I fly ALL the time with my 17inch MacBook Pro in coach. Never any problems with it fitting on the seats.
I mean come on. If there was a really a huge issue with normal sized laptops on planes EVERYBODY would know about it. And there would be no point to economy seat power or inflight Wifi.
It also doesn't make much logical sense. Bay claims that MS is prolonging the format war until they can get downloadable video working right, then swoop in and be declared "A winner is you!"
Funny it makes complete sense to me. MS has Xbox 360/Live, Window Home Server, Media Centre, Windows Media, Vista, Zune. Exactly how does getting downloadable video sooner not benefit their entire media strategy. HD-DVD benefits them in few serious ways given that it doesn't really tie in at all with their other media technologies. Dominance in the downloadable movie market would reinvigorate the whole company.
If I want to watch Army Of Darkness, I don't want to wait 20 minutes for it to stream, then hope that my connection stays steady enough to prevent it from freezing. Just pop in the disk, no problem.
Okay genius. Now where did you get that DVD from ?.. did you have to drive to the rental store, find the DVD, wait in queue, pay, then drive back. In which case wouldn't that have taken you longer than 20 minutes and chances are you would have buffered enough to be able to watch the streamed movie.
How did this get +5 interesting ?.. clearly parent isn't aware of Google otherwise solutions for all his problems would have been found.
I wasn't talking about the iPhone. So you ARE aware of the hundreds of programs which allow you to put data on/off the iPod ?
That's extra software you have to pay for, and it's not made by Apple. True but your one of the very few people who need this feature. And why does it matter that its not made by Apple ? Is there something wrong with third party software that your not telling us.
That's not the same. How so ? I run Linux, Windows and Mac on the same machine. And it all runs at native speed with the exception of say high end gaming and 3D work. I really fail to see what more Apple can do to provide multiple OS support or how it isn't the same.
Not supported by Apple, not out of the box. Well then wait a few months for Apple to release the SDK then supported third party apps will be available.
Tell me where to get an iPhone without a SIM lock and without a subscription. I just bought one two days ago in Thailand, perhaps there are online stores in Asia that will help.
This 'bug' was fixed in release 1.1.1 with the preference to disable EDGE/GPRS when roaming. If you, your parents or anyone else is silly enough to assume that international data roaming is cheap then perhaps just stick to travelling in your own country.
Roaming (and the associated costs) has been an issue since well, well, well before the iPhone.
well-known iTMS/iTunes coupling False: There is no coupling between iPhone and iTMS. The option is there but you are in no way obligated to use it. And with respect to iTunes: iPhone Drive
the fact that Airtunes only works with iTunes False:Airfoil
and is only configurable using an annoying program you get with it (no HTML interface) Debatable: I personally have no problems with Airport Utility for the very few times I need to reconfigure my router.
and that you need Apple's BootCamp to have multiple OS'es on your Intel Mac. False:Parallels, VMWare
However, I will not buy an iPhone unless I can put third party software on it Done:AppTapp
and get one without a SIMlock and without a subscription. Done:iPhone Dev Wiki (you need AnySim)
The phone will only work as long as Apple wants it to work And why wouldn't Apple want it to work ? IMHO it doesn't appear that Apple is deliberately trying to brick phones. Rather that they are on their own path of issuing firmware updates which happen to conflict with what the homebrew community is doing. If you have seen what is going on to get it to work you would understand.
The Phone will cost a fortune to use outside of the local area As will EVERY phone on a roaming plan. If your sensible you will unlock the phone and use a local SIM card. I'm holidaying in Thailand and paying very, very cheap rates for phone calls.
The phone is programmed to check mail and deliver revenue to your service provider even when it is "off" There was a previous issue where it would check for mail when you were roaming but there is a preference now to turn off EDGE/GPS when roaming. Doesn't seem like as big of a conspiracy as you seem to think. Maybe it was simply a bug like creating new calendars on the iPod Touch. And I am very impressed at how quick Apple is fixing bugs. I've got bugs in my Treo/Razr that have never been fixed.
