It's a big company, and you can only have so many hands in things at once. Shockingly, adobe seems to grasp the importance of android for flash and it seems like they're really putting some effort into it.
>Spend just a few minutes browsing to video sites on an iPad and it's pretty stunning how many just switch to HTML 5 now.
Really? I have an iphone, and would say the exact opposite. It's stunning how few do. In fact, I don't think I've ever come on a site on my iphone that had html5 video.
Well yes, that's the point. He was replying to a post making a subjective claim and he's making a counter point that it's subjective by using his own experience.
Battery life is appalling. With moderate use I have to charge the Desire twice each day.
That's about what I get with my iphone using bluetooth and frequent mp3 playback. Annoying, I'd agree. But I think it'd be far less so in a device where I can just swap the battery out.
A year after you die, almost nobody. A hundred years, possibly quite a few. Two hundred, I'm betting it'd quite possibly of historic importance. Recording and understanding history is very limited by how little "guy on the street" information we have for so much of it.
Eh, every year when a "Oh my god, is steam coming out on linux! Look at this file I just found!" story hits slashdot it's made pretty clear soon after that gaming companies leave clutter around quite often.
For me, personally I like it because it gives me a chance to play around with android on real hardware before making the switch away from apple. There's a lot of us 1st gen users whose contracts are just expiring. Time for us to make the choice on whether to continue supporting apple or not.
It's something I've been bemused and a little nervous about for a long time. Slashdot seems to have one of the older userbases of the sites I visit. And I've been a little freaked out seeing how age affects geeks. I'd always assumed we were pretty much immune to it. But I'm seeing the same clinging to old techniques and ideas in the geek community here that I do in any other social group.
That's pretty much the only reason I read his statements on it anymore. As an example of what happens when you get old and the wold starts to change around you to a point where you can't quite understand it anymore.
It alls comes down to "and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a". I didn't mind apple's often draconian measures until it finally hit what I wanted to do. Now that it has, I'm finally reminded why it's best to support the most open systems possible.
Seriously. Is anyone going to really plug into the iPad while they are running on the treadmill?
I use wireless headphones with the iphone. All the standard music controls work fine just controlling it over bluetooth. I think someone would be nuts to use a wired system with the ipad, but I think doing it wireless should work fine. The only slight downside is that it can be a bit finicky when trying to get it working with some non-itunes content. But for the most part it's worked great.
Although, admitedly, I would like to view my XviD movie files and have access to an expandable SD Card. I am already hit the 16 GB limitation of the internal storage.
You might see if orb works for you. I've only played around with it a little bit since I'm mostly running linux at home. And it's pretty fragile under wine at the moment. But it did seem to do a good job of transcoding and streaming xvid encoded avi files to my iphone.
Except almost everything I use windows for comes down to gaming. The one thing a VM fails at. It's not getting ultimate output in FPS like you mention, it's getting games playable at all. At least at the moment, my experience has been that a VM won't give anything even close to the reliability of wine when it comes to gaming. And wine itself is a bit of a gamble there.
I think Slashdotters are for the most part woefully ignorant of how the rest of humanity actually uses computers, and would do well to understand these types of use cases.
I think slashdot has a majority of users who were used to being "the generation who got computers". And are also of a generation that doesn't quite realize that they're actually old now. Very old people are freaked out by computers. Most people under 30 or so grew up with them and find it about as intimidating as an ink pen.
Might, yes. But marketing often seems like a retarded bastard child of psychology. And I was a psychology major, and was often horrified by just how bad the science there often was.
I love the borg idea. I'd be running for assimilation in a second if it were reality. It's not destroying yourself, it's merging the drop of water you are with the ocean of intelligence. Always bugged me that trek characters didn't see how awesome that is.
Reading slashdot should show any kid that they're not any better off than anyone else when it comes to being left behind the times due to age. The extent of "aging geek syndrome" here is probably worse than almost anywhere on the web proper.
You have to be kidding me. Who watches cams? Even a ts is pretty horrible. The latter might have about 10,000 seeds or so for a really popular movie. But that's 10000 people on the entire planet. A percentage of which don't even have the movie released locally to buy tickets for. You might have a point if screaners were dropping the same time as big releases, but that happens so infrequently that most people can name the occurrences off the top of their heads.
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I have been using not one, not two, but THREE Firefox plug ins to keep Flash from screwing up my laptop. I do NOT want this experience in my phone.
Why haven't you just uninstalled flash on it? Also, why is it taking anything more than flashblock?
It's a big company, and you can only have so many hands in things at once. Shockingly, adobe seems to grasp the importance of android for flash and it seems like they're really putting some effort into it.
