What is with the Australians? This is just the latest in a long line of this sort of shit. Is this really what the average Australian wants? Surely the Assie public is not this stupid? They do elect their politicians, don't they?
Thank god we have an election coming up in the next couple of days and neither liberal nor labor are looking to be clear winners but it looks like the greens are most certainly going to dominate in the senate so these censorship bills are going to get a serious beatdown very soon! Hopefully we won't have to deal with any of this shit ever being implemented.
As an Australian i'd like to redirect that slightly to 'Fuck you Australian Government'. I can't believe we have such idiots thinking that their 'filter' will censor the net...idiots that have no knowledge of P2P, Usenet, IRC, Anon Proxies, Tor, etc... Their focus has been on child porn and yes this may stop Joe Moron Pervert from going to childporn.com, but are the sorts of people interested in such material really that stupid anyway?
Exactly my point. Once IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari can view animated SVG with audio, and once authoring tools such as Flash and KToon can output animated SVG with audio, then we can continue discussing Flash vs. SVG.
Oh i agree, i just wanted to point out that SVG is the technology that HTML5 would use in that situation, and it is almost there. But even then, will the performance be up to what it is with Flash? On my N900, running the 'The Blue Man' benchmarks in MicroB, Flash clobbers all the HTML5 technologies (by around 80%). Running them on the same device in Chromium, Canvas gets close to Flash's performance but still falls ~20% short. So much for HTML5 being the 'savior' of the so-called 'CPU-hog' that is Flash. I don't understand why some people demand low CPU usages from these high-resolution, fullscreen interactive websites.
Also your point about authoring tools is probably the thing that will have the biggest impact. While designers don't have good content-creation tools HTML5 adoption will lag.
SVG is a vector format used by HTML5. Problem solved.
SVG is still. Homestar Runner is animated with synchronized sound. Which HTML5 technology is most useful for making something like Homestar Runner?
Are you not familiar with the SVG spec? SVG most certainly includes animation, it can even include audio though that isn't part of the official spec yet. So SVG isn't yet a suitable replacement, but it's almost there.
I've had a terrible time with flash on a 64 bit OS
The problem isn't flash - it's your OS. Runs fine on 64-bit openSuse. Not one crash yet. Maybe you should get a real OS?:-)
Never had problems on the range of 64bit OSes i've run, XP, Vista, 7, Ubuntu 8.04 - 10.04 and some versions of Gentoo and FC (can't remember exactly which versions i actually used flash on though).
Yeah, except they aren't. Based on what history do you claim that this is a "high" chance? Name a single product where they have released a smaller size version that was more expensive than the full size? Oh wait, you can't. Hurp durp!
Macbook Air, though it seemed obvious from his initial post you somehow missed that. He even specified 'lighter and more compact', again another obvious hint at the Macbook Air which was somehow not obvious to you. Did you even bother to read the post or were you so consumed with rage you just had to post something, anything?
So, to actually look at his claim: More Compact? Yes. And here are the dimensions:
Macbook Air: 12.8" wide × 8.94" deep × 0.16–0.76" high
Macbook (of the time): 12.78" wide x 8.92" deep x 1.08" high
Unless of course your math fails you, you can see the Macbook Air is more compact.
Lighter? Yes. Weights:
Macbook Air: 1.36kg
Macbook (of the time): 2.3-2.4kg
Again, pretty obvious he is correct as the Macbook Air is lighter.
But isn't them stating that they are offended the same free speech and those who did the offending is practicing?
Yes.
I mean, is it free speech for some, or all here? It sounds a lot hypocritical of someone to say "you can't say anything about what I said because we have free speech" doesn't it?
Who's saying that? Sounds to me more like people here are countering their argument than telling them they can't object.
Actually I just noticed a "get your N900 here" sign on the door on the way in to Harvey Norman today too, so it looks like I was wrong about them not being available eh?
They certainly weren't available at launch, or even for some time after. I think they've only been available recently since they aren't a very carrier-lockin friendly device;)
Perhaps he was more disappointed in the games acceptance and not its content?
Yeah i'd say you're right there, seems he's taken the biggest complaint and run with it. I dunno about anyone else but i actually really enjoyed Doom3.
All of your friends have iPhones and you feel the need to have one as well.
Somewhat valid, i mean i don't use my iphone as a phone, and i rarely take it with me but the only reason i actually keep it is because of games like words with friends;)
You genuinely like the hardware but want to load new software on the device.
If only my N900 had a capacitive touchscreen =(
It works with your car/stereo/home automation system and you have no choice short of losing that functionality.
I don't personally have anything like that but the myriad of iFashionable apps being built for things is creating lock-in now that cross-platform tools are forbidden, and that's annoying.
