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Yes, sproutcore, because mobileMe is such a success.
While there were issues accessing the web interface I think those were the result of back-end problems or server overload. I don't believe the problems they experienced initially were actually inherent to the sproutcore-based webapps.
If I'm not mistaken, our civilization is only about 10,000 years old.
If the Neanderthal had bigger brain, there is a possibility that they had a civilization. That civilization might have discovered fire, internal combustion engines, rockets and even 27KM long particle accelerator.
I've fantasized about the same possibilities, and it's fun to contemplate. But how likely is it to be true at this point, considering that we haven't already found supporting evidence? Sure, a few hundred thousand years is a good long time for much of it to be destroyed and ground to dust. Yet if Neanderthals or some other dead race had had much beyond than batteries made out of lemons, why haven't we found even some basic artifacts or ruins from their vehicles, factories WalMarts, and nuclear reactors? We find impressive dinosaur fossils all the time and they're millions and million of years older.
Like microsoft would dream of such a dastardly idea?
Yeah, Microsoft's a little behind the curve on that concept. There's already life beyond Windows. It comes in too many forms to list, but some prime examples are called "Mac OS X", "Ubuntu", "OpenSolaris" and "Fedora."
I was thinking the same thing. The story says the web-based apps will coexist with your present Windows apps. And that they'll be more architecture-independent. It sounds to me like the new Windows is really the same old Windows with a bunch of Silverlight/Flash/Java/ActiveX sort of stuff running in environments like Mozilla Prism and Google Gears. So maybe Microsoft will finally get IE8 to be standards-compliant, but it won't matter anymore because this platform will be the new customer lock-in for web stuff.
I think this works very well to get the FSF's message across. Of course, this only holds true if the message is "The Free Software Foundation is a horde of trolls".
Well, as you increase the level of intelligence meeded to go through the CAPTCHA, you start to leave humans out.
The problem I've observed lately with some sites is they're distorting the CAPTCHA text so much that it's difficult to make out the characters. Is this "5" or "S"? Is that a "I" or just part of the background? Is it a Q or is it an O with a line overlapping in a confusing spot? And so on. It takes several tries to get CAPTCHA right these days, and it's frustrating -- not because it takes intelligence per se, but because it takes trial and error to figure out what the mess on the screen is really supposed to be.
If you are using Skype the person you are calling also has to be on Skype, or you are going to end up paying to make/receive calls (to a phone number) through Skype anyway.
Of course, you'd be in the same boat as if you were using Skype on a regular computer. But think about the cost of expanded AT&T service -- or worse, absurdly high per-minute charges for overuse! Easily hundreds of dollars extra per year. The charge for unlimited SkypeOut service in the US is minuscule by comparison. The savings would be enormous if the option were available.
I saw a person on some other website complaining about the lack of voice chat on the AIM client. The lack of voice chat... on a phone...
It does sound odd at first, but it makes sense. Consider that your talk time is metered and you are billed extra if you use too much -- but data is supposedly unlimited. AIM voice chat, or Skype, would minimize the number of paid minutes you have to use. Not that AT&T would like it, but there's good reason to want it as a bill-paying customer.
Also, Camino now has a built-in updating mechanism, Sparkle. This framework is the de facto standard for third-party software updates on Mac OS X. It will check periodically, but you can also click on the Camino menu and select "Check for Updates..." at any time.
I don't doubt that this is a well-made cable, but why don't they get in trouble for implying that it will even make a difference in your viewing experience? That is, wont *any* cable "bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction" as long as there's functional error correction and sufficient bandwidth to stream all data being transmitted?
...is there ever going to be an OS XI? Nobody really knows outside Apple. Maybe even they don't know yet for sure. Working all the way through 10.9 and then 11.0 (XI) could be several more years. And by then they may decide to continue with 10.10, 10.11, etc. Or they could make the numbers for internal use only, advertise by names -- similar to how Windows NT 5.1 is known as Windows XP.
Yeah... "Leopard"... "Snow Leopard"... that's not gonna cause any confusion, right? Agreed. But I wouldn't be surprised if the name choice was meant to reflect the nature of the differences between the new and old version.
Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" is Leopard adapted to the modern world of computing, with multicore optimization, modernized media support, 64-bit, etc. That is, it's not a whole different breed necessarily, but it is better prepared to thrive in a new environment.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but I do see an obvious parallel.