>Spend just a few minutes browsing to video sites on an iPad and it's pretty stunning how many just switch to HTML 5 now. Really? I have an iphone, and would say the exact opposite. It's stunning how few do. In fact, I don't think I've ever come on a site on my iphone that had html5 video.
Well yes, that's the point. He was replying to a post making a subjective claim and he's making a counter point that it's subjective by using his own experience.
Dropping support, coincidently, right at a point where a lot of first gen users are finding their AT&T contracts ended.
Battery life is appalling. With moderate use I have to charge the Desire twice each day.
That's about what I get with my iphone using bluetooth and frequent mp3 playback. Annoying, I'd agree. But I think it'd be far less so in a device where I can just swap the battery out.
A year after you die, almost nobody. A hundred years, possibly quite a few. Two hundred, I'm betting it'd quite possibly of historic importance. Recording and understanding history is very limited by how little "guy on the street" information we have for so much of it.
Eh, every year when a "Oh my god, is steam coming out on linux! Look at this file I just found!" story hits slashdot it's made pretty clear soon after that gaming companies leave clutter around quite often.
For me, personally I like it because it gives me a chance to play around with android on real hardware before making the switch away from apple. There's a lot of us 1st gen users whose contracts are just expiring. Time for us to make the choice on whether to continue supporting apple or not.
It's something I've been bemused and a little nervous about for a long time. Slashdot seems to have one of the older userbases of the sites I visit. And I've been a little freaked out seeing how age affects geeks. I'd always assumed we were pretty much immune to it. But I'm seeing the same clinging to old techniques and ideas in the geek community here that I do in any other social group.
Yes. Sexual innuendo is art. As are puns.
What about trolling? Is trolling a art?
That's pretty much the only reason I read his statements on it anymore. As an example of what happens when you get old and the wold starts to change around you to a point where you can't quite understand it anymore.
It alls comes down to "and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a". I didn't mind apple's often draconian measures until it finally hit what I wanted to do. Now that it has, I'm finally reminded why it's best to support the most open systems possible.
I think a larger question is whether kid deadpool could beat kid flash in a fight.
Seriously. Is anyone going to really plug into the iPad while they are running on the treadmill?
I use wireless headphones with the iphone. All the standard music controls work fine just controlling it over bluetooth. I think someone would be nuts to use a wired system with the ipad, but I think doing it wireless should work fine. The only slight downside is that it can be a bit finicky when trying to get it working with some non-itunes content. But for the most part it's worked great.
Although, admitedly, I would like to view my XviD movie files and have access to an expandable SD Card. I am already hit the 16 GB limitation of the internal storage.
You might see if orb works for you. I've only played around with it a little bit since I'm mostly running linux at home. And it's pretty fragile under wine at the moment. But it did seem to do a good job of transcoding and streaming xvid encoded avi files to my iphone.
Except almost everything I use windows for comes down to gaming. The one thing a VM fails at. It's not getting ultimate output in FPS like you mention, it's getting games playable at all. At least at the moment, my experience has been that a VM won't give anything even close to the reliability of wine when it comes to gaming. And wine itself is a bit of a gamble there.
I think Slashdotters are for the most part woefully ignorant of how the rest of humanity actually uses computers, and would do well to understand these types of use cases.
I think slashdot has a majority of users who were used to being "the generation who got computers". And are also of a generation that doesn't quite realize that they're actually old now. Very old people are freaked out by computers. Most people under 30 or so grew up with them and find it about as intimidating as an ink pen.
Might, yes. But marketing often seems like a retarded bastard child of psychology. And I was a psychology major, and was often horrified by just how bad the science there often was.
Seemed to work pretty well with digital audio.
I thought the "OMG Ponies!!!" one from years back was good. Every year I keep hoping it'll be that good again.
I love the borg idea. I'd be running for assimilation in a second if it were reality. It's not destroying yourself, it's merging the drop of water you are with the ocean of intelligence. Always bugged me that trek characters didn't see how awesome that is.
Reading slashdot should show any kid that they're not any better off than anyone else when it comes to being left behind the times due to age. The extent of "aging geek syndrome" here is probably worse than almost anywhere on the web proper.
Well, great. But OP didn't say he wanted it to play dvds within a limited set of criteria. He just said he wanted it to play dvds.
One. I can verify that he looked like a fish. But he warned me of traps, so I turned back and never saw any ever again.
You have to be kidding me. Who watches cams? Even a ts is pretty horrible. The latter might have about 10,000 seeds or so for a really popular movie. But that's 10000 people on the entire planet. A percentage of which don't even have the movie released locally to buy tickets for. You might have a point if screaners were dropping the same time as big releases, but that happens so infrequently that most people can name the occurrences off the top of their heads.