For every person *you* know with a 3G who is having issues, there are probably a thousand who are happily fast switching apps and enjoying orientation lock, among other things.
Suggesting the converse is just as valid. My experience with ios4 is that it's good on the 3GS (aside from ios4's idiotic multitasking bar) and rubbish on the 3G, just so sluggish. Both put back to factory settings before the upgrade.
And FYI im not sure you're informed enough to comment since there are no 3G owners "happily fast switching apps" since fast app switching is part of multitasking which, as is well publicised, you dont get in ios4 on the 3G.
You missed a phase, the one where they said it wasn't the issue as reported - a hardware issue - but in fact the device was fine and it was just the code to display the bars that was wrong, again assuming their target demographic are idiots.
No matter how I hold my HTC Evo, I can have a phone call.
well... NOT according to HTC, and NOT according to the Evo manual
Wrong, if you'd bothered to actually read the info in the link you posted you will see it simply says:
Contact with the antenna area may impair call quality and cause your device to operate at a higher power level than needed.
This obviously does NOT contradict his claim that:
No matter how I hold my HTC Evo, I can have a phone call.
It merely supports the well-known fact that attenuation is an issue with all smartphones. Moreover no one is suggesting that attenuation is not an issue with all smartphones, just that on the iphone 4 the issue is much worse due to a serious design flaw.
All cell phones are basically identical, the phone parts anyway,, and the thing that makes them work well, or suck immensely, is the availability of the network, not the phone or the antenna.
Then why did apple make such a big deal about how reception would improve by having the antenna on the outside?
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This has nothing to do with child pornography.
It's the same bunch of idiots with the same moronic spiel.
Vote Greens! That means we get Labor as the government but we also get the Greens smacking down the censorship policies in the senate!
What is with the Australians? This is just the latest in a long line of this sort of shit. Is this really what the average Australian wants? Surely the Assie public is not this stupid? They do elect their politicians, don't they?
Thank god we have an election coming up in the next couple of days and neither liberal nor labor are looking to be clear winners but it looks like the greens are most certainly going to dominate in the senate so these censorship bills are going to get a serious beatdown very soon! Hopefully we won't have to deal with any of this shit ever being implemented.
This is where parents should do something, not when government should.
Exactly! This is all about lazy parents trying to absolve themselves of the responsibility of raising children.
As an Australian i'd like to redirect that slightly to 'Fuck you Australian Government'. I can't believe we have such idiots thinking that their 'filter' will censor the net...idiots that have no knowledge of P2P, Usenet, IRC, Anon Proxies, Tor, etc... Their focus has been on child porn and yes this may stop Joe Moron Pervert from going to childporn.com, but are the sorts of people interested in such material really that stupid anyway?
SVG isn't yet a suitable replacement
Exactly my point. Once IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari can view animated SVG with audio, and once authoring tools such as Flash and KToon can output animated SVG with audio, then we can continue discussing Flash vs. SVG.
Oh i agree, i just wanted to point out that SVG is the technology that HTML5 would use in that situation, and it is almost there. But even then, will the performance be up to what it is with Flash? On my N900, running the 'The Blue Man' benchmarks in MicroB, Flash clobbers all the HTML5 technologies (by around 80%). Running them on the same device in Chromium, Canvas gets close to Flash's performance but still falls ~20% short. So much for HTML5 being the 'savior' of the so-called 'CPU-hog' that is Flash. I don't understand why some people demand low CPU usages from these high-resolution, fullscreen interactive websites.
Also your point about authoring tools is probably the thing that will have the biggest impact. While designers don't have good content-creation tools HTML5 adoption will lag.
SVG is a vector format used by HTML5. Problem solved.
SVG is still. Homestar Runner is animated with synchronized sound. Which HTML5 technology is most useful for making something like Homestar Runner?
Are you not familiar with the SVG spec? SVG most certainly includes animation, it can even include audio though that isn't part of the official spec yet. So SVG isn't yet a suitable replacement, but it's almost there.
Having used Flash on Android (it sucks), I'd say Flash on iOS isn't about control, it's about evolving user experience.
That point had the potential to possibly be valid up until Jobs banned cross-compilation. That act made it obvious that it was all about control.
The problem isn't flash - it's your OS. Runs fine on 64-bit openSuse. Not one crash yet. Maybe you should get a real OS? :-)
Never had problems on the range of 64bit OSes i've run, XP, Vista, 7, Ubuntu 8.04 - 10.04 and some versions of Gentoo and FC (can't remember exactly which versions i actually used flash on though).
Yeah, except they aren't. Based on what history do you claim that this is a "high" chance? Name a single product where they have released a smaller size version that was more expensive than the full size? Oh wait, you can't. Hurp durp!
