It's not hideous - sometimes I only remember titles of pages, and other times only the last parts of the URL. The fact that remembering those things counts for something in Firefox (and gets me to my destination faster) makes me far more likely to use it, both here at work on Win2k and at home on my Macs.
We have Comcast, but not their HD service (although it's available - I just don't own an HDTV). Thanks to a recently enacted state law, AT&T will be coming in with U-Verse as its main competitor. So what does Comcast do?
Play 30 second commercials with dancing 7-foot tall VRAD cabinets. I guess they're supposed to be huge and in everyone's front yard. Obviously.
Why bother to have better services when you can just slander your competition?
Doesn't Firefox already use up enough memory? Currently Firefox is running on my computer using up nearly 800MB of RAM. I have 3 tabs open and none of them are doing anything intense. I'm glad my computer has 2 gigs of RAM but I bought that for Photoshop not Firefox...
Odd. I have Firefox 3.0 beta 4, 9 tabs open (at least 3 at a time always, and Gmail open all the time, which is the real killer), mem usage 133 MB. Windows 2000, 784 MB RAM, but I don't think that matters.
You can do that with a standard pop email client using gmail now. Why should it be built into the browser functionality?
That's true for email, but from a general standpoint there's only a finite number of applications possible for an infinite amount of web applications. Desktop versions of Picasa, Google Calendar, or even any given corporate intranet app would be nice. Plus, from a developer's standpoint, the idea of being able to push out fixes and having users automatically receive them every time they connected to the network would be a good thing.
Frankly, it sounds a little bit like Java, which is why even as I type this, I wonder where I've heard all this before. (In fact, I work in the commodities industry, and one of our trading platforms works just like this, except they have official releases.)
I like the idea of Weave. I log into 3 different Firefox browsers each day. None have the same bookmarks or history. My last attempt at synchronizing them over the internet resulted in Google deleting the vast majority of my bookmarks. I wasn't about to try that again. That said, I really don't want my cookies, passwords or favorites ending up on a desktop in Thailand unauthorized, for any reason whatsoever.
I also like Prism. I know people like to complain about the bloat of Firefox. It's not like FF has been getting any slower. In fact, through the last 3 beta versions of FF3, it's been getting faster, and the memory usage has actually gone down. What's the big deal?
The primary roadblock at this point is network access. Sometimes I don't have network access on my MacBook, depending where I am (Alaska comes to mind). The ability to continue working on web-based applications, absent of a network, is tantalizing, to say the least. Imagine writing a whole bunch of emails on Gmail, and synchronizing once you get network access. (Like all the stability of Outlook (ha!) and all the continuous service updates of Gmail, rolled into one.)
By Apple, I included iTMS, the iPod and all of the hardware over in that "division". It happens to run on Windows, but people increasingly identify PC-based entertainment with Apple, iTunes, and the iPod, not so much Windows Media Player and Microsoft. Even accommodating for the success of websites like eMusic, the sales numbers are bearing it out.
If iTMS was solely available for Macintosh computers (as it was when it was first released), the odds of success for Apple's entertainment division would have been considerably weakened, and we probably would still be dealing with the music industry's attempts to sue anyone who has ever used Napster.
Let's put it this way. Remember when Windows 98 first became beta tested? I got an letter from them asking to be invited to test the latest, greatest, groundbreaking and new operating system, and I'm sure thousands upon thousands of others actually acted on it. (I sure wanted to, in my 15 year old days) It was cool (if geeky) to be in on what MS was doing, and for all intents and purposes back then, Microsoft was home computing.
Although this wasn't where I was going with my post, it would be foolish to say that Microsoft is home computing now. Ubuntu is actually starting to be a realistic option for people. So is Apple, if you have the cash. Although gaming has largely stayed in the PC world, people flock to Apple for entertainment and other things cool. (A cute commercial campaign doesn't hurt). Or, as suits call it, Apple's "mindshare" has gone from nonexistent to majority, even if the money doesn't follow. The going theory is that eventually, the money will follow.
With respect to branding, Microsoft used to be cool. I'm sure they still are in circles, but the circles are smaller now than they once were.
