For instance:
With Android 2.2, the Chrome web browser will have full Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support to allow you to view flash-based websites, play flash games, and more! This is something that not even the iPhone is capable of doing!
See what I mean! It's a very loud article!
The author is simply trying to capture the sheer awesome incredibleness of a Steve Jobs keynote (!)
There are two stupid people at the heart of this story, David Kernell and Sarah Palin.
Huh? How was Palin stupid in the context of this incident? Was she stupid to use email, as she should have known the extremists on the Left would hack it?
The Foleo was a netbook, a couple of years before netbooks took off.
Correction: a couple of months before (it announced in May 2007, the EEEPC was released in October 2007, took off almost immediately and defined the category). And it was only ever a netbook in the same way that Duke Nukem Forever was a game.
PS1 - Bricked, stopped reading discs.
Trinitron Television - Switched to black and white while playing certain games on said Playstation, until it eventually stopped working.
K750i - Joystick broken.
Replacement K750i - Joystick broken....and then, I stopped buying Sony. The End.
Why do the Democrats shy away from having a head on debate about socialism and socialized medicine? Shouldn't they be proud of their socialism? Why do they try to sneak it through the back door? If their true position is too weak to stand up to real debate then they deserve to fail.
Because the majority of Americans are too damn stupid to consider an idea which (demonstrably) works well in the majority of Western countries simply because the word "socialized" is attached to it; and Obama and Co. are smart enough to frame that good idea in a way that is less flammatory and more likely to resonate with a majority of their electors.
Or, to reframe in less flammatory terms to be more likely to resonate with a majority of the readers... "Politics" sums it up.
KDE's Webkit which trails behind Apple's, but is "stable" in that it's not a moving target, it's simply not as up to date.
Apple's Webkit which trails its internal builds by anywhere from months to years.
Google's Webkit which could be anywhere from two months newer to two months older than Apple's, and demonstrates that no such proprietary hacking is necessary to get ActiveX to work.
MS's Webkit which would probably be a direct copy of Google's, with a hack to require all sorts of extraneous metadata to turn it on. MS won't do any other hacking because they believe it is not possible to do.
ActiveX can't be done by another plugin - the browser has to parse it and host the AX objects. Doing that kind of scale changes to Webkit would fork the code, and I'm not convinced the web would benefit. - Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft (and ex-Group Program Manager)
Would MS still be interested in hosting ActiveX controls in the browser, though? Might be that MS has more of an interest in pushing people over to whatever.net equivalent might exist...
That said, I'm sure MS wouldn't try to kill an existing technology... I can barely remember FoxPro... J#... XP....
I'm just glad I made the switch away from MS a couple of years ago... My "grep", my "C++" and my "Linux" ain't goin nowhere - which is good, cause they kinda just works.
Umm, I live in Melbourne too, and I'm trying to buy one of the 901 EEE's. The Linux version is being re-ordered by the retailers. What you are saying is correct, but proverbial "signs in the store" actually are there.
The problem here is supply - not demand. Which is why I could buy an XP version today (where the supply exceeds the demand), but have to wait for the Linux version (where the demand exceeds the supply).
Hey, I'm sure that Macquarie (the "millionaires factory") has only noble intentions... for that matter, the author of this article (money.cnn.com/2007/09/17/news/international/macquarie_infrastructure_funds.fortune/index.htm) don't get much right, either...
If you don't note the sarcasm... google.
Maybe they could "innovate" a version of Linux which stops a laptop booting after a year and a bit of use .
Just a second... my HP DV2000 already does that.
Thanks assholes.
I had these symptoms on my HP DV2000H. About 3 months ago (and 1 month out of warranty) the computer started refusing to start with a blank screen and a number of bios beeps indicating a video issue. This issue only occurred sporadically at first, but now refuses to start at all.
I live in Australia, and called HP Support - who refused to talk without a credit card charge as I was out of warranty - I assumed that it would be easier to just take it into a service center, so declined the "offer".
Now I read this. Anyone have any suggestions of available/appropriate actions (I sent a request to through the general support page on the HP Australia support requesting my questions be sent to the appropriate person - so they have a chance to address the issue first).
IMHO, Android fills a void in Java Mobile applications by providing API to build richer applications (lcdui, in particular, is limiting) - more useful for Smart Phones which contain the ability to provide these types of functionalities. If J2ME filled every void, Android as an API wouldn't be needed (though Android as an OS could still fill a void).
According to the article, JME requires a licencing fee. Android does not - this precludes building on the existing platform (unless, of course, Sun actually did waive the fee).
Regardless, isn't it possible that this is a fragmentation where the positives outweigh the negatives?
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For instance: With Android 2.2, the Chrome web browser will have full Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support to allow you to view flash-based websites, play flash games, and more! This is something that not even the iPhone is capable of doing! See what I mean! It's a very loud article!
