Search for i915 on web and keep reading about i950.
That is the company made them possible. They are the ones who thinks CPU should do the GPUs job.
Also look to some external HD makers pages for comparison between the USB2 (Intel) and Firewire 400 (not even 800) real life throughputs. Ask Apple who forced them not to put Firewire to first generation Macbooks. Dig deeper and find the reason why USB2 480mbps sucks compared to 400mbps Firewire, you will see something wrong with the protocol, it offloads the work to CPU while Firewire is almost like SCSI.
I hate NVidia and ATI myself and they are way too spoiled recently because no rivals exist, their junk drivers make my OS X Leopard lose half of speed compared to Tiger (getting better), their support department consists of template sending monkeys but if Intel proposes something, don't let your hate fool you.
I may move from NVidia 6600 on my Quad G5 to ATI X1900 which is a better performing (theoretically) card instead of buying a Intel Mac. It may save me from upgrading my CPU for couple of years. Don't you think Intel hates this?
Which competition? To do Silverlight development, you need Windows while Adobe even started to ship complete open source SDKs for Linux.
I wished MS woke up from their monopoly attitude and release Silverlight SDK for XCode, Linux, FreeBSD (even 64bit versions) along with a complete cairo accelerated plugin for all.
What they did instead?
Lets say you are a multimedia developer who is at very high level to decide for your company. You got Adobe/Macromedia who supported Mac in its darkest days, released software while people were arguing about Chapter 11 and you also got Microsoft who had to get paid by Apple to release a WEB BROWSER for Mac. They also can't be bothered to update windows media player for OS X while popularity of Apple is literally exploded after Intel switch.
Flash needs a real rival, not some spoiled rich kid saying "If you don't play with me, I buy my own toys"
You know why Flash became de-facto standard for video? Apple, Microsoft, Real Networks made it possible.
Microsoft Media Player: Zero multiplatform support for all features. OS X version got abandoned right after Apple moved to Intel which should make development a LOT easier (e.g. use same SSE acceleration commands, no endian issue). It is now living as a Quicktime codec and those IDIOTS are still distributing the old, PPC only, Browser stability killer, outdated junk. Why? To claim they are multi platform and also destabilise OS X via browser. Forget everything, the "player" is 24 MB.
Real Networks: Until the nerd coup happened and moved to open source, they did everything to make end user paranoid. They still do UI tricks to sell you "Plus" player via their site, the player is around 10-20 mb
Quicktime: Not just coding horribly for Windows Platform, they still ask a freaking e-mail while it is not mandatory, do 1990s tricks to bundle iTunes with it, asked for money for player to do fullscreen. Plugin STILL can't do "fullscreen" via right click menu, unlike Real Networks. The download is HUGE and Windows Users _HATE_ bundled software and getting asked for mail.
The answer to Flash would be Silverlight? That is a windows only thing. Half working plugin for OS X is just a player and we will see if "version 2" will have some "technical troubles" to make it late to OS X even as a plugin. I am betting on those "troubles" since MS is a company who will punish you in every opportunity for not running their OS. Adobe? They don't care, they release anything which they can make money or services over it.
Amazon S3 has a unique feature. Lets say you got hugefile.mov to serve. User can click the.mov file directly to download via ordinary http/ftp or you simply add ?torrent to the URL and it creates/enables a torrent and start tracking it.
The $5 would make a lot of sense. Whichever the idiot suit got the $20 idea must figure that $20 costed Apple millions of dollars in publicity and image. I suspect he is the same guy came up with idea asking $30 to display fullscreen on Quicktime which we all live consequences , still today.
No, as far as I know, there is no subscription thing on PSP. Its Development Kits are way expensive but as you know, it is a game console/multimedia device at end.
Sony keeps and keeps adding features without charge even the ones no user asked for. As you may guess, "live radio" etc. for a handheld game is a big deal.
Steve's keynote slides explicitly show that Xcode can publish the code to your personal iPhone for testing purposes. This image from Engadget's coverage (see the 10:30am post for context) shows an iMac remote debugging on the phone using an iPod dock. Whether that means an end user can load an app without going through the store is hard to say. The only non hacked way of distributing apps without paying $100 seems to be old shareware/open source method, postage:) Send the CD, let user compile with XCode.
