If by 'bit them in the ass' you mean 'overtaking Microsoft in market cap', then congrats, you're a dumbass!
No, that's obviously not what i meant, dumbass. Their lack of DVD support initially - then subsequent introduction after many complaints - had nothing to do with market cap, dumbass.
Bringing up the control+alt+del screen on the PC showed dozens of processes running at any given time, more than half of which I had no idea what they were. The equivalent screen on a mac shows only those programs that I have open.
Doesn't sound like your 'equivalent' is correct, sounds more like the Mac version of the 'Applications' tab of the task manager in Windows. The list of processes certainly does not match only the running applications, if you run 'top' you'll see the processes.
Note that even with all that virus protection, PCs are still highly vulnerable. With Mac, I can go to ANY seedy corner of the internet and pick up anything I like without fear of getting a virus. The PC that we bought a couple of years ago for one of the techs in my lab, on the other hand, is now very nearly useless due to viruses. The macs we have for the lab last on average 10-12 years, where the PCs last 2-4. From that perspective, the cost is well worth it.
Sounds more like you're defining a 'PC' as being a PC running Windows XP. Running an up-to-date Windows 7 PC (correctly, that is not running as Administrator with no UAC as that is akin to running a unix OS as root, which you don't do) or any unix-like OS (OSX, linux, BSD, etc...) will afford you pretty much the same level of protection.
Be sure not to live in ignorance, there are a number of readily available malware, keylogger, virus, trojan, etc... available for OSX. The idea that you don't need to concern yourself with any kind of malware just because you are on a mac is extremely outdated and simply incorrect.
Why on earth you want Blu-Ray when you can stream HD Movies, either through iTunes or other Liberal ways.
Because the quality is nowhere near as good. If you have decent HT equipment then it's obvious you want to use bluray over any streaming service, but if you're on the lower end of consumer HT gear it probably doesn't matter to you.
You're ignoring a 100 million installed base because you're worried about losing development resources if you do something against the terms of the dev agreement?
More like worried about losing development resources if you adhere directly to the dev agreement then during development or approval process they arbitrarily change the dev agreement on you.
What resulting damage occurred to anyone who's data was leaked by AT&T? How did they abuse the data they collected? Seems to me that it wasn't misused at all.
I'd love to write a best-selling novel, but until Bedford St. Martin's gives me 100% assurance that they will publish and advertise my novel before I start writing it, I'm not going to write a word of it.
That implies that there is only one publisher available, which is of course untrue. However the App Store is the only way to get out legitimate iphone apps so ANALOGY FAIL.
There is a fundamental risk in writing new books: "Will customers read this?" This risk can be calculated to a certain extent.
How is that relatable to the iphone/appstore whatsoever? The customers have no say in what will be approved for the appstore so again ANALOGY FAIL.
Given that it's meant to be a showcase of things to come
Given that it's meant to be a showcase of things to come they should not have put in any implementation details at all, this is not a standard and apple is purporting it as such as well as giving details on a non-standard implementation. So in the end developers look to how apple says to do things, do it that way and then some parts are likely to not be standards conformant when we do get a HTML5 standard we end up with Apple's HTML5 and the real HTML5.
Right, right...well then were on the same page and that supports it. Not used to seeing much flash love and a lot of people seem to say the opposite about performance, figured it was just another.
Files belong on a server, not on a user's desktop.
What's that got to do with sending/receiving zip archived files? You don't seem to understand that if files are on a server you do have to Send and Receive them if you are to use them.
Why print when you have access to your document right on your iPad? For outgoing documents there is the central printserver your company should have already.
Oh and of course, the average user has a central printserver.
You can't connect any usb devices
Like the printer you don't need or the local storage you shouldn't have?
Like a camera, webcam, scanner, etc... Are you really that ignorant of the scope of USB devices?
Useless encryption
Of what? The documents are safe on the encrypted server.
Even if no-one stored anything on their device and relied solely on being always connected to their server you really think there would be no local storage of data at all? Show me a device that doesn't need ANY local storage, even if only for things like cache. And where are your emails stored? On the device. Where are your contacts stored? On the device. More ignorance from you.
No decent audio/video/image editing
Yeah, that is bound to be a dealbreaker in the corporate world. Hold on guys, now we're hosed for good, as we can't remix our mp3's! Get real.
Oh yeah the corporate world never has anything to do with multimedia. Sounds like you're the one living in 1992.
No Flash/Silverlight
Yes? This is a good thing, which you somehow try to spin as bad?
No Java Applets
Look at your calender, it's not 1992 anymore. When was the last time you saw an applet on the web? No fibbing now, really.