Macbook Air, though it seemed obvious from his initial post you somehow missed that. He even specified 'lighter and more compact', again another obvious hint at the Macbook Air which was somehow not obvious to you. Did you even bother to read the post or were you so consumed with rage you just had to post something, anything?
So, to actually look at his claim: More Compact? Yes. And here are the dimensions:
Macbook Air: 12.8" wide × 8.94" deep × 0.16–0.76" high
Macbook (of the time): 12.78" wide x 8.92" deep x 1.08" high
Unless of course your math fails you, you can see the Macbook Air is more compact.
Lighter? Yes. Weights:
Macbook Air: 1.36kg
Macbook (of the time): 2.3-2.4kg
Again, pretty obvious he is correct as the Macbook Air is lighter.
Try not to respond in blind rage mmmkay?
You were an american, posing as a russian terrorist, gunning down americans in the airport.
Maemo, it's only ever been Maemo, not sure how you're having difficulty keeping up, you can count to 1 can't you?
The difference is that - if you want - you could install any unofficial, unsupported OS like the preview of Meego or NITDroid.
That way everyone could play for the "good guys". Everyone could fight for the cause they thought was right, which is usually how war works anyway.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
But isn't them stating that they are offended the same free speech and those who did the offending is practicing?
Yes.
I mean, is it free speech for some, or all here? It sounds a lot hypocritical of someone to say "you can't say anything about what I said because we have free speech" doesn't it?
Who's saying that? Sounds to me more like people here are countering their argument than telling them they can't object.
Actually I just noticed a "get your N900 here" sign on the door on the way in to Harvey Norman today too, so it looks like I was wrong about them not being available eh?
They certainly weren't available at launch, or even for some time after. I think they've only been available recently since they aren't a very carrier-lockin friendly device ;)
Perhaps he was more disappointed in the games acceptance and not its content?
Yeah i'd say you're right there, seems he's taken the biggest complaint and run with it. I dunno about anyone else but i actually really enjoyed Doom3.
I found that to be part of it's appeal. Play it at night, in a dark room with sound cranked up!
What sole purpose? Look at U.S. PS3 commercials that claim the console only does everything.
That was before they removed the otherOS functionality, which enabled it to 'do everything'.
They don't sell them here in australia either AFAICT
JB HiFi have had them for ages, though i got mine in italy and it was cheaper ;)
All of your friends have iPhones and you feel the need to have one as well.
Somewhat valid, i mean i don't use my iphone as a phone, and i rarely take it with me but the only reason i actually keep it is because of games like words with friends ;)
You genuinely like the hardware but want to load new software on the device.
If only my N900 had a capacitive touchscreen =(
It works with your car/stereo/home automation system and you have no choice short of losing that functionality.
I don't personally have anything like that but the myriad of iFashionable apps being built for things is creating lock-in now that cross-platform tools are forbidden, and that's annoying.
For every person *you* know with a 3G who is having issues, there are probably a thousand who are happily fast switching apps and enjoying orientation lock, among other things.
Suggesting the converse is just as valid. My experience with ios4 is that it's good on the 3GS (aside from ios4's idiotic multitasking bar) and rubbish on the 3G, just so sluggish. Both put back to factory settings before the upgrade.
And FYI im not sure you're informed enough to comment since there are no 3G owners "happily fast switching apps" since fast app switching is part of multitasking which, as is well publicised, you dont get in ios4 on the 3G.
Their first phase was just flat out denial.
...
The second phase was
You missed a phase, the one where they said it wasn't the issue as reported - a hardware issue - but in fact the device was fine and it was just the code to display the bars that was wrong, again assuming their target demographic are idiots.
No matter how I hold my HTC Evo, I can have a phone call.
well... NOT according to HTC, and NOT according to the Evo manual
Wrong, if you'd bothered to actually read the info in the link you posted you will see it simply says:
Contact with the antenna area may impair call quality and cause your device to operate at a higher power level than needed.
This obviously does NOT contradict his claim that:
No matter how I hold my HTC Evo, I can have a phone call.
It merely supports the well-known fact that attenuation is an issue with all smartphones. Moreover no one is suggesting that attenuation is not an issue with all smartphones, just that on the iphone 4 the issue is much worse due to a serious design flaw.
All cell phones are basically identical, the phone parts anyway,, and the thing that makes them work well, or suck immensely, is the availability of the network, not the phone or the antenna.
Then why did apple make such a big deal about how reception would improve by having the antenna on the outside?
Not exactly a design flaw... it's one little spot.
It's quite obviously without a doubt a flaw in the design, hence making it a design flaw what part of that are you having difficulty understanding?