Go read the edits on Aisha's page itself, all this information has been posted there along with supporting references.
That it is not in the current article is more an abuse of the POV 'requirement' than anything else.
Once more, with feeling...
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> So foreseeing that, Adobe used the cry baby Lee Brimelow to create public opinion against Apple
Is that what they did to get Apple to not allow the recent Flash conversion tool? Adobe deliberately spent ages developing something and then sought to get it banned, for...what reason, exactly?
Because Flash is not important enough to deserve a chip providing hardware support like h264 has.
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I didn't think that Flash was a problem because of Apple's high "Not Invented Here" mentality. I thought it was because they want to to keep applications that are programmable off of the iPhone to prevent device hijacking and other not so fun things from happening to customers' iPhones. Anyone have some concrete information on this?
Adobe wasn't able to produce a decent player for OS X in terms of security and performance. Do you think they are going to keep up with iPhone updates? They won't, but they don't care either, because anything special on one device, can't be ported to another. And their intention is to get a piece of the mobile market cake, not just to run on the iPhone. So the expected result will be applications featuring the lowest common denominator of all devices. So it's basically, you let me get to a position of power over your platform and I will give you sub standard applications in return. Not a good deal.
So foreseeing that, Adobe used the cry baby Lee Brimelow to create public opinion against Apple. Example: Flash is slow because evil Apple won't provide accelerated h264. That's a lie, you have accelerated video using the Quicktime API (which they finally use in the next Flash player), but don't expect a security nightmare like the Flash player to get direct hardware access just because you are Adobe. Not even if you really really want the chance to control the video codec to keep your options open.
And then there is the "work for a more ethical company", and "screw you Apple". No Adobe, YOU go be ethical creating a decent player for OS X, and forcing your tools into someone else's platform.
It is also in a surprising, and growing, percentage of mobile devices.
A phone-like device attempting real vector graphics (not the Flash lite subset) requires hardware acceleration. At most you get marketing stuns, like the HTC Hero running Flash... at 1-2 FPS. Either someone creates a dedicated chip (not going to happen), or you bruteforce the problem (eg: HP Slate & his 1GHz chip), which is also a bad idea. But nvm because here they talk about Flash lite and yet they title their book "Advanced Flash on Devices" . If you like advanced, try WebGL on HTML5.
covers both mobile and device development with Flash Lite, as well as upcoming Flash 10 for smartphones and other non-PC devices.
Upcoming? as in what? it's been 3 years since Adobe announced upcoming flash for smartphones.
Adobe says his workaround to convert Flash apps to the iPhone is going to follow iPhone OS updates.
Apple doesn't believe them because his Flash client is still a security nightmare and lay waste to OS X CPUs. Even worse, they blame it on Apple because their steaming pile of crap is not allowed direct hardware access to the GPU.
This was the weekend those of us with high standards lost their remaining residue of patience for ideologues who hyperbolize about open systems without actually creating something people want to use.
This is not about you programming Python on your microwave, it's about users doing their fucking work. Are they going to benefit from some half ass attempt to run your shit on a phone? no? then go do that on the Android Market.
The motto "It just works" requires some level of control. Otherwise users (not you fellow./, this was never about you) are back to square one worrying about installing apps that break, malfunction, or are plain retarded. Gruber said it right: "Apple doesn’t want everywhere, they just want everywhere good".
In fact, to join in with the recent Apple-bashing (which I whole-heartedly agree with), I'd suggest that mobile app development will move away from the iPhone, in favour of Android phones. When you are investing time and money in app development, there is simply more certainty in developing apps that will live or die on their merits, as opposed to Apple's 'approval' process.
Real numbers say otherwise. The growth in development of iPhone apps is unmatched. Joe Clark explains why talking about the iPad:
This was the weekend those of us with high standards lost their remaining residue of patience for ideologues who hyperbolize about open systems without actually creating something people want to use.
An example of this is Apple rejecting.. how many? 40 out of 170,000 available applications? consumers don't freaking care, they just want something that works. If you do care, check the iPhone graveyard for explanations why. But back to the point: you are delusional to think your Apple bashing will "move away development from the iPhone". Just check the iPads sold today, more units than the iPhone. Get a reality check mate.
