on't worry, the Apple fanboys woke up and logged on. It's not hateful nonsensical rubbish, though - read it more carefully. I never deny that Apple has very nice (albeit expensive) hardware, and that their mobile user interfaces are excellent. I simply point out the obvious workings of their marketing department. I'm so so sick of hearing "look it's a table with three and a half legs, that's an innovation!"
Factoid, calm down. Your posts reek more of emotion than logic. Apple found a market segment that was going to be filled sooner by Amazon with the Kindle than by the PC industry. I don't own a single Apple product and my main computer is an Asus netbook with Linux. Factoid, It wouldn't surprise me if you own more Apple product than I do.
In the game industry, as remarked upon in another of my other posts, if good game doesn't do well it is blamed on the company not advertising it. Microsoft and the PC industry have regarded the tablet industry as niche and have gone out of their way to not advertise it at all. You snooze, you lose.
Seriously, you're giving slashdot a bad name with your posts.
Perhaps, but there are enough exceptions. Was the first netbook by Asus hyped to extreme proportions? Is the Macbook Air selling wildly or is it eventually going to be quietly discontinued? Hyping isn't everything, but it helps. Now please, read my reasoning below.
Let's look at this from an interestingly different other angle. Here on slashdot people blame Apple for advertising they have a tablet whose main feature is that it is more of a flexible appliance than a computer. If you go to a video game website, when a good game doesn't sell well, all the gamers start blame the company for not advertising enough. (Particularly on the Wii.) Both Dell and Microsoft are much larger than Apple. They regarded tablets as niche for all these years and done their best to avoid advertising them all together. Apple did too considering a third party company started making the ridiculously expensive "Modbooks".
Why are people not blaming Microsoft and the computer makers for sitting around doing nothing for 10 years? Apple hypes their new products much like a console maker, but come on guys. You don't take the initiative, you don't get the cookie. If it wasn't Apple with the iPad, it was going to be Amazon with a future revision of the ereader. PC industry have their heads so far up their asses with the status quo they didn't have a chance in hell of making a breakout product with the public in this segment.
'The iPad proved a tablet shouldn't be a portable computer that happened to have its screen always exposed.
No the fuck it didn't. The iPad proved that people will buy anything if it's had enough Apple hype ladled onto it. I think the new wave of Windows 7 and Android tablets will show that in short order.
Modders, you have to read beyond the first sentence even if you really like the first one. Someone can dislike Apple and the iPhone and whatever else, but hateful nonsensical rubbish shouldn't be +5 insightful.
He names two brand new OSes that have been developed in the wake of the iPhone to prove what? On top of that, I'm pretty sure that Android even borrows a lot of interface sensibilities.
People say that, but isn't it possible to format iPods with different filesystems? How well would a Windows machine deal with a native Apple filesystem like HFS+....or worse ZFS?
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I appreciate you guys putting gWaei into the repositories. I was forced to install Fedora 13 rawhide to do some testing with gtk+-2.20 (I think) and I was impressed with the package manager. Much cleaner than synaptic. Though I didn't like the lack of progress bars for so many things.
If I want an easy to set up distribution, I would probably prefer Fedora over Ubuntu nowadays. I give the Fedora guys props. (When I say easy to setup, I don't necessarily mean newbie friendly.)
Much like there is separation of "Church and State", there should be separation of "Corporation and State." If corporations existed in the day of the founding fathers like today, they would have added it to the constitution of the United States. It's the same damn problem and it can be solved the same damn way.
Not sure, but you do know that Gecko has never released with a Netscape version called Navigator or Communicator, right? The code definitely is definitely old as Netscape started working on it around Communicator 4 time, but it never was released until Netscape 6. So its first public appearance was 8 years ago? Both KHTML and Gecko started development in 1998.
If we just posted an article on world hunger and/or world peace on slashdot, the problems would have been solved already 5 or so years ago. I trust everybody here with my life because I know everybody here reads the articles for me.
There is still a chance I might get a mod point for funny. Though this kind of modding is usual for me for some reason. When I think I am funny I am modded insightful, when I think I am insightful, I am modded funny.