The author is simply trying to capture the sheer awesome incredibleness of a Steve Jobs keynote (!)
There are two stupid people at the heart of this story, David Kernell and Sarah Palin.
Huh? How was Palin stupid in the context of this incident? Was she stupid to use email, as she should have known the extremists on the Left would hack it?
Yes!
Producing something for free as a service has never been a "business". Ever.
I wonder if Google would agree with that statement...
The Foleo was a netbook, a couple of years before netbooks took off.
Correction: a couple of months before (it announced in May 2007, the EEEPC was released in October 2007, took off almost immediately and defined the category). And it was only ever a netbook in the same way that Duke Nukem Forever was a game.
N.B. The iPad is fully legible in full sunlight.
Good luck, however, reading your Kindle in the dark.
Is the screen is better than a normal LCD? Otherwise, I suspect that your interpretation of "fully legible" differs somewhat from mine...
Doesn't matter that iSearch.com is taken, Apple has determined their search effort will be henceforth referred to as "Hubris"...
PS1 - Bricked, stopped reading discs. Trinitron Television - Switched to black and white while playing certain games on said Playstation, until it eventually stopped working. K750i - Joystick broken. Replacement K750i - Joystick broken. ...and then, I stopped buying Sony. The End.
Why do the Democrats shy away from having a head on debate about socialism and socialized medicine? Shouldn't they be proud of their socialism? Why do they try to sneak it through the back door? If their true position is too weak to stand up to real debate then they deserve to fail.
Because the majority of Americans are too damn stupid to consider an idea which (demonstrably) works well in the majority of Western countries simply because the word "socialized" is attached to it; and Obama and Co. are smart enough to frame that good idea in a way that is less flammatory and more likely to resonate with a majority of their electors.
Or, to reframe in less flammatory terms to be more likely to resonate with a majority of the readers... "Politics" sums it up.
Er. More like...
KDE's Webkit which trails behind Apple's, but is "stable" in that it's not a moving target, it's simply not as up to date.
Apple's Webkit which trails its internal builds by anywhere from months to years.
Google's Webkit which could be anywhere from two months newer to two months older than Apple's, and demonstrates that no such proprietary hacking is necessary to get ActiveX to work.
MS's Webkit which would probably be a direct copy of Google's, with a hack to require all sorts of extraneous metadata to turn it on. MS won't do any other hacking because they believe it is not possible to do.
Would MS still be interested in hosting ActiveX controls in the browser, though? Might be that MS has more of an interest in pushing people over to whatever .net equivalent might exist...
That said, I'm sure MS wouldn't try to kill an existing technology... I can barely remember FoxPro... J#... XP....
I'm just glad I made the switch away from MS a couple of years ago... My "grep", my "C++" and my "Linux" ain't goin nowhere - which is good, cause they kinda just works.
Umm, I live in Melbourne too, and I'm trying to buy one of the 901 EEE's. The Linux version is being re-ordered by the retailers. What you are saying is correct, but proverbial "signs in the store" actually are there.
The problem here is supply - not demand. Which is why I could buy an XP version today (where the supply exceeds the demand), but have to wait for the Linux version (where the demand exceeds the supply).
Hey, I'm sure that Macquarie (the "millionaires factory") has only noble intentions... for that matter, the author of this article (money.cnn.com/2007/09/17/news/international/macquarie_infrastructure_funds.fortune/index.htm) don't get much right, either...
If you don't note the sarcasm... google.
I concur - if mod points were mine, this man would have some
Pffft... the real action with Richard Dean Anderson and a flamethower was *not* on fucking Stargate.
Maybe they could "innovate" a version of Linux which stops a laptop booting after a year and a bit of use . Just a second... my HP DV2000 already does that. Thanks assholes.
Sure. And I'll be the guy paid nothing. To push something people don't know they want. Funny thing is - I actually like my job.
I had these symptoms on my HP DV2000H. About 3 months ago (and 1 month out of warranty) the computer started refusing to start with a blank screen and a number of bios beeps indicating a video issue. This issue only occurred sporadically at first, but now refuses to start at all. I live in Australia, and called HP Support - who refused to talk without a credit card charge as I was out of warranty - I assumed that it would be easier to just take it into a service center, so declined the "offer". Now I read this. Anyone have any suggestions of available/appropriate actions (I sent a request to through the general support page on the HP Australia support requesting my questions be sent to the appropriate person - so they have a chance to address the issue first).
IMHO, Android fills a void in Java Mobile applications by providing API to build richer applications (lcdui, in particular, is limiting) - more useful for Smart Phones which contain the ability to provide these types of functionalities. If J2ME filled every void, Android as an API wouldn't be needed (though Android as an OS could still fill a void). According to the article, JME requires a licencing fee. Android does not - this precludes building on the existing platform (unless, of course, Sun actually did waive the fee). Regardless, isn't it possible that this is a fragmentation where the positives outweigh the negatives?