http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ doesn't work, too. shows the same "you have to get safari". atleast you could have opened the link in firefox before posting.
Which is exactly the same, except it works on Google Chrome, and presumably any standards-compliant browser.
as far as i know, firefox 3.6.4 is as html5 compliant as chrome. but the link you have given does not work on firefox. it does on chrome. on firefox it says you have to download safari.
What Apple should've done is written something like Microsoft's IE9 HTML5 demos [microsoft.com] that actually work in multiple browsers, and maybe just linked to it from their developer portal.
Umm, Apple does link to all of these without the user agent filtering from their developer site. They also just posted these so Safari users could come take a look.
I suspect they've tried to be too clever and shot themselves in the foot in this little 'standards' skirmish...
Actually they tried to be open and cutting edge, but people with a chip on their shoulder insist on bashing them here, although I'm not sure why. The number of slanted summaries and absurdly negative interpretations make me wonder if it is an astroturf campaign.
your link doesn't work, too. it just lets you go one step further then again pops the fucking "you have to download safari". no, you steve assfuck jobs. i dont have to download apple anything.
that is sad. i'm not in eu. i'm in india. and believe me, even the most earliest greyscale phones with gprs capabilities have always come with usb cables and software to use the data on your pc. nokia, samsung, sony, lg, kyocera, all of them. since the same phone models are available in us also like c510, they must have the same features. i think you should try attaching a sony/nokia phone to your pc. it will ask you to specify the network settings automatically.
It stems from my interest in making UIs that people can figure out without having to press F1 for help (because I'm a tech writer and write help documents, I despise the notion of having to read a document for help for something that should be obvious or easy to figure out with trial and error).
i don't think people need f1 to do something in word or excel. you just point and click. otoh, if you want to use key shortcuts, you HAVE to rtfm. there's simply no other way. not that i can think of. tooltips are cumbersome but they are implemented in office. please tell me how i communicate to my user all the important key shortcuts without him reading something.
Is a cellular network THAT MUCH more expensive than a fiber network?
on the contrary, cellular and wireless networks in general are much much cheaper than fiber networks. this is the reason why in undeveloped countries like india satellite dth is cheaper than cable, hspa modem over usb is cheaper than adsl and evdo is cheaper than all of them. laying fiber requires MASSIVE investment. i haven't got accurate numbers here but still: airtel, the first cellphone carrier here in india was a runaway success. and it became the largest privately owned telecom company in the country, worth Rs750 crores (1 crore=10 million). at the same time reliance telecom laid down lots of fiber. the cost? Rs 7500 crore. just laying down the network. now they sell the fiber to other companies like airtel. to conclude, fiber is much more expensive than wireless.
skype uses a surprising number of gbs. when i was on 128k isdn, the audio was ok, video was choppy and small. but it basically worked well for my needs. i think it used 100-150mb per hour of chatting. now if i use skype for an hour it will most certainly use up 400-450mb per hour. the audio is excellent, the video is very nice. even when i do it over my phone (e71), it still uses up ~300mb over 3g. and the best part is you can't control the amount of data usage. it just fills up all usable bandwidth, it assumes you have an unlimited data plan. these things will hurt tremendously if a pay-per-mb plan was forced on me.
250gb is definitely not much. it is high. but easily achievable if you have given up on your tv and watch all your hd video on youtube and netflix. its much easier to exceed if your household has a couple of kids, who watch video on their own pc while you stream an hd movie.
The instant you switch on your light bulb, the turbine blades / vanes of a generator will to be automatically adjusted my some microns and therefore extracting more energy from steam or gas they are fired with, with steam production or gas input matched every few seconds.
i dont think that the rpm of the turbine has to be micromanaged like that. it probably automatically attains an equilibrium whenever the load changes. no special logic is employed. but i might be completely wrong.
but tethering is inbuilt in all phones. every cheap and expensive phone asks you if you want to share the 3g network as soon as you plug in the usb cable. nothing has to be bought. also, applications like these are freely available. you can have lite and paid versions too. i don't think they are illegal.
in the early days of the internet i paid per megabyte on my adsl connection. believe me, the pain you feel when a flash intro loads is almost physical. i remember those dark days when i had to use opera to block all images. as of now the whole internet assumes that everyone pays a flat fee. for example even if you watch only a few seconds of a youtube video, all of it gets loaded as fast as possible on your connection. this wasted bandwidth alone would cost a lot over the period of a month.
how can they even know if i have tethered my phone or not? data is data. how does the carrier distinguish between the bytes used by the phone and the bytes passed on by the phone to any other device?
a true news outlet would not have any inferences or opinions of the journalist. it would just state the facts. once i was watching bbc and one of their people was interviewing one of the wto protesters. he asked him what do the protesters want. the man was truly baffled. he gave some bullshit gibberish as answer and went away. now it was clear that atleast this man did not have any agenda and was just there to have some fun. but the bbc people did not make any comment on it. they allow the viewer to make their own judgments and inferences. in this case a second side does not exist. you are free to choose any side because bbc did not take any side. no comments are needed to "start getting both sides more reliably".
ever since i saw the headline, i been wondering who the fuck uses yahoo anymore? even hotmail is better than yahoo mail. google news is much much better than yahoo news. yahoo search??? what yahoo search?
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http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ doesn't work, too. shows the same "you have to get safari". atleast you could have opened the link in firefox before posting.
it doesn't work.
no http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ works only on chrome. still no firefox.
and you could have done the same thing in flash in about 1/100 of the time.
