Streamup: Less than ideal.

5 years ago

Today it makes Safari hypnowheel the window forever; Firefox hypnowheels for 2 minutes then Flash crashes:

This is awesome.

Previously.

Tags: computers, dnalounge, doomed, firstperson, mac, webcasting, www

11 Responses:

1. jwz says:

   5 years ago at 8:03 pm

   Also, note the "G+ = 63, FB = 3.5k". I should just rip out all those G+ widgets, but their epic failure makes me a little happy every time I see them proudly advertise it like that.

   • Dan says:

     5 years ago at 5:28 am

     I've never grasped the reasoning for "liking" something, either G+ or FB. I've never done it. I (and my web browser) would be much happier of all that stuff would just...go away.

     • Eric Eisenhart says:

       5 years ago at 6:55 pm

       It's a minimal effort mechanism for sharing a web page with your "friends".

     • Richard says:

       5 years ago at 3:42 pm

       Stuff B Gone.

       https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/#socialblocklist (or the more comprehensive https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/#annoyancelist)

2. Dawn Nova says:

   5 years ago at 11:13 pm

   If you're looking for livestreaming that works, adjusts dynamically when bandwidth sucks, try twitcasting - http://www.twitcasting.tv

   • Ben says:

     5 years ago at 1:22 pm

     Did they really have no English speakers anywhere in the process that lead to choosing that name?

     • Dawn Nova says:

       5 years ago at 5:05 pm

       No, afraid not - totally Japanese homegrown and originally deeply integrated with Twitter, hence the name.

3. Lloyd says:

   5 years ago at 6:17 am

   The hypnowheel is the NeXT sign of quality, showing that the Mac is now built on a robust foundation.

   • Nick Lamb says:

     5 years ago at 3:38 am

     If they'd chosen BeOS as the foundation instead of NeXT the system would just silently hang. Be decided that busy indicators like an hourglass or hypno-wheel were an admission of failure and so they just didn't implement them. This was thought to encourage developers not to write BeOS applications that leave the user waiting around - and it clearly worked, most developers did not write such applications or indeed any BeOS applications at all.

   • Tim says:

     5 years ago at 11:01 am

     Ironically the hypnowheel is often (not always) a sign that the foundation is alive and well: it's the WindowServer's way of letting you know that an app is not responding to UI events.

4. Lloyd says:

   5 years ago at 4:50 am

   And little in the way of things like printer drivers.

   not so much Be, as barely Was.