Examples of this so called "maze of non-standard baloney" or you get called troll.
AFIK all the variants of airport base stations have been to spec or working draft in the case of 802.11 N.
I've worked with many of them on a campus and with a wide variety of devices with no mystery debugging. Then again, I am not one of those sysadmins or netadmins who make it easy to make things hard.
This is the way it works on OSX... The machine appears available as a network resource yet remains asleep until yo attempt to utilize one of its hosted network services, afterwhich it wakes up. Does not wake for ping.
For anyone snarking on about ATT and FaceTime being WiFi only... they can't manage to launch an updated website in time for an announcement which will pour millions of customers in to check their upgrade eligibility.
Guess what Best Buy, Macy's, Banana Republic, LL Bean, Dicks Sporting Goods, or maybe you know WalMart better?, or insert your retailer of choice here are? They are all curated experiences!
You, as a regular schmuck (I'm presuming) are not really affected by the so-called "draconian policies"... and furthermore, it's a bit of stretch to call a curated app store a draconian experience. I've not once felt excessively, harshly, nor severely treated while using my iPhone.
Thank you. Going to spend a few minutes with each and write a reply.
1. seriously? this is not an improvement to the lightbox or more traditional way of filtering images from a database. it's a gimmick. the interface and UI are confusing to use, can you even see an actual image not marred by the fake screen lines? i have my own tunes. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
2. no. this is better done in html, forget html5, just good ol xhtml/css Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
3. close. i have a lot of criticism of this piece but I put this in the category of using Flash to the right end. The execution is laden with unnecessary transitions. The unstandard UI is fine for this immersive experience and works as part of the design. It's buggy on my system and when I go to a section e.g., Invasive species, the text is unreadable due to designer conceit, and the bug appears then where the text block is flashing on/off over the background animation. So while I believe this is a valuable use of Flash the execution is lacking AND the write once, run anywhere fails. Verdict: Good use of Flash.
4. no dice here either. this should not be a giant flash container, period. this should be xhtml/css -- the transitions are not needed. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
5. Love the HBO layout but this too should just be xhtml/css and some good old database logic. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
6. oh and the parent site gotmilk.com is a giant flash box... but well done. Verdict: Decent use of Flash which likely serves some marketers idea of increased uptake with a younger audience to keep them buying cow milk. Cute stuff. I wonder why it's necessary but someone thought it was and Flash is a great tool for the job. Nice immersive experiences.
7. nope. this is just a web site. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
8. I get why studios think this is cool, they can add a transition and music!, but, it just makes it difficult to use the site, and more expensive to build and maintain. This is just a web site. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
9. God I hate waiting through a fancy loading bar only to be presented with a static fucking image and a button that says "Open" -- what a giant bowl of fail IMO. OK I opened it. The transitions are too long, the section opened, I click for more info and it closes! Over and over. FAIL! Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash. Find better ways to be creative, and NEVER present 9 pixel text on a screen you idiots!@ Verdict: Cruel, unusual, and unnecessarily vile use of Flash. I HATE this site and deem it example prima for why not to use flash to build a web site.
10. Loading, loading, loading... Not bad as a portfolio site. I get the why and the execution works. Does it work more than a well done web site, not really. Was it probably easier and maybe even challenging to build for the designer, likely. This could be done as a good web site and it'd be even more accessible. Verdict: Somewhat unnecessary use of Flash but understandable given the designer's limitations and mind set. In graduate school, for a design studies class I once handed in a floppy disk which contained a Director player file. It was a similar, immersive story to complete an assignment. I like this guy's overall take on things.
So out of those sites 3 of 10 pass the test. I wager that some 90% of flash usage is unnecessary across the entire internets. This curated list is a more biased example of the spectrum. Not one restaurant made the cut and those are notorious for rendering horrid menus in a flash container.
And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large --"... and Google didst savest the peoples of the internets and track their every movement.
Same quote I picked out to comment on... I took the bait but had a meeting so couldn't post until hundreds of others.
I need someone to show me "drop-dead gorgeous Websites" that are actually usable, engaging, and used more than 30 seconds by the visitor. Anything? Beuler?
Most sites I see are designer conceits with text that is too small to read, unnecessary animation, ill conceived interaction, and serving little purpose beyond a billboard. I won't advocate to throw out the Flash platform because 90% of the produced works are garbage but will call them out.