$99 per developer to publish as many software titles as you want for free *is* low money. If you can't afford a $99 developer program, you probably can't afford the $399 device to test it on or the computer to host it, or the food to eat while you code... Sorry, I forgot how a high class device iPhone was. I used/use freeware applications developed on $80 second hand S60 phones/cheap PCs on a $1000 Nokia PDA. Never thought those guys had to be rich to develop freeware for free.
You learn a new thing every day. That $100 will cost $thousands to iPhone users, there is already a case known as "Handango" on market and $30-$40 text editors. That is what happens if you alienate those naive people from developing freeware on your market creating competition/pro active defence against any idiot who can claim a unlicensed 3rd party IM program is worth $30.
It probably has a lot to do with FreeBSD having a much more focused niche. FreeBSD is really tuned primarily for servers. You can use it on your desktop, but that's not really it's main purpose. Linux on the other hand, has really branched out. It has desktop distros, server distros, embedded distros, and probably a couple other areas I haven't thought of. In one way of thinking, FreeBSD also runs on Desktop, Server, Embedded. It is also damn popular and user friendly at nerd sickening levels.
They said in the talk that if you choose to make your app free on the App Store, there's no charge to either the end user or to the developer. (Other than the initial one-time $99 free to get on board with the App Store and get your application signing certificate.) So they already addressed that. Can we stop speaking about $99 (bah, $100) as some low money? I know some great software which their developers asking $5, $10 donation in a very embarrassed way if you love the software and you are "rich".
That's not a material feature upgrade. I have a feeling firmware updates count as minor bug fixes or something like that. Sony PSP added these via firmware updates (these are things I could follow as outsider)
1) Web browser 2) Flash (real one) 3) Windows Media 4) Skype/IM (thin ones) 5) Live, streaming radio 6) Photo capability (yes, with USB) 7) GPS (in Japan) 8) Digital TV
They were all free of charge. As you know, PSP (like all consoles) is way expensive than it is sold to you. It is very similar to iPhone on that purpose. They expect you to buy games/movies etc. to cover the real cost later.
Of course with a consumer majority like this (not you, in general), they can even sell the update for $50 and actually succeed.
Why the fuck the only big company I know who has to go by this rule is Apple?
For example, I get firmware updates for FREE for everything which has firmware in it. I also installed a web server (Nokia one) to my Symbian S60 Nokia phone after updating its firmware via computer. I also installed a new firmware to my router adding some stuff to its über paranoid firewall.
Are we stealing things or Nokia/Sony CEOs are already in jail?:)
The SDK is free. It costs $99 to enroll in the developer program that issues your certificate and allows you to install apps on the iPhone. There is a distinction. Even on Atari 800XL my excited developer friends knocked my door with a cassette tape, diskette to show their programs. Coding for themselves and not shipping/releasing unless they pay $100 is a new thing in IT industry. At least, I heard that first.
Developer: "Look, I give you this application for free, you just need to use xxxxx hack to install it" User: "I didn't see your application on iTunes, go away you haxor!"
BTW, is this the same slashdot where trolltech was repeatedly accused for being "evil" trying to sell their SDK to commercial/closed source (some billion dollar) vendors? Are those people writing those comments taking a holiday or not very interested? Or if you are Apple dictating $100 even to freeware/opensource, 30% Soprano commission from a single store, dictating the _CPU_ and the OS to develop apps is OK?
Yep, free apps are allowed and even encouraged. You have to pay a $99 developer fee to get assigned a cert, so you have to sign your apps - but you can set any price, including free. I bet Symbian developers bitching about the need of "free certificate" to do low level things with their apps are busy apologising to Nokia and others in Symbian board for their fury.
Nokia (in fact, Symbian boards) solution is: Once your app is freeware, you can submit your source to certificate company, (BTW SDK is free) and if it is not doing low level things, it is matter of days you get a free code signing certificate. For very deep level running software, it may take some time. The cost is $0 in this case. Hosting? There are various places, even S60.com advertising good apps for free. Open source is at usual sourceforge, freshmeat etc.
