It's good news because it will help kill IE6, which has serious CSS rendering problems and doesn't support PNG24 graphics.
As of today, IE6 still has significant market penetration. My guess is that corporate users keep that number high.
Yes it is mostly corporate users, in fact almost entirely corporate users by now. The good thing is that Firefox has surpassed IE in Europa already and the Firefox users tend to upgrade rather swiftly. I run a programmers site, and IE6 is somewhere around the same number as Opera users (most of the IE6 users come from corporate intranets in my case) but I have to support it.
I nowadays run the mentality, what I cannot support in IE6 within a few minutes of additional CSS is left out, period! There is always the possibility of being able to fall back to plain xhtml + a few bits of styling!
The good news is, that IE8 usage is picking up around the same number ie6 is going down!
Besides that, think of the web designers and programmers who still have to support that absymality IE6 in reality is regarding standards! They are forced to support it in many cases because many people refuse to let it go!
If I buy the Colosseum and then decide to blow it up "because it's mine",
Funny that you mentioned it, exactly what you described happened with the greek Acropolis in Athens a few hundred years ago. The turkish used it as a weapons storage and it blew up! Not that the greek back then even bothered, athens by that time was nothing more than a village with a handful of people!
I'm appending a list of browser features mutilated by web 2.0:
* The back, reload and forward buttons
* Navigation with the cursor keys.
* Bookmarking
* Searching in pages
The back, reload and forward buttons are doable even in web 2.0 by applying hash codes and history stacks to the navigation. It is not easy but doable!
Navigation with the cursor keys, same here doable!
Bookmarking, as well doable by adding deep linking via hash codes!
Searching in pages: pleaaze... that has nothing to do with dhtml based pages! You can search within pages as long as you are document centric and dont have a rich client application running!
The problems I see currently is that all of this stuff is doable but the browsers have deficiencies and some web application types are from the type where bookmarking for instance does not make sense!
I will give an example, most of the stuff mentioned can be done via applying a hash value which represents some kind of application state (hash because it is alterable from the script without causing page refreshes) Problem is you cannot rely on a onHashChange event except in IE8, there are hacks to bypass this limit, but they are really ugly, like polling the hash!
Bookmarking only really makes sense in a page context, what are you going to bookmark if you have a full blown rich client application like a mind mapping tool on your hand, you only can make the entry point of the submodule bookmarkable. Same goes for back which then probably will be relegated to undo or redo in this case....
See it from the positive side the summer gives us a few months time to develope a vaccine, I assume heavy vaccination will start in summer.
What made thw 1918 flu so serious was that there were no defense mechanisms on the medical side except for hygiene (which also was not existent mostly due to the ending war)
This time it is different, we know well how to react to a flu and having this emerging in spring means we have a few months time to react!
But I assume we should see it as a fair warning that cross genetic manipulations like some people proposed (growing transplant organs for humans in different mammals) should not be done. This is a first warning sort of!
There are some unique games, Papaton for instance, but if you count the number of really playable games on that platform you probably come down to 5-8 games... around 6 of them being released within the first year!
Most people after a while being bored simply hack the platform open to play emulated games due to drought of really interesting games. The last psp game I bought was Gods of War and Papaton since then nothing remotely interesting has been released... (Btw. the same goes for the DS I am sort of sick to look for gems under 10.000 tons of pony games...)
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Well you basically can say the same regarding Nintendo, they basically abandoned the DS with good releases when the Wii came out, the DS is fed mostly with shovelware nowadays with a few good titles from third party publishers...
As for the PSP I dont think piracy really was the doom of the platform, the lack of releases was more an issue, after a strong first year suddenly the release numbers went down the drain. Good releases like Gods of War sell well on the platform despite heavy piracy (which also is there on the DS) but fact is, that about 1 buyable release per year is not enough to keep potential buyers aware of the platform...
(The ds has at least 4-5 good games per year which are buyable not that much either besides 200 pony games but they are there)
Yes I agree while Fallout3 overall was a good game, it definitely was not a Fallout, it felt more like a humorless fan game... I hope the obsidian guys bring back the weird humor of the first two!
so what get yourself a pc and be happy... PS3 owners always geht shafted, the PC versions perform better mostly and cost 20$ less than the PS3 versions, you get what you pay for...
Oracle does not really have control over Java, they now just have the bigger control than IBM and others. Java and the surrounding frameworks have been developed under the umbrella of the JCP consortium for almost more than a decade now and the process works really well. I dont think too much will change there, Oracle now just employs many of the developers of the RIs...
