Interesting about the lawsuit, but, in all honesty BeOS was never ready for prime time in the consumer or business sense. While it was a very good technology demonstration there was no product there to really use. That was the primary problem of its failure IMO.
Wow the "troll" mods are out in force... some strange loyal contingent amongst the/. crowd I only thought was reserved for discussions surrounding Linux.
Yeah, it's kind of funny to joke that Macs "finally feel like BeOS" but in reality it is so far from the truth that it's more troll like than anything I wrote above.
I used BeOS, well, I booted it and played with the spinning cube with videos on each face. There wasn't much else alive in there in terms of hardware support. It did tickle me though and I hope somehow the product can create some space amidst Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS, etc... but I don't think so.
Mr Gassee rises to DEFEAT the ugly empire Apple has become....or not....more likely to suffer in silence.
But seriously, I had BeOS running on a machine back when... great, great, very unfinished stuff. Maybe it is complete now and you can actually do something?
Here here... I'm tired of the hand wringing over what doesn't get in the AppStore -- get a life folks. There are plenty of other ways to waste your time [cough]iporn[/cough].
iPhone/iPod Touch life == 2 yrs PSP life == 5 yrs DS life == 5 yrs
Give it a year skippy and iPhone/iPod Touch will be nipping at the DS heels. Not saying it will crush it or kill it, just don't dismiss. It'd be folly.
The entire iPod Touch ad campaign is "The funnest iPod ever" and the ads don't show anyone playing music or watching video, or surfing the web.
Do your research before spewing forth your opines. Apple HAS positioned the devices as game platforms, not necessarily unitaskers, which I think is the better strategy.
VIdeo is not for HTML5 to consider really, other than how it is attached. VIdeo, IMO is solved about as good as it can be with MPEG4/H264 which is a near universal format that I can watch on many, many devices without the use of Flash. Flash in fact can use H264 videos.
Granted some application handler is required for any video... is this what you refer to? Who should handle the universal video decoder plugin? That's outside the scope of an HTML5 spec IMHO.
It's a great point to ponder however --- right now it's locked into either Flash or Quicktime as the two leading ways to receive video content on the web. Good vs. Better? Good vs. Evil? OK vs. WhoCares? Lot's of cameras use some components of Quicktime to handle video.
Then again, the video codecs will evolve with time too...
I claim straw man dude. >The simplest way to say it, they are more than happy to key in their password for anything that asks, even if they don't know what they are doing. After all, they are on a Mac, they don't have virus protection because it doesn't need it, so how is something bad going to get on the system. These are not normally dense people, well maybe they are proving me wrong.
This has NOTHING to do with owning and operating a Macintosh computer. Go back under your rock.
It's PEBKAC and you know it is...
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Beyond certain vertical apps widespread java use for the average web surfer is D.E.A.D. -- show me a site that delivers anything in java.
I used to run a lot of java apps and found them to be easier to run on my Mac than my Win b/c the JVM actually existed in the first place.:) I haven't used jEdit in a long while but it used to be my primary text editor.
I never launch Acrobat Reader, and only rarely Acrobat Professional thanks to the simplicity and speed of Preview.app.
I remove the acrobat plug-in (manually from/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ since Adobe BORKED their installers to a complete nightmare level) -- I'd just as soon download the PDF or view it in window if I'm in a webkit browser.
Finally, all PDFs are associated with Preview and not Acrobat.
For us in the profession "webmaster" is less a content role anymore. A CMS provides the means for content owners to manage content.
As for what role a "webmaster" takes on... in my org it has moved into more of a technical position since the ground has shifted under the old meaning.
The "web developer" tends to be one who writes code at the backend, writing bridges between data systems, or libraries for front end web folk to do their work.
