Proyecto Mirage, Synthetik, Feindflug, Morloch, and Insurge - as listen in your earlier post.
I just searched for each of those, and got nothing. However the service has only been live for a week, and much work remains to be done in the supporting of international and indie artists.
"Apple can help their long term position by leveling the internet playing field and thus making migration to a non Windows platform that much smoother."
But if Apple make a habit of porting their applications to Windows, why bother migrating at all - people will just "expect" each app to be ported sooner or later.
Besides, Safari for Windows wouldn't create a revene stream. iTunes for Windows, with the Music Store, does create a revenue stream. Remember, these companies do exist to make money after all...
Anyway, as nice a browser as Safari may be (I've been using it as my default browser since the first build with tabs emerged), it's hardly a killer app - it was a required app to bring a truly decent browser to OS X. Safari for Windows will not ever happen. If you're really that impressed by Safari, download WebCore or KHTML and build a browser around it. A quick Google search for "khtml" finds a KHTML Win32 port on SourceForge, so get going...;)
"Uncharacteristic silliness" compared to how K5's userbase usually acts is an understatement. It's almost like reading Slashdot with the threshold set at 0...
"Unless of course she went to the trouble of releasing it gpl it's pretty much copyrighted by default as I understand the laws".
You realise the GPL is a copyright, don't you? As stated at gnu.org:
To copyleft a program, we first state that it is copyrighted; then we add distribution terms, which are a legal instrument that gives everyone the rights to use, modify, and redistribute the program's code or any program derived from it but only if the distribution terms are unchanged.
Both the GPL and music licensing are forms of copyright, they are just very different uses of copyright.
"And it gets worse, because mounting a remote ftp site often seems to threadlock the entire OS: the dreaded spinning wheel of death."
Interesting - this locked up your entire system? On dial-up, I've seen it cause Finder to lock up and need a Force Quit, but never lock the entire OS. I've just followed mbkkelsey's advice and used Vince to change the ftp 'helper' application. In my quick test, I used Transmit and it worked flawlessly.
Of course, it would still be a whole lot nicer if Safari could handle the FTP itself, just like virtually every other modern browser...
"...it seems that Fox has decided that there's not enough viewers to keep the Firefly series on the air, but somehow there's enough fans to make money off DVD sales. Go figure."
I'm going to be uncharacteristically non-cynical for a moment, and suggest an alternate theory. Perhaps Fox will see how many DVD sets are sold, and if sales are surprisingly high, continue the series.
TV production houses now undoubtedly see DVD sales as a huge revenue earner, most likely beginning to rival their traditional advertising and subscription income. Now, even if the series doesn't cover costs while being broadcast, the money from DVD sales could potentially more than make up for that. In that scenario, a series like FireFly would have a huge chance at success - but it would all depend on how much the fanbase truly does value the show.
The future of TV could become little more than DVD advertising, with the episodes shown on the air little more than fodder to lure people in. DVD sets then become the real product, and are sold riddled with bonuses, extra scenes, and eventually, as in this case, extra episodes.
So, maybe Fox will think there's enough viewers - if you cough up for the DVDs.
(Then again, what do I know? I've never watched FireFly, I have no experience with American cable TV at all! Armchair analysis is fun!)
"If conferences were only ever located where the highest concentration of the population lived, then you'd never see a conference held in Australia that wasn't in Sydney."
Or Melbourne. And yes, usually conferences are held in one of those two. Travelling between those two by air is reasonably cheap and quick, and by car is feasible (at 'only' 10 hours) and dirt cheap. Well, compared to the cost and time of travelling either air or car from Sydney/Melbourne to Perth anyway.
"Don't be so insular - take a look around this country that we love (same goes for anyone else - have a look around your own country and marvel at its own beauty)."
There's a difference between being insular, and not being able to afford either the time or the money to travel across the country and back right now. Both post and undergraduate uni offers came out in the last week, which makes finding time (and the money!) to get across our sunburnt country a bit difficult...
Trust me, travelling to Perth has been high on my "to do" list for quite a few years now. It's just a little bit of time and a whole lot of money issues stopping me for the time being...
The parent post did refer to Opera for the Mac. Have you actually used it before? It's terrible.
Version 6.0 was just release (it's a Carbon app that runs on 8, 9, and X), and it's horribly slow, ugly looking, and uses non-standard keyboard shortcuts. I had very high hopes for Opera on the Mac, but this release has all but shattered them for me. It's almost the exact opposite of Opera 6.0 on Windows.
