I think money has a huge deal in this too. I love when I tell someone in order to make their $200k current setup 24-7 with five 9's (or greater) uptime that it will costs millions (usually due to ridiculous network costs across sites), they quickly sign off to keep things the way they are. But yet I take the flak still when it does go down.
Or worse, they don't realize that a 5 nines uptime doesn't mean that the system never comes down for maintenance. Then failure ensues from that disaster.
What high prices? It's $10 more for AT&T service that is at least top two in the country. SERO "used to be" good when it was $30, now it's no better than anywhere else.
Sprint on the other hand has tons of trouble and I can't find anyone happy with it where I am.
If they don't get those services, they're likely not getting 4G. Go read the fine print, it's only unlimited for 4G connections which are a limited market.
And conveniently if those people want to cripple their device, they can jailbreak and run flash. I however want a standards based device that WORKS WELL.
You are wrong. Adobe wants to stop you from developing useful content for ALL OF THE INTERNET OF STANDARDS. They want you to break the standard and they want more and more people to pay for the means to create it because of this illusion that it is required for "good" content.
ADOBE FLASH IS NOT A STANDARD. Stop treating it as such and let Apple do what they're doing.
never mind that Android is the bigger market for smartphones. It does not consider the market OUTSIDE of smarthphones which also includes iPads and iPod touches.
He didn't say they should or would do that, just that if it happened, there would be devices with it everywhere. And he's right.
What he also doesn't say is that the device quality control would KILL the OS as people ran from it in droves when it was shoved down on sub par hardware and the apps that were designed for it made the device look sub standard.
I've held enough Android phones to realize it's mediocre, not because of the OS, because everyone is trying to capitalize on it instead of make it good.
You really fail. I have 5 remote apps and I know I don't have even close to all of the ones available.
All so I can cover: VNC, NX, SSH, RDP and the myriad of combinations in between and through various OSes and my iPhone has NEVER been jailbroken.
The one I use the most is iSSH since it does raw VNC or tunneled through SSH and because I can write my own macros for the SSH terminal (which is handy for quick administration of services at home).
They didn't make mistakes in the 80s, they made mistakes in the late 80's through most of the 90's... you know, when Job's WASNT THERE LEADING THE WAY.
I buy it, but then again we're in May... how many people wanted an iPad instead? How many people are holding out for the next model of iPhone?
Slow iPhone sales don't baffle me, what does baffle me are the poor use of statistics against the fact that Android runs on dozens of models of phones and iPhone still only runs on less than a a dozen.
The linux netbook was instrumental in the success of the iPad, it demonstrated the willingness of the consumer to purchase a non-standard OS.
Microsoft understood this and that's why they subverted it as quickly as they could.
It's a shame though that linux did not ultimately take off in such great success on those devices, but it's easy to see why. Everyone wanted their own distro and everyone wanted to lock it down in different ways.
I would say that the iPad can be good for creating as well. Backed by a strong computer on a network, the iPad can be a great front end, remote control, manipulator of data. It needs time to mature, but it's there. I would say that alone blurs the line of creation.
I'd also argue that notebooks tend to slack in creation, on average. There are a number of power house notebooks out there but I'd argue that for every notebook, there's a desktop that outclasses it by light years. I predict with more of these kinds of devices on the market and with more people understanding how to separate their interface from their workhorse, notebooks will become niche products again for people willing to make computing compromises, you'll see a resurgence of desktops at home, particularly as "headless" devices (maybe moreso to the point of blending into the entertainment center) and the tablets/slates as the every day device people use to navigate data and views.
Really, this is just an extension of the MVC concept that REAL DEVELOPERS understand and why they get the iPad.
This may come as a shock to him too that the real geek crowd typically owns many computing devices and maybe having one that acts as a good portal to others is really amazing. Who cares if it lacks power, I have power at my desktop.
I get to recompile kernels, encode my dvd collection to h.264 with handbrake and then turn around to play a round of Plants vs Zombies, Scrabble or Carcassonne (it's coming) all from my iPad.