If there are any Symbian developers, can they post as AC about the share handango.com etc. gets from their application sales? I am near sure it is not at level of 30%.
That is crap. I mean, I develop apps too. I am just pissed that no one can use my 386DX-only apps. WTF?
In other words, Power PC for Mac is dead. Use your PPC on Mac as long as you can/want. Just don't bitch about nothing or no one supporting it.:-)
Hell, I still have a Commodore 64 that works great. I am not bitching about the lack of Far Cry for it. G5 is in use in highest end IBM System P Blade servers, Workstations and its not so distant cousins power all game consoles on market. ALL of them.
It is Intel having i386 archaic instruction set to support, not PowerPC. It was designed with 64bit in mind, from _START_. That is why no PowerPC users lived issues with 64bit trastition. So, don't use i386 as an example of how old, outdated power platform is. It isn't. It is just Apple's direction to portable market and handheld not fit for 64bit PPC970+ processors.
C64? i386? You know, companies like Microsoft, IBM made a unbreakable place on enterprise market by supporting "not so fashion" chips for insane amounts of time, decades in some cases. One of the most famous, most advanced, most complex Applications on Mac Market was coded on a G4 mini in its entire. That developer I won't name and many others are much more serious than Apple and try to support things down to G3 because they CAN. Apple chooses not to.
If this attitude of Apple doesn't change my next workstation and home network will be something trustable, not dropped support because of shadowy agreements with chip companies and there is a chance to go "Pure GNU". Some call it a lame, white box hand made PC.
BTW- Nokia supports developers to code their stuff on Linux and FreeBSD. They still give minimal but trustable support to windows 98. That is the "evil" Symbian vendor for you. That is why their and microsoft's word is taken in enterprise market.
Disclaimer - last used Apple product was a beige toaster. A better one, Opera found horrible implementations of EV while trying to support it. Guess what? Paypal included too.
It was wrongly implemented at Paypal. I wonder when will Paypal say "Stop using Opera" and get a $500M lawsuit, just like the one forced MS IE to get Acid 2;)
If you claim EV is a platform neutral standard, not a MSFT/IE thing, get a expensive account from developer.apple.com , download latest webkit sources from webkit.org , download XCode and start coding "Webkit EV.xcodeproj". Next, start "Safari Antiphishing.xcodeproj"
I don't want to pay for your MSFT gang expenses, fantasy $5000 certificates while buying next version of OS X.
I will message to Skype/WinCE Gang about never shipping Symbian S60 Skype later. What kind of a mess, horrible gang scheme did eBay buy while buying those 2 companies?
Also can Mozilla foundation tell how many actual users downloaded their non working EV Certificate extension compared to others?
Users decide their own. For example I purged my Paypal account since they have that kind of Security guy on top of all security/integrity of the system. Read the lines of "EV Certificates", guy is clearly having something with MSFT and Verisign.
I am out of Paypal until that guy is fired. I am a customer, I am always right.
BTW- Slashdot should put other options for purchasing/updating subscriptions. We can't buy anything using our operating systems insecure browser;)
Apple is interested in proactively securing their OS and Core parts of OS. It is matter of months Safari and any application will get a Sandbox function just like Spotlight has since 10.5.0. It is close to Java's sandbox arch.
The OS will be able to give Safari.app or any application restrictions limiting its access to OS parts/calls which it should never have anything to do with. That is something very advanced, expensive Windows proactive security solutions do with performance penalty.
What Paypal and Extension fans expect is, the same company bothering with that complex technology to give unrestricted access to any "extension" without no viable security model, no source review (as they will whine), no mandatory security certificate to operating systems default browser. Does it make sense to you? The "default browser" is the key here. I don't want Safari to have any kind of extension which can watch current URL for example. For me, it is a security/privacy risk. Rather than that, I work with banks giving a J2ME Password generator for free, have "sign in badge" kind of functionality, use a good mail service which will have at least Clam (free!) to detect phishing URLs.
