Good, because the author of the piece isn't suggesting otherwise. I wish people would try to understand the article before bitchin'.
He's talking about ultra high resolution monitors, where using a pixel-based display method is unreasonable. Resolutions higher than the standard ones of today. Vector-based interfaces are the future, and this article is describing how WebKit plans to tackle it.
I doubt you'd want to browse the web on a 2048-width 17" monitor, would you? Instead, you'd want that extra resolution to be used for creating extra fidelity in the graphics and text. Eventually, we need to have our screen text looking like a printed page. It'll be easier to read and easier on the eyes.
Really, though, Apple does have that monopoly, as Quartz has always supported resolution-independent vector-based scaling. OS X's interface has simply not used it for a resolution-independent scaled interface.
Frankly, I doubt Aqua will be recreated using vectors. I believe they will just scale between different sized bitmap images going from low to very high resolutions, achieving the same amount of detail at less computation costs. It can be computationally expensive to draw widgets procedurally, although with the GPU doing all the operations via Quartz 2D Extreme, maybe it is possible.
Are people really being so short-sighted that they can't see that vector-based graphics and interfaces (Vista and OS X Leopard) will fuel demand for very high resolution screens?
Congratulations, Slashdot. You've turned what was an anti-child porn initiative into a conspiracy-preaching, Bash-bushing session. I knew when the phrase "Bush administration" was used in the summary that it would be another Bush-bashing session with conspiracy theories flying wildly. It's like pressing a button on a robot.
"Police state?" Oh, please. I put as much stock into that phrase when liberals use it as when they use "fascist dictator" and "regime." Such people have neither lived in an actual regime nor under a fascist dictator in a police state. Ask a Holocaust survivor sometime what a fascist dictator really is.
The nanos were made with smaller capacity because those 2GB flash chips were what was available at the time. The chips are already expensive as it is, and the 4GB nano is using two of them. It has nothing to do with "balance." Apple just loves to sell iPods, and if the minis and nanos outsell the bigger versions, they're fine with that since it's more money for them. Steve Jobs predicted the nano would be the biggest selling iPod ever, so they know what models appeal to consumers.
Bush did say "the government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod."
What Engadget and Slashdot aren't reporting is that it was a joke. It was even linked on the Drudge Report on Friday. Bush laughed after he said it, and so did his audience. I noticed a few suspicious Engadget posters even questioned whether it was a serious remark.
Why is Slashdot not reporting it as a joke? So the Bush-haters who post here can feel all giddy blasting the man for another media-created falsehood and feel all enlightened about it, I guess. I don't know. I just find it funny that the media seems to have this never-ending tendency to misreport things involving Bush, but that should come as no surprise when polls taken show over 80% of journalists reporting as themselves Democrats.
But that's the reporting bias nobody wants to talk about, especially in the media--to them, the bias doesn't exist. To them, it's completely okay to have two senators go to Iraq and come back with completely opposite opinions, and only report the "Iraq is a disaster" comment while ignoring Lieberman's comments that things are doing rather well. To them, it's completely okay to never report that the economy's stocks are doing fantastically and that unemployment averages are lower than they were in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. If a Democrat was in office, the media would be trumpeting it as a "boon for the Democrats these mid-term elections." But because Republicans are in office, you never see the good economy reported. You only hear about how "corrupt" they are as the media ignores that a top Democrat was convicted of illegally obtaining credit records on an opponent, or how the top Democrat member of the House Ethics committee has stepped down under accusations of poor financial conduct.
You won't hear about any of that. You'll continue to hear about how "evil" and "corrupt" the Republicans are, even though the Democrats are just as bad. For a cross-section of Internet browsers who consider themselves so free-thinking and critical, it surprises me that on Slashdot, more isn't made of the liberal bias in the media and how it is used to affect public opinion. When you've got CBS saying that "fake but accurate" is a perfectly fine mantra of journalism during the Rathergate scandal, something's wrong. Is it really any wonder, then, that conservative talk radio, cable TV, blogs have exploded in popularity? The rest of the "classic" media is liberal, so those are the only outlets left for balance.