Nothing like discussing abstract features of companies to start a discussion. Other than to say "Ha ha, Starbucks is better than Microsoft!"
Ah well. Given Vista, Windows security issues, and Apple's consistent attempts to sell their computers to the high-school and college-age markets, I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a reflection of more and more Macheads entering the workforce and staying loyal to Apple, or Windows users expressing their disgust at Microsoft. Many (most?) middle-aged people think that you can't do anything about your computer or OS, but the younger generation believes otherwise.
...a lot of Americans seem to think you can destroy a hurricane by nuking it out of the atmosphere. Needless to say, that would go pretty terribly wrong (radioactive concerns aside, in this country we obey the laws of thermodynamics, and adding energy to remove energy isn't compatible).
It costs a lot of money to try to deal with nature, and comparatively less to clean up its effects.
That reminds me of Chicago's first police department helicopter - revealed June 2007. (news article)
Helicopters and drones are both useful for those on-foot police chases, carjacking incidents and general surveillance (can't let those riots get too out of hand!).
I'd worry about viruses on my Mac, but I'm spending more of my worrying time making sure that someone looking like Chase isn't trying to steal my account information through a phishing attempt that got past Gmail.
And seeing how good Gmail has gotten about that lately, I'm not spending that much worrying time on phishing at all.
I as well. It reminded me of reading the Old Testament, only made up. (As Tolkien was described as a devout Roman Catholic, that really doesn't surprise me.)
Yet, placed in the proper context, I found that the particular tone found in the Silmarillion makes for a nice change-of-pace in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, usually found when Elrond goes off into one of his stories, or Tolkien himself uses that tone as an aside to the reader.
I could see myself reading The Hobbit to my kids someday when I have kids, though.
The market is having a nice rally all around today, but I don't know that OLEDs have anything to do with GE specifically. Stock traders are notorious for following the crowd. I'm still down ~10% for the year.
Not that it matters right now - I can't touch my retirement for 32 1/2 years anyways.
Still fast. Very fast. Now I'm going to put it through the Windows 2000 + Google Maps stress test. Usually this fails.:-D But looks good so far. I'm impressed!
However, it still crashes on first startup attempt. Probably related to the old 2.0.0.12 installation (that got uninstalled, btw).
When it comes to Excel, I think the appropriate tool analogy is a Swiss army knife. Only instead of twenty different knives, Excel provides twenty different hammers.
My wife and I listened to his book (oddly named iWoz) while traveling in Alaska. He's brilliant, and so is Jobs. They're brilliant in different ways, though. Steve Jobs has an innate ability to know in advance what the consumer will like (and he's right most of the time, and wrong sometimes. See 1st generation Apple TV, the G3 Cube, etc.). Woz had (and presumably, still has) an innate ability to make it work with what he's got.
Which is why I understand Woz not seeing where the Air will fit in today's market. It's not quite a part of his skillset. He's still a genius.
Firefox 3 is now stable enough and faster enough to justify using it as a primary browser (in spite of the warnings, and in my opinion.) Safari 3 is nice, but in my experience Firefox 3 is faster. I don't use Camino any more because I think Safari 3 had begun to make speed gains on Camino.
I have more problems with Firefox 3 on Windows 2000 than I do on OS X. Nasty redraw bug that I think has its origins in the W2K drawing subsystem somewhere.
I first learned of the term a few months ago on ASBO Jesus (absolutely freaking hilarious... good job by the author.) What exactly is the government's role in deciding who's anti-social and who isn't over there?
Firefox 3.0 betas 1 and 2 haven't seemed to play nice with Windows 2000. Basically, after browsing for a while, the view gets "detached" and the redraw fails. The only thing I see after that is a giant white space where my webpages should be.
No one else seems to have this problem, so I'm going to assume it's a Windows problem.
Probably won't change anyone's minds, but it's nice to read something with enjoyable, halfway unbiased prose. That's better than most articles I read that are linked from Slashdot.
Let's see if consumers decide that the Apple TV (take 2) is the lucky device to connect the internet and TV.
Super Mario Galaxy took 5 years to develop. It was originally to be a Gamecube title after about 2 years of development, but obviously the extra 2-3 years spent in development were time well spent, even if it meant missing the Wii launch.
