I guess comparing a home screen to a secondary application chooser is also negligible? All together though, the Galaxy looks entirely unlike the iPad, which is not negligible at all.
Like Jetpack? It took a while, I agree, but the whole concept was pretty new to browsers when they started it. I guess the ball is back at the addon developers to port to the stable API if they don't want to increase supported version numbers or let Mozilla do it.
Large shifts are rarely started by big groups of average people. Just about all trends in IT come from various niche groups and Firefox got where it is in large part due to the "take back the web" campaign. Pragmatic users don't lock the most popular browser out of their sites or donate for ads.
Internet video production? WTF does that even mean. What is used for capture is irrelevant to the final display format. E.g. just because any self respecting professional photographer shoots raw, any photo realistic renderer outputs lossless formats and audio mastering is done in up and beyond what even CDs support doesn't make them good formats for the Internet. Similarly the format pro-sumer and amateur equipment uses for video capture has no bearing on what format is best suited (and that includes licensing issues, like it or not) for display on the net.
I'm not saying that it doesn't make sense, merely that it is very much mimicking an interface designed for a touch screen. Big icons in a grid are easy to hit when you are poking with your fingers at a small screen. A bigger screen on the other hand is better suited for a menu like interface that gives more information about each application. A plain grid layout just looks cluttered on a 24" display (there is such a thing as too much information). Also, a longer description enables efficient keyboard driven filtering, something that is more useful on a more versatile device with many applications.
Launchpad works, but it's not designed, nor optimised for big screens and indirect input.
There's uniting and there is uniting. As you point out yourself the iPhone and iPad GUIs aren't identical. Nonetheless they are united is a very real sense and are both iOS. I don't think many people are saying that everything will be the same if iOS and OS X are merged, though it's a common straw man. However, nothing prevents them from becoming more similar, even when it's suboptimal (Launchpad makes little sense with indirect pointing) and ultimately merging into one, restricted, code-base.
It's not that they are giving the option. It's the they are presenting it as a better way to interface with your computer. Big screen and other OS X capabilities notwithstanding. The treatment of something so unremarkable as full screen applications as a first class feature of a major OS revision is quite indicative of the direction things are going (though it certainly doesn't tell us where exactly it is headed). Remember that they explicitly resisted this paradigm, the desktop usability principles (and their consistency) that Apple has been admired over are being thrown away for what? What is it if not a desire to integrate with their supper-popular appliance OS?
I know that every piece of clothing that I bought over the last year has increased in value, though I am using the clothing, it still is more expensive now than it was a year ago to buy it.
The fact that money has lost value doesn't mean that you clothes are more valuable just because it would take more of the now less valuable money to replace them.
All of that explicitly agreed to by the developer, the free promotion being optional. If you can't handle the load you say "no thanks" to the deal. The developer complaint seems to be: I wanted something up and beyond than what I agreed to.
Yes, extracting money on top of taxes and fees charges by the state is a form of corruption. The state, in the person of the official(s) involved, might be aware of it, or hell, everyone might know about it. But not following the law for personal gain as a public official is still corruption.
The fact that regional officials are heavily corrupted (or set-up by the relevant agencies for some reason to replace them with a favoured candidate, can be a form of corruption too) is well documented by the public executions of them, if nothing else. If it is anything like the soviet and post-soviet governments there is likely to be quite a bit of high-level corruption with mutual understanding by the parties (no pun intended) involved.
I wish this worked the other way as well. But no one seems to have problems with granting patents that do something substantially the same way as prior art.
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I guess comparing a home screen to a secondary application chooser is also negligible? All together though, the Galaxy looks entirely unlike the iPad, which is not negligible at all.
Like Jetpack? It took a while, I agree, but the whole concept was pretty new to browsers when they started it. I guess the ball is back at the addon developers to port to the stable API if they don't want to increase supported version numbers or let Mozilla do it.
GP was talking about web, not addon, developers.
Browser compatibility would be the least of my worries with server software that doesn't validate inputs...