Sorry for the rant, but since this is a complete non-story anyway just to rile up the Bush-bashers, I felt it appropriate. Feel free to disagree with me.
I fail to see how those are mutually exclusive, especially for the #1 software company in the world. It's not my fault they broke their own operating system while patching a flaw in it.
You accused me of being misinformed in some way, but little to none of what you stated contradicts my post, so I'm not sure what you're complaining about. I'm well aware WinFX is a new API (it's not entirely a replacement, since Win32 still gets called in many cases), but you're flat-out wrong that it's designed specifically for locally installed applications.
In fact, here's a WinFX chess game that runs both locally and in your browser.
Put down the MSDN brochure next time. I'm not spouting "rhetoric;" Avalon is absolutely meant to tie the web to Windows. Next time, do a little research before making yourself look misinformed.
Microsoft aims 'to eliminate the openness of the Internet, to proprietize the Internet, the lawyer said, adding the groundwork will be laid in Microsoft's forthcoming new operating system, Vista.'"
For those who don't know, he's probably referring specifically to WinFX APIs including XAML that allow you to download and run an app through IE. So it's a clever attempt at replacing/renaming ActiveX and making the web a Windows-dependent app delivery platform. It will be sad if they succeed, since the formerly platform-independent web will become little more than a content house for IE-delivered Vista apps.
The EU justice system does not allow a defendant the ability to defend themselves against anonymous charges and secret evidence. If you are innocent, you must prove your innocence. Microsoft finds itself backed into a corner in which they are bombarded by name-less competitors and the evidence against them is kept secret from them.
Microsoft isn't backed into a corner; they know full well who the competitors are that are cooperating with the EU's mediator to determine whether Microsoft is providing adequate API interoperability.
Microsoft wanted to declare that the mere fact the mediator spoke with their competitors meant foul-play. Well, the mediator has to speak with those competitors to do his job--determining if Microsoft was providing adequate documentation. It was a stall attempt by Microsoft that was dismissed, so Microsoft tried it in the U.S. by requesting those communications, and now it's been dismissed again.
This has nothing to do with questioning your accuser. It's about Microsoft trying to stall by calling foul-play where there is none. The mediator's job was to speak to those guys to determine the level of Microsoft's cooperation with the ruling. That there are people still believing that Microsoft is a victim in this is insane to me, but you have your opinion.
Citizen rights don't apply to a captured combatant, as stated by all international conventions on the matter.
Don't want to be held without knowing your charges and presumed innocent? Maybe next time try not picking up a gun and getting caught in combat.
Americans no longer have the right to bitch about human rights or democracy (if they ever did); the sheer, galling hipocracy will merely encourage the rest of the world to hate them more.
The same with the U.N., whose oil-for-food scandal meant they were in bed with an Iraqi dictator while criticizing the "human rights" behavior of the U.S.
the sheer, galling hipocracy will merely encourage the rest of the world to hate them more.
Most of them hate America out of jealousy and spite.
Wait. It's *Microsoft's* fault that the public library chose Microsoft's format for their downloadable media?
The public didn't choose it, it came bundled on the monopoly platform and was made uninstallable by Microsoft.
Can you give any good reason why a user isn't allowed to uninstall Windows Media Player if they want to? Or Messenger? They're just normal apps that can be removed with a simple registry flip.
Oh, for the love of...I shouldn't have to craft such "creative" workarounds to MySQL's inherent limitations. I now have to manage two entire tables to keep them in sync on every change in data just to have transactions and full indexing? I guess I shouldn't expect any less from "you don't need transactions" MySQL.
The "most straightforward way" would be not to use your solution but to just use PostgreSQL, I'm afraid.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. It doesn't matter how dissatisfied people get; they are stuck using Windows because all their computers run Windows and therefore their apps run on Windows. Because of Microsoft's illegal coercion tactics toward OEMs in the 90s, superior products weren't allowed to compete, and Microsoft cheated to achieve 95+% market share.
