Honestly, why is this news? There's absolutely nothing new here. This would be like posting a story like "Jobs, Wozniak found computer company" and acting like it's breaking news.
I got my hopes up for a second. I though, "Finally! Those fat cats in Canberra are taking some action to prepare for the immanant impending zombie pandemic."
My elation was premature. This is just some lame story about computers sending spam.
Come on people! We need to start stockpiling canned goods, fresh water and shotgun shells now! If we wait until the first reports of infection, it may already be too late!
Bonjour == Zeroconf == Rendezvous
Apple is a bunch of saints for this. Simple networking is so much, uh, simpler on a Mac than anything else. I don't care what anybody says, networking, even just a couple of computers together, is a test of patience on Windows.
Oh, definitely not, and I think it's great that they're contributing. I'm just pretty sure that Google isn't going to devote any resources to the Mac port, so while the Linux and Windows versions get better, the Mac port will just fall behind even more. I could be wrong, and I hope I am. I'm just going by Google's track record.
It's not in their interest, and that's fine. Apple's got to make money, and devoting resources to free software doesn't help them if they can't make a buck off it. Safari and Darwin are a little bit different, I think. AAPL is doing great these days, but it's certainly no GOOG. It's cool by me if they want to make a profit, as long as they keep pumping out great products that do benefit me.
While it's really cool of some companies to devote programmers to Firefox, OO.o, etc., I certainly don't expect it of any of them, and I won't fault them if they don't. To me, good support of standards in commercial products is just as good as free software, and Apple has been fairly decent about such things lately.
As a side note, it would probably piss off MS even more if Apple helped out the OpenOffice.org folks, and while it would be great to have a kickass Cocoa version of OpenOffice, Apple *needs* MS Office, if only to *say* there's a version for OS X, no matter how shitty it, or any other version of MS Office may be.
NeoOffice is all well and good, but what we need is a cocoa port. No offense to the kind people who work on NeoOffice, but it's just not the same thing.
So much for ever getting a real Mac OS X version OpenOffice.org. Spare me your comments about NeoOffice and the X11 version working on OS X.
I know Google can't *stop* a Mac port, but they've got an awful track record of supporting Macs. I'm sure they won't direct any of their resources toward the recently announced new effort to build a Cocoa version.
Oh well. Pages is nicer anyway than OpenOffice, even if I do have to pay for it. It's a shame that the businesses and governments that would be willing to consider OpenOffice want it to have every ounce of the feature bloat that MS Office has.
I absolutely loved that book. It treats the subject absolutely seriously, like a real survival guide. I feel like I really could handle a Zombie outbreak after reading it. I think I read on the Amazon reviews or someplace that a lot of people were wondering if it was serious. It may answer their questions to know that the author, Max Brooks, is Mel Brooks' son and a writer for Saturday Night Live.
Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising.
You dumbass. They don't say jack shit about Firefox 2 or 3. Woowee! The code name is a reference from Dodgeball! Holy shit, I can't wait for that. It sounds really, really promising! OMG!
Can anybody remind me what the name of the extension is that lets you use your other extensions? I can't stand that it won't let you use them by default until they've been updated.
Hyatt's blog is a treasure trove of cool Safari/Webkit information. It's probably off the beaten path for most people (maybe not the/. crowd), but it's got some great information. Check out the recent post about rounded borders in CSS. If you don't develop for the Web, you might not care, but to a lot of people, this is a dream come true.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Opera (well, maybe I did a little); I'm mostly knocking the stupid way somebody submitted it here. I doubt this is intended to lure people away from Firefox, as was suggested by someone else. And I certainly wouldn't say that Opera is "vastly superior." Better for some things, sure. But "vastly superior?" You're not even fooling yourself with that kind of talk.
For the record, I don't even use Firefox at home unless I'm checking a site I'm working on. Safari has the best standards compliance, so I build for Safari and then add stupid CSS hacks for the others. I do use it at work, however, and I've found that I like it better than Opera on Windows.
Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to."
Who *thinks* of switching? It's not like you have to invest in new hardware.
In my experience, people get fed up with IE and just switch. There's nobody out there who's thinking, "gee, the fact that just about everything out there is better than IE is tempting...but, man I sure do like Microsoft!"
Sorry, but nobody was holding out for free Opera. If you couldn't take IE's shit for another day, you're already using Firefox, not waiting for an also-ran browser to stop charging.
I wouldn't call it a failure, just a huge disappointment. It seems like it would be an awesome $100 phone, but at $250 with a two year contract, it's a colossal ripoff. That's $50 more than the Razr, which has like ten times the hotness factor of this thing. Why the hell would anybody pay this much for something that's really just software? It's your run-of-the-mill phone with software that's kind of like an iPod, and nothing more. And it's got an artificial 100 song limit, on top of that. Bah.
I need to get a new phone next month, and I would have gladly forked over $100. It's not even close to being worth $250, especially since it takes everything that's awesome about the iPod and throws it right out, while combining it with an otherwise unremarkable and overpriced phone.
I hate to sound like too much of an Apple fanboy, but this really reeks of Cingular and Motorola more than anything else.
...or anything that's not WMV or Real. I can't tell you how fucking pissed I am when I can't even view CNN's video online using Firefox and Windows. I have no clue what the problem is. Plugin loads, but video doesn't play. Fucking fuck crap.
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Honestly, why is this news? There's absolutely nothing new here. This would be like posting a story like "Jobs, Wozniak found computer company" and acting like it's breaking news.
I think I read this at least four years ago: The Bigfoot-Giganto Hypothesis.
I imagine that the RIAA is calling the Navy about how it can get some sonic anti-piracy weapons of its own.
I find that most of the music put out by major labels these days is a painful enough torture, but hey, that's just me.
I got my hopes up for a second. I though, "Finally! Those fat cats in Canberra are taking some action to prepare for the immanant impending zombie pandemic."
My elation was premature. This is just some lame story about computers sending spam.
Come on people! We need to start stockpiling canned goods, fresh water and shotgun shells now! If we wait until the first reports of infection, it may already be too late!
A lot of spelling errors get through on Slashdot, but this has got to be one of the worst. Jeez.
Bonjour == Zeroconf == Rendezvous Apple is a bunch of saints for this. Simple networking is so much, uh, simpler on a Mac than anything else. I don't care what anybody says, networking, even just a couple of computers together, is a test of patience on Windows.
Oh, definitely not, and I think it's great that they're contributing. I'm just pretty sure that Google isn't going to devote any resources to the Mac port, so while the Linux and Windows versions get better, the Mac port will just fall behind even more. I could be wrong, and I hope I am. I'm just going by Google's track record.
It's not in their interest, and that's fine. Apple's got to make money, and devoting resources to free software doesn't help them if they can't make a buck off it. Safari and Darwin are a little bit different, I think. AAPL is doing great these days, but it's certainly no GOOG. It's cool by me if they want to make a profit, as long as they keep pumping out great products that do benefit me.
While it's really cool of some companies to devote programmers to Firefox, OO.o, etc., I certainly don't expect it of any of them, and I won't fault them if they don't. To me, good support of standards in commercial products is just as good as free software, and Apple has been fairly decent about such things lately.
As a side note, it would probably piss off MS even more if Apple helped out the OpenOffice.org folks, and while it would be great to have a kickass Cocoa version of OpenOffice, Apple *needs* MS Office, if only to *say* there's a version for OS X, no matter how shitty it, or any other version of MS Office may be.
NeoOffice is all well and good, but what we need is a cocoa port. No offense to the kind people who work on NeoOffice, but it's just not the same thing.
WTF? Why am I getting modded as a troll on this?
So they still do exist! I didn't think that little pussy trolls like you were still around.
So much for ever getting a real Mac OS X version OpenOffice.org. Spare me your comments about NeoOffice and the X11 version working on OS X.