Well he is in a nieche market, and I think Vogels comments are a little bit one sided. He sees that there are other platforms he probably could target, but he cannot see how to justify a port to those platforms because he cannot sell enough copies to make money. All I can say then is that he probably should not touch those platforms at all... He has a nieche and the platforms are definitely then wrong for him! People are paying him good money for his games and he deserves it, but he has to ask himself does he need to target the xbox or amazone if it does not fit into his pricing scheme. The answer is no, but then ranting that the games are too cheap is probably the wrong reaction!
Indie developers nowadays have more platforms than ever they can target, a good game done on many platforms can sell 5-6 times the numbers they used to sell...
Logic... the games are too cheap developers should raise their prices...
Good point Yahoos engine nowadays is excellent, but they lost to Google the same way Altavista was pushed into oblivion.
In other words, stop throwing crap at people who do only want to do a websearch. Altavista lost because their site was full of unrelated advertising crap and their search results suddenly reflected how much money a customer wanted to pay for being ranked high.
Yahoo looses because it throws too much crap at people while they simply want a search field and results!
The funny thing is, yahoo does so many things on the ajax side which are clearly way above anything else, that it would be a shame if they went under. The UI set is so much better than anything from any other library, the compression engine has become defacto standard etc...
They simply do not get it how their core business should work while google has shown it to them for almost a decade now!
Hint to Yahoo their is no market in portals if you want to be in the search engine business, people do not want to see crap if they just want to search!
Also think about trying to get a cooperation with Mozilla now the climate between Mozilla and google has cooled off. There are parts of the world where Mozilla is already the dominant browser!
Ok given my site is programmers centric, but the IE rate fell below 17% on this site absolute. Programmers usually are 2 years in front of the general public. As it seems they should give up trying to pull crap with IE (even with IE8 they tried to pull crap saying ACID3 is not standards while it clearly is, there is no HTML5 in ACID3 and then scoring measly 17% while even Fox3 scored around 70%)
They have lost the web programmers in the mindshare clearly and as it seems even in the general public Mozilla has surpassed them in absolute numbers on non programmers sites recently (with numbers similar to the programmers ones two years ago)
So in other words, if they loose the HTML dominance they have lost any foot to gain ground in the search engine area entirely. Which I personally see as a positive thing!
So in other words, the tricks Microsoft pulled in the past with IE6+ are backfiring now heavily, they simply screwed too many developers over! And they have lost them forever, those people are not forgiving years of pain of having to support their crapware as well while trying to support the rest of the world with standards!
Lose the developers lose the web how hard is that to grasp? Probably hard enough because they did not get it while monkey boy was screaming developers developers developers... And they still have not gotten it!
Funny thing is that moving from x86/32 to x86/64 gives on the average a speed boost of about 20%. But not because you suddenly have so much more address space it is just because suddenly you have twice as many registers on assembler level than before. A good compiler writer is not restricted by a low number of registers true, they can shift all into stack operations and work on stack machine level. However even vms which traditionally used to use stack machines due to their portability onto processors with high and low register counters are moving towards register based ones due to the speed improvements they get. Tell me what you want but there is a significant amount of speed to be gained by a high number of general purpose registers! After all register operations and stack operations are the two previvalent operations on assembler level counting for about 70% of all instructions and a register instruction has less load than stack operations which need about 2-3 times as many operations to perform the same as if you can keep the data in the registers themselves!
Yes caches pipelining are other areas where you can add a load of speed, but that does not say that a good number of registers is not needed. And Intel even in its 64 bit incarnation is hampered and crippled in this area. My question again, intel obviously has a bigger number of registers on bytecode level why do they do not expose it for heavens sake. Do they want to make the life of compiler builders harder than necessary? Obviously they do, if you look at the entire garbage the whole x86 instruction set is!
Well some things probably are offloaded to dedicated processors anyway. I have an elgato turbo 264 which does h264 encoding, guess what. The Power Consumption is a lot less than if I would make it on the Intel processor and the speed in the old version is somewhat faster (factor 2, about realtime for real h264 material)
This route is the route the arm netbooks want to go. Since they cannot use the shoddy intel GPUs anyway they go for nivida and other embedded graphics chipsets and those nowadays even can play full hd material without pushing the processor too much.
It is just intel who want to push everything through the processor, because having constantly new tasks which make the processor slower means people have to upgrade to the next (Intel processor) that is the reason why they currently have nvidia as their enemy number one, because Nvidia has both the technology on the software side as well as the GPUs which do exactly those tasks intel wants to see on their processors (running too slow) which run speedily thanks to their highly parallel architecture on the GPU.