Every time your 5-year-old child steps through, it's just like you made them smoke a cigarette. Would you make your 5-year-old child smoke a cigarette?
Meh, It looks like they are just continuing to work on their Javascript implementation and leaving HTML advances to Webkit. Having said that, they are both currently top of their league.
This project is yet more proof that software patents are profoundly anticompetitive.
Software patents do not make open source software illegal. They do make not paying license fees illegal. There are ways to do this and there is a cap to how much you need to pay.
If the fees were that exuberant, wouldn't there already be another competing standard by now?
Call me a heretic, but I like both Steve Jobs and Stallman. I would rather have both or none rather than just one. They each are both ballzy and push for what they want to see in their respective ecosystems. In the case of Stallman's ecosystem (GNewSense), flash doesn't exist either and all closed source blobs must die. You can't tell me this doesn't cause restrictions.
Steve Jobs is a crazy man who has time and time pushed for things that people thought were ridiculous and would never fly. The thing I like the most about Jobs is he keeps getting Apple to do things against the corporate grain that makes the companies around them shat their pants. I wouldn't think investors in a publicly traded company would allow him to do things like not license patents on multitouch etc.
Yes Apple is doing wrong, but they are actually using the patent how a patent is supposed to be used. Not using it for patent trolling or for cross-licensing deals, but for a temporary monopoly on technology. I laugh at it because it is extremely ballsy and goes against the grain of how modern corporations work.
On a side note, has patents ever stopped OSS before? I really do want to figure out how to get my multitouch scrolling working on Linux on this EeePC at some point.
You basically pointed out that the iPhone is not commodity hardware and that Apple is taking the console type sales route. Thank you captain obvious who ignores any and all benefits some people get over other systems.
This is simply just bad policy on Nintendo's part, this will only serve to further drive hardcore gamers to avoiding the games and system.
This is simply just bad policy on Nintendo's part, this will only serve to drive people to piracy.
Damn, you make video games sound like beer and alcohol.:-)
On a serious note, the top post on this slashdot article (which is modded 5 insightful) says that people will immediately go to piracy. You guys are just as bad as the industry people who say that all piracy equals lost sales 1 to 1.
There is a third option guys, and I am not talking about Linux this time. Not buying something should come as an option before pirating the game for most people.
They waited to release the black Wii until the white Wii sales started to stutter. But if people want to get a black Wii, there is no way in hell they are going to rebuy all of their previously downloaded content. It's a PR disaster in the making.
The only possible outcomes are people really are: People with no downloadable content will not notice, people who no about the problem will not buy the new Wii, Nintendo is going to have to deal with a surge of deathmatches on technical support with the final outcome of a lot of returned Wiis.
Now Nintendo like a lot of companys like to try to maximize profits, but it seems like they are just walking into this like blind idiots. I just can't see how this will turn out well.
I personally have not bought any virtual console games and have only spent $20 on WiiWare. If I want a SNES game, most of them I will just get off of Ebay or a local flee market. Regardless, I am considering calling into Nintendo to talk about the plight, making sure to frame the argument that so that I'm basically saying, "I have money to give you guys, but you apparently don't want it." After all, we all know that Nintendo makes money off of the sales of their systems too well.
Yes, this is exactly the reason I got a 60 on a Java assignment in College. (I had to argue it up from 0.) The classpath name didn't match the filename, so the program wouldn't simply run on Linux. You had to know the correct case to make it magically work. F*ck case insensitive filesystems. F*ck case preserving filesystems. Case sensitive all the way. Case insensitive is like the parsing of broken HTML. You don't know what the hell the results are going to be because everyone interprets what should be done differently.
I hate to say it, but: It's the point where a project has jumped the shark. Because projects rarely get out of that endless catching up race again. And they forget about actually innovating and leading the way. I hope the Firefox team can quickly recover. But I don't put any money on it anymore.
Slow down there a bit friend. Everyone is currently in the Javascript speed race. Everyone is also currently in the simplify the interface faze. Everyone is also entering the hardware acceleration race. Everyone is in the add extensions support race. In short, everyone everybody is playing catch up with each other.
