The iBook is still the best deal in laptops anywhere, and now it might be better. The G4 is a lot hotter than the G3 what I know, and this might cause the fan to run incessantly. Whether the iBook is as powerful as the PowerBook is not the issue, as far as I am concerned; the iBook is a convenient box to lug around and pound for pound the best deal going.
A word to the wise here: Remember the German interview with Bill Gates, where the latter laughed at the idea people would upgrade for bug fixes? The most ridiculous idea he'd ever heard?
There's a little Bill Gates in every programmer and every software company. They aren't going to fix the bugs that irritate you - that's a long shot and you know it; they've already moved onto other things with new bugs.
But media are not an indispensable narcotic. The way these organisations are carrying on, people will tire of them and get totally turned off as regards their products.
Not to mention what John Halderman pointed out the other week, namely that copy protection and all that stuff is by definition doomed to fail as in the BMG case.
If you check the related links at that article, you will find another interesting theory by Cringley, who cites any number of cases where MS has ripped off companies, pretending to be interested in buying their technology, but only flirting long enough to steal it. I normally don't like Cringley, but this time he seems spot on.
Yep. And you have to accept all the dirty tricks the component comes up with. Things are so much cleaner on a Unix box. Much less skulduggery. And all the vulnerabilities MS create, etc.
I think we need to apply logic here. Apple are not going to release a program with such fanfare if they suspect even in the slightest that it can trash client machines. I think we can rest assured that Apple felt confident in Safari.
But that's not the problem. The problem is with the state of software development. It's so sloppy today that things like this are happening. They should never happen - not in "alpha" or anything.
Once upon a time you never showed a program to anyone if it wasn't really top-drawer stable. Nowadays there's no pride or integrity left. It's about other things, and the bugs are given a very low priority.
Market staff at Netscape have admitted it to Mark Minasi (The Software Conspiracy). They know there are always going to be bugs - maybe even bugs as bad as this - but they simply do not care - they care about other things instead.
It's an attitude that is pervasive in the industry. Here we thought Apple were the one shining exception...
This is very scary. I like this browser - I really do. But if it can take away all one's own files... Do you all think it's a good idea to keep using it before Apple spell out exactly what was wrong and how they missed this blooper?
These are other bugs I have seen. It will be interesting to see if anyone else has experienced them.
1. Safari can handle only three downloads at a time. If you put a fourth download in the queue, it will replace the third, which will be completely skipped; the fifth will replace the fourth; and so on.
2. (Cosmetic) The "no man's land" in the lower right hand corner between the scroll bars can get screwed up if you start scrolling before Safari's finished rendering the page. Occurs especially when the horizontal scroll bar is in use.
3. (Cosmetic) Safari attempts to win time by rendering each frame in a frame URL as it is received, but before the entire frame set is known. As a result, rendering can look clumsy, with frames jumping across the window and back again.
4. You can't turn off auto-complete. To not get an entire URL as Safari presumes it, you have to delete the completion twice.
5. You cannot stop animations, and you cannot set animations to loop only a single time.
6. The History menu becomes impossible to use with too many URLs - it locks up as Safari attempts to load the "Earlier Today" submenu. Workaround is to hit the up arrow key when the menu is highlighted on the menu bar.
None of these are serious, except perhaps the download queue bug, and that's a good one.
Overall I'd say it was boring? No. But it depends who you are. If you are an "INC" and not a home computing Mac freak, then it's worse than boring. There are so many admins out there who would love to bring Macs into their office LANs, but they can't, because Apple don't have what they need. What they need is NOT one click photo enhancement. Even the browser - which I find fantastic - is not going to woo them. Apple are the only competitors to the Beast, and they still don't get it.
>Actually Microsoft is punishing themselves more than the court probably will with their new licensing.
I don't think so. I was perplexed too - destructive behaviour - but Billg is too smart for that. He's a good poker player. He knows he's won. He's got 93% of the market, Linux is NOT a threat, he owns $150M of Apple stock, he doesn't give a good hoot what Judge Whats-Her-Name says. What can she do? What can anyone do? He's already won the game and he knows it. And as for his brutal marketing of late - he's only letting the rest of us know who's boss. That is typical Gates. When you know you have the winning hand, inflict a little pain to make your point.
I bet Billg is tossin' and turnin' tonight. He'll probably lose all of about 10 seconds sleep worrying about it. Aw gee you ruled against me you bad bad lady...
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The iBook is still the best deal in laptops anywhere, and now it might be better. The G4 is a lot hotter than the G3 what I know, and this might cause the fan to run incessantly. Whether the iBook is as powerful as the PowerBook is not the issue, as far as I am concerned; the iBook is a convenient box to lug around and pound for pound the best deal going.
We should be seeing a lot of books like that soon. Munich was the first step.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it. The stations are in it for the money; if they want to commercialise the net, why shouldn't they pay?
This is great, but what I would really like to see happen is the corporate suits opting for Apple hardware etc all through the landscape.
We'd all benefit by that.
They're averaging 300,000 songs a day. On 1 February 2004 it will be hysterical - 100 million songs in two months is over five times that much.
Maybe people are smarter than all that?