I said the same thing in Macworld comments, as ICQ back from 2003 proves, it is trivial to watch Safari's current URL for any C++ application. It can read Safari URL to send URL to friend. Instead of whining, Paypal and banks can provide a anti phishing or a free password manager application for free.
Paypal guy also forgets that OS X users trust their OS/Browser (unlike MS) and they frequently use systems own password manager functionality. Safari autofill and Keychain won't buy those scam URLs at all.
Moore's Law works in favor of Ray-Tracing, because it assures us that computers will get faster - much faster - while monitor resolutions will grow at a much slower pace. As you know Moore is one of founders of Intel. Their research works in favor of Intel too, instead of pushing the boundaries of OpenGL ES or J2ME extensions for 3d (which are also based on opengl), offload the thing which could be done as a trivial task by mini GPU of cell phone to the cell phone CPU which Intel has significant market share. I loved USB1/2 technology until I have purchased a Firewire hard drive and wondered around web for an explanation why 400Mbit Firewire is almost 2x real World performance than USB2 480mbit. It seems USB2 which is pushed by Intel does too much at CPU level while Firewire is more like SCSI. We are dealing with a company which a convicted monopolist (MSFT) couldn't handle with their push of a lame i915 fake GPU.
With Opera (mini and, i think, mobile), the pages you request are sent via Opera's servers, where they are put through some kind of compression. The upshot is that not only is Opera quicker, but I can visit almost twice the number of pages for my money.
Thanks for mentioning it so I can avoid Opera Mini.
I don't really see why a central proxy is significantly faster than a phone with a well-designed name resolver plus a well-designed browser, and a web server which supports Content-Encoding:gzip. Unless servers normally don't compress their responses... hm. I should reread the Apache documentation.
gzip? Do you know the size of current web pages including graphics? Try to run a 56K modem for nostalgia and browse some regular sites you visit.
Opera has been doing mobile browsers for years, mini is an option for the people who are ignored by those vendors for years. You know, not everyone can buy/need a Windows Mobile PDA as a cell phone. (!) For Opera Mini you just need a J2ME (Java) supporting handset, that is all. They also offer it for free, as a favor to near billion people having those cell phones.
It seems you have a very good PDA/Windows with a decent 3G connection and forgot about the "rest of us" while writing this message. Someone should also mark some open source foundation with millions of dollars as "troll" for missing a significant (majority) of real World for years.
I haven't seen such a baseless claim for years. Opera Mini is pushed to users of J2ME (Java) phones by operators themselves! Head to any Operator's wap page, they must have suggested Opera Mini to their users somehow.
That is the same browser does massive compression which makes users pay significantly less for their per-kilobyte (non flat) GPRS/3G costs. Some Cell phone providers even pre-install Opera Mini to handsets they provide.
I tell you the real reason without conspiracy theroies. I got a Symbian S60 V3 E65 Nokia enterprise focused phone. It has 23 MB of free RAM. Somehow, Opera manages to code a browser , a real browser which will run inside that RAM space with amazing tricks which makes any phone almost like iPhone (It is said to have 256MB RAM). For the record, it does "real, desktop web" if you choose although I prefer their small screen rendering personally. Also if you don't know already, it will surprise you. Opera Mobile 9.5 runs the _exact same_ HTML rendering C code as Opera Mobile Desktop. That is some tight coding for you.
Nokia S60 browser using Apple Webkit also runs fine on that device although I hated their idea of iPhone like browsing on 320xsomething screen.
So, telling people from 3rd World to "buy more RAM, upgrade your CPU" when they bitched about memory/cpu usage wasn't a good thing to do eh Mozilla?
What about getting rid of that integrated graphics junk (hopefully can disable) and buy a real GPU with memory?
First thing I do is always moving to "Classic mode" but I never did it for performance issues. If it is possible, I would get rid of the i915 instead and note myself "don't buy GPU from CPU manufacturers".
Doesn't Vista have 3d acceleration of Desktop yet? It must have. So, what if the integrated graphics chipset doesn't perform? I think that is the issue.
