Technically it is not IE which is integrated into Windows, but Trident (the rendering engine). This is no different than WebKit on MacOS X and KHTML on KDE. After that the browser, whether it is IE, Safari or Konquerer, is just chrome adding the interface for flexible web surfing. Not bundling a web browser with your operating system these days is akin to not bundling a file manager - it makes no sense.
The problem is when the tool which is using open standards breaks these standards, and then people adapt their content to these broken standards. If the competition fails to adapt to these new standards (either because they can't or it doesn't make sense), then they become at a disadvantage. Ironically what helped Firefox was IE, simply because the latter had so many security issues, though it wasn't the only thing - support on non-Windows platforms helped too.
PC screams and then is busily forking over money. Mac then asks PC what's happening, to which PC responds "I have just tried running Outlook, Internet Explorer, Windows Media player and now I can't open Notepad". Mac asks why, to PC responds "I reached the three application limit, so I need to upgrade to the next version of Windows, but now I am not which version to choose". Again Mac asks "Surely there is are just two versions: desktop and server?". PC then explains the wide range of Windows 7 versions available and he was only supplied with the most minimal version.
Of course to be/. friendly;) :
Linux in the background is laughing at poor PC over being screwed over, and thinks: "if only he had chosen Ubuntu".
My local best buy has over 200 converter boxes and the supply is not getting any smaller. People are buying better tv's instead of getting the boxes.
If you are getting a new TV then there is no point in getting a digital converter, but it should be noted that when you do buy a converter they aren't all made the same. Heck even digital TVs aren't all made the same. What I mean by this is that some converters have better D/A converters than others and some just aren't worth the money spent on them, making analogue look better. The same can be said with digital TVs, since some simply don't have sufficient processing capability or have shoddy upscaling algorithms. I walked around my best buy and saw how much the quality varied, with Insignia being amongst the worst of the bunch.
This all sounds like what Smalltalk was trying to do. Basically there are no files, just one big VM where everything resides.
Believe me the absence of the file notion is a pain in the butt, since it is not clear where one thing starts and stops, and by the time you have tried making things clear to people, you are probably best representing a file.
es, Larrabee [anandtech.com]. It's a massively-multicored x86 processor designed to act as a GPU (it has some fixed-function GPU stuff tacked on).
So they are taking a general-purpose CPU and using is as GPU? Now why do I get the feeling that this is going to be suboptimal compared to a specialised processor? Also, I would hate to see the power consumption for the graphics capability got out of it.
Based on what Intel has released thus far, I will not believe it until I see it.
With the latest version of Sparkle you can update in the background. Sparkle might not be perfect, but at least it only naggs you when you use the application. Google update naggs me even if I haven't used the involved code for a month. I gave up and just remove the/Library/Google directory.
Why on Earth can't they use something like Sparkle, which is so much less obnoxious - this only warns you when you launch your application, and also self updates if you say yes. If all software started acting like Google Software Update, then we would spend half our day simply closing update windows for software which we haven't used in a month.
Well the ISPs could band together and simply block ESPN, or simply charge ESPN for bandwidth corresponding to the dollar amount ESPN wants from the ISPs.
Actually that is something that is very different with the internet, with regards to Cable/Satellite. In the former if its connected you have access, whereas in the latter your provider has to get explicit permission. I would rather switch news source than have to put up with having to pay ESPN.
Totally agree. who is going to be playing Half Life 2 on a 8" or 10" screen? =P
Certainly, but looking towards platforms such as PSP, Nintendo DS and the iPhone, we can see that there is a market for games taking advantage of small format screens. While Half Life 2 won't be targeted at these platforms, there are already FPS games for some of these platforms, though then again we are more likely to see a Nvidia + ARM combination, than a Nvida + x86 combination, simply because of battery limitations.
This is a shift away for the CPU to the GPU and Intel will hate it.
Well they should have seen the writing on the wall. It is much easier to make an efficient specialised processor, than an efficient generic one. With OpenCL on the horizon, don't be surprised to see computer with dual graphics chips (one used for OpenGL/Directx and the other for OpenCL). Note I see OpenCL being beneficial to physics aspects of games. If Intel has any sense they will either improve their graphics chips or invest in Nvidia.
This has nothing to do with being an USA citizen and all about where you are geographically located. If you have a credit card registered to a USA address, then you can buy quite happily from the US store (Apple isn't going to know the real story), but not if you have a non-USA address. This policy has been in place since day 1 of the iTunes store, and is in place because of the distribution rights set in place by the record companies, so in reality this is a non-story.