It's the reason Microsoft has actually held back computing by about five years, altering the course of history. We should be farther ahead in the experiences of using a desktop computer, and Mac users know what it feels like to be there already.
It's amazing the American economy has come to rely on something so...unreliable.
Here's the problem... People don't like itunes because it's essentially a gateway to the itunes store.
What a load of complete crap. iTunes is a music organization app. The music store is maybe 10% of the app, and most people never use the store. In addition, who are these mysterious people who don't like iTunes because there's a "Music Store" link they have the choice of clicking or not clicking on?
It's purpose is to get you to buy apples's drm laden music from their proprietary service.
I love people who throw out "proprietary" like it's an insult. The purpose of iTunes isn't to get you to buy music from the Music Store. It's purpose is to give you a jukebox music organization app and an interface with your iPod.
The Music Store's DRM is the most lax DRM in existence. The fact is, most people forget it's there because it has so few limitations. You've clearly never even bought from the store.
Finally, saying OGG sounds horrid should completely invalidate your whole post. You're completely wrong. Perhaps you don't have sensitive ears and can't tell the difference, but to say it's horrid (assuming you're saying you can differentiate it as lesser quality than mp3, wma, etc. in a blind listening test) is a very ignorant statement.
You can call it ignorant over and over, but it won't change his listening experience regarding Ogg. Nobody, I mean nobody, gives a crap about Ogg outside of Slashdot.
However, iPods fail to deliver when it comes to support for free codecs like Ogg Vorbis
When will the denizens of Slashdot realize nobody cares about Ogg Vorbis outside of Slashdot? Absolutely no one. Not only that, I find Vorbis to be not as efficient as AAC anyway.
I'm so tired of hearing about Ogg Vorbis and iPods. Get over it! People don't want your esoteric format.
Check out GlobalWarming.org for a viewpoint from the other side. There's a lot of fuzzy math used in global warming claims that people often won't address, because it's now supposedly "consensus" that global warming is real and manmade and we're just the evil scrubs of the planet causing all this death and destruction.
Really, it's quite surprising how fuzzy the science is when you actually examine it, but more surprising is just how angry and vitriolic some people get when you confront them about it. Apparently you're just supposed to not care about that--for them, there is no debate, which is a dangerous mindset.
Do you read any other site than "realclimate.org"? You have no counterargument for the fact we contribute less than 0.5% greenhouses gases and that temperatures have not risen since 1998. That's eight years! Do you have any response at all to these numbers? These facts?
Didn't think so...please preach the religion somewhere else.
So this is the big argument in favor of global warming? Ignore the official global temperature record that proves the temperature hasn't risen since 1998 and instead go into my garage and turn my car on. Yeah, great argument! I'm convinced!
Michael Crichton is right--global warming is a religion, a remapping of Judeo-Christian values for the urban atheist.
1.) Natural untouched Eden 2.) Eden marred by unclean man 3.) Make man feel guilty so he follows religious tenets to save himself from impending end of world
You just don't want to hear that man isn't some unclean, unnatural beast polluting his environment beyond repair. The same reason Christians don't want to hear that man isn't some unclean, unnatural beast polluting his soul. You need a guilt complex so you can feel enlightened by spreading the Gospel.
Haha, what is my "obvious agenda." If my agenda is reporting the truth, then so be it. You're just mad the temperature hasn't changed (that's right, you're mad about it).
The Telegraph hardly compares to CNN. Where is CNN letting people know that temps actually have stayed the same since '98? I predict that none of the major news sources will ever mention it. They'll instead continue global warming scare stories that begin with "Scientists say..."
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Good, because the author of the piece isn't suggesting otherwise. I wish people would try to understand the article before bitchin'.
He's talking about ultra high resolution monitors, where using a pixel-based display method is unreasonable. Resolutions higher than the standard ones of today. Vector-based interfaces are the future, and this article is describing how WebKit plans to tackle it.
