Yeah so obvious that no one was doing it in 2008 except Apple and now everyone has to have a aluminium air-like ultrabook. PC manufacturers have always sucked at design. I don't actually blame Apple at all for protecting their investment. If good design is so obvious then PCs wouldn't look as ugly as they still do 99% of the time.
Why does the wedge shape matter? Because someone wanted to post an Apple story and make it sound scandalous to get loads of hits?
If you actually read the patent you can see it doesn't even mention the word wedge. In fact the patent doesn't hide that there are similar designs. It mentions a Sony Viao. But the only thing the Sony has in common is a roughly wedge shaped design and still manages to look nothing like a macbook air.
It's a patent for the macbook air design which, yes, one aspect to it is that it's wedge shaped but that's not everything. And it is arguably more valid than most software patents. If design is so obvious then why is it that no one has done this before Apple? Why were PCs generally shit ugly beige boxes until recently when they became shit ugly black boxes with the next step being copying Apple?
It also looks nothing like the design in their patent. They're more concerned about the thickness and the lack of any real visible hinge as well as the wedge shape. Which is why they were happy to mention the Sony Viao which came out previous with somewhat similar wedge-like design but also had a big monitor hinge.
Even if they wanted to it would be stupid to give up on it now. There is no perfect alternative and there are a lot of people happy with flash so why would they give up that revenue?
My concern is we'll see a rush of games "ported" in some wine-like wrapper like some Windows games are done for Mac. Yes the game works but like running games in wine they're usually more buggy than when run in Windows.
With PyCharm I assume it looks at your imports and the variables initial declaration to figure out what you meant and generally it gets it. However if it's unsure it presents you with a list of possible options. Granted if you don't have a clue what you're working with you're still going to be a bit stuck as to which one is the correct one but how many newbies load up their site-packages with a load of libs that could conflict and then take on a large project and try to rewrite it?
It's not 100% perfect but I've been using it since it's beta (at least 2 years) and I can only think of one or two times where the auto-completion wasn't helpful excluding the initial releases that wouldn't read python packages that used C like wxpython but the quickly fixed.
No one can answer that but what we do know is that as of the end of 2010 only 30% of the world's population apparently has internet access. So if only 10% of the world's population likes FB that means 20% who have net access still opt not to have it and not due to technical limitations.
I suspect increasingly a lot of FB accounts are doing to be dud accounts of no real value because companies like spotify force people to login via Facebook so they create an account just so they can have spotify.
Spotify and everyone else has to quit assuming everyone on the net has a Facebook account. They don't and in fact most people don't.
It looks like the alternative to IDEs written by a hipster who thinks notepad++ is an ide. No matter how much he hates it code is written in files and no matter how much he tries to pretend they're not, it's not going to change.
People have to buy new games with the view of selling them for there to be a used market. If they can't subsidize future new game purchases they'll almost certainly buy fewer.
Go on reddit and listen to all the kids cheered as Game has problems and they wish for the same for Gamestop and others because obviously downloading games is the only acceptable way. Then again they do seem to have a real hard-on for Valve and Steam over there so it's no surprise.
It amazes me how clueless gamers are when they think just because they have broadband in their little suburb that the whole world should go digital only.
These systems sell globally and not everyone gets broadband (not even in the US) and a lot of people certainly don't have unlimited bandwidth or even want to let their system run for a day or more to download a game that will no doubt be expensive. Physical media won't be going away for quite some time.
Despite the infestation of MBAs computers are still a fairly technical field that many jobs have more in common with mechanics than most people would like to admit and I suspect that doesn't attract women.
If more women want to get into IT that's fine but it won't fix IT until we ditch the MBAs whose only means of measuring success is cutting costs more and more every year. You get what you pay for.
That's not really Apple's problem. I suspect the problem is the publisher's had more choices and therefore got their way. While that sucks it would equally suck if Amazon was the only option even if they were cheap.
Did people think they could have an office job sitting on their ass and drive everywhere and still consume the same amount of calories as people did when they were more physical?
Sorry but it's not the number 1 console worldwide. It will never outsell the Wii at least not in as long as Nintendo cares.Sony has been outselling Microsoft in Europe for at least all of this year so far.
The xbox is really only popular in one market, north america, once NA turns it's back on the xbox it's dead. To put it in perspective the xbox launched a whole year before everyone else. Yet Nintendo now has 95+ million Wii units sold, easily over 150 million DS units sold and PS3 has sold around 65 million units. The xbox 360 has sold 67+ million units.
The PS3 has had more bad press, has cost more and was a year late and it's already caught up to the 360. They'd have been fucked if Sony had their act together.
Try linking to something that isn't a MS marketing blog spinning the shit out of the facts.
The point is being required to use webkit as your rendering engine doesn't make a browser a safari re-skin. Lots of browsers use webkit. Firefox does not so Firefox is a bit fucked but that doesn't mean they couldn't make a webkit based browser for iphone.
Because Firefox can be on iOS if it wants to convert firefox to use webkit. Secondly Apple doesn't have a monopoly to abuse. Where as Microsoft is a convicted monopolist who can still use its huge desktop market share to help gain and edge where it's failing elsewhere.
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Yeah so obvious that no one was doing it in 2008 except Apple and now everyone has to have a aluminium air-like ultrabook. PC manufacturers have always sucked at design. I don't actually blame Apple at all for protecting their investment. If good design is so obvious then PCs wouldn't look as ugly as they still do 99% of the time.
Why does the wedge shape matter? Because someone wanted to post an Apple story and make it sound scandalous to get loads of hits?