And this is also why intel GPUs are generally among the shittiest the market currently provides. Intel always only does the absolutely necessary on the GPU to be able to sell those beasts! (Price matters and they always should be a vehicle to force users into the next processor upgrade)
Arm architectures do not have this burden and probably will offload those tasks to dedicated processors way more than intel ATOM based designs. So expect those things in exactly those areas probably run around circles compared to the intel designs.
The first netbooks based on ARM running full HD h264 videos without fans have been shown!
Actually following design really would make sense Arm netbook fanless with parts of the casing dedicated to solar panels. Not the cheapest design but definitely would make sense for battery life. Arm definitely has an awesome power management. Without ARM there would be no cell phones as we know it. They are powerful enough for those machines, the solar panels would add a a few extra hours especially in summer and in developing countries. Heck even a solar powered docking station would make sense!
This is no wonder, the Intel architecture is an arcane CISC architecture an in its state of instructions it has been always the worst in existence, over the years it has become better but from an operating instruction standpoint it still is one of the worst in existence. Way too few general purpose registers, an arcane instruction set which still is dragged around as legacy and on top of that a heap of new instructions some of them probably better off not being in processors at all added for marketing reasons.
Intel currently in its 64 bit incarnation has 16 bit general purpose registers while the 68000 CPUs already had 24-32. Now this is one area which improves speed significantly and it took AMD to finally add some registers intel never did. Instead they worked on making deeper pieplines etc...
The funny thing is that the entire x86 instruction set runs nowadays in a semi hardware vm on top of a risc core so intel is not too far off anyway but that does not change the fact from a high level point of view!
It was always beyound me why Intel never saw it as necessary to improve the number of registers, while every compiler writer knows how important exactly this area is for code efficiency! I dont think Intel has the knowledge, they write compilers themselves, but in the end probably marketing won over engineering. You cannot sell registers, but you can sell GHz (hence the shoddy Pentium 4 design)
Arm however had a different start. It started off as Risc with a load of registers and everything added afterwards was added in the aspect of keeping transistor count and memory consumption down. (After ARM was dead on the desktop because Windows and Intel took over, over the back then far superior ARM/RiscOS combination) ARM found its nieche and Intel seems to be scared to death, because there is one processor vendor selling millions of those things indirectly with power consumption levels they never can reach with their lousy design they have to drag along and those beasts finally get up to speed levels comparable to the Intel processors.
Intel rightfully should be scared, the only thing which prevents Intel from being shot out of the market entirely, is the stubbornness of the Users of wanting to have Windows run on any computer like device they have, also Netbooks. While an ARM machine can run 10 hours straight, and has hibernation without any problems Intel does not.
Problem is that being able to leverage Windows is almost as important for Intel as it is to Microsoft, without it they probably would have been reduced to a semi important processor designer of the size Transmeta once was. And in the end I doubt that ARM will make serious inroads in the Netbooks market in the long run, althoug ARM based netbooks are far superior to their shoddy Atom based ones in respect of power consumption! (The speed probably is the same especially if you can offload heavy graphics lifiting to a dedicated gpu)
Actually the faster arms are pretty much up to par with Atom. Dont underestimate ARMs, they basically are everywhere, almost every cellphone sold runs on arm and a load of other devices...
Sorry after reading the first 10 lines of the summary I stopped. The problem is that maybe often the infection goes away without treatment. But also very often it does not and to the worse becomes chronic. I once had such a hard stuck sinusitis, it never went away until I started treatment, what do I have to say, antibiotics and 1 month of treatment via infrared light did wonders... I am glad that it did not become chronic however...
Yes and the funny thing is, people constantly cry why the gimp has no mdi while photoshop has it. The gimp probably is closer to photoshop mac than photoshop Windows itself...
Since I work mostly on OSX nowadays, I must say, that probably the GIMP is the perfect photshop replacement UI wise, but only if you use the mac version (which most graphics professionals use)
But as I said I am not too fond of this metaphor and osx is moving away from it as well trying to dock all the floating windows into sidebars, which works for less complex applications but it does not work out for more complex ones
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It's good news because it will help kill IE6, which has serious CSS rendering problems and doesn't support PNG24 graphics.
As of today, IE6 still has significant market penetration. My guess is that corporate users keep that number high.
