I'll let you in on a little secret (from someone who has worked in the software business for many years) - all semi-advanced software has bugs - even Notepad has bugs (Google it!).
Now the nerd in many of you are saying - what about hello world? Well sure - I could write a simple 5 line routine that doesn't have any bugs in it, but I'm talking apps that actually do stuff.
I don't have problems with that on FreeBSD, because it is mature and robust. Very little changes without good reason. MS OTOH seems to change things all the time, even when there isn't a particularly compelling reason to do so. Even OSX hasn't been through any major changes of UI since they admitted that the old system didn't work properly and decided to fix pretty much all of it in one go.
So Mac OS 9 was a bug? I think scrapping the entire OS, look and feel and architecture is the ultimate admission that what you have doesn't work. Since Windows 95 the MS-Windows look and feel really hasn't changed - it just looks prettier.
Oh and Windows works perfectly fine for me - even on a semi-exotic PC like an Intel Skulltrail with 8 cpu cores. The last time it had any issues there was a hdd that failed on the attached raid.
I think peoples frustration with all this is that chosing a cell phone provider in the USA is a choice between dumb, dumb and dumber - as soon as you think you have a good deal they do something to make you question their grip on reality.
So what happens if Apple releases an iPhone with a blackberry like keyboard - something which a lot of enterprises have asked for? You need to write a condition check to see if the device has a keyboard, or if it doesn't and act accordingly.
You can write a filter for your application manifest to filter the app so it doesn't appear on Android phones without a keyboard.
Or you could write two versions like you say.
There's 3 solutions for you.
This problem seemed to be solved ages ago on Symbian;).
Apple could have chosen a company that has 1st world labor laws.
Lets not kid ourselves here - the only reason they outsource all this crap to China (or name your own low wage destination) is because it provides a greater profit return. It has little to do with how much something costs. Make no mistake - one of the reasons Apple is worth more as a company even though they ship less than their competitors is because they have very high profit margins.
One of the problems with epub format is there is no standard drm layer - in a sense thats one of the problems with PDF. PDF is an iso standard, perfectly fine for publication, but allows 3rd party security handlers - you can use Adobe's, or you can use one of a dozen other ones - and that in itself is the big problem with ebooks today.
I don't know about you but the only gas station in my town that isn't owned by the same distribution company the rest of them are serviced by is the one run by Walmart. Every wonder why the gasoline prices are pretty much the same for every single station in any given locale?
Chances are if BP did want to pass the savings on to their customers (which there is every indication they will) all the other prices will be affected too.
There have been (and still are) a lot of government-run car companies over the years. You won't see many of the cars they produce today because they're typically totalitarian and/or socialist regimes that make them, and they're usually rubbish. The auto industry in the US (and in most of the industrialized world) is very heavily regulated, with a couple thousand dollars added to the cost of most cars to pay for all the stuff we're requiring the auto companies to do over the next few years. That's not a bad trade-off for a lot of people.
BMC is a good example of what you talk about, but what your missing is market opportunity - in other words it wasn't entirely wasted money. While BMC made cars were complete rubbish, the brand names are still around and selling well - not a day goes by when I don't see a BMW mini which was a collaborative effort between BMW and Rover (BMC company at one point). The Mini itself was made by a state owned company, and now its still one of the most famous brand names in existence when it comes to cars. Whole movies have been made around them even.
The loss opportunity here was Reagan and the US car companies thought that safety features would add cost to cars, and affect sales. Japanese figured out people liked safety features and could sell a car based on that alone. Once the worlds largest company on earth (GM) declared bankruptcy last year and the largest car company on Earth is still Toyota. Who lost out on this research? We did.
I built a machine similar to that at home - Intel Skulltrail - its kinda old now, but it has two quad core QX9775 cpu's inside (basically a 3.2 GHz Xeon that has an unlocked multiplier). I wouldn't really wish that process on most people - lots of really specialized components (at the time there was only one company that could provide me with DDR2 ECC dimms that fit - Kingston), 1000 watt power supply etc etc etc.