I know Google can't *stop* a Mac port, but they've got an awful track record of supporting Macs. I'm sure they won't direct any of their resources toward the recently announced new effort to build a Cocoa version.
Oh well. Pages is nicer anyway than OpenOffice, even if I do have to pay for it. It's a shame that the businesses and governments that would be willing to consider OpenOffice want it to have every ounce of the feature bloat that MS Office has.
I absolutely loved that book. It treats the subject absolutely seriously, like a real survival guide. I feel like I really could handle a Zombie outbreak after reading it. I think I read on the Amazon reviews or someplace that a lot of people were wondering if it was serious. It may answer their questions to know that the author, Max Brooks, is Mel Brooks' son and a writer for Saturday Night Live.
Damn, you beat me to it.
Please. That doesn't mean a damn thing. The guy made a stupid statement. That's it.
You dumbass. They don't say jack shit about Firefox 2 or 3. Woowee! The code name is a reference from Dodgeball! Holy shit, I can't wait for that. It sounds really, really promising! OMG!
Apparently someone at Slashdot has invented time travel and failed to post about it. Or maybe they traveled into the future and posted about it then.
Can anybody remind me what the name of the extension is that lets you use your other extensions? I can't stand that it won't let you use them by default until they've been updated.
Hyatt's blog is a treasure trove of cool Safari/Webkit information. It's probably off the beaten path for most people (maybe not the/. crowd), but it's got some great information. Check out the recent post about rounded borders in CSS. If you don't develop for the Web, you might not care, but to a lot of people, this is a dream come true.
How about Camino?
Safari does have memory leaks, but according to David Hyatt's blog, they'll be fixed in an upcoming version.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Opera (well, maybe I did a little); I'm mostly knocking the stupid way somebody submitted it here. I doubt this is intended to lure people away from Firefox, as was suggested by someone else. And I certainly wouldn't say that Opera is "vastly superior." Better for some things, sure. But "vastly superior?" You're not even fooling yourself with that kind of talk. For the record, I don't even use Firefox at home unless I'm checking a site I'm working on. Safari has the best standards compliance, so I build for Safari and then add stupid CSS hacks for the others. I do use it at work, however, and I've found that I like it better than Opera on Windows.
In my experience, people get fed up with IE and just switch. There's nobody out there who's thinking, "gee, the fact that just about everything out there is better than IE is tempting...but, man I sure do like Microsoft!"
Sorry, but nobody was holding out for free Opera. If you couldn't take IE's shit for another day, you're already using Firefox, not waiting for an also-ran browser to stop charging.
I wouldn't call it a failure, just a huge disappointment. It seems like it would be an awesome $100 phone, but at $250 with a two year contract, it's a colossal ripoff. That's $50 more than the Razr, which has like ten times the hotness factor of this thing. Why the hell would anybody pay this much for something that's really just software? It's your run-of-the-mill phone with software that's kind of like an iPod, and nothing more. And it's got an artificial 100 song limit, on top of that. Bah.
I need to get a new phone next month, and I would have gladly forked over $100. It's not even close to being worth $250, especially since it takes everything that's awesome about the iPod and throws it right out, while combining it with an otherwise unremarkable and overpriced phone.
I hate to sound like too much of an Apple fanboy, but this really reeks of Cingular and Motorola more than anything else.
...or anything that's not WMV or Real. I can't tell you how fucking pissed I am when I can't even view CNN's video online using Firefox and Windows. I have no clue what the problem is. Plugin loads, but video doesn't play. Fucking fuck crap.
So what, every time somebody comes out with a concept car, the headline will declare that these things are for sure?
1. USB key as a car key is retarded. Give me a wireless fob or something, not some clumsy usb key.
2. Did you hear that GM is switching to hydrogen? Yeah, they've had a concept car for about three years now, meaning they're switching to hydrogen.
3. Shoot me. Please.
Good thing this was on Slashdot, because now I can kill myself without that stupid smile on my face.