Yes it is mostly corporate users, in fact almost entirely corporate users by now. The good thing is that Firefox has surpassed IE in Europa already and the Firefox users tend to upgrade rather swiftly. I run a programmers site, and IE6 is somewhere around the same number as Opera users (most of the IE6 users come from corporate intranets in my case) but I have to support it.
I nowadays run the mentality, what I cannot support in IE6 within a few minutes of additional CSS is left out, period! There is always the possibility of being able to fall back to plain xhtml + a few bits of styling!
The good news is, that IE8 usage is picking up around the same number ie6 is going down!
Besides that, think of the web designers and programmers who still have to support that absymality IE6 in reality is regarding standards!
They are forced to support it in many cases because many people refuse to let it go!
If I buy the Colosseum and then decide to blow it up "because it's mine",
Funny that you mentioned it, exactly what you described happened with the greek Acropolis in Athens a few hundred years ago. The turkish used it as a weapons storage and it blew up!
Not that the greek back then even bothered, athens by that time was nothing more than a village with a handful of people!
I'm appending a list of browser features mutilated by web 2.0:
* The back, reload and forward buttons
* Navigation with the cursor keys.
* Bookmarking
* Searching in pages
The back, reload and forward buttons are doable even in web 2.0 by applying hash codes and history stacks to the navigation. It is not easy but doable!
Navigation with the cursor keys, same here doable!
Bookmarking, as well doable by adding deep linking via hash codes!
Searching in pages: pleaaze... that has nothing to do with dhtml based pages!
You can search within pages as long as you are document centric and dont have a rich client application running!
The problems I see currently is that all of this stuff is doable but the browsers have deficiencies and some web application types are from the type where bookmarking for instance does not make sense!
I will give an example, most of the stuff mentioned can be done via applying a hash value which represents some kind of application state (hash because it is alterable from the script without causing page refreshes)
Problem is you cannot rely on a onHashChange event except in IE8, there are hacks to bypass this limit, but they are really ugly, like polling the hash!
Bookmarking only really makes sense in a page context, what are you going to bookmark if you have a full blown rich client application like a mind mapping tool on your hand, you only can make the entry point of the submodule bookmarkable. Same goes for back which then probably will be relegated to undo or redo in this case....
See it from the positive side the summer gives us a few months time to develope a vaccine, I assume heavy vaccination will start in summer.
What made thw 1918 flu so serious was that there were no defense mechanisms on the medical side except for hygiene (which also was not existent mostly due to the ending war)
This time it is different, we know well how to react to a flu and having this emerging in spring means we have a few months time to react!
But I assume we should see it as a fair warning that cross genetic manipulations like some people proposed (growing transplant organs for humans in different mammals) should not be done. This is a first warning sort of!
This is pretty much what watchmen will make if you add the DVD and blue ray and tv releases to the calculation...
There are some unique games, Papaton for instance, but if you count the number of really playable games on that platform you probably come down to 5-8 games... around 6 of them being released within the first year!
Most people after a while being bored simply hack the platform open to play emulated games due to drought of really interesting games.
The last psp game I bought was Gods of War and Papaton since then nothing remotely interesting has been released...
(Btw. the same goes for the DS I am sort of sick to look for gems under 10.000 tons of pony games...)
Well you basically can say the same regarding Nintendo, they basically abandoned the DS with good releases when the Wii came out, the DS is fed mostly with shovelware nowadays with a few good titles from third party publishers...
As for the PSP I dont think piracy really was the doom of the platform, the lack of releases was more an issue, after a strong first year suddenly the release numbers went down the drain. Good releases like Gods of War sell well on the platform despite heavy piracy (which also is there on the DS) but fact is, that about 1 buyable release per year is not enough to keep potential buyers aware of the platform...
(The ds has at least 4-5 good games per year which are buyable not that much either besides 200 pony games but they are there)
Yes I agree while Fallout3 overall was a good game, it definitely was not a Fallout, it felt more like a humorless fan game...
I hope the obsidian guys bring back the weird humor of the first two!
so what get yourself a pc and be happy...
PS3 owners always geht shafted, the PC versions perform better mostly and cost 20$ less than the PS3 versions, you get what you pay for...
Oracle does not really have control over Java, they now just have the bigger control than IBM and others. Java and the surrounding frameworks have been developed under the umbrella of the JCP consortium for almost more than a decade now and the process works really well. I dont think too much will change there, Oracle now just employs many of the developers of the RIs...
Problem is Apple is at fault here having given the users this impression, remember the PC vs Mac ads with the virus?