I've been using Opera on Windows for the best part of 4 years, and swear by it. However, I don't even bother with it on my iBook. Perhaps when they eventually release Opera 7 for the Mac (which will be a *long* way off) things will be better, but I'm not holding my breath...
My housemate is with the Commonwealth Bank, and he complains regularly about it not working properly in Opera. I've never used the CBA's online banking myself, so I don't know first hand.
Here in Austrealia, the bank Westpac's online banking works in every single browser I throw at it. OmniWeb, Chimera, Opera, Mozilla, Netscape, it doesn't matter. It seems they don't check what your browser is - they just let it work.
Sure, there's a few niggling issues (sometimes a lower scrollbar appears in a few browsers, and I need to scroll a little to the right), but all in all it works great with virtually anything. Hell, I even applied for a personal loan online without issue.
It's been enough to keep my loyal to a bank, and nobody likes banks...
Actually, it's showing 12:58 PM because I did set my preferences. Had I not set my preferences, it would have shown something like 2AM.
I'm using Australian Eastern Standard time. That's because I live in Australia. Notice how it's the middle of the day here, while it's the middle of the night in the USA. The comment I originally replied to was asking why people are reading Slashdot at the middle of the night. I was explaining that it's not the middle of the night for everyone.
However, thank you. Your comment has brightened up my afternoon, as it's helped me kill off another few minutes as I wait for work to finish for the day.
(Oh, and if anyone's interested, it's around 5PM as I post this...)
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SafariNoTimeout is a little utility that removes the 60 second connection timeout from Safari.
Without it on my dial-up connection, Safari is virtually useless while downloading and/or with a few tabs loading at once.
It should make Safari useful again for you. It sure did for me.
Proyecto Mirage, Synthetik, Feindflug, Morloch, and Insurge - as listen in your earlier post.
I just searched for each of those, and got nothing. However the service has only been live for a week, and much work remains to be done in the supporting of international and indie artists.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
...as a Red Dwarf quote?
Err, the new games section was just launched. Notice the purple?
If you've set your preferences for all section articles to spill over into the main page, you're going to see a lot of game news in the future.
Besides, Safari for Windows wouldn't create a revene stream. iTunes for Windows, with the Music Store, does create a revenue stream. Remember, these companies do exist to make money after all...
Anyway, as nice a browser as Safari may be (I've been using it as my default browser since the first build with tabs emerged), it's hardly a killer app - it was a required app to bring a truly decent browser to OS X. Safari for Windows will not ever happen. If you're really that impressed by Safari, download WebCore or KHTML and build a browser around it. A quick Google search for "khtml" finds a KHTML Win32 port on SourceForge, so get going...
Indeed, some of those K5 posts are shockingly bad. Here's one random weblog talking about just how bad some of the things on that thread are.
"Uncharacteristic silliness" compared to how K5's userbase usually acts is an understatement. It's almost like reading Slashdot with the threshold set at 0...
Both the GPL and music licensing are forms of copyright, they are just very different uses of copyright.
You mean like the GeForce 4, that was for sale in Power Macs before nVidia had even announced them?
"There, I've said it. I'm out of the closet. So bring it on... " -- Linus Torvalds
Things are so much more interesting out of context...
Interesting - this locked up your entire system? On dial-up, I've seen it cause Finder to lock up and need a Force Quit, but never lock the entire OS. I've just followed mbkkelsey's advice and used Vince to change the ftp 'helper' application. In my quick test, I used Transmit and it worked flawlessly.
Of course, it would still be a whole lot nicer if Safari could handle the FTP itself, just like virtually every other modern browser...
"They'll probably end up making more money selling the "extra" episodes on DVD than they would have by putting the shows on the air."
My point exactly.
Like I said, if more money is to be made in selling DVDs than broadcasting, broadcasting could simply become a means to convince people to buy DVDs.
"...it seems that Fox has decided that there's not enough viewers to keep the Firefly series on the air, but somehow there's enough fans to make money off DVD sales. Go figure."
I'm going to be uncharacteristically non-cynical for a moment, and suggest an alternate theory. Perhaps Fox will see how many DVD sets are sold, and if sales are surprisingly high, continue the series.
TV production houses now undoubtedly see DVD sales as a huge revenue earner, most likely beginning to rival their traditional advertising and subscription income. Now, even if the series doesn't cover costs while being broadcast, the money from DVD sales could potentially more than make up for that. In that scenario, a series like FireFly would have a huge chance at success - but it would all depend on how much the fanbase truly does value the show.
The future of TV could become little more than DVD advertising, with the episodes shown on the air little more than fodder to lure people in. DVD sets then become the real product, and are sold riddled with bonuses, extra scenes, and eventually, as in this case, extra episodes.