The phone is a closed environment, and will probably require several days with a loaner phone, at additional cost, to repair. It isn't as closed as you would think. There is quite a vibrant albeit non-sanctioned homebrew apps community. And unlike my previous Treo it is seamless to install apps OTA. Actually the best I've seen on any phone/PDA to date. As for repairs how do you expect it to be repaired without giving it to them ?
this phone does not have the advanced features that everyone seems to find so critical in other phones, such as user generated custom ringtones. Then how do I have so many custom ringtones that haven't cost me a cent. And you seem think that your 'advanced features' are what everyone want. Apart from a GPS and some minor UI fixes there really isn't anything else I would say I found critical.
I am sure there are others, but that is a good start. No clearly you don't have an iPhone and aren't aware of the homebrew community. Apple seem to be more interested in preventing the SIM unlocking than anything (which they in all likelihood are contractually obligated to do). I can think of a variety of ways for Apple to 'be evil' e.g. re-obfuscating functions (private/public) on every update, maintaining a blacklist of the common homebrew apps, checking md5 hashes of key files on every restart, sending cease+desist letters to the major websites etc.
And hasn't their X-Box Live been profitable from the start?
And hasn't their 120GB Hard Disk Expansion peripheral been profitable from the start?
And isn't this completely meaningless given that the core XBox product is severely unprofitable?
And shouldn't you be reading an How To Make Money In Business 101 book instead of posting?
Silverlight is not just a reimplementation of Flash. Coding in.NET is a pleasure, and a can gaurantee you that coding for the Silverlight platform is going to be infinitely more organized and structured than coding for Flash. Website developers are going to flock to this new technology. Without a Linux implementation of Silverlight, 20% of websites will be completely inaccessible to Linux users in 5 years.
See this is classic 'geek' delusion. It assumes that just because something a technology is easy to program with that's its going to take over the world. Lets look at the facts:
From the perspective of content creators, Adobe is the most loved (Photoshop/Flash/Dreamweaver) and Microsoft is the most hated (FrontPage/IE).
Flash is on 97% of machines (500 million+ users), Silverlight is on 0% (5+ users) of machines.
Flash requires nothing to install or download, Silverlight requires a 4MB+ download and install. It still remains to be seen whether non-admin users have access to install IE/Firefox plugins under Vista.
A large percentage of content creators use Macs which Visual Studio/.Net is not available for.
Flash programmers are cheaper to hire than.Net ones.
Flash is proven on existing web sites (YouTube), Silverlight is unproven.
Flash is on version 9, Silverlight is on version 1. That's a lot of bugs/features that have already been addressed.
Flash is based on Javascript which is more common amongst web developers than C#.
So as you can see MS is once again creating new, proprietary technologies that the world doesn't need.
CD's, DVD's are history for backing up purposes. Even the original intention of CD's for music is starting to become irrelevant. Times have changed.
No they haven't.
I still own a 40MB external SCSI hard drive and from then until now external hard disks have always been better value for money than optical media. However external hard disks require cables, a power supply (for the large terabyte drives) and a huge form factor. Whereas I can fit 20 BluRay discs in a CD wallet (1TB) and have no problem carrying that between home/work or different projects.
Similarly people who do long term archiving can't rely on anything mechanical.
People with the maturity of a 10 year old say crap like that. Dismissing a technology just because you personally hate Sony is ridiculous.
People who are unbiaised would say BluRay:
- is technically the most superior i.e. highest capacity per layer - has the widest support from companies including vital content creation ones like Adobe and Apple - has an open source platform underpinning it i.e. Sun Java - has the support of Sony who clearly is more Linux friendly than Microsoft
For example, VB programmer may with some training be able to move his old VB code's business logic to.NET server.
Wrong. VB.Net is very, very different to VB6 to the point where much of the code will have to be rewritten to either run or run well. Not to mention that there will be extensive training required for VB6 developers to learn the more OO ways of VB.Net.
and that way looking far ahead of Java where you can only 'plug in' with Java only.
Wrong. There are many languages that will run on the JVM e.g. Python, Groovy, COBOL. See here for a full list. Not to mention that having multiple languages is a nightmare in itself for support, maintenance but thats just IMHO.