It was IE and now chrome that started this strange Windows interface shift. While the classic interface of Firefox has generally been popular, Firefox is now in danger of being the odd one instead of the one all the others are being judged by. The irony is that Firefox has just really started getting down making XUL emulate the native interfaces pretty well after....their long history of doing custom interfaces. Anyone remember "Modern"? Opera's custom interface hasn't caught on like wild fire either.
If Steve Jobs decides next week that audio-only songs are simply not useful and that from now on only songs with videos can be used on the device, then your are forced to bend over and take it, because you've already signed control of your device over to a technological caretaker.
A long time ago around the beginning of the Mac OS X era, Steve Jobs said, "Once you add a feature, you can't take it away". You seem to be confusing never allowing a feature in the first place with taking it away once it is there. How does what you said apply to Flash and why are you making up false pretenses?
Unfortunately, I remember reading the quote many years ago but google seems to be getting forgetful, so my reference is horrible.
We can blame the third party publishers for making shovelware, or for misjudging the Wii market, but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.'"
Sure, but creating a game that runs on both the XBox 360 and the PS3 isn't a cakewalk either. The architectures between the two is ridiculously different and on top of that you are trying to max out the power on both the systems. I am pretty sure that difference in work easily compensates for translating assets to low rez and redesigning part of the concept of the game. One man's junk is another mans treasure.
The only reason that Amazon was able to score a non-DRM deal with the music industry is because the music industry is scared shitless about how big the iTunes music store was getting. Do you really think no other internet music store wouldn't have done that if they could have negotiated it out of them?
The truth tends to lay somewhere more in the middle. Lets all avoid false heroes and villains, please. Things aren't always so simple.
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on't worry, the Apple fanboys woke up and logged on. It's not hateful nonsensical rubbish, though - read it more carefully. I never deny that Apple has very nice (albeit expensive) hardware, and that their mobile user interfaces are excellent. I simply point out the obvious workings of their marketing department. I'm so so sick of hearing "look it's a table with three and a half legs, that's an innovation!"
Factoid, calm down. Your posts reek more of emotion than logic. Apple found a market segment that was going to be filled sooner by Amazon with the Kindle than by the PC industry. I don't own a single Apple product and my main computer is an Asus netbook with Linux. Factoid, It wouldn't surprise me if you own more Apple product than I do.
In the game industry, as remarked upon in another of my other posts, if good game doesn't do well it is blamed on the company not advertising it. Microsoft and the PC industry have regarded the tablet industry as niche and have gone out of their way to not advertise it at all. You snooze, you lose.
Seriously, you're giving slashdot a bad name with your posts.
Perhaps, but there are enough exceptions. Was the first netbook by Asus hyped to extreme proportions? Is the Macbook Air selling wildly or is it eventually going to be quietly discontinued? Hyping isn't everything, but it helps. Now please, read my reasoning below.
Let's look at this from an interestingly different other angle. Here on slashdot people blame Apple for advertising they have a tablet whose main feature is that it is more of a flexible appliance than a computer. If you go to a video game website, when a good game doesn't sell well, all the gamers start blame the company for not advertising enough. (Particularly on the Wii.) Both Dell and Microsoft are much larger than Apple. They regarded tablets as niche for all these years and done their best to avoid advertising them all together. Apple did too considering a third party company started making the ridiculously expensive "Modbooks".
Why are people not blaming Microsoft and the computer makers for sitting around doing nothing for 10 years? Apple hypes their new products much like a console maker, but come on guys. You don't take the initiative, you don't get the cookie. If it wasn't Apple with the iPad, it was going to be Amazon with a future revision of the ereader. PC industry have their heads so far up their asses with the status quo they didn't have a chance in hell of making a breakout product with the public in this segment.
Exactly!
'The iPad proved a tablet shouldn't be a portable computer that happened to have its screen always exposed.
No the fuck it didn't. The iPad proved that people will buy anything if it's had enough Apple hype ladled onto it. I think the new wave of Windows 7 and Android tablets will show that in short order.