Which is exactly the same, except it works on Google Chrome, and presumably any standards-compliant browser.
as far as i know, firefox 3.6.4 is as html5 compliant as chrome. but the link you have given does not work on firefox. it does on chrome. on firefox it says you have to download safari.
What Apple should've done is written something like Microsoft's IE9 HTML5 demos [microsoft.com] that actually work in multiple browsers, and maybe just linked to it from their developer portal.
Umm, Apple does link to all of these without the user agent filtering from their developer site. They also just posted these so Safari users could come take a look.
I suspect they've tried to be too clever and shot themselves in the foot in this little 'standards' skirmish...
Actually they tried to be open and cutting edge, but people with a chip on their shoulder insist on bashing them here, although I'm not sure why. The number of slanted summaries and absurdly negative interpretations make me wonder if it is an astroturf campaign.
no, they don't. give me a link that works.
Does Chrome experiments allows IE9 now that it has the canvas tag native?
yes, it does.
you are wrong. it still doesn't work.
your link doesn't work, too. it just lets you go one step further then again pops the fucking "you have to download safari". no, you steve assfuck jobs. i dont have to download apple anything.
that is sad. i'm not in eu. i'm in india. and believe me, even the most earliest greyscale phones with gprs capabilities have always come with usb cables and software to use the data on your pc. nokia, samsung, sony, lg, kyocera, all of them. since the same phone models are available in us also like c510, they must have the same features. i think you should try attaching a sony/nokia phone to your pc. it will ask you to specify the network settings automatically.
you can do that even with existing phones like n8. the quoted limit is for the inbuilt screen. hdmi out can do full 1080p.
It stems from my interest in making UIs that people can figure out without having to press F1 for help (because I'm a tech writer and write help documents, I despise the notion of having to read a document for help for something that should be obvious or easy to figure out with trial and error).
i don't think people need f1 to do something in word or excel. you just point and click. otoh, if you want to use key shortcuts, you HAVE to rtfm. there's simply no other way. not that i can think of. tooltips are cumbersome but they are implemented in office. please tell me how i communicate to my user all the important key shortcuts without him reading something.
Is a cellular network THAT MUCH more expensive than a fiber network?
on the contrary, cellular and wireless networks in general are much much cheaper than fiber networks. this is the reason why in undeveloped countries like india satellite dth is cheaper than cable, hspa modem over usb is cheaper than adsl and evdo is cheaper than all of them. laying fiber requires MASSIVE investment.
i haven't got accurate numbers here but still: airtel, the first cellphone carrier here in india was a runaway success. and it became the largest privately owned telecom company in the country, worth Rs750 crores (1 crore=10 million). at the same time reliance telecom laid down lots of fiber. the cost? Rs 7500 crore. just laying down the network. now they sell the fiber to other companies like airtel.
to conclude, fiber is much more expensive than wireless.
skype uses a surprising number of gbs. when i was on 128k isdn, the audio was ok, video was choppy and small. but it basically worked well for my needs. i think it used 100-150mb per hour of chatting. now if i use skype for an hour it will most certainly use up 400-450mb per hour. the audio is excellent, the video is very nice. even when i do it over my phone (e71), it still uses up ~300mb over 3g. and the best part is you can't control the amount of data usage. it just fills up all usable bandwidth, it assumes you have an unlimited data plan. these things will hurt tremendously if a pay-per-mb plan was forced on me.
250gb is definitely not much. it is high. but easily achievable if you have given up on your tv and watch all your hd video on youtube and netflix. its much easier to exceed if your household has a couple of kids, who watch video on their own pc while you stream an hd movie.
i know you meant well but please read up on the difference between volts, watts and kilowatthours.
The instant you switch on your light bulb, the turbine blades / vanes of a generator will to be automatically adjusted my some microns and therefore extracting more energy from steam or gas they are fired with, with steam production or gas input matched every few seconds.
i dont think that the rpm of the turbine has to be micromanaged like that. it probably automatically attains an equilibrium whenever the load changes. no special logic is employed. but i might be completely wrong.
but tethering is inbuilt in all phones. every cheap and expensive phone asks you if you want to share the 3g network as soon as you plug in the usb cable. nothing has to be bought. also, applications like these are freely available. you can have lite and paid versions too. i don't think they are illegal.
in the early days of the internet i paid per megabyte on my adsl connection. believe me, the pain you feel when a flash intro loads is almost physical. i remember those dark days when i had to use opera to block all images. as of now the whole internet assumes that everyone pays a flat fee. for example even if you watch only a few seconds of a youtube video, all of it gets loaded as fast as possible on your connection. this wasted bandwidth alone would cost a lot over the period of a month.
how can they even know if i have tethered my phone or not? data is data. how does the carrier distinguish between the bytes used by the phone and the bytes passed on by the phone to any other device?
a true news outlet would not have any inferences or opinions of the journalist. it would just state the facts. once i was watching bbc and one of their people was interviewing one of the wto protesters. he asked him what do the protesters want. the man was truly baffled. he gave some bullshit gibberish as answer and went away. now it was clear that atleast this man did not have any agenda and was just there to have some fun. but the bbc people did not make any comment on it. they allow the viewer to make their own judgments and inferences. in this case a second side does not exist. you are free to choose any side because bbc did not take any side. no comments are needed to "start getting both sides more reliably".
actually there is no room for discussion on a news website. if you want discussion, go to a blog or a forum.
ever since i saw the headline, i been wondering who the fuck uses yahoo anymore?
even hotmail is better than yahoo mail.
google news is much much better than yahoo news.
yahoo search??? what yahoo search?
dirty communist!!!!!!!!
never attribute to weird mind powers that which can be adequately explained just by some bloody good luck.