Codeweavers have ported mainstream titles to the mac, like Modern Warfare, Team Fortress, Left4Dead, and many others, even the Steam client itself. However, it would be great to have a native Steam client, and since it is mostly a webapp, it shouldn't be too difficult to port. Just do that, and you will be able to sell on a different platform.
Be safer by using open-source. FileVault is a proprietary tool from a big and famous manufacturer. This means that you can be sure that there is a built-in backdoor for government bodies to use.
On the other side...
There are known problems with EncFS, as it only support basic POSIX operations (no locking, extended attributes, etc...). This works well for simple file storage or multiplatform applications, like MacPorts, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc..., but encrypting your whole homedir is known not to work.
So what is your priority? avoid file corruption or avoid the NSA?
Less eyestrain. Because it reflects light instead emitting it, the contrast between screen and the environment is always well adjusted. Not enough light and you will be forced to adjust the lights of your room. With a LCD, you may even read in the dark, but your eyes will complain later.
It's lightweight. 3Gb in 0.5Kg, and even more books on your computer. Tired of increasing your object counter? buy an e-reader.
It reads PDF. The good: rendering is perfect. The bad: lightweight fonts (like Birka, used on most O'Reilly books) lack contrast. You can still read it displaying half the page in landscape.
It reads mobi and other open formats.
Amazon Store. If you are bored just download the 1st chapter of a dozen books. If you like them, you can buy in seconds.
It works. I won't stop using my Kindle no matter what because it really is a book, just not one made of paper.
Battery. e-ink only needs energy to change the page, not to keep it visible. I charge my Kindle once per month.
Big screen. It's able to show a whole PDF page without scroll. That's a big a plus for me. Hard to find on other e-readers.
Why not:
e-ink is just for books. It sucks for everything else, like magazines, browsing the web, games, or whatever.
You can get an iPad for the same price. An iPad has a real browser, games, apps, music, a 10 hour battery, and enough power to read PDFs and do who knows what once jailbreaked.
AZW = mobi + DRM. You can unprotect them with the unswindle hack, but it's a hassle. Needing authorization from Amazon (or whoever) to access your freaking books is so 1984-ish!
If Apple really cared about empowering the user in the style, manner, and spirit of their legendary 1984 commercial, they would make Flash available -- or rather allow Adobe to make it available -- on the iPhone, Touch, and iPad, and allow the user to decide which user experiences work best for them.
Apple only cares about profits and control these days, having become the very thing they once railed against.
Does that apply to the Mozilla Foundation too?
Firefox for Maemo RC3 We’ve decided to disable plugin (not to be confused with add-ons, which are supported) support for this release. The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards.
Attempting Flash playback on a phone cripples the device because there is no hardware support for vector graphics.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. --Steve Jobs
Flash Lite doesn't. Hell, even my badass Mac Pro freaks out playing Flash. I just tried and got WebKitPluginHost at 93% on one core. Look, Flash performance on OS X *desktop* is abysmal, it is utter crap. You don't want that on your iPhone.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. --Steve Jobs
On Windows, Flash makes use of hardware decoding for H.264, if available. On Mac OS X, it does not. In Flash 10, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported on OS X because Apple does not expose access to the required APIs.
They can use the Quicktime API to decode h264. Instead, they want their own code to access hardware acceleration. Given that Flash is a popular source of trouble in OS X, I don't expect Apple to make it worse by giving them hardware access.
I also love how Apple basically ripped off the 'classics' app guy, but that's another story.
FYI that classics guy asked Delicious Library creator Wil Shipley for his blessing before Classics was released because of the similarities between both applications. Wil recently twittered:
I guess it's not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product's look. Flattery?
and also
Pages. Numbers. Keynote. iTunes. All these started out as products at tiny companies, not Apple. Innovation comes from them.
I say big shame on Apple for abusing an open-source operating system (BSD) in this way.
I heard BSD allows it because it was funded by DARPA to stimulate the development of science, which eventually would lead to the technological superiority of the USA for the benefit of its private held industry. Then others continued that work, probably forced at gunpoint to accept such outrageous license.
