Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 549
Linux
NetBSD has already been ported to child hardware.
Comment start with the basics (Score 1) 169
Star Trek soap and deodorant would probably be enough
Comment Re:No add-ons (Score 1) 342
Agreed, it's the one thing that I keep using Firefox for. What popular Firefox extension features have been ported for Safari generally don't work nearly as well. For example, I don't want to use a system-wide proxy for ad blocking, and as nice as the web inspector is it's not as good as he Web Developer + Firebug extensions for Firefox... not to mention that most Safari tweaks require input manager hacks which are sketchy at best and prone to breaking between Safari releases.
If Safari had a system in place for writing extensions I wouldn't even have Firefox installed on my computer, it's generally painful to use for any period of time in OSX (it's a bad OSX "citizen" and feels like a ported Windows app). Page load performance I really don't care about, what I care about is the 1+ seconds it takes to open a new Firefox window once I have a bunch (~5-10) already open. Safari is instantaneous no matter how many windows I already have open, as it should be on a quad core system with 8 gigs of ram.
Comment Re:Notes on New Features (Score 1) 465
I don't think that's anything new, it just means that you can write plugins that can interact with the page via javascript.... and honestly I'm not sure why/how that's a benefit (plugins are not an area I know much of anything about)
Comment Re:More Fun Demos (Score 1) 465
Source here for the curious:
http://gist.github.com/69810
Comment Re:But no punchline... (Score 1) 559
1- "Oh damn, so it won't run any of my software?"
2- "Sure it will, we have Wine and Crossover!"
1- "So *if* it does run my software, it will run about 25% as fast as it would in its native environment, and probably buggy as hell?"
2- "Yup! You just wait, 2009 is the year of the Linux desktop!"
Comment Re:Okay, fanboys... (Score 1) 504
It's not exactly as straight forward as you make it sound.
Comment Re:What a crock... (Score 1) 360
Yeah, but I don't think any quad-core chips hit the performance/price sweet spot. More likely you'd get a dual core that is easily over clocked.
Comment Re:Darn... no Mac Mini update (Score 1) 1079
A laptop stand + USB keyboard is probably cheaper than any dock would be. I run mine closed with an external monitor hooked up.
Comment Re:Zzzzzz (Score 1) 198
You're doing it wrong.
Of the 10, 9 are merely updates of existing products - nothing new here.
So? It's not a list of "new OSS projects in 2008".
Android *is* new - but is hardly newsworthy by now.
"by now"?? It's a list of "coolest OSS projects of 2008", not "things that should be making the headlines on 12/31".
Clearly your expectations are a bit out of whack. I don't much care for the list, but that's because I don't much care for top 10 lists. You don't seem to like the list because you don't understand what it's supposed to be a list of.
Comment Re:Sorry... (Score 1) 664
The average Joe will run into DRM restrictions, and;(...)
The average Joe iTunes user won't eve know the DRM is there.
Comment Re:GTA IV == 100% Fail (Score 1) 531
From everything I have seen (playing the game), read and heard, you hold a fairly extreme minority view here.
Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 265
Xenographic writes "SCO has finally lost to Novell, now that Judge Kimball has entered final judgment against SCO. Of course, this is SCO we're talking about. There's still the litigation in bankruptcy court, which allowed this case to resume so that they could figure out just how much SCO owes, which is $3,506,526, if I calculated the interest properly, $625,486.90 of which will go into a constructive trust. And then there's the possibility that SCO could seek to have the judgment overturned in the appeals courts, or even the Supreme Court when that fails. Of course, they need money to do that and they don't really have much of that any more. Remember how Enderle, O'Gara and company told us that SCO was sure to win? I wonder how many people have emailed them to say, 'I told you so.'"
Comment Re:Microsoft and Apple (Score 1) 453
How the hell did that mess of a comment get modded up to "+5, Insightful"? I expect rapid anti-Apple madness around here, but I don't expect them to get modded up so high.
Apple's products are vastly superior to Microsoft's.
How so? I have run windows xp and several different linuxes on my laptops and desktops, as well as having used Mac OS pretty extensively.
What does linux have to do with it?
Windows XP wins hands down every single time.
What does Windows XP win at, being superior? How so? Doing what?
Microsoft has been convicted of anti-trust violations in federal court. Apple has not.
Courts are now the deciders for quality of tech?
Who said anything about courts being deciders of tech quality? You're pulling nonsense out of thin air. The question was "how are Apple and Microsoft different" and that was one example. Not a great example, but still...
Apple's monopoly power is in the portable music market. Microsoft's is in the desktop operating system market.
Apple's monopoly power is also in the hardware-that-is-allowed-to-run-Mac-OSX department.
Sure, and Microsoft has a monopoly on what hardware you can run the Xbox 360 system on.
Microsofts policy is "Here, do whatever you want with this so long as you buy it".
Yeah right, that's their policy.
Apple's policy is "We are licensing this to you. You have no rights to use it for anything other than what we explicitly declare and you better not fucking try to develop for it because we will sue you in to oblivion."
There is a large community of Apple developers that would disagree with that statement.
How, seriously, is Apple any better than anything else?
So now they're the worst "anything"? Right.