First of all, there are many Mactels running i915, the same chip and they are living some problems. Of course Apple goes open standard based and codes better without giving heck to compatibility of an old VB4 program so the problems are much more light.
The real problem here which even evil themselves live is the duopoly in graphics business and a CPU manufacturer who can't admit GPU is entirely different thing and pushes their lame chips to manufacturers. I am very surprised that NVidia/AMD-ATI didn't speak about these mails yet. Perhaps they say "we will speak in court too", who knows? We may even see similar mails traded inside Apple about that horrible piece of junk Intel dictated.
The "i915" evilness Microsoft speaks about is also dictated to/used by Apple. See those all brand new games from EA saying "Integrated graphics not supported" or iTunes cover flow mysteriously doesn't function? That is the Chip EA speaks about. As every x86 manufacturer, Apple, using very advanced desktop acceleration at core level of OS has been tricked or forced by Intel to use i915. OS X uses the 3d hardware functionality to accelerate Desktop so unlike Windows, it is not just gamers effected. It can even effect text document scrolling.
...it'd be employees of Microsoft in that part of the world that need fear this takeover. Of course, when you let Wall Street rule the world, human rights gets thrown out of the window and into the next county. Since when Microsoft is heroically fighting for human rights in China?
Stop that illusion, no Fortune 500 company with billions of dollars plans will stand up against Chinese politics. Some do it publicly, some doesn't. The so called "good guys" bothers me more since they think I am stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
Search for i915 on web and keep reading about i950.
That is the company made them possible. They are the ones who thinks CPU should do the GPUs job.
Also look to some external HD makers pages for comparison between the USB2 (Intel) and Firewire 400 (not even 800) real life throughputs. Ask Apple who forced them not to put Firewire to first generation Macbooks. Dig deeper and find the reason why USB2 480mbps sucks compared to 400mbps Firewire, you will see something wrong with the protocol, it offloads the work to CPU while Firewire is almost like SCSI.
I hate NVidia and ATI myself and they are way too spoiled recently because no rivals exist, their junk drivers make my OS X Leopard lose half of speed compared to Tiger (getting better), their support department consists of template sending monkeys but if Intel proposes something, don't let your hate fool you.
I may move from NVidia 6600 on my Quad G5 to ATI X1900 which is a better performing (theoretically) card instead of buying a Intel Mac. It may save me from upgrading my CPU for couple of years. Don't you think Intel hates this?
Which competition? To do Silverlight development, you need Windows while Adobe even started to ship complete open source SDKs for Linux.
I wished MS woke up from their monopoly attitude and release Silverlight SDK for XCode, Linux, FreeBSD (even 64bit versions) along with a complete cairo accelerated plugin for all.
What they did instead?
Lets say you are a multimedia developer who is at very high level to decide for your company. You got Adobe/Macromedia who supported Mac in its darkest days, released software while people were arguing about Chapter 11 and you also got Microsoft who had to get paid by Apple to release a WEB BROWSER for Mac. They also can't be bothered to update windows media player for OS X while popularity of Apple is literally exploded after Intel switch.
Flash needs a real rival, not some spoiled rich kid saying "If you don't play with me, I buy my own toys"
You know why Flash became de-facto standard for video? Apple, Microsoft, Real Networks made it possible.
Microsoft Media Player: Zero multiplatform support for all features. OS X version got abandoned right after Apple moved to Intel which should make development a LOT easier (e.g. use same SSE acceleration commands, no endian issue). It is now living as a Quicktime codec and those IDIOTS are still distributing the old, PPC only, Browser stability killer, outdated junk. Why? To claim they are multi platform and also destabilise OS X via browser. Forget everything, the "player" is 24 MB.
Real Networks: Until the nerd coup happened and moved to open source, they did everything to make end user paranoid. They still do UI tricks to sell you "Plus" player via their site, the player is around 10-20 mb
Quicktime: Not just coding horribly for Windows Platform, they still ask a freaking e-mail while it is not mandatory, do 1990s tricks to bundle iTunes with it, asked for money for player to do fullscreen. Plugin STILL can't do "fullscreen" via right click menu, unlike Real Networks. The download is HUGE and Windows Users _HATE_ bundled software and getting asked for mail.