Seriously any system can be infected by idiotic user handling any system which gives the user some kind of freedom.
Mac or Linux are no exception!
Hell not even OpenBSD which probably is the most secure os there is!
Me neither, but at least I can play with my Wii...
Get yourself a PC then you can have the DLC...
Well he is in a nieche market, and I think Vogels comments are a little bit one sided. He sees that there are other platforms he probably could target, but he cannot see how to justify a port to those platforms because he cannot sell enough copies to make money. All I can say then is that he probably should not touch those platforms at all...
He has a nieche and the platforms are definitely then wrong for him!
People are paying him good money for his games and he deserves it, but he has to ask himself does he need to target the xbox or amazone if it does not fit into his pricing scheme. The answer is no, but then ranting that the games are too cheap is probably the wrong reaction!
Indie developers nowadays have more platforms than ever they can target, a good game done on many platforms can sell 5-6 times the numbers they used to sell...
Logic... the games are too cheap developers should raise their prices...
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Good point Yahoos engine nowadays is excellent, but they lost to Google the same way Altavista was pushed into oblivion.
In other words, stop throwing crap at people who do only want to do a websearch. Altavista lost because their site was full of unrelated advertising crap and their search results suddenly reflected how much money a customer wanted to pay for being ranked high.
Yahoo looses because it throws too much crap at people while they simply want a search field and results!
The funny thing is, yahoo does so many things on the ajax side which are clearly way above anything else, that it would be a shame if they went under. The UI set is so much better than anything from any other library, the compression engine has become defacto standard etc...
They simply do not get it how their core business should work while google has shown it to them for almost a decade now!
Hint to Yahoo their is no market in portals if you want to be in the search engine business, people do not want to see crap if they just want to search!
Also think about trying to get a cooperation with Mozilla now the climate between Mozilla and google has cooled off. There are parts of the world where Mozilla is already the dominant browser!
Ok given my site is programmers centric, but the IE rate fell below 17% on this site absolute.
Programmers usually are 2 years in front of the general public. As it seems they should give up trying to pull crap with IE (even with IE8 they tried to pull crap saying ACID3 is not standards while it clearly is, there is no HTML5 in ACID3 and then scoring measly 17% while even Fox3 scored around 70%)
They have lost the web programmers in the mindshare clearly and as it seems even in the general public Mozilla has surpassed them in absolute numbers on non programmers sites recently (with numbers similar to the programmers ones two years ago)
So in other words, if they loose the HTML dominance they have lost any foot to gain ground in the search engine area entirely. Which I personally see as a positive thing!
So in other words, the tricks Microsoft pulled in the past with IE6+ are backfiring now heavily, they simply screwed too many developers over!
And they have lost them forever, those people are not forgiving years of pain of having to support their crapware as well while trying to support the rest of the world with standards!
Lose the developers lose the web how hard is that to grasp? Probably hard enough because they did not get it while monkey boy was screaming developers developers developers...
And they still have not gotten it!
Funny thing is that moving from x86/32 to x86/64 gives on the average a speed boost of about 20%. But not because you suddenly have so much more address space it is just because suddenly you have twice as many registers on assembler level than before.
A good compiler writer is not restricted by a low number of registers true, they can shift all into stack operations and work on stack machine level. However even vms which traditionally used to use stack machines due to their portability onto processors with high and low register counters are moving towards register based ones due to the speed improvements they get.
Tell me what you want but there is a significant amount of speed to be gained by a high number of general purpose registers!
After all register operations and stack operations are the two previvalent operations on assembler level counting for about 70% of all instructions and a register instruction has less load than stack operations which need about 2-3 times as many operations to perform the same as if you can keep the data in the registers themselves!
Yes caches pipelining are other areas where you can add a load of speed, but that does not say that a good number of registers is not needed.
And Intel even in its 64 bit incarnation is hampered and crippled in this area. My question again, intel obviously has a bigger number of registers on bytecode level why do they do not expose it for heavens sake. Do they want to make the life of compiler builders harder than necessary? Obviously they do, if you look at the entire garbage the whole x86 instruction set is!
Well some things probably are offloaded to dedicated processors anyway. I have an elgato turbo 264 which does h264 encoding, guess what. The Power Consumption is a lot less than if I would make it on the Intel processor and the speed in the old version is somewhat faster (factor 2, about realtime for real h264 material)
This route is the route the arm netbooks want to go. Since they cannot use the shoddy intel GPUs anyway they go for nivida and other embedded graphics chipsets and those nowadays even can play full hd material without pushing the processor too much.
