I agree with you on this. I don't want to write in Objective C. I like Python. Apple lets me write Python apps for OS X using the PyObjC Bridge. I don't know why they won't allow the same for the iPhone.
Flex Builder 3 has an option now to build an AIR application.
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AIR is a desktop runtime. When you install an AIR based app, it actually installs an application on your desktop. It just gives the developer the ability to write a desktop app using web technologies (i.e. Flex, HTML & Ajax, Javascript, Flash) rather than using C, C++, etc..
If you want raw speed, you should be using SQLite instead of MySQL. Plus, are you using the InnoDB database engine? If you are, then you are not getting MySQL's raw speed. That only comes with their native database engine. You know, the one that doesn't support much of SQL at all.
Really? iTunes Plus is more expensive than DRM'ed music, and almost double the $ of some of the same songs on Amazon. What hole did you just climb out of? iTunes Plus tracks are 99 cents.
One thing you have to remember regarding the 8% marketshare is business sales is included in this as well. Apple has probably less than 1% marketshare in the business world. So for them to be up to 8% total market share is absolutely amazing. This means that they probably have around 15-20% share in consumer land. And if you visit some colleges, you'll find their marketshare is definitely heading up. I've seen 40-50% penetration in several studies of college computer use.
Apple doesn't own the AAC format. They license it. Any music player can support AAC if they choose to. Apple has decided that they will sell AAC because its better than MP3. If you don't want to support a better format, thats your business. But don't blame Apple because they choose AAC over MP3.
Yes, Amazon sells songs for 89 cents. But the whole purpose behind moving off of iTunes is because the labels couldn't persuade Steve Jobs to go with variable pricing. Just wait. If iTunes is no longer the dominant online store, prices will go up.
They haven't got patents on switchgrass. Therefore, they can't control the growing of it. Therefore, they will pay off as many Congressmen as possible and this will never get anywhere.
What do you mean Apple will be forced to get rid of the DRM? Do you have a clue? Apple isn't forcing the DRM now. Its the record labels. EMI dropped their DRM restrictions so Apple removed the DRM from EMI catalog on iTunes. I'm glad the other labels have woken up and realized that DRM is not working. The problem I have is they aren't being fair to Apple. They are allowing DRM free music on all these other online music stores, but won't let Apple sell DRM free music on iTunes. That is just wrong.
And there is one reason for it. Steve Jobs insists on keeping prices at 99 cents per song. The record labels don't like that. They want to sell you a song for 1.99. They are hoping that consumers stop buying from iTunes then the record labels know these other online stores will cave a lot easier than Steve Jobs would. $1.99 per song will become a reality on Amazon and such if iTunes goes away.
Linux/Open Source was the first threat to Microsoft. Linux started hitting Microsoft on the server side. Apache stopped any chance Microsoft had of controlling the Internet.
Then Google came along and did things with the Internet that Microsoft hadn't even thought about. Now Microsoft had to contend with this new threat. And is failing badly.
And finally, Microsoft being punched on their home territory, the desktop. Apple is now threatening Microsoft on the desktop.
Microsoft has three real threats unlike the one they had with Netscape back in 1996. Times are changing.
You are giving them too much credit. I believe they just assumed everyone runs Windows and didn't even question the video format. I've seen it at my work. We will be putting video's of City Council meetings online and the company we hired to host the videos does Windows Media only. I tried pushing podcasting as an alternative to streaming but was told nobody does podcasting. Now the company has come back to us and told us they can make podcasts available for an extra $400 a month. I'm pretty sure they have to go through the process of converting WMV files to MPEG-4. Thats why its so costly. Everyone here thinks that a great deal except me. I tried to argue that a 12 year old can make a podcast. But these are all Windows users. I'm a Mac and Linux guy.
FYI, there is now a native port of OpenOffice.org for the Mac. Its in alpha, but its working pretty good for me. It can't print yet, but by the middle or end of 2008, it should be ready to go.
Remember when Bush said that? Unfortunately, we all thought he meant the United States. What he actually was saying was "You're either with us [The neocons] or you're against us."
Hurricanes, while destructive to the coastline where they make landfall are beneficial in the long run. Most hurricanes that come ashore in the Gulf of Mexico are beneficial to the Mid-Atlantic states. Because a few days after the hurricanes come ashore, the remnants of the storm move east and bring needed rain to the mountain regions of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The rainfall here helps the rivers and tributaries which move eastward towards the Chesapeake Bay.
When will man learn to leave nature alone? Don't want destruction from hurricanes? Don't build on the coastline.
Be serious. Do you expect Apple to change the way you use OS X? Just order the damn thing. Its going to be great. I've been playing with the 9a559 seed for a couple of weeks. Its working really well. Fortunately, I get a copy for free. Well, not really. I'm an Apple Consultant so there is some money spent there.
I respectfully disagree. The reason I believe Apple never intended to have a SDK is because all the applications that run on the iPhone are running as ROOT. Why would Apple have designed the iPhone to do this? Seems to me they didn't think about the consequences at the time and underestimated the hacking community. Now that people have been hacking it, they realize they better make a SDK.
Its funny that developing for the iPhone is such a dilemma for Steve. I thought the iPhone was OS X. Funny that OS X doesn't have a problem with viruses. Maybe Apple shouldn't have made the iPhone apps run as root. Would it be that difficult to redesign it make the apps run in their own user space?
'It comes down to cost per person and reach at the end of the day.'
No it doesn't. It comes down to you wanted DRM and went with Microsoft. Why they chose this option instead of going with podcasts on iTunes is beyond me.