And I can do real work on the oversized iPod touch (btw, the oversized part is the point, it's a relatively large one too considering developers have complained about not having enough real estate to do some of the things they would like to be doing with the device.)
I bought a netbook last year (HP Mini 1035nr). I've touched it twice in the last month since I've owned my iPad. That toy has gotten more productive work done than my netbook ever did.
Better email browser, better web browser. Logmein and iSSH have given me better portals to my desktop/server and my macbook so I can work in the living room while sitting back and listening to my music collection on my headphones. It's bliss, and maybe I drank the kool aid, but it's REALLY FUCKING GOOD KOOLAID if you can see past your own insecurities. Hell, the price isn't even bad when you consider the netbook cost me just about as much and never really gave me the full functionality I was after and I had to work around it's incapabilities.
How much typing do you actually do LOOKING AT and READING reading the web? Have you even looked at the iPad, because of the intuitive and out of the way interface it has almost as much real estate than most 13" laptops. And it's easier to move around the house with than any laptop larger than that with less burning on the legs and more easily sat in a position that is comfortable to view (or stress your wrists with carpal tunnel).
Do the world a favor and not comment on the iPad until you've actually used one.
You're one of the few people that actually gets that, never mind the fact that the aliens were already admittedly from the beginning of the movie using our own satelites for communication! Of course if they can interface with us the reverse must be true, and especially from the one one guy that figured out (at least in part) what the code meant in the first place!
I'm sorry, but everyone misses the fact that with the plot elements in place it was possible, not to mention it was a homage to a virus killing the aliens in War of the Worlds.
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"We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn't yet meet all of our customers' needs."
In case you EVER wondered, unless you are an advertiser or owner of content, you are not the customer for Hulu.
Agree. Cloud Computing is a salesman to manager keyword.
I think money has a huge deal in this too. I love when I tell someone in order to make their $200k current setup 24-7 with five 9's (or greater) uptime that it will costs millions (usually due to ridiculous network costs across sites), they quickly sign off to keep things the way they are. But yet I take the flak still when it does go down.
Or worse, they don't realize that a 5 nines uptime doesn't mean that the system never comes down for maintenance. Then failure ensues from that disaster.
Acceptance of the OS on phones is high, it still hasn't surpassed iPhoneOS on all devices though.
What high prices? It's $10 more for AT&T service that is at least top two in the country. SERO "used to be" good when it was $30, now it's no better than anywhere else.
Sprint on the other hand has tons of trouble and I can't find anyone happy with it where I am.
If they don't get those services, they're likely not getting 4G. Go read the fine print, it's only unlimited for 4G connections which are a limited market.
And conveniently if those people want to cripple their device, they can jailbreak and run flash. I however want a standards based device that WORKS WELL.
You are wrong. Adobe wants to stop you from developing useful content for ALL OF THE INTERNET OF STANDARDS. They want you to break the standard and they want more and more people to pay for the means to create it because of this illusion that it is required for "good" content.
ADOBE FLASH IS NOT A STANDARD. Stop treating it as such and let Apple do what they're doing.
never mind that Android is the bigger market for smartphones. It does not consider the market OUTSIDE of smarthphones which also includes iPads and iPod touches.
He didn't say they should or would do that, just that if it happened, there would be devices with it everywhere. And he's right.
What he also doesn't say is that the device quality control would KILL the OS as people ran from it in droves when it was shoved down on sub par hardware and the apps that were designed for it made the device look sub standard.
I've held enough Android phones to realize it's mediocre, not because of the OS, because everyone is trying to capitalize on it instead of make it good.
Damn shame that Sprint sucks EVERYWHERE.
You really fail. I have 5 remote apps and I know I don't have even close to all of the ones available.
All so I can cover: VNC, NX, SSH, RDP and the myriad of combinations in between and through various OSes and my iPhone has NEVER been jailbroken.
The one I use the most is iSSH since it does raw VNC or tunneled through SSH and because I can write my own macros for the SSH terminal (which is handy for quick administration of services at home).
I also heavily use LogMeIn with my Mac at home.