I somehow can't imagine the last 7+ years has been development time well spent.
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It's not hideous - sometimes I only remember titles of pages, and other times only the last parts of the URL. The fact that remembering those things counts for something in Firefox (and gets me to my destination faster) makes me far more likely to use it, both here at work on Win2k and at home on my Macs.
We have Comcast, but not their HD service (although it's available - I just don't own an HDTV). Thanks to a recently enacted state law, AT&T will be coming in with U-Verse as its main competitor. So what does Comcast do?
Play 30 second commercials with dancing 7-foot tall VRAD cabinets. I guess they're supposed to be huge and in everyone's front yard. Obviously.
Why bother to have better services when you can just slander your competition?
That's true for email, but from a general standpoint there's only a finite number of applications possible for an infinite amount of web applications. Desktop versions of Picasa, Google Calendar, or even any given corporate intranet app would be nice. Plus, from a developer's standpoint, the idea of being able to push out fixes and having users automatically receive them every time they connected to the network would be a good thing.
Frankly, it sounds a little bit like Java, which is why even as I type this, I wonder where I've heard all this before. (In fact, I work in the commodities industry, and one of our trading platforms works just like this, except they have official releases.)
I like the idea of Weave. I log into 3 different Firefox browsers each day. None have the same bookmarks or history. My last attempt at synchronizing them over the internet resulted in Google deleting the vast majority of my bookmarks. I wasn't about to try that again. That said, I really don't want my cookies, passwords or favorites ending up on a desktop in Thailand unauthorized, for any reason whatsoever.
I also like Prism. I know people like to complain about the bloat of Firefox. It's not like FF has been getting any slower. In fact, through the last 3 beta versions of FF3, it's been getting faster, and the memory usage has actually gone down. What's the big deal?
The primary roadblock at this point is network access. Sometimes I don't have network access on my MacBook, depending where I am (Alaska comes to mind). The ability to continue working on web-based applications, absent of a network, is tantalizing, to say the least. Imagine writing a whole bunch of emails on Gmail, and synchronizing once you get network access. (Like all the stability of Outlook (ha!) and all the continuous service updates of Gmail, rolled into one.)
By Apple, I included iTMS, the iPod and all of the hardware over in that "division". It happens to run on Windows, but people increasingly identify PC-based entertainment with Apple, iTunes, and the iPod, not so much Windows Media Player and Microsoft. Even accommodating for the success of websites like eMusic, the sales numbers are bearing it out.
If iTMS was solely available for Macintosh computers (as it was when it was first released), the odds of success for Apple's entertainment division would have been considerably weakened, and we probably would still be dealing with the music industry's attempts to sue anyone who has ever used Napster.
Let's put it this way. Remember when Windows 98 first became beta tested? I got an letter from them asking to be invited to test the latest, greatest, groundbreaking and new operating system, and I'm sure thousands upon thousands of others actually acted on it. (I sure wanted to, in my 15 year old days) It was cool (if geeky) to be in on what MS was doing, and for all intents and purposes back then, Microsoft was home computing.
Although this wasn't where I was going with my post, it would be foolish to say that Microsoft is home computing now. Ubuntu is actually starting to be a realistic option for people. So is Apple, if you have the cash. Although gaming has largely stayed in the PC world, people flock to Apple for entertainment and other things cool. (A cute commercial campaign doesn't hurt). Or, as suits call it, Apple's "mindshare" has gone from nonexistent to majority, even if the money doesn't follow. The going theory is that eventually, the money will follow.
With respect to branding, Microsoft used to be cool. I'm sure they still are in circles, but the circles are smaller now than they once were.
Nothing like discussing abstract features of companies to start a discussion. Other than to say "Ha ha, Starbucks is better than Microsoft!"
Ah well. Given Vista, Windows security issues, and Apple's consistent attempts to sell their computers to the high-school and college-age markets, I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a reflection of more and more Macheads entering the workforce and staying loyal to Apple, or Windows users expressing their disgust at Microsoft. Many (most?) middle-aged people think that you can't do anything about your computer or OS, but the younger generation believes otherwise.
