Cool! Thanks!
I own PCs also and have been virus free since the nineties; The Monkey virus under DOS and later an autostart worm on my Mac(G3). I'm just a bit of a layman when it comes to the terminal.:)
Nope, and it's probably not going to happen, not any time soon. Apple, Google, and MIcrosoft are intentionally hampering the progress on their mobile browsers, since they all want us to live in their app-ecosystem.
Under iOS, HTML5 video is really just Quicktime -- it's one of the reasons Apple was so gung-ho about it, as it allowed them to bypass all 3rd party plug-ins.
HTML5 video when served up with JavaScript controls though, can be a pretty poor experience, at least on my Mac.
Because along with a keyboard, it adds a track-pad, full size USB ports, "another" slot for storage expansion, and of course another full day battery. It also folds up nicely similar to a netbook for protection.
It's an actual accessory designed specifically for this particular tablet, not some 3rd party attachment designed to try and fill a void.
The keyboard and track-pad play nicely with the OS. The keyboard offers plenty of shortcuts for the OS and the track-pad offers a pointer -- which can be toggled on or off with a keyboard button; Android supports pointer input along with multi-toch unlike iOS.
And because it's Android, one can plug a hard-drive, thumb-drive, another keyboard, mouse, whatever into the added USB ports, and of course the tablet itself has Bluetooth support. So the doc makes this more than a tablet.
I own an Asus Transformer, iPad, and a few other tablets for reference. The iPad is a great for what it does, but for what I like to do, it falls way short of my Android tablets. Just adding on a Bluetooth keyboard or extending the battery to an iPad doesn't resolve its shortcomings.
I imagine you're currently festering in your own rage as you let your own biased and quite ignorant outlook on life skew the reality of things. How does that nerve feel that I hit? Or has the saliva that's frothed out of your mouth soothed it?
Why don't you bother being more constructive on Slashdot instead resorting to name calling? Has your frontal lobe not developed yet? You do know that you can post without checking Anonymous Coward? Right?
BTW, I'm from the Apple generation that came before the Think Different campaign. It's apparent that you're not. I'm going to assume that prior to being hyped about Retina displays by Apple's marketing machine, you didn't know jack about PPI, let alone DPI; and in this case, welcome to last century.
As an Apple guy, I can recall a time I liked discussing various tech ( Apple, MS, whatever ) with other nerds; well I still do, but definitely not with this newer generation of Apple zealots that prior to iOS couldn't give one care about this fruity company; they tend to not offer anything constructive outside of what they've been taught to parrot.
Well, going by Apple's own marketing -- which is constantly changing -- the SuperAMOLED+ found on Android devices also have a Retina display.
Since the new non-upgradeable MacBook Pros only have a 220 PPI screen and Apple has proudly labeled them Retina, pretty much every Android phone on the market -- including my old Nexus One -- and most BlackBerry phones are eligible for this Retina moniker that makes so many iPhone guys feel special.
Even when Apple released the newer New newest iPad 3 ( Whatever it's called? ) with its 260 PPI screen, most other phones on the market now had a PPI high enough to be considered Retina happy. So when it comes down to it, many Android phones had Retina displays before Apple's own phones.
Wow, what a zinger! Oh wait, you were being serious... Yeah, considering I've been married for almsot two decades, so probably longer than you've been alive, I'm going to have to pass on being insulted by your childish remark. But hey, good times.
My old Nexus One also has a Retina Display, since all the rules that were established about why a display is tEh Retina, were thrown out the door when Apple's marketing department decided that the iPad 3's ( Oh wait, the NEW iPad's ) lower PPI -- which is similar to my old Nexus -- also qualified for this over-hyped term.
According to you, your computer is crapper than mine. It's even slower than my last MacBook Pro 17". You should consider upgrading your computer.
I'm sure if I booted into Windows, I'll get better performance than under OS X with the bloat that is JavaScript; but for Wolfenstein in the browser with crappy sound, it's not worth it; besides, DOSBOX handles it just fine and uses less CPU -- I double checked 32% CPU with full audio and most of the resources are just for emulation.
I'm pretty sure that my old 386 DX 40 -- of which I played Wolfenstein 3D through several times via my gravis game pad -- can't even manage 1% of the power of my current MacBook Pro; but yet this browser based bloat really knows how to suck up my resources for something that's so simple compared to today's games.
Maybe I should be playing this on my PC instead, since JavaScript is such a resource hog? My PC is an i7 at 4Ghz with a GTX 580. Maybe it can manage better? Then again, some of my modern games use less resources than this abomination. <sarcasm>Hurray for progress.</sarcasm>
And what a load of bullshit. Stop being such a shill for corporate greed and check your history. MS is by no means a victim in this situation, it was their own actions that brought this on.
Just so you know, MS makes more money off Android phones than they do off their own phones. Why? Because they abused their position to extort money out of companies like HTC and other Android manufactures.
So now that MS is getting back what they've been dishing out, someone like you comes along and naively tries to blame Google and Moto for something that is completely MS's own decision. Oh, poor MS... Yeah RIGHT.