Modders, you have to read beyond the first sentence even if you really like the first one. Someone can dislike Apple and the iPhone and whatever else, but hateful nonsensical rubbish shouldn't be +5 insightful.
He names two brand new OSes that have been developed in the wake of the iPhone to prove what? On top of that, I'm pretty sure that Android even borrows a lot of interface sensibilities.
People say that, but isn't it possible to format iPods with different filesystems? How well would a Windows machine deal with a native Apple filesystem like HFS+. ...or worse ZFS?
I appreciate you guys putting gWaei into the repositories. I was forced to install Fedora 13 rawhide to do some testing with gtk+-2.20 (I think) and I was impressed with the package manager. Much cleaner than synaptic. Though I didn't like the lack of progress bars for so many things.
If I want an easy to set up distribution, I would probably prefer Fedora over Ubuntu nowadays. I give the Fedora guys props. (When I say easy to setup, I don't necessarily mean newbie friendly.)
Much like there is separation of "Church and State", there should be separation of "Corporation and State." If corporations existed in the day of the founding fathers like today, they would have added it to the constitution of the United States. It's the same damn problem and it can be solved the same damn way.
Not sure, but you do know that Gecko has never released with a Netscape version called Navigator or Communicator, right? The code definitely is definitely old as Netscape started working on it around Communicator 4 time, but it never was released until Netscape 6. So its first public appearance was 8 years ago? Both KHTML and Gecko started development in 1998.
If we just posted an article on world hunger and/or world peace on slashdot, the problems would have been solved already 5 or so years ago. I trust everybody here with my life because I know everybody here reads the articles for me.
To be exact, I was modded:
30% Informative
40% Insightful
30% Interesting
There is still a chance I might get a mod point for funny. Though this kind of modding is usual for me for some reason. When I think I am funny I am modded insightful, when I think I am insightful, I am modded funny.
Every time your 5-year-old child steps through, it's just like you made them smoke a cigarette. Would you make your 5-year-old child smoke a cigarette?
Who are going to involuntarily contract google-itis from this. :'-(
Meh, It looks like they are just continuing to work on their Javascript implementation and leaving HTML advances to Webkit. Having said that, they are both currently top of their league.
This project is yet more proof that software patents are profoundly anticompetitive.
Software patents do not make open source software illegal. They do make not paying license fees illegal. There are ways to do this and there is a cap to how much you need to pay.
If the fees were that exuberant, wouldn't there already be another competing standard by now?
Call me a heretic, but I like both Steve Jobs and Stallman. I would rather have both or none rather than just one. They each are both ballzy and push for what they want to see in their respective ecosystems. In the case of Stallman's ecosystem (GNewSense), flash doesn't exist either and all closed source blobs must die. You can't tell me this doesn't cause restrictions.
Steve Jobs is a crazy man who has time and time pushed for things that people thought were ridiculous and would never fly. The thing I like the most about Jobs is he keeps getting Apple to do things against the corporate grain that makes the companies around them shat their pants. I wouldn't think investors in a publicly traded company would allow him to do things like not license patents on multitouch etc.
My 5 cents anyway.
Maybe the meat at Walmart will be a little fresher now. Speaking of which, is this fluid drinkable?
Yes Apple is doing wrong, but they are actually using the patent how a patent is supposed to be used. Not using it for patent trolling or for cross-licensing deals, but for a temporary monopoly on technology. I laugh at it because it is extremely ballsy and goes against the grain of how modern corporations work.
On a side note, has patents ever stopped OSS before? I really do want to figure out how to get my multitouch scrolling working on Linux on this EeePC at some point.
You basically pointed out that the iPhone is not commodity hardware and that Apple is taking the console type sales route. Thank you captain obvious who ignores any and all benefits some people get over other systems.
This is simply just bad policy on Nintendo's part, this will only serve to further drive hardcore gamers to avoiding the games and system.
This is simply just bad policy on Nintendo's part, this will only serve to drive people to piracy.