Besides Microsoft with it's traditional method, is trying to support.NET much as it is possible.
Great. One company supporting.Net. For Java we have: Sun, IBM, Oracle, BEA, Apache, CA, HP, Novell, Apple etc etc. Just look at the list of supporters for the JSR-168 (Portal) and JSR-170 (Content). The JSR process whilst not perfect is a great part of Java and why the platform is doing so well.
More I look.Net, more I've started to wonder why it has been so overlooked.
Easy. (a) Because Microsoft is the ONLY company involved. And that company just happens to have a long history with anti-competitive behaviour (b) Because I want a choice of which servers/OSs to developer and deploy on (c) I want competition so the quality of all the technologies will increase..Net provides none of these. Java provides all of these.
If, as another poster has mentioned below, it's so easy to offer a cross platform toolkit on par with QT at such a great price and still remain a viable company, why don't you do it? Why doesn't someone else do it? (Remember, Microsoft is not cross platform).
What as opposed to any other companies marketing crap.. hmm.
All G4/G5 processors have something called Altivec aka Velocity Engine which is a 128-bit vector processing unit. Photoshop filters being composed of matrix calculations are ideally suited to being computed using the Altivec unit on Macs and the equivalent SSE/SSE2 on x86.
Its just that Altivec spanks SSE/SSE2 quite a bit that Macs have a supposed performance advantage.
1. The entire OS will be accessible through a set of managed APIs. This makes coding 10 times easier and faster, and raises productivity to unprecedented levels. This also makes buffer overflows and some other security issues a thing of the past.
I call bullshit. 10 times easier to develop/faster - I think not. And managed APIs whilst they may reduce the incidents of buffer overflows will not automagically solve your security problems. The fact is.Net is great, but not that great.
2. New, resolution independent, vector based, GPU-enabled UI engine. Two years from Longhorn release people will be buying 200+ DPI displays because things look a lot better on them. What's KDE/Gnome users gonna do? That's right, try to discern tiny non-scalable icons on these displays.
And who are going to be buying these new 200+ DPI machines ? I surely doubt the ordinary user is going to find a need to view their word documents in super high quality. So do explain what is going to be the driver of these displays ?
3. Completely new UI, including some significant paradigm changes.
Completely new ? And what lose the ability of their installed base to jump right in and use the system. What about the significant investments in training done by companies ? The fact is Longhorn will be 95% identical to Windows XP simply because it has to be. If it isn't and businesses have to invest serious money in retraining staff, then why not retrain them in how to use Linux/OpenOffice ?
4. Seamless integration of client and server side (that's what XAML is all about, IMHO). Your webapps will actually run sandboxed.NET code on your machine. Kind of like applets, but the entire webapp will be built out of them. Just think about the possibilities there.
Whilst your thinking about the possibilities, some of us are actually implementing it. Java/Flash are already heavily used and Google is only just showing that JS/DHTML can be used to do amazing stuff. And they all work cross-platform.
The fact is developers can't target XAML so long as they have they have a significant number of end users that are running Windows 95/98/Linux/Mac/Firefox etc etc.
5. Reliable Web Services - Indigo, web services that don't suck. More importantly, web service protocol that's supported by the majority of computers in the world (when most people upgrade). And you can bet your ass they will upgrade, just like a couple of years after W95 was released almost everyone ran W95.
Web Services like CORBA is a developer's technology. Most end users won't know what web services is and why it is useful. You've been drinking the Microsoft kool-aid if you think end users are going to upgrade because of it. And Web Services works just as well on other platforms as well you know. Some even require little to no programming.
The most important thing is, all of this will be available to Windows users out of the box, without any tweaking/recompiling/downloading dependencies. That's where the real strength of this all is. Developers will be able to rely on this stuff when building next-gen apps and be reasonably sure that if a user runs Longhorn, the app will run there.
Bzzt. Except that when Longhorn comes out your going to have a even more fragmented Windows market (95/98/XP/Longhorn). Which means that as a developer you want to use the technology that will target the most number of platforms i.e. Win32. This is a huge problem for Microsoft and is why more Longhorn technologes are being backported to XP.