There comes Flash: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash explains all. Around 2 MB, no mail asked, ActiveX people can even get it auto downloaded, insanely multiplatform, can do fullscreen with a click of mouse in web page.
The answer to Flash would be Silverlight? That is a windows only thing. Half working plugin for OS X is just a player and we will see if "version 2" will have some "technical troubles" to make it late to OS X even as a plugin. I am betting on those "troubles" since MS is a company who will punish you in every opportunity for not running their OS. Adobe? They don't care, they release anything which they can make money or services over it.
Amazon S3 has a unique feature. Lets say you got hugefile.mov to serve. User can click the .mov file directly to download via ordinary http/ftp or you simply add ?torrent to the URL and it creates/enables a torrent and start tracking it.
The $5 would make a lot of sense. Whichever the idiot suit got the $20 idea must figure that $20 costed Apple millions of dollars in publicity and image. I suspect he is the same guy came up with idea asking $30 to display fullscreen on Quicktime which we all live consequences , still today.
No, as far as I know, there is no subscription thing on PSP. Its Development Kits are way expensive but as you know, it is a game console/multimedia device at end.
Sony keeps and keeps adding features without charge even the ones no user asked for. As you may guess, "live radio" etc. for a handheld game is a big deal.
You learn a new thing every day. That $100 will cost $thousands to iPhone users, there is already a case known as "Handango" on market and $30-$40 text editors. That is what happens if you alienate those naive people from developing freeware on your market creating competition/pro active defence against any idiot who can claim a unlicensed 3rd party IM program is worth $30.
OS X
1) Web browser
2) Flash (real one)
3) Windows Media
4) Skype/IM (thin ones)
5) Live, streaming radio
6) Photo capability (yes, with USB)
7) GPS (in Japan)
8) Digital TV
They were all free of charge. As you know, PSP (like all consoles) is way expensive than it is sold to you. It is very similar to iPhone on that purpose. They expect you to buy games/movies etc. to cover the real cost later.
Of course with a consumer majority like this (not you, in general), they can even sell the update for $50 and actually succeed.
For example, I get firmware updates for FREE for everything which has firmware in it. I also installed a web server (Nokia one) to my Symbian S60 Nokia phone after updating its firmware via computer. I also installed a new firmware to my router adding some stuff to its über paranoid firewall.
Are we stealing things or Nokia/Sony CEOs are already in jail?
Developer: "Look, I give you this application for free, you just need to use xxxxx hack to install it"
User: "I didn't see your application on iTunes, go away you haxor!"
BTW, is this the same slashdot where trolltech was repeatedly accused for being "evil" trying to sell their SDK to commercial/closed source (some billion dollar) vendors? Are those people writing those comments taking a holiday or not very interested? Or if you are Apple dictating $100 even to freeware/opensource, 30% Soprano commission from a single store, dictating the _CPU_ and the OS to develop apps is OK?
Nokia (in fact, Symbian boards) solution is: Once your app is freeware, you can submit your source to certificate company, (BTW SDK is free) and if it is not doing low level things, it is matter of days you get a free code signing certificate. For very deep level running software, it may take some time. The cost is $0 in this case. Hosting? There are various places, even S60.com advertising good apps for free. Open source is at usual sourceforge, freshmeat etc.
If there are any Symbian developers, can they post as AC about the share handango.com etc. gets from their application sales? I am near sure it is not at level of 30%.
In other words, Power PC for Mac is dead. Use your PPC on Mac as long as you can/want. Just don't bitch about nothing or no one supporting it.
Hell, I still have a Commodore 64 that works great. I am not bitching about the lack of Far Cry for it. G5 is in use in highest end IBM System P Blade servers, Workstations and its not so distant cousins power all game consoles on market. ALL of them.
It is Intel having i386 archaic instruction set to support, not PowerPC. It was designed with 64bit in mind, from _START_. That is why no PowerPC users lived issues with 64bit trastition. So, don't use i386 as an example of how old, outdated power platform is. It isn't. It is just Apple's direction to portable market and handheld not fit for 64bit PPC970+ processors.