In my role I need control over the following: - define the data (structure the content into fields, and define the metadata that binds it altogether) - manipulate the data (with some type of template system typically, query the data, add/delete/modify -- although this last step is frequently a content owner) - present the data (this encompasses front end XHTML/CSS/JS, often the visual and behavior layers, and, it means we need to dynamically query the data on various pages to recombine it)
I am a "Web Strategist and Designer". We also have a "Content Producer" on the team who shares tasks.
It all breaks down according to how big a shop you are... Webmaster still works as a catch all but when you have a real CMS strategy, and a team, that traditional role breaks down. You want to start having someone think with foresight about the visual design, UX and UI of the site, the tools that people work with, and the content strategy. You want team members who either are implementing this strategy, or, using the strategy in day to day work...
It's a tricky space. What does this role perform? Are you recruiting for a catch all?
Will this person lead the development of the overall Design strategy? Note the big D there... it's more than a photoshop template as you know. It's the XHTML/CSS structure that is forward thinking, the behavior layer that builds upon the user experience, that interacts with a content layout or information architecture...
Will this person only code back-end to middleware solutions?
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Interesting about the lawsuit, but, in all honesty BeOS was never ready for prime time in the consumer or business sense. While it was a very good technology demonstration there was no product there to really use. That was the primary problem of its failure IMO.
Aside from the moderators of this forum who see fit to label anyone a troll if they speak ill of BeOS.
You can't lay all the blame for the demise of Power* at Intel's feet. In the desktop space they did it to themselves.
Wow the "troll" mods are out in force ... some strange loyal contingent amongst the /. crowd I only thought was reserved for discussions surrounding Linux.
Yeah, it's kind of funny to joke that Macs "finally feel like BeOS" but in reality it is so far from the truth that it's more troll like than anything I wrote above.
I used BeOS, well, I booted it and played with the spinning cube with videos on each face. There wasn't much else alive in there in terms of hardware support. It did tickle me though and I hope somehow the product can create some space amidst Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS, etc... but I don't think so.
Loser say what?!
Mr Gassee rises to DEFEAT the ugly empire Apple has become. ...or not. ...more likely to suffer in silence.
But seriously, I had BeOS running on a machine back when ... great, great, very unfinished stuff. Maybe it is complete now and you can actually do something?
How is this informative? This is off-topic.
Apple vs. Google != MythTV or PVR talk.
Oh for mod points right now, like Kruschev, I'll bury you!
This has NOTHING to do with Obama or the Obama administration. FFS ppl he's been in office 6 months.
I want it to predict whether the doctor will see the patient on time, early, or 10/20/30/40+ minutes late.
If the title of this "upcoming" game is any indication there will be little creative movement on DX11's front either ...
I'm just saying, Wolfenstein?@! Upcoming?@!
Can they come up with some new ideas already?
I'm pretty certain @rgigger posted one of the best ever replies.
Agreed -- wickedly inane && uninformed to call Snow Leopard a service pack.
Actually with the built in iPhone word predictor you don't really get that kind of misspelling.
#justsaying
Here here ...
I'm tired of the hand wringing over what doesn't get in the AppStore -- get a life folks. There are plenty of other ways to waste your time [cough]iporn[/cough].
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=commodore+emulator+blackberry&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
iPhone/iPod Touch life == 2 yrs
PSP life == 5 yrs
DS life == 5 yrs
Give it a year skippy and iPhone/iPod Touch will be nipping at the DS heels. Not saying it will crush it or kill it, just don't dismiss. It'd be folly.
Oh they haven't positioned it as a game device have they?
Then what's this then:
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/gallery/ads/
???
The entire iPod Touch ad campaign is "The funnest iPod ever" and the ads don't show anyone playing music or watching video, or surfing the web.
Do your research before spewing forth your opines. Apple HAS positioned the devices as game platforms, not necessarily unitaskers, which I think is the better strategy.
Holy cow! First I saw a 5 digit /. user, now a 3 DIGIT USER!
The WWDC brings them out yo.
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Both of the wise users made excellent points. The oligopoly is here to shaft you.