It's an eReader with a bright ass screen that will strain your eyes.
Did you know that some programmers spend at least 8 hours daily reading on a LCD? What strains your eyes is an inadequate contrast between ambient light and your device. LCD is usable, e-ink is better because not having light of its own, it's always adjusted to the environment.
It surfs the internet the way Apple says you should (no flash, IE: no Hulu, etc).
As for the stories spreading around the internet, yes we have noticed them. Unfortunately, this is a case of people taking the opinions of a few anonymous posters on message boards as fact. No business is ever perfect, but Rockstar Games is a tight knit team made up of around 900 supremely talented and motivated professionals, many of whom have worked here for a very long time. We’re saddened if any former members of any studio did not find their time here enjoyable or creatively fulfilling and wish them well with finding an environment more suitable to their temperaments and needs, but the vast majority of our company are focused solely on delivering cutting edge interactive entertainment. We’ve always cared passionately about the people working here, and have always tried to maintain a supportive creative environment. There is simply no way Rockstar could continue to produce such large scale, high quality games without this.
..what? overtime in the gaming industry? oh, not us, it would be impossible to produce games like that
If you think Rockstar management is honest I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
I've been doing J2EE apps for 10 years and now that we are sending a rocket to mars on our next project, I'm so sorry I didn't spend my whole life learning statistics.
The iPhone is why I have low hopes for an Apple tablet. Apple has demonstrated that they're willing to turn computing back 30 years and put stupid restrictions on their devices for the sake of control.
Control also means better quality, that's why App Store tops 3 billion downloads. Average Joe couldn't care less about Apple rejecting around 30 applications out of 100,000 or RMS-like comments about freedom. Compare that to 16,000 apps on the Android Market where bizarre UIs make it through and reviews are filled with spam.
It's not like the built a brilliant device and then created a bad App Store, quality control is part of the success.
Working with impossible deadlines, broken design, non paid extra hours, and intense pressure, there is a point where you spend daily 12 hours working in the office, except you are not working, why would you? you are just fooling working half of the time, and tagging along until the next gig. Putting all your effort you could finish in 3 years instead 4, but when management was hoping to finish in less than two, what would be your reward? exactly the same.
Your project may not be like this one, but no doubt about it there is something extremely wrong on it, other than what you are telling.
Apple says Nokia's patents aren't actually essential to GSM / UMTS, denies infringing them, and says they're invalid and / or unenforceable anyway. Apple also says Nokia wanted unreasonable license terms for the patents, including a cross-license for Apple's various iPhone device patents as part of any deal, which Apple clearly wasn't willing to do.
The set of technologies surrounding.NET is much narrower than what you see with Java. That is to say if you want to learn.NET you can stick to one IDE, one OS, one application server, etc. With Java you have Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, Websphere, Glassfish, etc. Then you've got NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc. Then maybe you have to pick an ORM framework. Or a Web Services framework Axis, Xfire or JAX-WS RI? The.NET environment removes all those decisions. So, as a student, you can say to yourself, "IF I learn X and Y and Z, then I'll have covered everything I need to know."
I call that a healthy ecosystem that prevents vendor lock-in. That's how you grow free software like Spring and Hibernate that is mostly what you need to know these days. But saying that having more than one IDE is a problem speaks a lot of your attitude.
One of Java's big selling points, "Write once, run anywhere," never really worked in practice.
Ha! bullshit. Any J2EE standard application runs on any J2EE compliant server, prove me wrong if you can. There are a few exceptions, corner cases, and weakness of the jvm spec that you probably don't know, but they don't amount, by far, to say that WORA doesn't work.
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Go read the edits on Aisha's page itself, all this information has been posted there along with supporting references. That it is not in the current article is more an abuse of the POV 'requirement' than anything else.
Once more, with feeling...
Common sense please, no matter your expertise in programming, you can't understand some code unless documented. Example: the X Server.
> So foreseeing that, Adobe used the cry baby Lee Brimelow to create public opinion against Apple
Is that what they did to get Apple to not allow the recent Flash conversion tool? Adobe deliberately spent ages developing something and then sought to get it banned, for...what reason, exactly?
http://www.devwhy.com/
Because Flash is not important enough to deserve a chip providing hardware support like h264 has.