I know there will be a lot of pissed off iPhone users who want to install a better OS now that St. Steve threw them under a bus! 1. Buy iPhone and pretend it's the only version Apple will ever make.
2. Freak out and install Android following announcement of iPhone 2.0, ignoring the software update that will give you most of the new features for free on existing hardware.
3. ???
The thing is, most people haven't enabled a password to log into their computer or to wake it from sleep mode. It certainly is smart to have a login password, but the vast vast majority don't, and most also don't even realize that you [i]can[/i] have one.
I might also add that there is a built-in VNC server that can be enabled free. Back to My Mac just makes it easier to get to it when you're dealing with NAT and firewalls.
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. When you said the services you get for the monthly fee are useless, it sounded to me like you wanted it without a phone.
Nerd as I am I don't have any friends, girls and don't do phone calls. So the "services" I get for the monthly fee are more or less completely useless. Just give me the gadget! Maybe I'm missing something here, but aren't you describing the iPod Touch? An iPhone without the phone...
Even at throttled-down speeds, they're still cheaper and faster than the competitors in my area. I'm switching the moment FIOS comes in, but its not quite here yet. Exactly the case here, too. I'm not sure it's possible to get DSL in my area that's fast enough to match the speed of my Comcast connection. I wouldn't even want DSL anyway: Maybe it's just me, but my experience with DSL has been that it's typically slower than advertised and often unreliable. By comparison cable has been rock solid and extremely fast.
As for the Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari 3.1
If we're comparing a Firefox beta then we may as well look at a newer version of Safari, too. The latest nightly builds of WebKit get 100/100 on Acid3. http://webkit.org/blog/173/
The parent may have fabricated figures. Yet personally it wouldn't surprise me if the gist of it were correct, though I have no information to back it up either.
This is not to say Linux is lacking somehow, but but rather it's about the (lack of) tech savvy of the average consumer. To most people the computer world is made up of "PC" and Mac -- and usually PC is synonymous to Windows. And as a result I suspect that the average WalMart shopper has no clue what Linux is, and would just assume the computer is broken when they can't install the software they bought off the shelf.
Personally I prefer to just never follow links to PayPal, my bank, etc. when found in emails or on another website. If I get an alert that I need to sign in and do something, I open a new window and type "paypal.com" or whatever the case may be. It's kind of hard to get phished when you are the one entering the address you visit, no matter what browser you use.
I don't know where he's shopping, but I couldn't even imagine a configuration worth anywhere even close to $2,100 that couldn't run Vista WELL.
I'm not so sure about the intended meaning of the quote you referenced. I thought he meant he ended up blowing $2,100 on a new computer just so that that Vista would run well. And even after that, it's still essentially an email machine to him, meaning that the upgrade was of questionable value. At least that's my take on it.
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Yes, sproutcore, because mobileMe is such a success.
While there were issues accessing the web interface I think those were the result of back-end problems or server overload. I don't believe the problems they experienced initially were actually inherent to the sproutcore-based webapps.
Not just that -- 2028 will be the year of the Linux desktop too!
If I'm not mistaken, our civilization is only about 10,000 years old.
If the Neanderthal had bigger brain, there is a possibility that they had a civilization. That civilization might have discovered fire, internal combustion engines, rockets and even 27KM long particle accelerator.
I've fantasized about the same possibilities, and it's fun to contemplate. But how likely is it to be true at this point, considering that we haven't already found supporting evidence? Sure, a few hundred thousand years is a good long time for much of it to be destroyed and ground to dust. Yet if Neanderthals or some other dead race had had much beyond than batteries made out of lemons, why haven't we found even some basic artifacts or ruins from their vehicles, factories WalMarts, and nuclear reactors? We find impressive dinosaur fossils all the time and they're millions and million of years older.
In Soviet China, free tools censor you.
Like microsoft would dream of such a dastardly idea?
Yeah, Microsoft's a little behind the curve on that concept. There's already life beyond Windows. It comes in too many forms to list, but some prime examples are called "Mac OS X", "Ubuntu", "OpenSolaris" and "Fedora."