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I agree with you on this. I don't want to write in Objective C. I like Python. Apple lets me write Python apps for OS X using the PyObjC Bridge. I don't know why they won't allow the same for the iPhone.
Flex Builder 3 has an option now to build an AIR application.
AIR is a desktop runtime. When you install an AIR based app, it actually installs an application on your desktop. It just gives the developer the ability to write a desktop app using web technologies (i.e. Flex, HTML & Ajax, Javascript, Flash) rather than using C, C++, etc..
recieved ???
I guess the IBM rep forgot to mention that a new one was one the way.
For someone who took in all those contributions in December, what the hell did he do with it? No ads or anything.
If you want raw speed, you should be using SQLite instead of MySQL. Plus, are you using the InnoDB database engine? If you are, then you are not getting MySQL's raw speed. That only comes with their native database engine. You know, the one that doesn't support much of SQL at all.
One thing you have to remember regarding the 8% marketshare is business sales is included in this as well. Apple has probably less than 1% marketshare in the business world. So for them to be up to 8% total market share is absolutely amazing. This means that they probably have around 15-20% share in consumer land. And if you visit some colleges, you'll find their marketshare is definitely heading up. I've seen 40-50% penetration in several studies of college computer use.
Apple doesn't own the AAC format. They license it. Any music player can support AAC if they choose to. Apple has decided that they will sell AAC because its better than MP3. If you don't want to support a better format, thats your business. But don't blame Apple because they choose AAC over MP3.
Yes, Amazon sells songs for 89 cents. But the whole purpose behind moving off of iTunes is because the labels couldn't persuade Steve Jobs to go with variable pricing. Just wait. If iTunes is no longer the dominant online store, prices will go up.
They haven't got patents on switchgrass. Therefore, they can't control the growing of it. Therefore, they will pay off as many Congressmen as possible and this will never get anywhere.
What do you mean Apple will be forced to get rid of the DRM? Do you have a clue? Apple isn't forcing the DRM now. Its the record labels. EMI dropped their DRM restrictions so Apple removed the DRM from EMI catalog on iTunes. I'm glad the other labels have woken up and realized that DRM is not working. The problem I have is they aren't being fair to Apple. They are allowing DRM free music on all these other online music stores, but won't let Apple sell DRM free music on iTunes. That is just wrong.
And there is one reason for it. Steve Jobs insists on keeping prices at 99 cents per song. The record labels don't like that. They want to sell you a song for 1.99. They are hoping that consumers stop buying from iTunes then the record labels know these other online stores will cave a lot easier than Steve Jobs would. $1.99 per song will become a reality on Amazon and such if iTunes goes away.
If voting could make a difference, it would be outlawed.
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Linux/Open Source was the first threat to Microsoft. Linux started hitting Microsoft on the server side. Apache stopped any chance Microsoft had of controlling the Internet.
Then Google came along and did things with the Internet that Microsoft hadn't even thought about. Now Microsoft had to contend with this new threat. And is failing badly.
And finally, Microsoft being punched on their home territory, the desktop. Apple is now threatening Microsoft on the desktop.
Microsoft has three real threats unlike the one they had with Netscape back in 1996. Times are changing.
Yes, its called AAC.
You are giving them too much credit. I believe they just assumed everyone runs Windows and didn't even question the video format. I've seen it at my work. We will be putting video's of City Council meetings online and the company we hired to host the videos does Windows Media only. I tried pushing podcasting as an alternative to streaming but was told nobody does podcasting. Now the company has come back to us and told us they can make podcasts available for an extra $400 a month. I'm pretty sure they have to go through the process of converting WMV files to MPEG-4. Thats why its so costly. Everyone here thinks that a great deal except me. I tried to argue that a 12 year old can make a podcast. But these are all Windows users. I'm a Mac and Linux guy.
FYI, there is now a native port of OpenOffice.org for the Mac. Its in alpha, but its working pretty good for me. It can't print yet, but by the middle or end of 2008, it should be ready to go.
Remember when Bush said that? Unfortunately, we all thought he meant the United States. What he actually was saying was "You're either with us [The neocons] or you're against us."
Hurricanes, while destructive to the coastline where they make landfall are beneficial in the long run. Most hurricanes that come ashore in the Gulf of Mexico are beneficial to the Mid-Atlantic states. Because a few days after the hurricanes come ashore, the remnants of the storm move east and bring needed rain to the mountain regions of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The rainfall here helps the rivers and tributaries which move eastward towards the Chesapeake Bay.
When will man learn to leave nature alone? Don't want destruction from hurricanes? Don't build on the coastline.
Be serious. Do you expect Apple to change the way you use OS X? Just order the damn thing. Its going to be great. I've been playing with the 9a559 seed for a couple of weeks. Its working really well. Fortunately, I get a copy for free. Well, not really. I'm an Apple Consultant so there is some money spent there.
I respectfully disagree. The reason I believe Apple never intended to have a SDK is because all the applications that run on the iPhone are running as ROOT. Why would Apple have designed the iPhone to do this? Seems to me they didn't think about the consequences at the time and underestimated the hacking community. Now that people have been hacking it, they realize they better make a SDK.
Its funny that developing for the iPhone is such a dilemma for Steve. I thought the iPhone was OS X. Funny that OS X doesn't have a problem with viruses. Maybe Apple shouldn't have made the iPhone apps run as root. Would it be that difficult to redesign it make the apps run in their own user space?
Because iTunes supports more platforms than a standalone player with Microsoft's DRM.
No it doesn't. It comes down to you wanted DRM and went with Microsoft.
Why they chose this option instead of going with podcasts on iTunes is beyond me.
Once you get past 16,400 mp3's, the RIAA is notified.