I doubt you'd want to browse the web on a 2048-width 17" monitor, would you? Instead, you'd want that extra resolution to be used for creating extra fidelity in the graphics and text. Eventually, we need to have our screen text looking like a printed page. It'll be easier to read and easier on the eyes.
Really, though, Apple does have that monopoly, as Quartz has always supported resolution-independent vector-based scaling. OS X's interface has simply not used it for a resolution-independent scaled interface.
Frankly, I doubt Aqua will be recreated using vectors. I believe they will just scale between different sized bitmap images going from low to very high resolutions, achieving the same amount of detail at less computation costs. It can be computationally expensive to draw widgets procedurally, although with the GPU doing all the operations via Quartz 2D Extreme, maybe it is possible.
Yeah, and nobody will ever need more than 640kb.
Are people really being so short-sighted that they can't see that vector-based graphics and interfaces (Vista and OS X Leopard) will fuel demand for very high resolution screens?
Congratulations, Slashdot. You've turned what was an anti-child porn initiative into a conspiracy-preaching, Bash-bushing session. I knew when the phrase "Bush administration" was used in the summary that it would be another Bush-bashing session with conspiracy theories flying wildly. It's like pressing a button on a robot.
"Police state?" Oh, please. I put as much stock into that phrase when liberals use it as when they use "fascist dictator" and "regime." Such people have neither lived in an actual regime nor under a fascist dictator in a police state. Ask a Holocaust survivor sometime what a fascist dictator really is.
The nanos were made with smaller capacity because those 2GB flash chips were what was available at the time. The chips are already expensive as it is, and the 4GB nano is using two of them. It has nothing to do with "balance." Apple just loves to sell iPods, and if the minis and nanos outsell the bigger versions, they're fine with that since it's more money for them. Steve Jobs predicted the nano would be the biggest selling iPod ever, so they know what models appeal to consumers.
There was no bizarre sentence construction. He laughed after the iPod quip. Slashdot and Engadget just aren't reporting it (for some reason...).
Bush did say "the government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod."
What Engadget and Slashdot aren't reporting is that it was a joke. It was even linked on the Drudge Report on Friday. Bush laughed after he said it, and so did his audience. I noticed a few suspicious Engadget posters even questioned whether it was a serious remark.
Why is Slashdot not reporting it as a joke? So the Bush-haters who post here can feel all giddy blasting the man for another media-created falsehood and feel all enlightened about it, I guess. I don't know. I just find it funny that the media seems to have this never-ending tendency to misreport things involving Bush, but that should come as no surprise when polls taken show over 80% of journalists reporting as themselves Democrats.
But that's the reporting bias nobody wants to talk about, especially in the media--to them, the bias doesn't exist. To them, it's completely okay to have two senators go to Iraq and come back with completely opposite opinions, and only report the "Iraq is a disaster" comment while ignoring Lieberman's comments that things are doing rather well. To them, it's completely okay to never report that the economy's stocks are doing fantastically and that unemployment averages are lower than they were in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. If a Democrat was in office, the media would be trumpeting it as a "boon for the Democrats these mid-term elections." But because Republicans are in office, you never see the good economy reported. You only hear about how "corrupt" they are as the media ignores that a top Democrat was convicted of illegally obtaining credit records on an opponent, or how the top Democrat member of the House Ethics committee has stepped down under accusations of poor financial conduct.
You won't hear about any of that. You'll continue to hear about how "evil" and "corrupt" the Republicans are, even though the Democrats are just as bad. For a cross-section of Internet browsers who consider themselves so free-thinking and critical, it surprises me that on Slashdot, more isn't made of the liberal bias in the media and how it is used to affect public opinion. When you've got CBS saying that "fake but accurate" is a perfectly fine mantra of journalism during the Rathergate scandal, something's wrong. Is it really any wonder, then, that conservative talk radio, cable TV, blogs have exploded in popularity? The rest of the "classic" media is liberal, so those are the only outlets left for balance.
Sorry for the rant, but since this is a complete non-story anyway just to rile up the Bush-bashers, I felt it appropriate. Feel free to disagree with me.