So, maybe Fox will think there's enough viewers - if you cough up for the DVDs.
(Then again, what do I know? I've never watched FireFly, I have no experience with American cable TV at all! Armchair analysis is fun!)
"For the average user, a Mac is incompatible with the standard."
The standard what, exactly?
"Redhat was much faster. Look at the post on the original slashdot article, Redhat had allready a patch available."
Look at the original Slashdot story yourself. The comment relating to Apple's patch was there within 3 hours of the one relating to Red Hat.
And note, that is when Slashdot mentioned it, not when Apple posted it. Basically, the two companies had patches out at virtually the same time.
"If conferences were only ever located where the highest concentration of the population lived, then you'd never see a conference held in Australia that wasn't in Sydney."
Or Melbourne. And yes, usually conferences are held in one of those two. Travelling between those two by air is reasonably cheap and quick, and by car is feasible (at 'only' 10 hours) and dirt cheap. Well, compared to the cost and time of travelling either air or car from Sydney/Melbourne to Perth anyway.
"Don't be so insular - take a look around this country that we love (same goes for anyone else - have a look around your own country and marvel at its own beauty)."
There's a difference between being insular, and not being able to afford either the time or the money to travel across the country and back right now. Both post and undergraduate uni offers came out in the last week, which makes finding time (and the money!) to get across our sunburnt country a bit difficult...
Trust me, travelling to Perth has been high on my "to do" list for quite a few years now. It's just a little bit of time and a whole lot of money issues stopping me for the time being...
I mean, the majority of the Australian population is in Melbourne or Sydney, and Perth is on the opposite side of the continent...
I know I'd have attended if it were on the east coast, but I'm not about to fork out for plane tickets to get to the west...
" From what I've seen, if I ever get a Mac I may be very tempted to use Safari over Opera."
I'll be rude and link to my own mini-rant about Opera on the Mac.
Trust me, the only browser on the Mac you'd prefer Opera to is iCab.
What's more, Konami Arcade Advanced did make it into GameSpy's GBA Game of the Year awards list. It's right here.
Whoever submitted this article only linked to the PC section, but they should have linked to the main page, which has awards for PS2, Xbox, GCN, GBA, PC, and 'Multiplayer'.
The parent post did refer to Opera for the Mac. Have you actually used it before? It's terrible.
Version 6.0 was just release (it's a Carbon app that runs on 8, 9, and X), and it's horribly slow, ugly looking, and uses non-standard keyboard shortcuts. I had very high hopes for Opera on the Mac, but this release has all but shattered them for me. It's almost the exact opposite of Opera 6.0 on Windows.
I've been using Opera on Windows for the best part of 4 years, and swear by it. However, I don't even bother with it on my iBook. Perhaps when they eventually release Opera 7 for the Mac (which will be a *long* way off) things will be better, but I'm not holding my breath...
"The appeal of tabs is that you can read down an entire page, middle-clicking interesting links as you go and opening them in the background."
I do this with OmniWeb. Tabs have nothing to do with it.
I also have Cmd-` (often incorrectly written as Cmd-~) bound to the side button on my MouseMan Dual Optical, which makes cycling simple.
That still doesn't explain your "Then the video's came. BAH! damn u!" comment.
You had choice about watching those.
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My housemate is with the Commonwealth Bank, and he complains regularly about it not working properly in Opera. I've never used the CBA's online banking myself, so I don't know first hand.
Have you ever used their site with Opera?
Here in Austrealia, the bank Westpac's online banking works in every single browser I throw at it. OmniWeb, Chimera, Opera, Mozilla, Netscape, it doesn't matter. It seems they don't check what your browser is - they just let it work.
Sure, there's a few niggling issues (sometimes a lower scrollbar appears in a few browsers, and I need to scroll a little to the right), but all in all it works great with virtually anything. Hell, I even applied for a personal loan online without issue.
It's been enough to keep my loyal to a bank, and nobody likes banks...
Actually, it's showing 12:58 PM because I did set my preferences. Had I not set my preferences, it would have shown something like 2AM.
I'm using Australian Eastern Standard time. That's because I live in Australia. Notice how it's the middle of the day here, while it's the middle of the night in the USA. The comment I originally replied to was asking why people are reading Slashdot at the middle of the night. I was explaining that it's not the middle of the night for everyone.
However, thank you. Your comment has brightened up my afternoon, as it's helped me kill off another few minutes as I wait for work to finish for the day.
(Oh, and if anyone's interested, it's around 5PM as I post this...)