Apparently, at some point these last few days, someone took some acid, dropped all the HTML and Actionscript from Adobe.com into a blender and took the mixture and slapped it back onto the electronic internet.
I have so many questions in my head I don’t know where to begin.
It’s almost 2008 – why the 760 pixel width for the main content?
I have a big monitor, so that little search box goes alllllll the way over the right. Have we heard of Fitts’ Law before? Hello?
I stumbled upon this site randomly the other day, and was quit pleased I did.
Ambassador Bar & Lounge
Nope. It’s not.
I’m still planning to retire my wonderful Treo 650 this Christmas and replace it with a new 8GB iPhone. That is, an iPhone with EDGE-speed internet. The reason I’m perfectly fine with this (and I’m sure most iPhone owners are) is because an iPhone can’t (yet) exploit the benefits of a 3G network.
I know that when I get to work at Schematic, I have access to our wifi network, and I know when I go home at night, I have access to my wifi network there too. No need to deal with EDGE.
And the iPhone doesn’t (yet) have the Adobe Flash plug-in so I can’t visit high bandwidth Flash sites that require a fast internet connection.
And you can’t downloading huge files or applications (without hacks).
So yeah, EDGE sucks for speed, but the iPhone can wait for 3G.
The discussion begins with a mailing list message called Interesting Behavior of OS X, in which Steven Edwards describes the discovery that Leopard apparently contains an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, a type of file used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. More poking around revealed that Leopard’s own loader tries to find Windows DLL files when attempting to load a Windows binary.
So let’s not get all excited too quickly. Like the article says, this could happen and it could end up going no where. Also, would this mean Macs would be more susceptible to viruses? (My gut says no, the reason Windows machines are so vunerable is because .exe files can autorun, I doubt they would be allowed to autorun on OS X).