I concur ... TestDisk just saved 4gb of pictures from unreadable cards.
I also use DataRescue but TestDisk just kicked it's bits.
Obviously they were trying to play a DVD in the wrong fracking region!
Set your region codes to ... outer space?
On the other hand -- buy a mac doodz.
Yeah, the gaming industry really needs some GUARD RAILS so people don't steal so many ideas.
VIdeo is not for HTML5 to consider really, other than how it is attached. VIdeo, IMO is solved about as good as it can be with MPEG4/H264 which is a near universal format that I can watch on many, many devices without the use of Flash. Flash in fact can use H264 videos.
Granted some application handler is required for any video ... is this what you refer to? Who should handle the universal video decoder plugin? That's outside the scope of an HTML5 spec IMHO.
It's a great point to ponder however --- right now it's locked into either Flash or Quicktime as the two leading ways to receive video content on the web. Good vs. Better? Good vs. Evil? OK vs. WhoCares? Lot's of cameras use some components of Quicktime to handle video.
Then again, the video codecs will evolve with time too ...
I claim straw man dude.
>The simplest way to say it, they are more than happy to key in their password for anything that asks, even if they don't know what they are doing. After all, they are on a Mac, they don't have virus protection because it doesn't need it, so how is something bad going to get on the system. These are not normally dense people, well maybe they are proving me wrong.
This has NOTHING to do with owning and operating a Macintosh computer. Go back under your rock.
It's PEBKAC and you know it is ...
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Beyond certain vertical apps widespread java use for the average web surfer is D.E.A.D. -- show me a site that delivers anything in java.
I used to run a lot of java apps and found them to be easier to run on my Mac than my Win b/c the JVM actually existed in the first place. :) I haven't used jEdit in a long while but it used to be my primary text editor.
I only posted b/c I knew it would be huge ... over 1K posts for a Linux bashing topic! FTW!
Any guesses to the amount of comments this thread will get once the cabal gets enough juice in their systems to read?
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I don't care to hash over the OS wars...
George W Bush for making America the backwater of this area of research.
Here's to the future!
I never launch Acrobat Reader, and only rarely Acrobat Professional thanks to the simplicity and speed of Preview.app.
I remove the acrobat plug-in (manually from /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ since Adobe BORKED their installers to a complete nightmare level) -- I'd just as soon download the PDF or view it in window if I'm in a webkit browser.
Finally, all PDFs are associated with Preview and not Acrobat.
For us in the profession "webmaster" is less a content role anymore. A CMS provides the means for content owners to manage content.
As for what role a "webmaster" takes on ... in my org it has moved into more of a technical position since the ground has shifted under the old meaning.
The "web developer" tends to be one who writes code at the backend, writing bridges between data systems, or libraries for front end web folk to do their work.
In my role I need control over the following:
- define the data (structure the content into fields, and define the metadata that binds it altogether)
- manipulate the data (with some type of template system typically, query the data, add/delete/modify -- although this last step is frequently a content owner)
- present the data (this encompasses front end XHTML/CSS/JS, often the visual and behavior layers, and, it means we need to dynamically query the data on various pages to recombine it)
I am a "Web Strategist and Designer". We also have a "Content Producer" on the team who shares tasks.
It all breaks down according to how big a shop you are... Webmaster still works as a catch all but when you have a real CMS strategy, and a team, that traditional role breaks down. You want to start having someone think with foresight about the visual design, UX and UI of the site, the tools that people work with, and the content strategy. You want team members who either are implementing this strategy, or, using the strategy in day to day work...
It's a tricky space. What does this role perform?
Are you recruiting for a catch all?
Will this person lead the development of the overall Design strategy? Note the big D there... it's more than a photoshop template as you know. It's the XHTML/CSS structure that is forward thinking, the behavior layer that builds upon the user experience, that interacts with a content layout or information architecture...
Will this person only code back-end to middleware solutions?