Depends on your app. Just because you found one on the android first doesn't mean the iPhone doesn't do it.
They didn't make mistakes in the 80s, they made mistakes in the late 80's through most of the 90's... you know, when Job's WASNT THERE LEADING THE WAY.
I buy it, but then again we're in May... how many people wanted an iPad instead? How many people are holding out for the next model of iPhone?
Slow iPhone sales don't baffle me, what does baffle me are the poor use of statistics against the fact that Android runs on dozens of models of phones and iPhone still only runs on less than a a dozen.
not mine... maybe you're all using it wrong.
The linux netbook was instrumental in the success of the iPad, it demonstrated the willingness of the consumer to purchase a non-standard OS.
Microsoft understood this and that's why they subverted it as quickly as they could.
It's a shame though that linux did not ultimately take off in such great success on those devices, but it's easy to see why. Everyone wanted their own distro and everyone wanted to lock it down in different ways.
Why is this funny, these jokes are over. People, please, I implore you to mod this crap down.
I'm glad that you get it. So few do.
I would say that the iPad can be good for creating as well. Backed by a strong computer on a network, the iPad can be a great front end, remote control, manipulator of data. It needs time to mature, but it's there. I would say that alone blurs the line of creation.
I'd also argue that notebooks tend to slack in creation, on average. There are a number of power house notebooks out there but I'd argue that for every notebook, there's a desktop that outclasses it by light years. I predict with more of these kinds of devices on the market and with more people understanding how to separate their interface from their workhorse, notebooks will become niche products again for people willing to make computing compromises, you'll see a resurgence of desktops at home, particularly as "headless" devices (maybe moreso to the point of blending into the entertainment center) and the tablets/slates as the every day device people use to navigate data and views.
Really, this is just an extension of the MVC concept that REAL DEVELOPERS understand and why they get the iPad.
This may come as a shock to him too that the real geek crowd typically owns many computing devices and maybe having one that acts as a good portal to others is really amazing. Who cares if it lacks power, I have power at my desktop.
I get to recompile kernels, encode my dvd collection to h.264 with handbrake and then turn around to play a round of Plants vs Zombies, Scrabble or Carcassonne (it's coming) all from my iPad.
Because some people like toys.
And I can do real work on the oversized iPod touch (btw, the oversized part is the point, it's a relatively large one too considering developers have complained about not having enough real estate to do some of the things they would like to be doing with the device.)
I bought a netbook last year (HP Mini 1035nr). I've touched it twice in the last month since I've owned my iPad. That toy has gotten more productive work done than my netbook ever did.
Better email browser, better web browser. Logmein and iSSH have given me better portals to my desktop/server and my macbook so I can work in the living room while sitting back and listening to my music collection on my headphones. It's bliss, and maybe I drank the kool aid, but it's REALLY FUCKING GOOD KOOLAID if you can see past your own insecurities. Hell, the price isn't even bad when you consider the netbook cost me just about as much and never really gave me the full functionality I was after and I had to work around it's incapabilities.
How much typing do you actually do LOOKING AT and READING reading the web? Have you even looked at the iPad, because of the intuitive and out of the way interface it has almost as much real estate than most 13" laptops. And it's easier to move around the house with than any laptop larger than that with less burning on the legs and more easily sat in a position that is comfortable to view (or stress your wrists with carpal tunnel).
Do the world a favor and not comment on the iPad until you've actually used one.
Agree, I don't think that the people designing these email apps even read email or understand the basic UI concepts of reading electronic systems.
For a "Unix guy" you seem to fail at understanding USER CREATED BATCH COMMANDS!
THANK YOU!
You're one of the few people that actually gets that, never mind the fact that the aliens were already admittedly from the beginning of the movie using our own satelites for communication! Of course if they can interface with us the reverse must be true, and especially from the one one guy that figured out (at least in part) what the code meant in the first place!
I'm sorry, but everyone misses the fact that with the plot elements in place it was possible, not to mention it was a homage to a virus killing the aliens in War of the Worlds.