Adobe wasn't able to produce a decent player for OS X in terms of security and performance. Do you think they are going to keep up with iPhone updates? They won't, but they don't care either, because anything special on one device, can't be ported to another. And their intention is to get a piece of the mobile market cake, not just to run on the iPhone. So the expected result will be applications featuring the lowest common denominator of all devices. So it's basically, you let me get to a position of power over your platform and I will give you sub standard applications in return. Not a good deal.
So foreseeing that, Adobe used the cry baby Lee Brimelow to create public opinion against Apple. Example: Flash is slow because evil Apple won't provide accelerated h264. That's a lie, you have accelerated video using the Quicktime API (which they finally use in the next Flash player), but don't expect a security nightmare like the Flash player to get direct hardware access just because you are Adobe. Not even if you really really want the chance to control the video codec to keep your options open.
And then there is the "work for a more ethical company", and "screw you Apple". No Adobe, YOU go be ethical creating a decent player for OS X, and forcing your tools into someone else's platform.
A phone-like device attempting real vector graphics (not the Flash lite subset) requires hardware acceleration. At most you get marketing stuns, like the HTC Hero running Flash... at 1-2 FPS. Either someone creates a dedicated chip (not going to happen), or you bruteforce the problem (eg: HP Slate & his 1GHz chip), which is also a bad idea. But nvm because here they talk about Flash lite and yet they title their book "Advanced Flash on Devices" . If you like advanced, try WebGL on HTML5.
Upcoming? as in what? it's been 3 years since Adobe announced upcoming flash for smartphones.
In the words of Joe Clark:
This is not about you programming Python on your microwave, it's about users doing their fucking work. Are they going to benefit from some half ass attempt to run your shit on a phone? no? then go do that on the Android Market.
The motto "It just works" requires some level of control. Otherwise users (not you fellow ./, this was never about you) are back to square one worrying about installing apps that break, malfunction, or are plain retarded. Gruber said it right: "Apple doesn’t want everywhere, they just want everywhere good".
In fact, to join in with the recent Apple-bashing (which I whole-heartedly agree with), I'd suggest that mobile app development will move away from the iPhone, in favour of Android phones. When you are investing time and money in app development, there is simply more certainty in developing apps that will live or die on their merits, as opposed to Apple's 'approval' process.
Real numbers say otherwise. The growth in development of iPhone apps is unmatched. Joe Clark explains why talking about the iPad:
An example of this is Apple rejecting.. how many? 40 out of 170,000 available applications? consumers don't freaking care, they just want something that works. If you do care, check the iPhone graveyard for explanations why. But back to the point: you are delusional to think your Apple bashing will "move away development from the iPhone". Just check the iPads sold today, more units than the iPhone. Get a reality check mate.
Or he uses an Operating System that isn't defective.
You mean an operating system that isn't popular enough to bother writing viruses for.
He means a OS where a virus/trojan can't harm your computer without asking for your root password. Today there are 0 working viruses for Mac.
Codeweavers have ported mainstream titles to the mac, like Modern Warfare, Team Fortress, Left4Dead, and many others, even the Steam client itself. However, it would be great to have a native Steam client, and since it is mostly a webapp, it shouldn't be too difficult to port. Just do that, and you will be able to sell on a different platform.
Jail breaking exists because there is a demand for features that apple refuses to provide. Easy examples: Flash, multitasking, tethering.
I'm an apple hater, someone who doesn't even have an iphone, and even I know this.
FYI
Apple is doing right.
It isn't an iPhone killer when most of the comments in the thread are about the iPhone itself.
On the other side...
So what is your priority? avoid file corruption or avoid the NSA?
Why not:
If Apple really cared about empowering the user in the style, manner, and spirit of their legendary 1984 commercial, they would make Flash available -- or rather allow Adobe to make it available -- on the iPhone, Touch, and iPad, and allow the user to decide which user experiences work best for them. Apple only cares about profits and control these days, having become the very thing they once railed against.
Does that apply to the Mozilla Foundation too?