It is just intel who want to push everything through the processor, because having constantly new tasks which make the processor slower means people have to upgrade to the next (Intel processor) that is the reason why they currently have nvidia as their enemy number one, because Nvidia has both the technology on the software side as well as the GPUs which do exactly those tasks intel wants to see on their processors (running too slow) which run speedily thanks to their highly parallel architecture on the GPU.
And this is also why intel GPUs are generally among the shittiest the market currently provides. Intel always only does the absolutely necessary on the GPU to be able to sell those beasts! (Price matters and they always should be a vehicle to force users into the next processor upgrade)
Arm architectures do not have this burden and probably will offload those tasks to dedicated processors way more than intel ATOM based designs. So expect those things in exactly those areas probably run around circles compared to the intel designs.
The first netbooks based on ARM running full HD h264 videos without fans have been shown!
Actually following design really would make sense
Arm netbook fanless with parts of the casing dedicated to solar panels. Not the cheapest design but definitely would make sense for battery life.
Arm definitely has an awesome power management. Without ARM there would be no cell phones as we know it. They are powerful enough for those machines, the solar panels would add a a few extra hours especially in summer and in developing countries.
Heck even a solar powered docking station would make sense!
This is no wonder, the Intel architecture is an arcane CISC architecture an in its state of instructions it has been always the worst in existence, over the years it has become better but from an operating instruction standpoint it still is one of the worst in existence. Way too few general purpose registers, an arcane instruction set which still is dragged around as legacy and on top of that a heap of new instructions some of them probably better off not being in processors at all added for marketing reasons.
Intel currently in its 64 bit incarnation has 16 bit general purpose registers while the 68000 CPUs already had 24-32. Now this is one area which improves speed significantly and it took AMD to finally add some registers intel never did. Instead they worked on making deeper pieplines etc...
The funny thing is that the entire x86 instruction set runs nowadays in a semi hardware vm on top of a risc core so intel is not too far off anyway but that does not change the fact from a high level point of view!
It was always beyound me why Intel never saw it as necessary to improve the number of registers, while every compiler writer knows how important exactly this area is for code efficiency!
I dont think Intel has the knowledge, they write compilers themselves, but in the end probably marketing won over engineering. You cannot sell registers, but you can sell GHz (hence the shoddy Pentium 4 design)
Arm however had a different start. It started off as Risc with a load of registers and everything added afterwards was added in the aspect of keeping transistor count and memory consumption down. (After ARM was dead on the desktop because Windows and Intel took over, over the back then far superior ARM/RiscOS combination)
ARM found its nieche and Intel seems to be scared to death, because there is one processor vendor selling millions of those things indirectly with power consumption levels they never can reach with their lousy design they have to drag along and those beasts finally get up to speed levels comparable to the Intel processors.
Intel rightfully should be scared, the only thing which prevents Intel from being shot out of the market entirely, is the stubbornness of the Users of wanting to have Windows run on any computer like device they have, also Netbooks.
While an ARM machine can run 10 hours straight, and has hibernation without any problems Intel does not.
Problem is that being able to leverage Windows is almost as important for Intel as it is to Microsoft, without it they probably would have been reduced to a semi important processor designer of the size Transmeta once was. And in the end I doubt that ARM will make serious inroads in the Netbooks market in the long run, althoug ARM based netbooks are far superior to their shoddy Atom based ones in respect of power consumption! (The speed probably is the same especially if you can offload heavy graphics lifiting to a dedicated gpu)
Actually the faster arms are pretty much up to par with Atom. Dont underestimate ARMs, they basically are everywhere, almost every cellphone sold runs on arm and a load of other devices...
Sorry after reading the first 10 lines of the summary I stopped. The problem is that maybe often the infection goes away without treatment. But also very often it does not and to the worse becomes chronic. I once had such a hard stuck sinusitis, it never went away until I started treatment, what do I have to say, antibiotics and 1 month of treatment via infrared light did wonders...
I am glad that it did not become chronic however...
Yes and the funny thing is, people constantly cry why the gimp has no mdi while photoshop has it.
The gimp probably is closer to photoshop mac than photoshop Windows itself...
Since I work mostly on OSX nowadays, I must say, that probably the GIMP is the perfect photshop replacement UI wise, but only if you use the mac version (which most graphics professionals use)
But as I said I am not too fond of this metaphor and osx is moving away from it as well trying to dock all the floating windows into sidebars, which works for less complex applications but it does not work out for more complex ones