A word to the wise here: Remember the German interview with Bill Gates, where the latter laughed at the idea people would upgrade for bug fixes? The most ridiculous idea he'd ever heard?
There's a little Bill Gates in every programmer and every software company. They aren't going to fix the bugs that irritate you - that's a long shot and you know it; they've already moved onto other things with new bugs.
But media are not an indispensable narcotic. The way these organisations are carrying on, people will tire of them and get totally turned off as regards their products.
Not to mention what John Halderman pointed out the other week, namely that copy protection and all that stuff is by definition doomed to fail as in the BMG case.
My only question is: 'How much?' Were they cheap? Did MS cheat them like they do everyone else?
Meaning we were bought off by M$.
What other explanation is there? The cover-up is so unprofessional, it stinks of MS a long way off.
That quote sounds like Ballmer words put into Larholm's mouth.
If you check the related links at that article, you will find another interesting theory by Cringley, who cites any number of cases where MS has ripped off companies, pretending to be interested in buying their technology, but only flirting long enough to steal it. I normally don't like Cringley, but this time he seems spot on.
Hey maybe IE for Mac will be faster now?
Are you referring to drawers here?
Users of build 48 (one of them - there were evidently two) got nuked on two issues:
/tmp disappeared; and
1.
2. all of one's own files disappeared, along with one's home directory. Immense data loss, and not being able to even log in - a major tragedy.
Neither Apple nor Hyatt have dared mention the second issue. That is weak.
Yep. And you have to accept all the dirty tricks the component comes up with. Things are so much cleaner on a Unix box. Much less skulduggery. And all the vulnerabilities MS create, etc.
I think we need to apply logic here. Apple are not going to release a program with such fanfare if they suspect even in the slightest that it can trash client machines. I think we can rest assured that Apple felt confident in Safari.
But that's not the problem. The problem is with the state of software development. It's so sloppy today that things like this are happening. They should never happen - not in "alpha" or anything.
Once upon a time you never showed a program to anyone if it wasn't really top-drawer stable. Nowadays there's no pride or integrity left. It's about other things, and the bugs are given a very low priority.
Market staff at Netscape have admitted it to Mark Minasi (The Software Conspiracy). They know there are always going to be bugs - maybe even bugs as bad as this - but they simply do not care - they care about other things instead.
It's an attitude that is pervasive in the industry. Here we thought Apple were the one shining exception...
Cheers, R.
This is very scary. I like this browser - I really do. But if it can take away all one's own files... Do you all think it's a good idea to keep using it before Apple spell out exactly what was wrong and how they missed this blooper?
Cheers, R.
These are other bugs I have seen. It will be interesting to see if anyone else has experienced them.
1. Safari can handle only three downloads at a time. If you put a fourth download in the queue, it will replace the third, which will be completely skipped; the fifth will replace the fourth; and so on.
2. (Cosmetic) The "no man's land" in the lower right hand corner between the scroll bars can get screwed up if you start scrolling before Safari's finished rendering the page. Occurs especially when the horizontal scroll bar is in use.
3. (Cosmetic) Safari attempts to win time by rendering each frame in a frame URL as it is received, but before the entire frame set is known. As a result, rendering can look clumsy, with frames jumping across the window and back again.
4. You can't turn off auto-complete. To not get an entire URL as Safari presumes it, you have to delete the completion twice.
5. You cannot stop animations, and you cannot set animations to loop only a single time.
6. The History menu becomes impossible to use with too many URLs - it locks up as Safari attempts to load the "Earlier Today" submenu. Workaround is to hit the up arrow key when the menu is highlighted on the menu bar.
None of these are serious, except perhaps the download queue bug, and that's a good one.
Cheers, R.
Yahoo! Mail! does! strange! things! to! Safari! It's! frame-based! and! the! left! frame! starts! wa!a!ay too! wide!
Overall I'd say it was boring? No. But it depends who you are. If you are an "INC" and not a home computing Mac freak, then it's worse than boring. There are so many admins out there who would love to bring Macs into their office LANs, but they can't, because Apple don't have what they need. What they need is NOT one click photo enhancement. Even the browser - which I find fantastic - is not going to woo them. Apple are the only competitors to the Beast, and they still don't get it.
I'm not really clear on this - Apple is distributing an update to PB/IB inside of 10.2.2? This doesn't sound right. R.
>Actually Microsoft is punishing themselves more than the court probably will with their new licensing.
I don't think so. I was perplexed too - destructive behaviour - but Billg is too smart for that. He's a good poker player. He knows he's won. He's got 93% of the market, Linux is NOT a threat, he owns $150M of Apple stock, he doesn't give a good hoot what Judge Whats-Her-Name says. What can she do? What can anyone do? He's already won the game and he knows it. And as for his brutal marketing of late - he's only letting the rest of us know who's boss. That is typical Gates. When you know you have the winning hand, inflict a little pain to make your point.
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Who was it said the only time 'Microsoft' and 'trust' can be used in the same sentence is when the word 'anti' is also there?
I bet Billg is tossin' and turnin' tonight. He'll probably lose all of about 10 seconds sleep worrying about it. Aw gee you ruled against me you bad bad lady...