None of the flash benefits described by the article are impossible to replicate in HTML5/browser/javascript, and it's naive to assume that the new ecosystem wont continue to evolve over time just as flash has.
It isn't refuting that, what it is saying is that it's too early to say Flash is dead and everyone should switch to HTML5, which is true. Though in time, with more optimisation and better tools HTML5 looks almost certain to replace Flash.
So no, HTML5 technologies don't "It blow it out of the water", in fact in this test Flash is significantly smoother. Of course this is not enough to say the converse is true, in fact it probably isn't, but it's enough to prove your claim is idiotic and false.
This article is basically saying Flash is too big to fail.
No it isn't, it's saying that HTML5 is not ready to replace Flash yet. Designers can't create the same level of interactivity in websites in HTML5 as they can in Flash, and until they can Flash won't be replaced by HTML5, which certainly sounds quite logical.
2 years ago, when I argued that we should remove it because it was still a performance hit. Proved it, removed it, converted the code to standard c99, not c++.
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If by 'bit them in the ass' you mean 'overtaking Microsoft in market cap', then congrats, you're a dumbass!
No, that's obviously not what i meant, dumbass. Their lack of DVD support initially - then subsequent introduction after many complaints - had nothing to do with market cap, dumbass.
Bringing up the control+alt+del screen on the PC showed dozens of processes running at any given time, more than half of which I had no idea what they were. The equivalent screen on a mac shows only those programs that I have open.
Doesn't sound like your 'equivalent' is correct, sounds more like the Mac version of the 'Applications' tab of the task manager in Windows. The list of processes certainly does not match only the running applications, if you run 'top' you'll see the processes.
Note that even with all that virus protection, PCs are still highly vulnerable. With Mac, I can go to ANY seedy corner of the internet and pick up anything I like without fear of getting a virus. The PC that we bought a couple of years ago for one of the techs in my lab, on the other hand, is now very nearly useless due to viruses. The macs we have for the lab last on average 10-12 years, where the PCs last 2-4. From that perspective, the cost is well worth it.
Sounds more like you're defining a 'PC' as being a PC running Windows XP. Running an up-to-date Windows 7 PC (correctly, that is not running as Administrator with no UAC as that is akin to running a unix OS as root, which you don't do) or any unix-like OS (OSX, linux, BSD, etc...) will afford you pretty much the same level of protection.
Be sure not to live in ignorance, there are a number of readily available malware, keylogger, virus, trojan, etc... available for OSX. The idea that you don't need to concern yourself with any kind of malware just because you are on a mac is extremely outdated and simply incorrect.
Onionspy, Inqtana.A, LeapA, Last Resort, TypeAgent, TIFF Vulnerability Exploit, Spector, Instant Access Dialer, KeyStroke, Kidlogger, Refog, HellRaiser, KeyBag, UnderHand, CarbonKeys, TakeDown Suite, Monitorer, DutyWatch, PokerStealer, TextMeleon, EZmal, Aobo Keylogger Pro, Peeping Tom, DutyWatch, Monitorer X, Spector, BackTrack, AppleScript.THT, Tored, KeyCaptor, BlazingTools, Xover, Lose Lose, DNSChanger, Invisible Oasis, eWatch
the only person who's excited to see Team Fortress 2 on a mac mini hooked up to a 50" screen that has all the bells and whistles?
Been there, done that with my gaming system, the only thing the mac mini would offer in that situation is a degraded experience.
Period.
There's a key for that.
Why on earth you want Blu-Ray when you can stream HD Movies, either through iTunes or other Liberal ways.
Because the quality is nowhere near as good. If you have decent HT equipment then it's obvious you want to use bluray over any streaming service, but if you're on the lower end of consumer HT gear it probably doesn't matter to you.
Blu-Ray is dead, it just doesn't know it yet.
Apple tried to pull that shit with dvd as well and it came back and bit them in the ass.
You're ignoring a 100 million installed base because you're worried about losing development resources if you do something against the terms of the dev agreement?
More like worried about losing development resources if you adhere directly to the dev agreement then during development or approval process they arbitrarily change the dev agreement on you.
Yes, that's the answer, don't try to fix things, just leave instead.
What are you trying to fix? Every group complains that they are persecuted when they are not, haven't you read enough slashdot to realise this?
Your defeatist attitude is sickening and and show that you are a coward.
lol @ coward? scared of what? lol...some internet douchebag like yourself? ooooooooohhhh...
Stop with the US hate that is so popular on Slashdot.
oh get over yourself, everyone claims they're persecuted on slashdot. if you've got a problem with it don't be a part of the community.