C64? i386? You know, companies like Microsoft, IBM made a unbreakable place on enterprise market by supporting "not so fashion" chips for insane amounts of time, decades in some cases. One of the most famous, most advanced, most complex Applications on Mac Market was coded on a G4 mini in its entire. That developer I won't name and many others are much more serious than Apple and try to support things down to G3 because they CAN. Apple chooses not to.
If this attitude of Apple doesn't change my next workstation and home network will be something trustable, not dropped support because of shadowy agreements with chip companies and there is a chance to go "Pure GNU". Some call it a lame, white box hand made PC.
BTW- Nokia supports developers to code their stuff on Linux and FreeBSD. They still give minimal but trustable support to windows 98. That is the "evil" Symbian vendor for you. That is why their and microsoft's word is taken in enterprise market.
Face it. As many others have said, if you go to http://www.paypal.emptymyaccount.com/ you're a moron.
Disclaimer - last used Apple product was a beige toaster. A better one, Opera found horrible implementations of EV while trying to support it. Guess what? Paypal included too.
http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2007/06/19/it-aint-ev-til-its-ev-all-ev
It was wrongly implemented at Paypal. I wonder when will Paypal say "Stop using Opera" and get a $500M lawsuit, just like the one forced MS IE to get Acid 2
If you claim EV is a platform neutral standard, not a MSFT/IE thing, get a expensive account from developer.apple.com , download latest webkit sources from webkit.org , download XCode and start coding "Webkit EV.xcodeproj". Next, start "Safari Antiphishing.xcodeproj"
I don't want to pay for your MSFT gang expenses, fantasy $5000 certificates while buying next version of OS X.
I will message to Skype/WinCE Gang about never shipping Symbian S60 Skype later. What kind of a mess, horrible gang scheme did eBay buy while buying those 2 companies?
Also can Mozilla foundation tell how many actual users downloaded their non working EV Certificate extension compared to others?
Users decide their own. For example I purged my Paypal account since they have that kind of Security guy on top of all security/integrity of the system. Read the lines of "EV Certificates", guy is clearly having something with MSFT and Verisign.Tell Safari users to stop using PayPal...
I am out of Paypal until that guy is fired. I am a customer, I am always right.
BTW- Slashdot should put other options for purchasing/updating subscriptions. We can't buy anything using our operating systems insecure browser
Apple is interested in proactively securing their OS and Core parts of OS. It is matter of months Safari and any application will get a Sandbox function just like Spotlight has since 10.5.0. It is close to Java's sandbox arch.
The OS will be able to give Safari.app or any application restrictions limiting its access to OS parts/calls which it should never have anything to do with. That is something very advanced, expensive Windows proactive security solutions do with performance penalty.
What Paypal and Extension fans expect is, the same company bothering with that complex technology to give unrestricted access to any "extension" without no viable security model, no source review (as they will whine), no mandatory security certificate to operating systems default browser. Does it make sense to you? The "default browser" is the key here. I don't want Safari to have any kind of extension which can watch current URL for example. For me, it is a security/privacy risk. Rather than that, I work with banks giving a J2ME Password generator for free, have "sign in badge" kind of functionality, use a good mail service which will have at least Clam (free!) to detect phishing URLs.
I said the same thing in Macworld comments, as ICQ back from 2003 proves, it is trivial to watch Safari's current URL for any C++ application. It can read Safari URL to send URL to friend. Instead of whining, Paypal and banks can provide a anti phishing or a free password manager application for free.
Paypal guy also forgets that OS X users trust their OS/Browser (unlike MS) and they frequently use systems own password manager functionality. Safari autofill and Keychain won't buy those scam URLs at all.
I loved USB1/2 technology until I have purchased a Firewire hard drive and wondered around web for an explanation why 400Mbit Firewire is almost 2x real World performance than USB2 480mbit. It seems USB2 which is pushed by Intel does too much at CPU level while Firewire is more like SCSI.
We are dealing with a company which a convicted monopolist (MSFT) couldn't handle with their push of a lame i915 fake GPU.
