positioning that you wouldn't otherwise be able to recreate (without putting someone in a sound booth and surrounding them with speakers). But in order to match a $500 pair of headphones, you'll be spending $2000+ on a setup anyway, so its not a direct comparison in that since.
If the "audio engineers" coming out to your house to measure everything will even sell you Bose equipment, that explains why they're only charging you $200 for setup...
The whole write up was stupid. I think that he was implying that you're getting old and need to get with the times. The whole "this is your new Elvis" is a little sensationalist. This is no different than hip hop producers who've been mixing stuff for 30 years, it's just progressed over the years from mixing vinyl, using samplers, using computer, using computers to mash up songs, to mixing youtube videos now. It's not revolutionary, it's the natural progression.
Once in a while a transition in media is made quickly enough to where one person gets pegged as reinventing or revolutionizing the art. This is not that.
Actually, that's a whole different ball of wax (bad pun intended).
Records provide analog sound which does sound more more natural and warm if the original recording was also analog (using good equipment). This is an extremely hi fidelity medium.
And 128 mp3's are an extremely lo fidelity medium. I can't stand listening to them because it actually cuts out audible portions of the music that I can hear if listening to the cd or a high quality rip.
I think a part of this equation that is being left out is the volume at which the listeners were playing the music. Also, with some of these kids doing nothing but listening to their ipods 24/7, I'm wondering if their earing isn't temporarily damaged.
I would be curious to see what these kids would think about the different samples if they went a month without listening to any music. They like the hiss because they're not used to hearing anything without it (on crappy headphones none-the-less). I wanna know what happens when they "reboot" their ears. This isn't just a matter of some people prefer sennheiser headphones and some people prefer grado headphones, this is a matter of some people liking how things actually sound vs. some people liking distorted music with hiss laid over it. That's kind of unsettling to me.
It looks to me like all they've done is rework Safari to make it emulate Chrome. They stole Chrome's UI, they made a point to rework how javascript is processed to make it faster than IE and Firefox. So, you could use Safari and get the features of Chrome at a larger memory footprint or you could just run Chrome. Chrome isn't as full featured as Safari, but covers 95% of what people need for normal web browser. Personally, I would rather use FireFox as a backup browser...it's more compatible than Safari anyway.