Damn, you make video games sound like beer and alcohol. :-)
On a serious note, the top post on this slashdot article (which is modded 5 insightful) says that people will immediately go to piracy. You guys are just as bad as the industry people who say that all piracy equals lost sales 1 to 1.
There is a third option guys, and I am not talking about Linux this time. Not buying something should come as an option before pirating the game for most people.
They waited to release the black Wii until the white Wii sales started to stutter. But if people want to get a black Wii, there is no way in hell they are going to rebuy all of their previously downloaded content. It's a PR disaster in the making.
The only possible outcomes are people really are: People with no downloadable content will not notice, people who no about the problem will not buy the new Wii, Nintendo is going to have to deal with a surge of deathmatches on technical support with the final outcome of a lot of returned Wiis.
Now Nintendo like a lot of companys like to try to maximize profits, but it seems like they are just walking into this like blind idiots. I just can't see how this will turn out well.
I personally have not bought any virtual console games and have only spent $20 on WiiWare. If I want a SNES game, most of them I will just get off of Ebay or a local flee market. Regardless, I am considering calling into Nintendo to talk about the plight, making sure to frame the argument that so that I'm basically saying, "I have money to give you guys, but you apparently don't want it." After all, we all know that Nintendo makes money off of the sales of their systems too well.
Yes, this is exactly the reason I got a 60 on a Java assignment in College. (I had to argue it up from 0.) The classpath name didn't match the filename, so the program wouldn't simply run on Linux. You had to know the correct case to make it magically work. F*ck case insensitive filesystems. F*ck case preserving filesystems. Case sensitive all the way. Case insensitive is like the parsing of broken HTML. You don't know what the hell the results are going to be because everyone interprets what should be done differently.
I hate to say it, but: It's the point where a project has jumped the shark.
Because projects rarely get out of that endless catching up race again. And they forget about actually innovating and leading the way.
I hope the Firefox team can quickly recover. But I don't put any money on it anymore.
Slow down there a bit friend. Everyone is currently in the Javascript speed race. Everyone is also currently in the simplify the interface faze. Everyone is also entering the hardware acceleration race. Everyone is in the add extensions support race. In short, everyone everybody is playing catch up with each other.
It was IE and now chrome that started this strange Windows interface shift. While the classic interface of Firefox has generally been popular, Firefox is now in danger of being the odd one instead of the one all the others are being judged by. The irony is that Firefox has just really started getting down making XUL emulate the native interfaces pretty well after....their long history of doing custom interfaces. Anyone remember "Modern"? Opera's custom interface hasn't caught on like wild fire either.
but why hasn't Superman appeared yet!?
If Steve Jobs decides next week that audio-only songs are simply not useful and that from now on only songs with videos can be used on the device, then your are forced to bend over and take it, because you've already signed control of your device over to a technological caretaker.
A long time ago around the beginning of the Mac OS X era, Steve Jobs said, "Once you add a feature, you can't take it away". You seem to be confusing never allowing a feature in the first place with taking it away once it is there. How does what you said apply to Flash and why are you making up false pretenses?
Unfortunately, I remember reading the quote many years ago but google seems to be getting forgetful, so my reference is horrible.
We can blame the third party publishers for making shovelware, or for misjudging the Wii market, but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.'"
Sure, but creating a game that runs on both the XBox 360 and the PS3 isn't a cakewalk either. The architectures between the two is ridiculously different and on top of that you are trying to max out the power on both the systems. I am pretty sure that difference in work easily compensates for translating assets to low rez and redesigning part of the concept of the game. One man's junk is another mans treasure.
Are you a troll? AAC is not locked to to specific devices and if you think they are you are fooling yourself. Apple also provides a scheme to upgrade to the non-DRM encumbered versions and most devices now support AAC.
The only reason that Amazon was able to score a non-DRM deal with the music industry is because the music industry is scared shitless about how big the iTunes music store was getting. Do you really think no other internet music store wouldn't have done that if they could have negotiated it out of them?
The truth tends to lay somewhere more in the middle. Lets all avoid false heroes and villains, please. Things aren't always so simple.