What resulting damage occurred to anyone who's data was leaked by AT&T? How did they abuse the data they collected? Seems to me that it wasn't misused at all.
totally disenfranchised
I don't think that means what you think it means.
Absolutely! They were fine with paying $10,000 for a stolen iPhone, so I don't see why they would have an issue with paying $1600 for a WWDC ticket.
so now it's $10,000?
I'd love to write a best-selling novel, but until Bedford St. Martin's gives me 100% assurance that they will publish and advertise my novel before I start writing it, I'm not going to write a word of it.
That implies that there is only one publisher available, which is of course untrue. However the App Store is the only way to get out legitimate iphone apps so ANALOGY FAIL.
There is a fundamental risk in writing new books: "Will customers read this?" This risk can be calculated to a certain extent.
How is that relatable to the iphone/appstore whatsoever? The customers have no say in what will be approved for the appstore so again ANALOGY FAIL.
I believe webkit is open source.
Open Source != Standard
What, exactly, is non-standard in the demo code?
The whole thing, the 'standard' it's based on is not a standard. When it becomes a standard those implementation details are likely to have changed.
Given that it's meant to be a showcase of things to come
Given that it's meant to be a showcase of things to come they should not have put in any implementation details at all, this is not a standard and apple is purporting it as such as well as giving details on a non-standard implementation. So in the end developers look to how apple says to do things, do it that way and then some parts are likely to not be standards conformant when we do get a HTML5 standard we end up with Apple's HTML5 and the real HTML5.
Right, right...well then were on the same page and that supports it. Not used to seeing much flash love and a lot of people seem to say the opposite about performance, figured it was just another.
Files belong on a server, not on a user's desktop.
What's that got to do with sending/receiving zip archived files? You don't seem to understand that if files are on a server you do have to Send and Receive them if you are to use them.
Why print when you have access to your document right on your iPad? For outgoing documents there is the central printserver your company should have already.
Oh and of course, the average user has a central printserver.
You can't connect any usb devices
Like the printer you don't need or the local storage you shouldn't have?
Like a camera, webcam, scanner, etc... Are you really that ignorant of the scope of USB devices?
Useless encryption
Of what? The documents are safe on the encrypted server.
Even if no-one stored anything on their device and relied solely on being always connected to their server you really think there would be no local storage of data at all? Show me a device that doesn't need ANY local storage, even if only for things like cache. And where are your emails stored? On the device. Where are your contacts stored? On the device. More ignorance from you.
No decent audio/video/image editing
Yeah, that is bound to be a dealbreaker in the corporate world. Hold on guys, now we're hosed for good, as we can't remix our mp3's! Get real.
Oh yeah the corporate world never has anything to do with multimedia. Sounds like you're the one living in 1992.
No Flash/Silverlight
Yes? This is a good thing, which you somehow try to spin as bad?
No Java Applets
Look at your calender, it's not 1992 anymore. When was the last time you saw an applet on the web? No fibbing now, really.
I see you don't use the internet very often.
None of the flash benefits described by the article are impossible to replicate in HTML5/browser/javascript, and it's naive to assume that the new ecosystem wont continue to evolve over time just as flash has.
It isn't refuting that, what it is saying is that it's too early to say Flash is dead and everyone should switch to HTML5, which is true. Though in time, with more optimisation and better tools HTML5 looks almost certain to replace Flash.
Saying that Flash performance is "smoother" than HTML5 is a joke. It blows it out of the water. Don't believe it? Do some research.
Research done...you lose.
HTML ~40fps
Canvas ~90fps
SVG ~40fps
Flash ~110fps
So no, HTML5 technologies don't "It blow it out of the water", in fact in this test Flash is significantly smoother. Of course this is not enough to say the converse is true, in fact it probably isn't, but it's enough to prove your claim is idiotic and false.
This article is basically saying Flash is too big to fail.
No it isn't, it's saying that HTML5 is not ready to replace Flash yet. Designers can't create the same level of interactivity in websites in HTML5 as they can in Flash, and until they can Flash won't be replaced by HTML5, which certainly sounds quite logical.
The goal of a site is to get people information as quickly and easily as possible.
No...that's just plain wrong.
2 years ago, when I argued that we should remove it because it was still a performance hit. Proved it, removed it, converted the code to standard c99, not c++.
Much faster.
What was your example that was 4x slower?
I think Android is a great platform with a bright future, but it isn't anywhere near catching up to iPhone OS numbers yet.
What are the numbers?
A good programmer in either will suffer none of these issues. So I don't see the point in discussing it.
And he/she will be more efficient as he/she isn't re-inventing the wheel each time.