It's time to stop copying Windows XP, folks. It's time to start copying Longhorn. Gnome devs have already realised that.
WRONG. It is time for Linux to start making itself more and more interoperable with Windows XP. To the point where businesses will sidegrad
All third-party browsers e.g. Firefox and media players e.g. Quicktime ask whether you wish to make them the default when they are opened for the first time. So what is a control panel supposed to achieve ? The effort for the user is in the downloading and installing of the third-party software.
The DOJ should be instead insisting that Microsoft bundle third-party alternatives with the OS not just providing a control panel.
Sure, you have to test on all the platforms that you support. But, what language/runtime requires less x-platform testing than Java? Today, the real issue is testing on each J2EE app server. That's where the real issues are. I haven't seen a pure Java platform issue in years.
Apple WebObjects. Powers the iTunes Music Store and Apple Store. Is highly scalable, has great O/R persistence technology and yes, is pure Java.
But what if you want to get composite video in and out of the machine? Or what if you have a wireless home network? Or what if you live in a geographic area where anything faster than 33.6K dial-up is not affordable, and you need a traditional v.92 modem? Would it be wise to depend on USB 2 based adapters for those?
Composite video in: You just need a Firewire device like EyeTV.
V92 modem: Built in. And all modems will negotiate with the ISP modems on a speed. So the 56K modems in the miniMac will automatically drop down to 33.6K as appropriate.
So again what do u really need PCI for ? Between USB2 and Firewire and BTO options they seem to cover most things.
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It's iPhone, iPad, iPod and iTunes.
How on earth can you screw up the capitalisation where then is only four letters in the word !
What a hilarious load of shit.
I fly ALL the time with my 17inch MacBook Pro in coach. Never any problems with it fitting on the seats.
I mean come on. If there was a really a huge issue with normal sized laptops on planes EVERYBODY would know about it. And there would be no point to economy seat power or inflight Wifi.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
It also doesn't make much logical sense. Bay claims that MS is prolonging the format war until they can get downloadable video working right, then swoop in and be declared "A winner is you!"
.. did you have to drive to the rental store, find the DVD, wait in queue, pay, then drive back. In which case wouldn't that have taken you longer than 20 minutes and chances are you would have buffered enough to be able to watch the streamed movie.
Funny it makes complete sense to me. MS has Xbox 360/Live, Window Home Server, Media Centre, Windows Media, Vista, Zune. Exactly how does getting downloadable video sooner not benefit their entire media strategy. HD-DVD benefits them in few serious ways given that it doesn't really tie in at all with their other media technologies. Dominance in the downloadable movie market would reinvigorate the whole company.
If I want to watch Army Of Darkness, I don't want to wait 20 minutes for it to stream, then hope that my connection stays steady enough to prevent it from freezing. Just pop in the disk, no problem.
Okay genius. Now where did you get that DVD from ?
This 'bug' was fixed in release 1.1.1 with the preference to disable EDGE/GPRS when roaming. If you, your parents or anyone else is silly enough to assume that international data roaming is cheap then perhaps just stick to travelling in your own country.
Roaming (and the associated costs) has been an issue since well, well, well before the iPhone.
What never seen an iPod/iPhone before ?
It decodes H2.64 HD streams in real time without a fan.
And hasn't their X-Box Live been profitable from the start? And hasn't their 120GB Hard Disk Expansion peripheral been profitable from the start? And isn't this completely meaningless given that the core XBox product is severely unprofitable? And shouldn't you be reading an How To Make Money In Business 101 book instead of posting?
See this is classic 'geek' delusion. It assumes that just because something a technology is easy to program with that's its going to take over the world. Lets look at the facts:
- From the perspective of content creators, Adobe is the most loved (Photoshop/Flash/Dreamweaver) and Microsoft is the most hated (FrontPage/IE).
- Flash is on 97% of machines (500 million+ users), Silverlight is on 0% (5+ users) of machines.
- Flash requires nothing to install or download, Silverlight requires a 4MB+ download and install. It still remains to be seen whether non-admin users have access to install IE/Firefox plugins under Vista.
- A large percentage of content creators use Macs which Visual Studio/.Net is not available for.