No - because your essentially reinstalling the product. You can use customization wizard (free download on their site) to build a modified install so you never see that icon again;).
From what I understand there was a very real risk that the mud could blow up whats left of the pipes down there and the blowout preventer and make a really bad spill into a really really really really bad spill.
Who has said they are complete failures at this? They have a phone on every network/carrier, they have tons of apps, and they have tons of sales - no not as much as apple, but you don't have to beat everything to a pulp to be successful.
Only reason I quit using my Windows Mobile 6 device (and will never get another one ever again) is because of the firm belief that I shouldn't have to reboot the phone 2-3 times a day. Aside from that issue - the apps were great, the experience was usable and the battery life was ok.
My Nexus One goes for weeks and weeks and weeks without any problems:) - I'm now a happy Android user.
There are plenty of technologies that do use Flash internally though - Scaleform for example (a lot of game ui's are authored in Flash - one of the biggest games this year uses Scaleform actually).
That's actually not true - their first really big customer was Digital Equipment Corp. I learned that from a "fireside chat" like thing I attended where John and Chuck talked about the early days of the company.
Apple used Postscript for the Laserwriter driver simply because it was the only game in town and there business was pretty much writing printer drivers and selling them to OEM's like Apple. Keep in mind like several silicon valley startups Adobe was based off research done at Xerox Parc - some of the first printers/machines to have postscript support were likely Xerox desktops and mainframes.
Interestingly enough John and Chuck's original idea for Adobe Systems was building a print service provider...
It seems to me that there are at least 3 competing standards for web video (ogg/h264 and now webm/on2), and currently all the browsers support at least one, some two but none (as far as I know) all three. That's the biggest hindrance to html-5 video support over flash - flash in fact works on every browser on Mac/Windows just fine and its performance is getting better thanks to better support for hardware assisted playback.
It was real disappointing that the first html-5 video demo I saw on an iPad didn't even work - because it only supports h.264.
In a way I think that is what chuck/john are talking about.
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I'll let you in on a little secret (from someone who has worked in the software business for many years) - all semi-advanced software has bugs - even Notepad has bugs (Google it!).
Now the nerd in many of you are saying - what about hello world? Well sure - I could write a simple 5 line routine that doesn't have any bugs in it, but I'm talking apps that actually do stuff.
So Mac OS 9 was a bug? I think scrapping the entire OS, look and feel and architecture is the ultimate admission that what you have doesn't work. Since Windows 95 the MS-Windows look and feel really hasn't changed - it just looks prettier.
Oh and Windows works perfectly fine for me - even on a semi-exotic PC like an Intel Skulltrail with 8 cpu cores. The last time it had any issues there was a hdd that failed on the attached raid.
Definitely not there anymore - I don't think he was bluffing.
I think peoples frustration with all this is that chosing a cell phone provider in the USA is a choice between dumb, dumb and dumber - as soon as you think you have a good deal they do something to make you question their grip on reality.
So what happens if Apple releases an iPhone with a blackberry like keyboard - something which a lot of enterprises have asked for? You need to write a condition check to see if the device has a keyboard, or if it doesn't and act accordingly.
You can write a filter for your application manifest to filter the app so it doesn't appear on Android phones without a keyboard.
Or you could write two versions like you say.
There's 3 solutions for you.
This problem seemed to be solved ages ago on Symbian ;).
It actually went traveling - I got to see this exhibit in Seattle a few summers ago.
Not to mention its trivially easy to switch off location services on Android - no clue about other smart phones.
Plus anything that runs on magic doesn't interfere with aviation electronics anyhow.
Apple could have chosen a company that has 1st world labor laws.
Lets not kid ourselves here - the only reason they outsource all this crap to China (or name your own low wage destination) is because it provides a greater profit return. It has little to do with how much something costs. Make no mistake - one of the reasons Apple is worth more as a company even though they ship less than their competitors is because they have very high profit margins.
One of the problems with epub format is there is no standard drm layer - in a sense thats one of the problems with PDF. PDF is an iso standard, perfectly fine for publication, but allows 3rd party security handlers - you can use Adobe's, or you can use one of a dozen other ones - and that in itself is the big problem with ebooks today.