Apparently "Help > Troubleshooting Information" is the easy way to about:support, quite appropriate for any sort of bug reporting.
When was the last time in your company that an outsider sporting nothing more then a laptop cracked your properly secured wireless network?
There are some demos if you have a Wii.
Yes, I realised I was blindly following him after hitting submit. Doh.
Neither Doom, Hexen or the original Halo used accelerated 3D. You're thinking the later Quake titles and possibly Unreal.
Oh, yes. Of course it was the masses of early adopters who were surfing on dial-up in 2004 that made Firefox. Duh.
Large shifts are rarely started by big groups of average people. Just about all trends in IT come from various niche groups and Firefox got where it is in large part due to the "take back the web" campaign. Pragmatic users don't lock the most popular browser out of their sites or donate for ads.
Internet video production? WTF does that even mean. What is used for capture is irrelevant to the final display format. E.g. just because any self respecting professional photographer shoots raw, any photo realistic renderer outputs lossless formats and audio mastering is done in up and beyond what even CDs support doesn't make them good formats for the Internet. Similarly the format pro-sumer and amateur equipment uses for video capture has no bearing on what format is best suited (and that includes licensing issues, like it or not) for display on the net.
I'm not saying that it doesn't make sense, merely that it is very much mimicking an interface designed for a touch screen. Big icons in a grid are easy to hit when you are poking with your fingers at a small screen. A bigger screen on the other hand is better suited for a menu like interface that gives more information about each application. A plain grid layout just looks cluttered on a 24" display (there is such a thing as too much information). Also, a longer description enables efficient keyboard driven filtering, something that is more useful on a more versatile device with many applications. Launchpad works, but it's not designed, nor optimised for big screens and indirect input.
I'm not going to go into why people won't make the same mistakes as you did in a different market, let's look at some more quantifiable stuff:
Yet semi's actually managed to be bumper to bumper with sedans instead of crushing them under their raised asses...
There's uniting and there is uniting. As you point out yourself the iPhone and iPad GUIs aren't identical. Nonetheless they are united is a very real sense and are both iOS. I don't think many people are saying that everything will be the same if iOS and OS X are merged, though it's a common straw man. However, nothing prevents them from becoming more similar, even when it's suboptimal (Launchpad makes little sense with indirect pointing) and ultimately merging into one, restricted, code-base.
It's not that they are giving the option. It's the they are presenting it as a better way to interface with your computer. Big screen and other OS X capabilities notwithstanding. The treatment of something so unremarkable as full screen applications as a first class feature of a major OS revision is quite indicative of the direction things are going (though it certainly doesn't tell us where exactly it is headed). Remember that they explicitly resisted this paradigm, the desktop usability principles (and their consistency) that Apple has been admired over are being thrown away for what? What is it if not a desire to integrate with their supper-popular appliance OS?
Yeah, they'd never add a full screen mode that hides even the menu bar and promote it as a step forward...
The fact that money has lost value doesn't mean that you clothes are more valuable just because it would take more of the now less valuable money to replace them.
All of that explicitly agreed to by the developer, the free promotion being optional. If you can't handle the load you say "no thanks" to the deal. The developer complaint seems to be: I wanted something up and beyond than what I agreed to.
Yes, extracting money on top of taxes and fees charges by the state is a form of corruption. The state, in the person of the official(s) involved, might be aware of it, or hell, everyone might know about it. But not following the law for personal gain as a public official is still corruption. The fact that regional officials are heavily corrupted (or set-up by the relevant agencies for some reason to replace them with a favoured candidate, can be a form of corruption too) is well documented by the public executions of them, if nothing else. If it is anything like the soviet and post-soviet governments there is likely to be quite a bit of high-level corruption with mutual understanding by the parties (no pun intended) involved.
I guess corruption doesn't count since it only gets you money as a representative of the state, not from the state itself...
Could you compare that per capita please?
People seem to forget that the one and only thing that matters when looking at WebM adoption is the HTML5 video tag and hardware (which exists).
I wish this worked the other way as well. But no one seems to have problems with granting patents that do something substantially the same way as prior art.