- Flash programmers are cheaper to hire than
.Net ones.
- Flash is proven on existing web sites (YouTube), Silverlight is unproven.
- Flash is on version 9, Silverlight is on version 1. That's a lot of bugs/features that have already been addressed.
- Flash is based on Javascript which is more common amongst web developers than C#.
So as you can see MS is once again creating new, proprietary technologies that the world doesn't need.No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
CD's, DVD's are history for backing up purposes. Even the original intention of CD's for music is starting to become irrelevant. Times have changed.
No they haven't.
I still own a 40MB external SCSI hard drive and from then until now external hard disks have always been better value for money than optical media. However external hard disks require cables, a power supply (for the large terabyte drives) and a huge form factor. Whereas I can fit 20 BluRay discs in a CD wallet (1TB) and have no problem carrying that between home/work or different projects.
Similarly people who do long term archiving can't rely on anything mechanical.
MOD PARENT DOWN.
People with the maturity of a 10 year old say crap like that.
Dismissing a technology just because you personally hate Sony is ridiculous.
People who are unbiaised would say BluRay:
- is technically the most superior i.e. highest capacity per layer
- has the widest support from companies including vital content creation ones like Adobe and Apple
- has an open source platform underpinning it i.e. Sun Java
- has the support of Sony who clearly is more Linux friendly than Microsoft
For example, VB programmer may with some training be able to move his old VB code's business logic to .NET server.
.NET much as it is possible.
.Net. For Java we have: Sun, IBM, Oracle, BEA, Apache, CA, HP, Novell, Apple etc etc. Just look at the list of supporters for the JSR-168 (Portal) and JSR-170 (Content). The JSR process whilst not perfect is a great part of Java and why the platform is doing so well.
.Net, more I've started to wonder why it has been so overlooked.
.Net provides none of these. Java provides all of these.
Wrong. VB.Net is very, very different to VB6 to the point where much of the code will have to be rewritten to either run or run well. Not to mention that there will be extensive training required for VB6 developers to learn the more OO ways of VB.Net.
and that way looking far ahead of Java where you can only 'plug in' with Java only.
Wrong. There are many languages that will run on the JVM e.g. Python, Groovy, COBOL. See here for a full list. Not to mention that having multiple languages is a nightmare in itself for support, maintenance but thats just IMHO.
Besides Microsoft with it's traditional method, is trying to support
Great. One company supporting
More I look
Easy. (a) Because Microsoft is the ONLY company involved. And that company just happens to have a long history with anti-competitive behaviour (b) Because I want a choice of which servers/OSs to developer and deploy on (c) I want competition so the quality of all the technologies will increase.
Thats like a speeding bullet stuck in the back end of a bat out of hell
Signed Smegger.
65536 processors = 64K processors.
damn that IBM, they take geekiness to just a whole different place.
If, as another poster has mentioned below, it's so easy to offer a cross platform toolkit on par with QT at such a great price and still remain a viable company, why don't you do it? Why doesn't someone else do it? (Remember, Microsoft is not cross platform).
.. $99 for standard RB license versus $1790 for QT one. I know QT is heaps better, but that sort of price difference is ridiculous.
What you mean like RealBasic ?
I mean come on
I guess thats just Apple marketing crap then?
.. hmm.
What as opposed to any other companies marketing crap
All G4/G5 processors have something called Altivec aka Velocity Engine which is a 128-bit vector processing unit. Photoshop filters being composed of matrix calculations are ideally suited to being computed using the Altivec unit on Macs and the equivalent SSE/SSE2 on x86.
Its just that Altivec spanks SSE/SSE2 quite a bit that Macs have a supposed performance advantage.
1. The entire OS will be accessible through a set of managed APIs. This makes coding 10 times easier and faster, and raises productivity to unprecedented levels. This also makes buffer overflows and some other security issues a thing of the past.
.Net is great, but not that great.
.NET code on your machine. Kind of like applets, but the entire webapp will be built out of them. Just think about the possibilities there.