If you actually read the patent you can see it doesn't even mention the word wedge. In fact the patent doesn't hide that there are similar designs. It mentions a Sony Viao. But the only thing the Sony has in common is a roughly wedge shaped design and still manages to look nothing like a macbook air.
It's a patent for the macbook air design which, yes, one aspect to it is that it's wedge shaped but that's not everything. And it is arguably more valid than most software patents. If design is so obvious then why is it that no one has done this before Apple? Why were PCs generally shit ugly beige boxes until recently when they became shit ugly black boxes with the next step being copying Apple?
Most patents in software are obvious and have some sort of prior art and yet that doesn't stop people.
It also looks nothing like the design in their patent. They're more concerned about the thickness and the lack of any real visible hinge as well as the wedge shape. Which is why they were happy to mention the Sony Viao which came out previous with somewhat similar wedge-like design but also had a big monitor hinge.
Even if they wanted to it would be stupid to give up on it now. There is no perfect alternative and there are a lot of people happy with flash so why would they give up that revenue?
My concern is we'll see a rush of games "ported" in some wine-like wrapper like some Windows games are done for Mac. Yes the game works but like running games in wine they're usually more buggy than when run in Windows.
With PyCharm I assume it looks at your imports and the variables initial declaration to figure out what you meant and generally it gets it. However if it's unsure it presents you with a list of possible options. Granted if you don't have a clue what you're working with you're still going to be a bit stuck as to which one is the correct one but how many newbies load up their site-packages with a load of libs that could conflict and then take on a large project and try to rewrite it?
It's not 100% perfect but I've been using it since it's beta (at least 2 years) and I can only think of one or two times where the auto-completion wasn't helpful excluding the initial releases that wouldn't read python packages that used C like wxpython but the quickly fixed.
No one can answer that but what we do know is that as of the end of 2010 only 30% of the world's population apparently has internet access. So if only 10% of the world's population likes FB that means 20% who have net access still opt not to have it and not due to technical limitations.
http://news.yahoo.com/disconnected-70-percent-world-doesnt-internet-despite-rising-201836035.html
I suspect increasingly a lot of FB accounts are doing to be dud accounts of no real value because companies like spotify force people to login via Facebook so they create an account just so they can have spotify.
Spotify and everyone else has to quit assuming everyone on the net has a Facebook account. They don't and in fact most people don't.
My PS3 obviously has awesome levels of detail on a 40 inch HDTV but the Wii certainly doesn't look painful. It looks just fine.
What's the point of even fighting over whether the Wii is HD or not? The system is at the end of its life and it's successor (Wii U) has HD.
So which of those systems does no have a file system at all?
Just because a system doesn't give you full access to the file system doesn't mean things aren't represent their file structure.
It looks like the alternative to IDEs written by a hipster who thinks notepad++ is an ide. No matter how much he hates it code is written in files and no matter how much he tries to pretend they're not, it's not going to change.
I can't think of a python IDE that doesn't give you autocompletion. Over glorified text editors like notepad++ aren't IDEs.
People have to buy new games with the view of selling them for there to be a used market. If they can't subsidize future new game purchases they'll almost certainly buy fewer.
Go on reddit and listen to all the kids cheered as Game has problems and they wish for the same for Gamestop and others because obviously downloading games is the only acceptable way. Then again they do seem to have a real hard-on for Valve and Steam over there so it's no surprise.
It amazes me how clueless gamers are when they think just because they have broadband in their little suburb that the whole world should go digital only.
These systems sell globally and not everyone gets broadband (not even in the US) and a lot of people certainly don't have unlimited bandwidth or even want to let their system run for a day or more to download a game that will no doubt be expensive. Physical media won't be going away for quite some time.
Despite the infestation of MBAs computers are still a fairly technical field that many jobs have more in common with mechanics than most people would like to admit and I suspect that doesn't attract women.
If more women want to get into IT that's fine but it won't fix IT until we ditch the MBAs whose only means of measuring success is cutting costs more and more every year. You get what you pay for.
That's not really Apple's problem. I suspect the problem is the publisher's had more choices and therefore got their way. While that sucks it would equally suck if Amazon was the only option even if they were cheap.
Did people think they could have an office job sitting on their ass and drive everywhere and still consume the same amount of calories as people did when they were more physical?
Of course. You need to be able to make word documents and most people would use word to do that.
Gates is still the chairman.
Sorry but it's not the number 1 console worldwide. It will never outsell the Wii at least not in as long as Nintendo cares.Sony has been outselling Microsoft in Europe for at least all of this year so far.
The xbox is really only popular in one market, north america, once NA turns it's back on the xbox it's dead. To put it in perspective the xbox launched a whole year before everyone else. Yet Nintendo now has 95+ million Wii units sold, easily over 150 million DS units sold and PS3 has sold around 65 million units. The xbox 360 has sold 67+ million units.
The PS3 has had more bad press, has cost more and was a year late and it's already caught up to the 360. They'd have been fucked if Sony had their act together.
Try linking to something that isn't a MS marketing blog spinning the shit out of the facts.
The point is being required to use webkit as your rendering engine doesn't make a browser a safari re-skin. Lots of browsers use webkit. Firefox does not so Firefox is a bit fucked but that doesn't mean they couldn't make a webkit based browser for iphone.
So chrome is just a wrapped around webkit?
Because Firefox can be on iOS if it wants to convert firefox to use webkit. Secondly Apple doesn't have a monopoly to abuse. Where as Microsoft is a convicted monopolist who can still use its huge desktop market share to help gain and edge where it's failing elsewhere.
Because Apple makes shit software for Windows like Microsoft makes shit software for OS X.