While I'm definitly going to sell both my current macs and buy the new 17" lust-object, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the public beta of Safari is one hell of a pre-released alpha.
The interface is super-nice, and the features outstanding. But the browser rendering? Well it sucks donkey-bottom. I've sent in no less than six bug-reports in the first three minutes I used it. It didn't load my css on my home page at all, macnn.com is missing tables. A surprise that they even found ten good sites to show in the keynote. I'm really looking forward to this browser maturing, but for now Chimera 0.6.0 is the way to go.
Too bad though, Safari is - like I said - real sleek in the interface way. And fast too. But heck, I've waited this long for Chimera to mature, so why not wait a little more. It's heck of a lot more promising than just a few screenshots of a future Apple-browser.
Doesn't the editor give a shit about creating a readable text? What the hell is going on with all the paranthesises (sp?):
Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) in midfight with that giant spawn-of-hell Balrog, then picks up three plotlines in midstream. Hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Samwise (Sean Astin) make their way to Mordor with the cursed Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, dogged by the seething, chattering gargoyle Gollum. Hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) struggle first with the Uruk-Hai and then with the Ents, a race of walking, talking, often complaining trees. And Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and the dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) join forces with the Rohan, whose king, Theoden (Bernard Hill), is in the thrall of Gríma Wormtongue (Brad Dourif), a creepy little henchman of the dastardly Saruman the White (Christopher Lee). (If I have misspelled or mischaracterized any of the above, please send corrections to eatme@Idontgiveashit.com.)
Tabs are not the make or break feature of a browser to me either. But it does save space, even a 1600x1200 can get cluttered at times. And tabs give me quick-glance access to what window contains what content.
What DOES count is rendering correctness and speed, of which OmniWeb has neither. And this "displays better"-thing you are talking about isn't just the anti-aliasing is it? Heck, even Explorer does that. And it doesn't have any rendering errors.
Text boxes are definitly NOT aqua, they can be erratic and annoying at times. And yes, even slow. Heck, it doesn't even support spell checking.
Still, I love my Chimera, and I rank IE second as it's the most mature, feature-complete, accurate browser on the mac today. Still, there's no tabs, no popup-blocking and no speed. So the honor of being my favorite browser goes to Chimera. I'm using one of the nightly builds, and it's fantastic.
However, it's NOT flawless! Besides the previously mentioned text-area faults, I'm missing:
- CSS support for page form elements (optional for those who wants native widgets. - A download manager. The current model will bring the program down if I try too many simultaneous downloads - and I hate the way it opens new windows for each of them. For downloads of more than three files at the time I go to IE. - Faster switching of tabs - Copy image - Drag and drop image to desktop or finder creates image. - Display image dimensions in popup-menu, copy to clipboard as 'height="x" width="x"' (wow, amazing new feature) - Block image by size
I used to miss proper unicode support and a single keyboardcommand (backspace) but that's all been fixed in the nightly builds...yay!
However your "Price Watch" web site quoted has nothing to do with TCO and everything to do with initial costs. And as we all know, that is the least important factor in the equation.
OK, I admit I was a bit short in my post, not recognizing that this was a 5-year study on server cost. But hey, I got an early post for easy mod points;)
Anyway, it appears that you are not familiar with the XServe. It's a 1U, unlimited client rack server that competes VERY WELL in the low-end server market. In fact, the corp where I work (3000+ world wide employees) just bought one and integrated it seamlessly into out network. And to top it off, it's stylish looks (yes, for a RACK-server!) is very functional, with CPU-meters in blue LEDs in the front. It's also headless, can be remotely administered with or without GUI and can even be administered locally through the plain vanilla serial ports. Just like your good old PC/Windows/Linux/UNIX-servers.
Of the videos I managed to pull down before I got the 503 Slashdotted message, you can see plenty of artifacts on the Jayhawk 2nd flight On board movie. As well as some dirt kicked up by the take off.
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I know you will kill me for this, but I'm "lucky" enough to have broken my PowerBook G4 (yes, the top 500 Mhz model in it's first revision). The problem is that I can't afford to fix it (again, since I dropped it once before, and then one more time when my little sister spilled coke in it). Especially since it will cost me half a new one to do so.
Well, it turns out it's just the monitor that's borked. So I hook it up to my TV, connect my Keyspan Digital Media Remote and I have an ultra-slim übercool form factor media center that runs Mac OS X, plays DVDs, VCDs, Div-Xs, MovieTrailers right off the net and streams MP3s straight of my LAN.
I'm saving up to buy a new PowerBook (that I won't drop) right now.
I know you're probably just a troll, but this is a specialized plugin for people who need it. Mostly just DVD-content editors. The price is actually very low for something like this (that is probably costing Apple money). CinemaTools which may as well be looked upon as a simple plugin for FCP, costs the same as FCP itself, $999.
Everyone else can watch unrestricted VCD and DVD through VideoLANClient.
You must be out of your mind. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver have all been out for Mac OS X for the better part of the year. (Illustrator being ported first).
I could care less about my filters running a second slower. Using the apps in a modern operating system is all that counts!
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(-1: Misinformed) This is based on a long / lat tag which you put in your html-code, not the physical location of the server.
While I'm definitly going to sell both my current macs and buy the new 17" lust-object, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the public beta of Safari is one hell of a pre-released alpha.