I'll wager that both MSFT and AAPL mobile platforms will not allow extra system fonts to be installed. One can however present content in a web page with a custom font to mobile safari. But because of this I don't fly off the rail and consider them both wicked and run crying.
But! The biggest problem I have with the eBook is you are askprobe pay a similar price as a paperback book but you never own the material. I had not paid much attention to ebooks, just some casual tinkering with the kindle app. But when I bought an iPad I became interested. Wnd then Apple updated iTunes and I read the EULA!!
Ebooks are not sold to a customer, they are licensed. It ides not matter if the format is the same, if the publisher decides they will turn off access to the book you purchased. Now this goes against all good intentions of exchange IMO.
Nah don't worry, Google is your friend, your lover, your new red bicycle.
Trust us. We are not evil.
Those who eschew Apple just b/c they are on top, or b/c of some perceived wrong doing, Google knows when, where, and what your search, whom you talk to, where you travel, and in some cases what you buy.
Most bullies will definitely step off once you show them you fight back.
Unless they are behind a keyboard here on/. calling someone a fanboy, idiot, loser, clueless or some other level of hate for using, buying, or merely commenting positively about some thing or other.
Yah sure, go downt that path of inquiry if you want, but I am certain there is a correlation here, with AAPL and the value their products hold for customers -- period. They sell tangible goods only (well some are obviously software or digital downloads, ut tangible nonetheless) and customers pay Apple money for those goods.
Google sells and a line of bullshit a out freedom. If you use Google services, google knows where you surf, drive, who you email, what times of the day you search, what you search, where you login, who your friends are, what words you click... All to sell you ads.
Apple primarily designs computer products to provide customers the means to productivity, entertainment, and creativity. I suspect the upcoming foray into ads has much more to do with denying Google the sponge than anything else. But that is just a hunch.
Just pick one of Google's many "we shall own the universe" rollouts at IO and get back to me in 5 years.
All your data belong to us! No thanks to Google turn by turn... they don't need to know where I drive as well as where I surf, who I email, when I click, when I logon.
Apple has been so "ridiculous and often impractical and restrictive company" that I have seen a near 1000% return on the 150 shares I bought a decade ago.
I honestly don't get the anti-hyperbole and vitriol... point to something you have done better before sowing your entire life with such negativity and disdain.
This is truly a religion for some of you isn't it?
> So, at times calling someone a "fanboy" is a kind of ad hominem attack, skirting the real issue. At other times, "fanboy" is a true description of the state of being of the a person.
You make the most sense here. But I call religion.
The former definition of yours is the form most often used in the "technical world"... a dismissal, a de-humanization so you can better become a "____ killer". Religion is what this is about. Most buyers of a product do not have a religious attitude about the product. Religion, in my experience produces ad hominem attacks, therefore those here who use the word "fanboy" or its derivations have their own religion to contend with, not the other way around.
The latter form is true when speaking of the Taliban, Republicans intolerant of just about anything, Liberals intolerant of weapons, or most people who carry any religion to heart.
If Apple is allowed to "undermine this next chapter of the web" then 98% of enterprises WILL FAIL!
(ahem, Apple is doing a hella lot more to support the NEXT chapter of the web, rather than hold it in the current chapter of the web... this argument is about native applications on the iPhone OS, NOT THE WEB!!!)
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Examples of this so called "maze of non-standard baloney" or you get called troll.
AFIK all the variants of airport base stations have been to spec or working draft in the case of 802.11 N.
I've worked with many of them on a campus and with a wide variety of devices with no mystery debugging. Then again, I am not one of those sysadmins or netadmins who make it easy to make things hard.
This is the way it works on OSX ... The machine appears available as a network resource yet remains asleep until yo attempt to utilize one of its hosted network services, afterwhich it wakes up. Does not wake for ping.
For anyone snarking on about ATT and FaceTime being WiFi only ... they can't manage to launch an updated website in time for an announcement which will pour millions of customers in to check their upgrade eligibility.
http://twitpic.com/1uu6gz
Apple's site is live with new iPhone 4 pages and info.
FWIW
+1
I'm boggled as hell.
