Your connection must suck, it loaded in under 5 seconds for me. Well... I know that most Slashdotter's are under 25 and pretty impatient when it comes to load times.

Worked fine for me too, loaded in seconds.

Browser: Firefox 3.6.13
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic
CPU: Intel T1600 @ 1.66GHz
RAM: 2GB of RAM

Benchmark #1: 328 iterations
Benchmark #2: 10 iterations
Benchmark #3: 3005 iterations

FWIW

Sorry for replying to myself, just noticed 5132/50000 rwb points for the above benchmark. The overall score is shown at the top of the page.

They should show it on the bottom, since that's when most people will look for it.

Browser: Firefox 3.6.13
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic
CPU: Intel T1600 @ 1.66GHz
RAM: 2GB of RAM

Benchmark #1: 328 iterations
Benchmark #2: 10 iterations
Benchmark #3: 3005 iterations

FWIW

Does T-Mobile use it though? I understand that their network is currently exclusively 1900MHz.

- James

Mod parent up. Installing DX9 is required to make Civilization 4 (and several other games) work on Windows 7. This is apparently due to missing DLLs which are not included with DX11 but are included with DX9. The whole concept of backward compatibility is a joke with DX.

I should point out that most GSM phone manufacturers now make it very difficult to enable Field Test mode -- to the point of even removing the functionality from phones. Nokia is one example of a GSM phone manufacturer that has done so. So your claim that field test is "enabled on virtually any GSM phone" is false. I should know as I used to be a field testing geek until I could not longer purchase a suitable GSM/UMTS phone to do field testing with.

Obvious solution: Virtual box under linux will let you run whatever windows you want. Its graphic drivers are not good enough for most new 3D games (yet), but it certainly will let you do online banking...

Or switch to a bank that allows you to use open-source software. If my bank told me that I could only do my banking with a certain browser I would be moving my business elsewhere.

I find it interesting that all the banks in New Zealand, where I live, supports (even if only unofficially) Firefox, Chrome, et al for their internet banking. Why do banks in other countries not do the same?

I'm not sure how debit cards work outside of New Zealand, however here in New Zealand it is impossible to use a debit card without entering in a PIN code to authenticate yourself to the terminal. In other words signing off a debit card transaction isn't possible. So if a bank were to post a pre-activated card out to a customer, there's no security risk since the customer would have picked a PIN code when they originally signed up for the card in the branch.

I'm with the ANZ Bank here in New Zealand and they post out replacement debit cards with the PIN already assigned to the card. As far as I know the PIN isn't loaded on the card itself. The bank just adds a record on their side saying this new card has the same PIN as the previous card. No security risk since only me and the bank's debit card system knows my PIN number. Someone stealing my card would have to guess my PIN.

Perhaps this is not the case outside of NZ. However I personally think the 'signature required' type of transaction should be withdrawn, leaving PIN as the only authentication method. We in New Zealand have managed to do without signature transactions for debit card transactions since EFTPOS was introduced in the 1980's.

Signature authentication is only allowed for Visa/MC/Amex credit transactions since NZ based merchants have to accept foreign cards which allow signature required transactions. So basically we only allow signature required transactions due to having to keep that security loophole open to allow foreigners to pay for goods and services in NZ.

From some people's point of view, filing a bug report for a feature like using the built in spell check is like filing a bug report with Ford suggesting they add a glove box to the front of the vehicle. It's a feature that Mac users expect from a native Mac application -- if it's not there then many Mac users will just drag the app to the bin.

I do agree that people should file reports for bugs, but there are some types of bugs which shouldn't happen at all in a production release. The fact Chrome does pretty well (despite only launching recently) suggest that there needs to be some changes in the direction of Mac development at Opera. For example, actually employing Mac OS X usability experts to polish up the GUI would be a good first step.