The interface is super-nice, and the features outstanding. But the browser rendering? Well it sucks donkey-bottom. I've sent in no less than six bug-reports in the first three minutes I used it. It didn't load my css on my home page at all, macnn.com is missing tables. A surprise that they even found ten good sites to show in the keynote. I'm really looking forward to this browser maturing, but for now Chimera 0.6.0 is the way to go.
Too bad though, Safari is - like I said - real sleek in the interface way. And fast too. But heck, I've waited this long for Chimera to mature, so why not wait a little more. It's heck of a lot more promising than just a few screenshots of a future Apple-browser.
He was talking about Day Of The Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion 2.
Bilbo lives!
Oh, and don't forget: The lord of the rhymes which samples it.
Tabs are not the make or break feature of a browser to me either. But it does save space, even a 1600x1200 can get cluttered at times. And tabs give me quick-glance access to what window contains what content.
What DOES count is rendering correctness and speed, of which OmniWeb has neither. And this "displays better"-thing you are talking about isn't just the anti-aliasing is it? Heck, even Explorer does that. And it doesn't have any rendering errors.
Text boxes are definitly NOT aqua, they can be erratic and annoying at times. And yes, even slow. Heck, it doesn't even support spell checking.
Still, I love my Chimera, and I rank IE second as it's the most mature, feature-complete, accurate browser on the mac today. Still, there's no tabs, no popup-blocking and no speed. So the honor of being my favorite browser goes to Chimera. I'm using one of the nightly builds, and it's fantastic.
However, it's NOT flawless! Besides the previously mentioned text-area faults, I'm missing:
- CSS support for page form elements (optional for those who wants native widgets.
- A download manager. The current model will bring the program down if I try too many simultaneous downloads - and I hate the way it opens new windows for each of them. For downloads of more than three files at the time I go to IE.
- Faster switching of tabs
- Copy image
- Drag and drop image to desktop or finder creates image.
- Display image dimensions in popup-menu, copy to clipboard as 'height="x" width="x"' (wow, amazing new feature)
- Block image by size
I used to miss proper unicode support and a single keyboardcommand (backspace) but that's all been fixed in the nightly builds...yay!
I'll sabotage the whole project by thinking about piercing my eyes with dull scissors when they show their ads. And get paid too. Yay!
Jim Carrey pretty much surprised everyone in The Truman Show so there's still hope for the fresh prince.
Yeah, that Ali rap was hillarious.
"I am the greatest - uh uh
I am the greatest - uh uh"
I'll take that as a compliment.
However your "Price Watch" web site quoted has nothing to do with TCO and everything to do with initial costs. And as we all know, that is the least important factor in the equation.
You'd say?
Well, your anecdotal advice has certainly hypothetically convinced me. Call me for instructions on how to subscribe to your newsletter.
Anyway, it appears that you are not familiar with the XServe. It's a 1U, unlimited client rack server that competes VERY WELL in the low-end server market. In fact, the corp where I work (3000+ world wide employees) just bought one and integrated it seamlessly into out network. And to top it off, it's stylish looks (yes, for a RACK-server!) is very functional, with CPU-meters in blue LEDs in the front. It's also headless, can be remotely administered with or without GUI and can even be administered locally through the plain vanilla serial ports. Just like your good old PC/Windows/Linux/UNIX-servers.
Amazing times we live in, no?
Finally someone realises that the initial cost does not reflect the TCO. Wonder why Mac OS X was left out of the quotation.
;)
Oh, probably because macs won every other TCO report I've seen
The moon is strong in the earth signs: Microsoft shares will have a slight incline over the next sun-period.
Saturn returns! Internet companies will have a turn-around in the age of the newer economy!
Mars is ascending towards pluto in the fifth house, meaning that we will probably not see Duke Nukem Forever next year either.
And here I thought Internet Explorer for Windows was the ONLY browser that DID render the ALT-attribute as a tooltip.
To find the answer we must look to that other movie. There's something about Mary.
Of the videos I managed to pull down before I got the 503 Slashdotted message, you can see plenty of artifacts on the Jayhawk 2nd flight On board movie. As well as some dirt kicked up by the take off.
I know you will kill me for this, but I'm "lucky" enough to have broken my PowerBook G4 (yes, the top 500 Mhz model in it's first revision). The problem is that I can't afford to fix it (again, since I dropped it once before, and then one more time when my little sister spilled coke in it). Especially since it will cost me half a new one to do so.
Well, it turns out it's just the monitor that's borked. So I hook it up to my TV, connect my Keyspan Digital Media Remote and I have an ultra-slim übercool form factor media center that runs Mac OS X, plays DVDs, VCDs, Div-Xs, MovieTrailers right off the net and streams MP3s straight of my LAN.
I'm saving up to buy a new PowerBook (that I won't drop) right now.
Everyone else can watch unrestricted VCD and DVD through VideoLANClient.
Not quite. DivX ;-) with the smiley-wink is to prevent confusion. Not many bother with it though, not even the "official site".
Actually MPEG4 is an open standard.
Yes, I did. :)
Do you have a copy? The one I can download on the net seems to be corrupted.
You must be out of your mind. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver have all been out for Mac OS X for the better part of the year. (Illustrator being ported first).
I could care less about my filters running a second slower. Using the apps in a modern operating system is all that counts!