If you read the article you'll see what he's upset about:
Lilly pointed to a pie graph representing the browser market that Jobs showed at last week's Apple developers' conference in San Francisco. The graph was made up with just two browsers: Safari and Internet Explorer. I think it's just wishful thinking, unless they bundle Safari with iTunes and automatically make it the default browser.
You should watch the keynote, Steve Jobs has a pie chart in which Safari will take 25% and IE is the only other browser. If that's his vision I don't think that would happen. For desktop users there's no incentive to use Safari (compared to iTunes where the incentive is the iPod compatibility).
Also, Mozilla makes some 50 million dollars a year, so there is money to be made. All you need to do is include a search textbox that links to Google, which Safari does.
Could be a good thing, because in order to be taken serious (and keep your developers and community support) you must act in the spirit of open source and not cave in to unfounded threats. So the distributions and companies left standing have the support of the community and developers.
I still don't get it. Unplug from the network, and then what? You're not going to able to see all products on Amazon unless you had them all stored first. In a LOB application, you're not getting up to date inventory information. Sure you can do things based on the data you had at the time of unplugging, but I think that's limited to small amounts of data, like writing responses to e-mail in your inbox.
Also, when you 'unplug' it's only because you're going to travel. Trains and planes will have internet in the near future, hotels already have, and you can get wifi when you sit in your garden or at Starbucks. So why is this so important?
The last time Microsoft was that involved in legal disputes in the US, it took a presidential impeachment to distract the public and the press. Aha! Now I understand the recent talk of impeachment. Every time MS gets in a rough spot, the US will impeach a (vice)president!
Wow! Is it just me or does that law sound extremely ridiculous? How can a consumer be expected to know if his TV infringes a patent!? Can you see yourself taking your product back to shop: "Yeah, I'd like my money back, this product infringes a patent. Oh, and you should send it back as well, because you're liable too!".
On the other hand, it would be cool if people would return their copy of Vista en masse because it infringes some copyright. {insert chair-joke here}
But Silverlight/XAML and Flash/Flex both also offer XML based layout with controls/widgets to build your application UI. Does JavaFX have something similar?
I don't mind the increase in price as much, because eventually they will increase it anyways based on inflation What? What kind of reasoning is that? Do you mean to say you wouldn't mind if they raised your rent or gas prices tomorrow because it was gonna go up anyway? In that case, I have some stuff to sell. The prices are adjusted to the 2075 level of inflation, but hey, that's no problem, right?
I worry that sales of the more expensive songs will be lower, and the music industry will say: "See, we told you nobody wants DRM free music". And on what is the higher price based anyway? It's not like it costs 30% extra to create/store the DRM free songs...
I never understood why the size of a Javascript framework is an issue. 100K, that's about two jpeg images, right? And they're usually cached by the browser, right? Is that really such a big deal?
C# 3.0 > *.* because it has learned from all (OOP, semi dynamic, sort of functional) and it's an ECMA standard..NET adds a huge class library, but ASP.NET needs more flexibility, maybe an MVC alternative (I read that Scott Guthrie is working on a proof of concept).
Amen! It is ridiculous how easy it is to create a solid 3 column layout using tables. But if I do that I will be doomed forever by the gods of CSS. But I must also look out for 'divitis' or they will have my head.
I really need to be able to specify layout, and I don't care if it's CSS or HTML, because I have projects to finish and deadlines to meet. Flex is looking better every day... ("but it's not accessible!" they say...)
Still, programmatic layout is kind of an odd duck. Only if you're used to doing it with HTML and CSS. A basic layout often seen in desktop applications is the borderlayout. This layout can not be created with HTML and CSS without the help of javascript (onload and onresize event handlers to keep everything in place). So when you need layout such as these, you need to program them, you can't 'declare' them.
Have a look at the demo (Desktop App Clone) on the GWT website to see what I mean.
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You should watch the keynote, Steve Jobs has a pie chart in which Safari will take 25% and IE is the only other browser. If that's his vision I don't think that would happen. For desktop users there's no incentive to use Safari (compared to iTunes where the incentive is the iPod compatibility).
Also, Mozilla makes some 50 million dollars a year, so there is money to be made. All you need to do is include a search textbox that links to Google, which Safari does.
Can you imagine the work they did just to get it to NOT look and feel like a normal Windows application?
More like 7 years and they're not dominating desktops, laptops, mobile or TV at all.
That's what they want you to believe.
Seriously, we could do this all day, but remember the one about malice vs. stupidity? The world is not a James Bond movie...
EULA? So that means you and I are in violation of the EULA if we install his software on Visual Studio Express. We'd be end users after all.
Could be a good thing, because in order to be taken serious (and keep your developers and community support) you must act in the spirit of open source and not cave in to unfounded threats. So the distributions and companies left standing have the support of the community and developers.
"Politicians, politicians, politicians..."
or maybe
"Lobyists, lobyists, lobyists"
"What do you think might have given some of the publishers a backbone?"
Choice. In the article they mention ODF as an alternative.
It runs on rats. Actually, rats run in it, to make it run. It runs on 5 rats, 2 for the computer and 3 for the screen.
I still don't get it. Unplug from the network, and then what? You're not going to able to see all products on Amazon unless you had them all stored first. In a LOB application, you're not getting up to date inventory information. Sure you can do things based on the data you had at the time of unplugging, but I think that's limited to small amounts of data, like writing responses to e-mail in your inbox.
Also, when you 'unplug' it's only because you're going to travel. Trains and planes will have internet in the near future, hotels already have, and you can get wifi when you sit in your garden or at Starbucks. So why is this so important?
So, did they have a special website that you had to check in the store and did that website have different prices than the consumer website?
Wow! Is it just me or does that law sound extremely ridiculous? How can a consumer be expected to know if his TV infringes a patent!? Can you see yourself taking your product back to shop: "Yeah, I'd like my money back, this product infringes a patent. Oh, and you should send it back as well, because you're liable too!".
On the other hand, it would be cool if people would return their copy of Vista en masse because it infringes some copyright. {insert chair-joke here}
But Silverlight/XAML and Flash/Flex both also offer XML based layout with controls/widgets to build your application UI. Does JavaFX have something similar?
I worry that sales of the more expensive songs will be lower, and the music industry will say: "See, we told you nobody wants DRM free music". And on what is the higher price based anyway? It's not like it costs 30% extra to create/store the DRM free songs...
I never understood why the size of a Javascript framework is an issue. 100K, that's about two jpeg images, right? And they're usually cached by the browser, right? Is that really such a big deal?
Maybe we should use a new term: cross-vendor
C# 3.0 > *.* because it has learned from all (OOP, semi dynamic, sort of functional) and it's an ECMA standard. .NET adds a huge class library, but ASP.NET needs more flexibility, maybe an MVC alternative (I read that Scott Guthrie is working on a proof of concept).
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no Linux support:
p x
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.as
Holy crap, your comment in combination with your user name is scary.
"The thing I've found about development is that you can't just throw more at a product." But these are two products right?
Amen! It is ridiculous how easy it is to create a solid 3 column layout using tables. But if I do that I will be doomed forever by the gods of CSS. But I must also look out for 'divitis' or they will have my head.
I really need to be able to specify layout, and I don't care if it's CSS or HTML, because I have projects to finish and deadlines to meet. Flex is looking better every day... ("but it's not accessible!" they say...)