I fail to see how those are mutually exclusive, especially for the #1 software company in the world. It's not my fault they broke their own operating system while patching a flaw in it.
You accused me of being misinformed in some way, but little to none of what you stated contradicts my post, so I'm not sure what you're complaining about. I'm well aware WinFX is a new API (it's not entirely a replacement, since Win32 still gets called in many cases), but you're flat-out wrong that it's designed specifically for locally installed applications.
In fact, here's a WinFX chess game that runs both locally and in your browser.
Put down the MSDN brochure next time. I'm not spouting "rhetoric;" Avalon is absolutely meant to tie the web to Windows. Next time, do a little research before making yourself look misinformed.
Microsoft aims 'to eliminate the openness of the Internet, to proprietize the Internet, the lawyer said, adding the groundwork will be laid in Microsoft's forthcoming new operating system, Vista.'"
For those who don't know, he's probably referring specifically to WinFX APIs including XAML that allow you to download and run an app through IE. So it's a clever attempt at replacing/renaming ActiveX and making the web a Windows-dependent app delivery platform. It will be sad if they succeed, since the formerly platform-independent web will become little more than a content house for IE-delivered Vista apps.
FreeBSD: OS X without the flashy graphics and the DRM. Try it. You might love it
What DRM? OS X has none. iTunes doesn't either unless you specifically go to the Music Store and buy a track there.
The EU justice system does not allow a defendant the ability to defend themselves against anonymous charges and secret evidence. If you are innocent, you must prove your innocence. Microsoft finds itself backed into a corner in which they are bombarded by name-less competitors and the evidence against them is kept secret from them.
Microsoft isn't backed into a corner; they know full well who the competitors are that are cooperating with the EU's mediator to determine whether Microsoft is providing adequate API interoperability.
Microsoft wanted to declare that the mere fact the mediator spoke with their competitors meant foul-play. Well, the mediator has to speak with those competitors to do his job--determining if Microsoft was providing adequate documentation. It was a stall attempt by Microsoft that was dismissed, so Microsoft tried it in the U.S. by requesting those communications, and now it's been dismissed again.
This has nothing to do with questioning your accuser. It's about Microsoft trying to stall by calling foul-play where there is none. The mediator's job was to speak to those guys to determine the level of Microsoft's cooperation with the ruling. That there are people still believing that Microsoft is a victim in this is insane to me, but you have your opinion.
Citizen rights don't apply to a captured combatant, as stated by all international conventions on the matter.
Don't want to be held without knowing your charges and presumed innocent? Maybe next time try not picking up a gun and getting caught in combat.
Americans no longer have the right to bitch about human rights or democracy (if they ever did); the sheer, galling hipocracy will merely encourage the rest of the world to hate them more.
The same with the U.N., whose oil-for-food scandal meant they were in bed with an Iraqi dictator while criticizing the "human rights" behavior of the U.S.
the sheer, galling hipocracy will merely encourage the rest of the world to hate them more.
Most of them hate America out of jealousy and spite.
Wait. It's *Microsoft's* fault that the public library chose Microsoft's format for their downloadable media?
The public didn't choose it, it came bundled on the monopoly platform and was made uninstallable by Microsoft.
Can you give any good reason why a user isn't allowed to uninstall Windows Media Player if they want to? Or Messenger? They're just normal apps that can be removed with a simple registry flip.
Oh, for the love of...I shouldn't have to craft such "creative" workarounds to MySQL's inherent limitations. I now have to manage two entire tables to keep them in sync on every change in data just to have transactions and full indexing? I guess I shouldn't expect any less from "you don't need transactions" MySQL.
The "most straightforward way" would be not to use your solution but to just use PostgreSQL, I'm afraid.
I'm not an "idiot" just because most people don't give a crap about Ogg Vorbis.
And what does Linux have to do with any of this?