...a lot of Americans seem to think you can destroy a hurricane by nuking it out of the atmosphere. Needless to say, that would go pretty terribly wrong (radioactive concerns aside, in this country we obey the laws of thermodynamics, and adding energy to remove energy isn't compatible).
It costs a lot of money to try to deal with nature, and comparatively less to clean up its effects.
That reminds me of Chicago's first police department helicopter - revealed June 2007. (news article)
Helicopters and drones are both useful for those on-foot police chases, carjacking incidents and general surveillance (can't let those riots get too out of hand!).
I'd worry about viruses on my Mac, but I'm spending more of my worrying time making sure that someone looking like Chase isn't trying to steal my account information through a phishing attempt that got past Gmail.
And seeing how good Gmail has gotten about that lately, I'm not spending that much worrying time on phishing at all.
I as well. It reminded me of reading the Old Testament, only made up. (As Tolkien was described as a devout Roman Catholic, that really doesn't surprise me.)
Yet, placed in the proper context, I found that the particular tone found in the Silmarillion makes for a nice change-of-pace in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, usually found when Elrond goes off into one of his stories, or Tolkien himself uses that tone as an aside to the reader.
I could see myself reading The Hobbit to my kids someday when I have kids, though.
The market is having a nice rally all around today, but I don't know that OLEDs have anything to do with GE specifically. Stock traders are notorious for following the crowd. I'm still down ~10% for the year.
Not that it matters right now - I can't touch my retirement for 32 1/2 years anyways.
Still fast. Very fast. Now I'm going to put it through the Windows 2000 + Google Maps stress test. Usually this fails. :-D But looks good so far. I'm impressed!
However, it still crashes on first startup attempt. Probably related to the old 2.0.0.12 installation (that got uninstalled, btw).
This would make a good bar bet - which is flatter, the universe, or Kansas?
When it comes to Excel, I think the appropriate tool analogy is a Swiss army knife. Only instead of twenty different knives, Excel provides twenty different hammers.
I think he was following WP:IAR - "Ignore All Rules".
...finding a PC with a firewire port.
(The only ones at my workplace are the two I put firewire cards in. Don't ask, it's complicated.)
My wife and I listened to his book (oddly named iWoz) while traveling in Alaska. He's brilliant, and so is Jobs. They're brilliant in different ways, though. Steve Jobs has an innate ability to know in advance what the consumer will like (and he's right most of the time, and wrong sometimes. See 1st generation Apple TV, the G3 Cube, etc.). Woz had (and presumably, still has) an innate ability to make it work with what he's got.
Which is why I understand Woz not seeing where the Air will fit in today's market. It's not quite a part of his skillset. He's still a genius.
Firefox 3 is now stable enough and faster enough to justify using it as a primary browser (in spite of the warnings, and in my opinion.) Safari 3 is nice, but in my experience Firefox 3 is faster. I don't use Camino any more because I think Safari 3 had begun to make speed gains on Camino.
I have more problems with Firefox 3 on Windows 2000 than I do on OS X. Nasty redraw bug that I think has its origins in the W2K drawing subsystem somewhere.
Well, I suppose this means they're more than eligible to receive their own Holy Hand Grenades then. Science is always causing trouble...
I've wondered about the ASBO thing.
I first learned of the term a few months ago on ASBO Jesus (absolutely freaking hilarious... good job by the author.) What exactly is the government's role in deciding who's anti-social and who isn't over there?
Firefox 3.0 betas 1 and 2 haven't seemed to play nice with Windows 2000. Basically, after browsing for a while, the view gets "detached" and the redraw fails. The only thing I see after that is a giant white space where my webpages should be.
No one else seems to have this problem, so I'm going to assume it's a Windows problem.
Probably won't change anyone's minds, but it's nice to read something with enjoyable, halfway unbiased prose. That's better than most articles I read that are linked from Slashdot.
Let's see if consumers decide that the Apple TV (take 2) is the lucky device to connect the internet and TV.
Super Mario Galaxy took 5 years to develop. It was originally to be a Gamecube title after about 2 years of development, but obviously the extra 2-3 years spent in development were time well spent, even if it meant missing the Wii launch.
I somehow can't imagine the last 7+ years has been development time well spent.