If this is true and the satellite reached escape velocity you have just demonstrated that Iran can drop a warhead on any city worldwide.
Maybe, but this also shows how bad a state NASA is in. Despite years of experience, NASA seems to have collective amnesia in rocket design and just can't the next generation of launchers right. In this light, I also wonder whether a wiki on rocket technology (algorithms, designs, etc) would have its place, so we don't lose out to amnesia again?
That would be Iraq I believe, but then again I sure there are plenty of people who would have thrown shoes at the last US leader, though Balmer would have kept to chairs - tried and tested.
If by that you mean, kinda has the same functionality but it's hidden under piles of legacy crap, then yes ok... But let's just call a spade a spade - It's OpenGL 2.2, not OpenGL3.0. If you spend an hour or two with D3D 10 it becomes apparent pretty that there's a pretty big gulf between the two API's.
Well I could spin that argument, and say if you look up your Direct-X function on your non-MS Windows machine, be it Linux, MacOS X or a console (except XBox), then you quickly realise that there is no Direct-X implementation anywhere else. The argument for Direct-X is kinda lost when you aren't on Windows.
It is nice to see that the "Do not call list" (DNC) in the USA has teeth to bite back at the abusers. In Canada we just suffered a huge blow to our version of the "Do not call list", whereby the list was sold to telemarketers and people on the list are now getting more calls, not less. What is the government doing to punish people abusing the list: Nothing! What is the point of having a DNC list if the government will not even step up and fine companies abusing it.
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It's the integration of MSIE to Windows
Technically it is not IE which is integrated into Windows, but Trident (the rendering engine). This is no different than WebKit on MacOS X and KHTML on KDE. After that the browser, whether it is IE, Safari or Konquerer, is just chrome adding the interface for flexible web surfing. Not bundling a web browser with your operating system these days is akin to not bundling a file manager - it makes no sense.
The problem is when the tool which is using open standards breaks these standards, and then people adapt their content to these broken standards. If the competition fails to adapt to these new standards (either because they can't or it doesn't make sense), then they become at a disadvantage. Ironically what helped Firefox was IE, simply because the latter had so many security issues, though it wasn't the only thing - support on non-Windows platforms helped too.
I can forsee the next "switch to a Mac advert":
PC screams and then is busily forking over money. Mac then asks PC what's happening, to which PC responds "I have just tried running Outlook, Internet Explorer, Windows Media player and now I can't open Notepad". Mac asks why, to PC responds "I reached the three application limit, so I need to upgrade to the next version of Windows, but now I am not which version to choose". Again Mac asks "Surely there is are just two versions: desktop and server?". PC then explains the wide range of Windows 7 versions available and he was only supplied with the most minimal version.
Of course to be /. friendly ;) :
Linux in the background is laughing at poor PC over being screwed over, and thinks: "if only he had chosen Ubuntu".
My local best buy has over 200 converter boxes and the supply is not getting any smaller. People are buying better tv's instead of getting the boxes.
If you are getting a new TV then there is no point in getting a digital converter, but it should be noted that when you do buy a converter they aren't all made the same. Heck even digital TVs aren't all made the same. What I mean by this is that some converters have better D/A converters than others and some just aren't worth the money spent on them, making analogue look better. The same can be said with digital TVs, since some simply don't have sufficient processing capability or have shoddy upscaling algorithms. I walked around my best buy and saw how much the quality varied, with Insignia being amongst the worst of the bunch.
This all sounds like what Smalltalk was trying to do. Basically there are no files, just one big VM where everything resides.
Believe me the absence of the file notion is a pain in the butt, since it is not clear where one thing starts and stops, and by the time you have tried making things clear to people, you are probably best representing a file.
es, Larrabee [anandtech.com]. It's a massively-multicored x86 processor designed to act as a GPU (it has some fixed-function GPU stuff tacked on).
So they are taking a general-purpose CPU and using is as GPU? Now why do I get the feeling that this is going to be suboptimal compared to a specialised processor? Also, I would hate to see the power consumption for the graphics capability got out of it.
Based on what Intel has released thus far, I will not believe it until I see it.
With the latest version of Sparkle you can update in the background. Sparkle might not be perfect, but at least it only naggs you when you use the application. Google update naggs me even if I haven't used the involved code for a month. I gave up and just remove the /Library/Google directory.
Why on Earth can't they use something like Sparkle, which is so much less obnoxious - this only warns you when you launch your application, and also self updates if you say yes. If all software started acting like Google Software Update, then we would spend half our day simply closing update windows for software which we haven't used in a month.