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. It doesn't matter how dissatisfied people get; they are stuck using Windows because all their computers run Windows and therefore their apps run on Windows. Because of Microsoft's illegal coercion tactics toward OEMs in the 90s, superior products weren't allowed to compete, and Microsoft cheated to achieve 95+% market share.
It's the reason Microsoft has actually held back computing by about five years, altering the course of history. We should be farther ahead in the experiences of using a desktop computer, and Mac users know what it feels like to be there already.
It's amazing the American economy has come to rely on something so...unreliable.
Here's the problem... People don't like itunes because it's essentially a gateway to the itunes store.
What a load of complete crap. iTunes is a music organization app. The music store is maybe 10% of the app, and most people never use the store. In addition, who are these mysterious people who don't like iTunes because there's a "Music Store" link they have the choice of clicking or not clicking on?
It's purpose is to get you to buy apples's drm laden music from their proprietary service.
I love people who throw out "proprietary" like it's an insult. The purpose of iTunes isn't to get you to buy music from the Music Store. It's purpose is to give you a jukebox music organization app and an interface with your iPod.
The Music Store's DRM is the most lax DRM in existence. The fact is, most people forget it's there because it has so few limitations. You've clearly never even bought from the store.
Finally, saying OGG sounds horrid should completely invalidate your whole post. You're completely wrong. Perhaps you don't have sensitive ears and can't tell the difference, but to say it's horrid (assuming you're saying you can differentiate it as lesser quality than mp3, wma, etc. in a blind listening test) is a very ignorant statement.
You can call it ignorant over and over, but it won't change his listening experience regarding Ogg. Nobody, I mean nobody, gives a crap about Ogg outside of Slashdot.
It's YOUR post that's flamebait.
However, iPods fail to deliver when it comes to support for free codecs like Ogg Vorbis
When will the denizens of Slashdot realize nobody cares about Ogg Vorbis outside of Slashdot? Absolutely no one. Not only that, I find Vorbis to be not as efficient as AAC anyway.
I'm so tired of hearing about Ogg Vorbis and iPods. Get over it! People don't want your esoteric format.
Check out GlobalWarming.org for a viewpoint from the other side. There's a lot of fuzzy math used in global warming claims that people often won't address, because it's now supposedly "consensus" that global warming is real and manmade and we're just the evil scrubs of the planet causing all this death and destruction.
For a good laugh, check out Pirates Cause Global Warming. After all, correlation equals causation!
There are sites that shed a critical eye on global warming claims.
Really, it's quite surprising how fuzzy the science is when you actually examine it, but more surprising is just how angry and vitriolic some people get when you confront them about it. Apparently you're just supposed to not care about that--for them, there is no debate, which is a dangerous mindset.
Okay. You may safely remove your sarcastic quotation marks now.
Next.
Do you read any other site than "realclimate.org"? You have no counterargument for the fact we contribute less than 0.5% greenhouses gases and that temperatures have not risen since 1998. That's eight years! Do you have any response at all to these numbers? These facts?
Didn't think so...please preach the religion somewhere else.
So this is the big argument in favor of global warming? Ignore the official global temperature record that proves the temperature hasn't risen since 1998 and instead go into my garage and turn my car on. Yeah, great argument! I'm convinced!
Michael Crichton is right--global warming is a religion, a remapping of Judeo-Christian values for the urban atheist.
1.) Natural untouched Eden
2.) Eden marred by unclean man
3.) Make man feel guilty so he follows religious tenets to save himself from impending end of world
You just don't want to hear that man isn't some unclean, unnatural beast polluting his environment beyond repair. The same reason Christians don't want to hear that man isn't some unclean, unnatural beast polluting his soul. You need a guilt complex so you can feel enlightened by spreading the Gospel.
Haha, what is my "obvious agenda." If my agenda is reporting the truth, then so be it. You're just mad the temperature hasn't changed (that's right, you're mad about it).
The Telegraph hardly compares to CNN. Where is CNN letting people know that temps actually have stayed the same since '98? I predict that none of the major news sources will ever mention it. They'll instead continue global warming scare stories that begin with "Scientists say..."