Guess what Best Buy, Macy's, Banana Republic, LL Bean, Dicks Sporting Goods, or maybe you know WalMart better?, or insert your retailer of choice here are? They are all curated experiences!
You, as a regular schmuck (I'm presuming) are not really affected by the so-called "draconian policies" ... and furthermore, it's a bit of stretch to call a curated app store a draconian experience. I've not once felt excessively, harshly, nor severely treated while using my iPhone.
It's a wicked tired canard.
Thank you. Going to spend a few minutes with each and write a reply.
1. seriously? this is not an improvement to the lightbox or more traditional way of filtering images from a database. it's a gimmick. the interface and UI are confusing to use, can you even see an actual image not marred by the fake screen lines? i have my own tunes. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
2. no. this is better done in html, forget html5, just good ol xhtml/css Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
3. close. i have a lot of criticism of this piece but I put this in the category of using Flash to the right end. The execution is laden with unnecessary transitions. The unstandard UI is fine for this immersive experience and works as part of the design.
It's buggy on my system and when I go to a section e.g., Invasive species, the text is unreadable due to designer conceit, and the bug appears then where the text block is flashing on/off over the background animation. So while I believe this is a valuable use of Flash the execution is lacking AND the write once, run anywhere fails. Verdict: Good use of Flash.
4. no dice here either. this should not be a giant flash container, period. this should be xhtml/css -- the transitions are not needed. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
5. Love the HBO layout but this too should just be xhtml/css and some good old database logic. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
6. oh and the parent site gotmilk.com is a giant flash box... but well done. Verdict: Decent use of Flash which likely serves some marketers idea of increased uptake with a younger audience to keep them buying cow milk. Cute stuff. I wonder why it's necessary but someone thought it was and Flash is a great tool for the job. Nice immersive experiences.
7. nope. this is just a web site. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
8. I get why studios think this is cool, they can add a transition and music!, but, it just makes it difficult to use the site, and more expensive to build and maintain. This is just a web site. Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash.
9. God I hate waiting through a fancy loading bar only to be presented with a static fucking image and a button that says "Open" -- what a giant bowl of fail IMO. OK I opened it. The transitions are too long, the section opened, I click for more info and it closes! Over and over. FAIL! Verdict: Unnecessary use of Flash. Find better ways to be creative, and NEVER present 9 pixel text on a screen you idiots!@ Verdict: Cruel, unusual, and unnecessarily vile use of Flash. I HATE this site and deem it example prima for why not to use flash to build a web site.
10. Loading, loading, loading... Not bad as a portfolio site. I get the why and the execution works. Does it work more than a well done web site, not really. Was it probably easier and maybe even challenging to build for the designer, likely. This could be done as a good web site and it'd be even more accessible. Verdict: Somewhat unnecessary use of Flash but understandable given the designer's limitations and mind set. In graduate school, for a design studies class I once handed in a floppy disk which contained a Director player file. It was a similar, immersive story to complete an assignment. I like this guy's overall take on things.
So out of those sites 3 of 10 pass the test. I wager that some 90% of flash usage is unnecessary across the entire internets. This curated list is a more biased example of the spectrum. Not one restaurant made the cut and those are notorious for rendering horrid menus in a flash container.
And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large --" ... and Google didst savest the peoples of the internets and track their every movement.
Same quote I picked out to comment on ... I took the bait but had a meeting so couldn't post until hundreds of others.
I need someone to show me "drop-dead gorgeous Websites" that are actually usable, engaging, and used more than 30 seconds by the visitor. Anything? Beuler?
Most sites I see are designer conceits with text that is too small to read, unnecessary animation, ill conceived interaction, and serving little purpose beyond a billboard.
I won't advocate to throw out the Flash platform because 90% of the produced works are garbage but will call them out.
Your post is another attempt at coherence?
I'll wager that both MSFT and AAPL mobile platforms will not allow extra system fonts to be installed. One can however present content in a web page with a custom font to mobile safari.
But because of this I don't fly off the rail and consider them both wicked and run crying.
I wonder if app developers for iPhone OS can include custom fonts ... hmmm, wait for it ... yes, iSSH http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/issh-ssh-vnc-console/id287765826?mt=8 has included your choice of 6 fonts with the app with only Courier native IIRC.