Well the ISPs could band together and simply block ESPN, or simply charge ESPN for bandwidth corresponding to the dollar amount ESPN wants from the ISPs.
Actually that is something that is very different with the internet, with regards to Cable/Satellite. In the former if its connected you have access, whereas in the latter your provider has to get explicit permission. I would rather switch news source than have to put up with having to pay ESPN.
Or haxxor Cowboy Neil to make it possible to get karma from funny.
How about Boron Neil or Cowboy Boron?
The embassy of USA would be more appropriate - that's where all this crap is coming from.
Actually the French embassy would be a better bet, since they did come up with the smart cards concept.
Appleinsider also covered the same subject, so I'll you decide if it is any better:
Heated Christmas call from Jobs secured iTunes changes
four hours of violent smashing is not porn?
It is, but they probably find this whole incident was actually the "Cheerleaders extreme".
Totally agree. who is going to be playing Half Life 2 on a 8" or 10" screen? =P
Certainly, but looking towards platforms such as PSP, Nintendo DS and the iPhone, we can see that there is a market for games taking advantage of small format screens. While Half Life 2 won't be targeted at these platforms, there are already FPS games for some of these platforms, though then again we are more likely to see a Nvidia + ARM combination, than a Nvida + x86 combination, simply because of battery limitations.
This is a shift away for the CPU to the GPU and Intel will hate it.
Well they should have seen the writing on the wall. It is much easier to make an efficient specialised processor, than an efficient generic one. With OpenCL on the horizon, don't be surprised to see computer with dual graphics chips (one used for OpenGL/Directx and the other for OpenCL). Note I see OpenCL being beneficial to physics aspects of games. If Intel has any sense they will either improve their graphics chips or invest in Nvidia.
Looks like I didn't wait long enough to get the netbook.
You can never wait too long to get the ultimate configuration, but there is only so long you can wait to have something to use.
Gotta love it when the recording industries refuse to let you give them money for their product.
Well they have shared the pie between the distributors and they don't want to piss them off, by not respecting the turf boundaries.
Though it it some what difficult to come up with space themed prank calls akin to "Is your refrigerator running".
I suppose calling them and telling them to stay up there since Earth has been wiped out would be in bad taste ;)
This has nothing to do with being an USA citizen and all about where you are geographically located. If you have a credit card registered to a USA address, then you can buy quite happily from the US store (Apple isn't going to know the real story), but not if you have a non-USA address. This policy has been in place since day 1 of the iTunes store, and is in place because of the distribution rights set in place by the record companies, so in reality this is a non-story.
If this is true and the satellite reached escape velocity you have just demonstrated that Iran can drop a warhead on any city worldwide.
Maybe, but this also shows how bad a state NASA is in. Despite years of experience, NASA seems to have collective amnesia in rocket design and just can't the next generation of launchers right. In this light, I also wonder whether a wiki on rocket technology (algorithms, designs, etc) would have its place, so we don't lose out to amnesia again?
Not a shoe?
That would be Iraq I believe, but then again I sure there are plenty of people who would have thrown shoes at the last US leader, though Balmer would have kept to chairs - tried and tested.
If you don't have a data plan on your phone, then this either won't work at all, or you will be charged a hefty fee per kilobyte for your trouble...
I can vouch for that. I was charged 32 CAD by Fido for using 600KB!!!!! You get screwed with a data plan, and you get raped without one.
To see how much more bang for the buck, uh Euro, the Europeans can get, just check out what is being offered in France:
http://www.free.fr/adsl/index.html
Looking at this makes me feel that my ISP here in Canada, Bell (they aren't any better up here), seem very prehistoric.
If by that you mean, kinda has the same functionality but it's hidden under piles of legacy crap, then yes ok... But let's just call a spade a spade - It's OpenGL 2.2, not OpenGL3.0. If you spend an hour or two with D3D 10 it becomes apparent pretty that there's a pretty big gulf between the two API's.
Well I could spin that argument, and say if you look up your Direct-X function on your non-MS Windows machine, be it Linux, MacOS X or a console (except XBox), then you quickly realise that there is no Direct-X implementation anywhere else. The argument for Direct-X is kinda lost when you aren't on Windows.
I was thinking of the whole parliament, though I'll leave that as an exercise for someone else :)
It is nice to see that the "Do not call list" (DNC) in the USA has teeth to bite back at the abusers. In Canada we just suffered a huge blow to our version of the "Do not call list", whereby the list was sold to telemarketers and people on the list are now getting more calls, not less. What is the government doing to punish people abusing the list: Nothing! What is the point of having a DNC list if the government will not even step up and fine companies abusing it.