Attempting Flash playback on a phone cripples the device because there is no hardware support for vector graphics.
Flash Lite doesn't. Hell, even my badass Mac Pro freaks out playing Flash. I just tried and got WebKitPluginHost at 93% on one core. Look, Flash performance on OS X *desktop* is abysmal, it is utter crap. You don't want that on your iPhone.
On Windows, Flash makes use of hardware decoding for H.264, if available. On Mac OS X, it does not. In Flash 10, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported on OS X because Apple does not expose access to the required APIs.
They can use the Quicktime API to decode h264. Instead, they want their own code to access hardware acceleration. Given that Flash is a popular source of trouble in OS X, I don't expect Apple to make it worse by giving them hardware access.
The over one hundred thousand apps speak otherwise. Some examples of truly innovative apps would be welcomed.
Of course 99% is crapware, in what kind of app store would be that different? But don't deny there are also great, innovative, and useful applications: Guitar Toolkit, Tap Tap, Ocarina, Remote, Shazam, Wobble, ...
I also love how Apple basically ripped off the 'classics' app guy, but that's another story.
FYI that classics guy asked Delicious Library creator Wil Shipley for his blessing before Classics was released because of the similarities between both applications. Wil recently twittered:
I guess it's not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product's look. Flattery?
and also
Pages. Numbers. Keynote. iTunes. All these started out as products at tiny companies, not Apple. Innovation comes from them.
I say big shame on Apple for abusing an open-source operating system (BSD) in this way.
I heard BSD allows it because it was funded by DARPA to stimulate the development of science, which eventually would lead to the technological superiority of the USA for the benefit of its private held industry. Then others continued that work, probably forced at gunpoint to accept such outrageous license.
It's an eReader with a bright ass screen that will strain your eyes.
Did you know that some programmers spend at least 8 hours daily reading on a LCD? What strains your eyes is an inadequate contrast between ambient light and your device. LCD is usable, e-ink is better because not having light of its own, it's always adjusted to the environment.
It surfs the internet the way Apple says you should (no flash, IE: no Hulu, etc).
Adobe can shove... well, let's just say that Flash on OS X is slow, insecure, and Adobe won't fix it.
It plays limited games so it's not going to dominate the handheld market.
They want you to buy in the AppStore. So far it's doing great.
I just don't get what niche this thing is supposed to fill. Is it a crippled laptop or a huge iPod?
iPad: Browsing, email, photos, video, music, games, ebooks.
Watch the Keynote.
If you think Rockstar management is honest I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
I've been doing J2EE apps for 10 years and now that we are sending a rocket to mars on our next project, I'm so sorry I didn't spend my whole life learning statistics.
The iPhone is why I have low hopes for an Apple tablet. Apple has demonstrated that they're willing to turn computing back 30 years and put stupid restrictions on their devices for the sake of control.
Control also means better quality, that's why App Store tops 3 billion downloads. Average Joe couldn't care less about Apple rejecting around 30 applications out of 100,000 or RMS-like comments about freedom. Compare that to 16,000 apps on the Android Market where bizarre UIs make it through and reviews are filled with spam.
It's not like the built a brilliant device and then created a bad App Store, quality control is part of the success.
...It’s Not Worth Doing Right.
Working with impossible deadlines, broken design, non paid extra hours, and intense pressure, there is a point where you spend daily 12 hours working in the office, except you are not working, why would you? you are just fooling working half of the time, and tagging along until the next gig. Putting all your effort you could finish in 3 years instead 4, but when management was hoping to finish in less than two, what would be your reward? exactly the same.
Your project may not be like this one, but no doubt about it there is something extremely wrong on it, other than what you are telling.
I call that a healthy ecosystem that prevents vendor lock-in. That's how you grow free software like Spring and Hibernate that is mostly what you need to know these days. But saying that having more than one IDE is a problem speaks a lot of your attitude.
Ha! bullshit. Any J2EE standard application runs on any J2EE compliant server, prove me wrong if you can. There are a few exceptions, corner cases, and weakness of the jvm spec that you probably don't know, but they don't amount, by far, to say that WORA doesn't work.