I was thinking the same thing. The story says the web-based apps will coexist with your present Windows apps. And that they'll be more architecture-independent. It sounds to me like the new Windows is really the same old Windows with a bunch of Silverlight/Flash/Java/ActiveX sort of stuff running in environments like Mozilla Prism and Google Gears. So maybe Microsoft will finally get IE8 to be standards-compliant, but it won't matter anymore because this platform will be the new customer lock-in for web stuff.
I think this works very well to get the FSF's message across. Of course, this only holds true if the message is "The Free Software Foundation is a horde of trolls".
I think you meant "a Hurd of trolls"...
Well, as you increase the level of intelligence meeded to go through the CAPTCHA, you start to leave humans out.
The problem I've observed lately with some sites is they're distorting the CAPTCHA text so much that it's difficult to make out the characters. Is this "5" or "S"? Is that a "I" or just part of the background? Is it a Q or is it an O with a line overlapping in a confusing spot? And so on. It takes several tries to get CAPTCHA right these days, and it's frustrating -- not because it takes intelligence per se, but because it takes trial and error to figure out what the mess on the screen is really supposed to be.
If you are using Skype the person you are calling also has to be on Skype, or you are going to end up paying to make/receive calls (to a phone number) through Skype anyway.
Of course, you'd be in the same boat as if you were using Skype on a regular computer. But think about the cost of expanded AT&T service -- or worse, absurdly high per-minute charges for overuse! Easily hundreds of dollars extra per year. The charge for unlimited SkypeOut service in the US is minuscule by comparison. The savings would be enormous if the option were available.
I saw a person on some other website complaining about the lack of voice chat on the AIM client. The lack of voice chat... on a phone...
It does sound odd at first, but it makes sense. Consider that your talk time is metered and you are billed extra if you use too much -- but data is supposedly unlimited. AIM voice chat, or Skype, would minimize the number of paid minutes you have to use. Not that AT&T would like it, but there's good reason to want it as a bill-paying customer.
Also, Camino now has a built-in updating mechanism, Sparkle. This framework is the de facto standard for third-party software updates on Mac OS X. It will check periodically, but you can also click on the Camino menu and select "Check for Updates..." at any time.
I don't doubt that this is a well-made cable, but why don't they get in trouble for implying that it will even make a difference in your viewing experience? That is, wont *any* cable "bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction" as long as there's functional error correction and sufficient bandwidth to stream all data being transmitted?
...is there ever going to be an OS XI? Nobody really knows outside Apple. Maybe even they don't know yet for sure. Working all the way through 10.9 and then 11.0 (XI) could be several more years. And by then they may decide to continue with 10.10, 10.11, etc. Or they could make the numbers for internal use only, advertise by names -- similar to how Windows NT 5.1 is known as Windows XP.Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" is Leopard adapted to the modern world of computing, with multicore optimization, modernized media support, 64-bit, etc. That is, it's not a whole different breed necessarily, but it is better prepared to thrive in a new environment.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but I do see an obvious parallel.
2. Freak out and install Android following announcement of iPhone 2.0, ignoring the software update that will give you most of the new features for free on existing hardware.
3. ???
The thing is, most people haven't enabled a password to log into their computer or to wake it from sleep mode. It certainly is smart to have a login password, but the vast vast majority don't, and most also don't even realize that you [i]can[/i] have one.
I might also add that there is a built-in VNC server that can be enabled free. Back to My Mac just makes it easier to get to it when you're dealing with NAT and firewalls.
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. When you said the services you get for the monthly fee are useless, it sounded to me like you wanted it without a phone.
If we're comparing a Firefox beta then we may as well look at a newer version of Safari, too. The latest nightly builds of WebKit get 100/100 on Acid3. http://webkit.org/blog/173/
The parent may have fabricated figures. Yet personally it wouldn't surprise me if the gist of it were correct, though I have no information to back it up either.
This is not to say Linux is lacking somehow, but but rather it's about the (lack of) tech savvy of the average consumer. To most people the computer world is made up of "PC" and Mac -- and usually PC is synonymous to Windows. And as a result I suspect that the average WalMart shopper has no clue what Linux is, and would just assume the computer is broken when they can't install the software they bought off the shelf.
Personally I prefer to just never follow links to PayPal, my bank, etc. when found in emails or on another website. If I get an alert that I need to sign in and do something, I open a new window and type "paypal.com" or whatever the case may be. It's kind of hard to get phished when you are the one entering the address you visit, no matter what browser you use.