Thanks for mentioning it so I can avoid Opera Mini.
I don't really see why a central proxy is significantly faster than a phone with ... hm.
gzip? Do you know the size of current web pages including graphics? Try to run a 56K modem for nostalgia and browse some regular sites you visit.a well-designed name resolver plus a well-designed browser, and a web server
which supports Content-Encoding:gzip. Unless servers normally don't
compress their responses
I should reread the Apache documentation.
Opera has been doing mobile browsers for years, mini is an option for the people who are ignored by those vendors for years. You know, not everyone can buy/need a Windows Mobile PDA as a cell phone. (!) For Opera Mini you just need a J2ME (Java) supporting handset, that is all. They also offer it for free, as a favor to near billion people having those cell phones.
It seems you have a very good PDA/Windows with a decent 3G connection and forgot about the "rest of us" while writing this message. Someone should also mark some open source foundation with millions of dollars as "troll" for missing a significant (majority) of real World for years.
I haven't seen such a baseless claim for years. Opera Mini is pushed to users of J2ME (Java) phones by operators themselves! Head to any Operator's wap page, they must have suggested Opera Mini to their users somehow.
That is the same browser does massive compression which makes users pay significantly less for their per-kilobyte (non flat) GPRS/3G costs. Some Cell phone providers even pre-install Opera Mini to handsets they provide.
I tell you the real reason without conspiracy theroies. I got a Symbian S60 V3 E65 Nokia enterprise focused phone. It has 23 MB of free RAM. Somehow, Opera manages to code a browser , a real browser which will run inside that RAM space with amazing tricks which makes any phone almost like iPhone (It is said to have 256MB RAM). For the record, it does "real, desktop web" if you choose although I prefer their small screen rendering personally. Also if you don't know already, it will surprise you. Opera Mobile 9.5 runs the _exact same_ HTML rendering C code as Opera Mobile Desktop. That is some tight coding for you.
Nokia S60 browser using Apple Webkit also runs fine on that device although I hated their idea of iPhone like browsing on 320xsomething screen.
So, telling people from 3rd World to "buy more RAM, upgrade your CPU" when they bitched about memory/cpu usage wasn't a good thing to do eh Mozilla?
What about getting rid of that integrated graphics junk (hopefully can disable) and buy a real GPU with memory?
First thing I do is always moving to "Classic mode" but I never did it for performance issues. If it is possible, I would get rid of the i915 instead and note myself "don't buy GPU from CPU manufacturers".
Doesn't Vista have 3d acceleration of Desktop yet? It must have. So, what if the integrated graphics chipset doesn't perform? I think that is the issue.
First of all, there are many Mactels running i915, the same chip and they are living some problems. Of course Apple goes open standard based and codes better without giving heck to compatibility of an old VB4 program so the problems are much more light.
The real problem here which even evil themselves live is the duopoly in graphics business and a CPU manufacturer who can't admit GPU is entirely different thing and pushes their lame chips to manufacturers. I am very surprised that NVidia/AMD-ATI didn't speak about these mails yet. Perhaps they say "we will speak in court too", who knows? We may even see similar mails traded inside Apple about that horrible piece of junk Intel dictated.
The "i915" evilness Microsoft speaks about is also dictated to/used by Apple. See those all brand new games from EA saying "Integrated graphics not supported" or iTunes cover flow mysteriously doesn't function? That is the Chip EA speaks about.
As every x86 manufacturer, Apple, using very advanced desktop acceleration at core level of OS has been tricked or forced by Intel to use i915. OS X uses the 3d hardware functionality to accelerate Desktop so unlike Windows, it is not just gamers effected. It can even effect text document scrolling.
...it'd be employees of Microsoft in that part of the world that need fear this takeover. Of course, when you let Wall Street rule the world, human rights gets thrown out of the window and into the next county. Since when Microsoft is heroically fighting for human rights in China?Stop that illusion, no Fortune 500 company with billions of dollars plans will stand up against Chinese politics. Some do it publicly, some doesn't. The so called "good guys" bothers me more since they think I am stupid.