Jesus christ are you daft or just lazy?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+ipad+price
16gb wifi only - 499.00
and going up for a few increases in memory, then more for wifi+3g.
Sigh.
Agreed, one format to rule them all.
But! The biggest problem I have with the eBook is you are askprobe pay a similar price as a paperback book but you never own the material. I had not paid much attention to ebooks, just some casual tinkering with the kindle app. But when I bought an iPad I became interested. Wnd then Apple updated iTunes and I read the EULA!!
Ebooks are not sold to a customer, they are licensed.
It ides not matter if the format is the same, if the publisher decides they will turn off access to the book you purchased. Now this goes against all good intentions of exchange IMO.
Just shut your pie hole and buy an Android device so Google can influence even more of your life.
Nah don't worry, Google is your friend, your lover, your new red bicycle.
Trust us. We are not evil.
Those who eschew Apple just b/c they are on top, or b/c of some perceived wrong doing, Google knows when, where, and what your search, whom you talk to, where you travel, and in some cases what you buy.
I have had luck with this place who do reset and refilled cartridges: http://www.ldproducts.com/
I use them in my Epson R800.
You aren't "locked" into anything are you? There are 100s of devices, all of them choices.
No, The beginning of the end of Internet advertising propping up evil bullshit starts here.
Most bullies will definitely step off once you show them you fight back.
Unless they are behind a keyboard here on /. calling someone a fanboy, idiot, loser, clueless or some other level of hate for using, buying, or merely commenting positively about some thing or other.
Yah sure, go downt that path of inquiry if you want, but I am certain there is a correlation here, with AAPL and the value their products hold for customers -- period. They sell tangible goods only (well some are obviously software or digital downloads, ut tangible nonetheless) and customers pay Apple money for those goods.
Google sells and a line of bullshit a out freedom. ... All to sell you ads.
If you use Google services, google knows where you surf, drive, who you email, what times of the day you search, what you search, where you login, who your friends are, what words you click
Apple primarily designs computer products to provide customers the means to productivity, entertainment, and creativity. I suspect the upcoming foray into ads has much more to do with denying Google the sponge than anything else. But that is just a hunch.
Just pick one of Google's many "we shall own the universe" rollouts at IO and get back to me in 5 years.
All your data belong to us! No thanks to Google turn by turn ... they don't need to know where I drive as well as where I surf, who I email, when I click, when I logon.
I'm quitting all Google.
Apple has been so "ridiculous and often impractical and restrictive company" that I have seen a near 1000% return on the 150 shares I bought a decade ago.
I honestly don't get the anti-hyperbole and vitriol ... point to something you have done better before sowing your entire life with such negativity and disdain.
This is truly a religion for some of you isn't it?
I agree. One day all these Google-gaga-boys will wake up wondering WTF.
You may be right... I dont really have time for this. Sorry but can't go back and give you your time back.
Hah -- true, true.
> So, at times calling someone a "fanboy" is a kind of ad hominem attack, skirting the real issue. At other times, "fanboy" is a true description of the state of being of the a person.
You make the most sense here. But I call religion.
The former definition of yours is the form most often used in the "technical world" ... a dismissal, a de-humanization so you can better become a "____ killer". Religion is what this is about. Most buyers of a product do not have a religious attitude about the product. Religion, in my experience produces ad hominem attacks, therefore those here who use the word "fanboy" or its derivations have their own religion to contend with, not the other way around.
The latter form is true when speaking of the Taliban, Republicans intolerant of just about anything, Liberals intolerant of weapons, or most people who carry any religion to heart.
Bail out Adobe now, write your senators, frack, just call up Obama and get a new bailout going.
-- "98% of enterprises rely upon Flash Player" -- http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html
If Apple is allowed to "undermine this next chapter of the web" then 98% of enterprises WILL FAIL!
(ahem, Apple is doing a hella lot more to support the NEXT chapter of the web, rather than hold it in the current chapter of the web ... this argument is about native applications on the iPhone OS, NOT THE WEB!!!)
And anyone who uses the word, or any derivation of the word "fanboy" is immediately modded down in my world.
I don't care what topic you are discussing ... it's an outright dismissal which does not allow any room for thoughtful observation or discussion.
So there.
You are demeaned by Apple adverts?? Grow a pair man, or thicken up your skin girl! You are way too sensitive.