I don't know about you but the only gas station in my town that isn't owned by the same distribution company the rest of them are serviced by is the one run by Walmart. Every wonder why the gasoline prices are pretty much the same for every single station in any given locale?
Chances are if BP did want to pass the savings on to their customers (which there is every indication they will) all the other prices will be affected too.
When I was on comcast I used to download torrents 24-7 - never even came close to hitting that.
Like the Godwin rule is something written in stone.
BMC is a good example of what you talk about, but what your missing is market opportunity - in other words it wasn't entirely wasted money. While BMC made cars were complete rubbish, the brand names are still around and selling well - not a day goes by when I don't see a BMW mini which was a collaborative effort between BMW and Rover (BMC company at one point). The Mini itself was made by a state owned company, and now its still one of the most famous brand names in existence when it comes to cars. Whole movies have been made around them even.
The loss opportunity here was Reagan and the US car companies thought that safety features would add cost to cars, and affect sales. Japanese figured out people liked safety features and could sell a car based on that alone. Once the worlds largest company on earth (GM) declared bankruptcy last year and the largest car company on Earth is still Toyota. Who lost out on this research? We did.
I built a machine similar to that at home - Intel Skulltrail - its kinda old now, but it has two quad core QX9775 cpu's inside (basically a 3.2 GHz Xeon that has an unlocked multiplier). I wouldn't really wish that process on most people - lots of really specialized components (at the time there was only one company that could provide me with DDR2 ECC dimms that fit - Kingston), 1000 watt power supply etc etc etc.
On the plus side its still a very fast PC :).
Dell mobility has those motorola's for a dollar...
No - because your essentially reinstalling the product. You can use customization wizard (free download on their site) to build a modified install so you never see that icon again ;).
From what I understand there was a very real risk that the mud could blow up whats left of the pipes down there and the blowout preventer and make a really bad spill into a really really really really bad spill.
It makes even the smallest advances in technology major breakthroughs on a platform...
Who has said they are complete failures at this? They have a phone on every network/carrier, they have tons of apps, and they have tons of sales - no not as much as apple, but you don't have to beat everything to a pulp to be successful.
Only reason I quit using my Windows Mobile 6 device (and will never get another one ever again) is because of the firm belief that I shouldn't have to reboot the phone 2-3 times a day. Aside from that issue - the apps were great, the experience was usable and the battery life was ok.
My Nexus One goes for weeks and weeks and weeks without any problems :) - I'm now a happy Android user.
In any? Here's one:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
So we have one browser that supports all html-5 video formats, and one plugin that works on x64 browsers - we can go to town.
There are plenty of technologies that do use Flash internally though - Scaleform for example (a lot of game ui's are authored in Flash - one of the biggest games this year uses Scaleform actually).
That's actually not true - their first really big customer was Digital Equipment Corp. I learned that from a "fireside chat" like thing I attended where John and Chuck talked about the early days of the company.
Apple used Postscript for the Laserwriter driver simply because it was the only game in town and there business was pretty much writing printer drivers and selling them to OEM's like Apple. Keep in mind like several silicon valley startups Adobe was based off research done at Xerox Parc - some of the first printers/machines to have postscript support were likely Xerox desktops and mainframes.
Interestingly enough John and Chuck's original idea for Adobe Systems was building a print service provider...
It seems to me that there are at least 3 competing standards for web video (ogg/h264 and now webm/on2), and currently all the browsers support at least one, some two but none (as far as I know) all three. That's the biggest hindrance to html-5 video support over flash - flash in fact works on every browser on Mac/Windows just fine and its performance is getting better thanks to better support for hardware assisted playback.
It was real disappointing that the first html-5 video demo I saw on an iPad didn't even work - because it only supports h.264.
In a way I think that is what chuck/john are talking about.
Why does steve go around promoting like it will replace flash then? He clearly has a vested interest in seeing it as a web standard.
I heard over on Android Central that this process will hang on update on a rev 2 gsm Nexus One (for AT&T/Telus) so I guess downloader beware.