I call bullshit. 10 times easier to develop/faster - I think not. And managed APIs whilst they may reduce the incidents of buffer overflows will not automagically solve your security problems. The fact is
2. New, resolution independent, vector based, GPU-enabled UI engine. Two years from Longhorn release people will be buying 200+ DPI displays because things look a lot better on them. What's KDE/Gnome users gonna do? That's right, try to discern tiny non-scalable icons on these displays.
And who are going to be buying these new 200+ DPI machines ? I surely doubt the ordinary user is going to find a need to view their word documents in super high quality. So do explain what is going to be the driver of these displays ?
3. Completely new UI, including some significant paradigm changes.
Completely new ? And what lose the ability of their installed base to jump right in and use the system. What about the significant investments in training done by companies ? The fact is Longhorn will be 95% identical to Windows XP simply because it has to be. If it isn't and businesses have to invest serious money in retraining staff, then why not retrain them in how to use Linux/OpenOffice ?
4. Seamless integration of client and server side (that's what XAML is all about, IMHO). Your webapps will actually run sandboxed
Whilst your thinking about the possibilities, some of us are actually implementing it. Java/Flash are already heavily used and Google is only just showing that JS/DHTML can be used to do amazing stuff. And they all work cross-platform.
The fact is developers can't target XAML so long as they have they have a significant number of end users that are running Windows 95/98/Linux/Mac/Firefox etc etc.
5. Reliable Web Services - Indigo, web services that don't suck. More importantly, web service protocol that's supported by the majority of computers in the world (when most people upgrade). And you can bet your ass they will upgrade, just like a couple of years after W95 was released almost everyone ran W95.
Web Services like CORBA is a developer's technology. Most end users won't know what web services is and why it is useful. You've been drinking the Microsoft kool-aid if you think end users are going to upgrade because of it. And Web Services works just as well on other platforms as well you know. Some even require little to no programming.
The most important thing is, all of this will be available to Windows users out of the box, without any tweaking/recompiling/downloading dependencies. That's where the real strength of this all is. Developers will be able to rely on this stuff when building next-gen apps and be reasonably sure that if a user runs Longhorn, the app will run there.
Bzzt. Except that when Longhorn comes out your going to have a even more fragmented Windows market (95/98/XP/Longhorn). Which means that as a developer you want to use the technology that will target the most number of platforms i.e. Win32. This is a huge problem for Microsoft and is why more Longhorn technologes are being backported to XP.
It's time to stop copying Windows XP, folks. It's time to start copying Longhorn. Gnome devs have already realised that.
WRONG. It is time for Linux to start making itself more and more interoperable with Windows XP. To the point where businesses will sidegrad
All third-party browsers e.g. Firefox and media players e.g. Quicktime ask whether you wish to make them the default when they are opened for the first time. So what is a control panel supposed to achieve ? The effort for the user is in the downloading and installing of the third-party software.
The DOJ should be instead insisting that Microsoft bundle third-party alternatives with the OS not just providing a control panel.
Sure, you have to test on all the platforms that you support. But, what language/runtime requires less x-platform testing than Java? Today, the real issue is testing on each J2EE app server. That's where the real issues are. I haven't seen a pure Java platform issue in years.
Apple WebObjects. Powers the iTunes Music Store and Apple Store. Is highly scalable, has great O/R persistence technology and yes, is pure Java.
But what if you want to get composite video in and out of the machine? Or what if you have a wireless home network? Or what if you live in a geographic area where anything faster than 33.6K dial-up is not affordable, and you need a traditional v.92 modem? Would it be wise to depend on USB 2 based adapters for those?
Composite video in: You just need a Firewire device like EyeTV.
Composite video out: get one of the cheap DVI->Composite adaptors.
Wireless home network: Get an Airport card installed. They are available as build to order.
V92 modem: Built in. And all modems will negotiate with the ISP modems on a speed. So the 56K modems in the miniMac will automatically drop down to 33.6K as appropriate.
So again what do u really need PCI for ? Between USB2 and Firewire and BTO options they seem to cover most things.
The COTS article that the Microsoft guy keeps referring to is written is by Green Hills Software. You know the one that considers itself:
"the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems."
I'm sure they don't have an interest in picking holes in Linux.