That lawsuit has nothing to do with MS's decision to charge for DVD playback, it's called greed; and given the mentality of the populous of our society -- especially the younger crowd -- they know they can get away with it.
But Open Street Map's founder Steve Coast works for Microsoft. Both Microsoft and "Apple" are backing OSM. Both Bing and OSM share map data. So yeah, OSM is gaining lots of momentum, because Apple and MS want it to replace Google maps and have financially motivated it.
The way I see it -- note, that this is pure conjecture on my part -- is that this is not some ideological or heroic move on Wikipedia's part to support open source on their mobile app.
I see it as either a nudged move(as in an influential "donation") by two juggernauts that want Wikipedia to move away from their competition Google on the mobile front, because Google Maps is already dominant and Android is becoming a titan in the mobile space.
Or as for compatibility it just makes sense; MS and Apple don't want Google maps on their mobile devices -- just like they don't support any 3rd party plug-ins -- but they do want OSM and have said so with their wallets. By going this route, it will probably make it easier for Wikipedia to implement their app onto these closed off devices; as in MS and Apple will give them lots of support to do it.
Anyways, was this Slashdot article just a coincidence, or is it part of some strategic FUD attack against Google, when considering the prior article below this one about them... Don't answer that, I've already assumed the answer.
I've noticed a similar pattern here in OC and LA area. Priuses that aren't being driven by older people are in general are overly aggressive from what I've observed; LA drivers being the worse offenders.
I just assume that all Prius drivers are the same, so I put up an extra layer of defense when I see them in my rear view mirror driving their slower car. I must add that I've noticed Rav 4 drivers are some what similar in their behavior.
And down here, lots of people don't use their turn signal. I'm thinking it's because most of them can't multi-task, so it's too much for them to handle while driving -- but yet they put it on when they get into the obvious turn-only-lane.
Anyways, rage, and most of it is probably just me being subjective.:)
MS gave Apple money, so that they would ship every new Mac with IE. It wasn't MS saving them, it was because at that time Netscape was the king of browsers and MS wanted to dethrone it.
Apple wasn't doing great at that time, but they had 6 billion in the bank from what I recall.
What really saved Apple, was the return of that **** Jobs. He killed the clones off ( Which would have been the death of Apple outside of software. ) and focused completely on consumers for the first few years of his return; and we can also give Adobe credit here, because without Photoshop and a few other key graphic apps, Macs would have been nothing but an overpriced PC in the nineties -- outside of the art departments(where I've always been), hardly anyone used Macs.
Americans? Hey thanks! Thanks for generalizing the actions of a few self-righteous-morons to the entire populous. Should I assume the same to where ever you're from? I can tell you that I won't, because I'm not that naive -- I can't say the same for you.
That were breaking the license agreement of the code they based their app on; so SNesoid and Gensoid as an example. One can still download a ton of different emulators from Google's market; some are free, some cost a tid-bit.
Only Metro 8 for "Tablets" does not support anything but Microsoft's plug-in. This is not true for desktops. Windows 8 desktop supports all plug-in; and if and when that changes, computers are going to suck IMO, as that means they'll all be really locked down.
RAGE!! Grrr!!! So you think HTML5 is god? Did you reply to the wrong comment? Were you having a rage-conversation in your head when you replied to my comment? It baffles mes that you got all of that from my comment, which when it comes down to it states I agree with the insightful comment above, and definitely not your orignal and rather myopic comment.
And great! Since you've spewed your fanaticism at me, I'll bite... So you're under the assumption that an optional plug-in is exclusionary? Really? When the alternative for a very long time has been the limitations and incompatibilities of browsers and platforms; which btw has not changed. Plug-ins have been a consistent bridge that have helped to progress the web beyond just Hyper Text Markup and browser progressing a slug's pace and rarely being on the same page -- and btw, how do you think Apple plays back HTML5 video on their devices? It's via plug-in called Quicktime.
It's painfully obvious that those that want to exclude choice like a plug-in, are rather naive to the web's past, and in some cases not too bright; and always myopic.
Anyways, look at Windows, the majority of its vulnerabilities that were exploited were not because Microsoft hadn't addressed them, but because many people had not bothered patching their OS. The same can also be said about Flash, which Adobe has addressed many vulnerabilities. They release security updates often and if you're using Chrome it's a transparent update and if you're on a PC there's an automatic updater -- OS X is a different story, but I still keep Flash up to date on FireFox and Safari; even thoughI rarely use them.
Slashdot Mirror
Cool! Thanks! I own PCs also and have been virus free since the nineties; The Monkey virus under DOS and later an autostart worm on my Mac(G3). I'm just a bit of a layman when it comes to the terminal. :)
Nope, and it's probably not going to happen, not any time soon. Apple, Google, and MIcrosoft are intentionally hampering the progress on their mobile browsers, since they all want us to live in their app-ecosystem.
A feature my Nexus One has had from the day I bought it back in 2010. Go figure...
Under iOS, HTML5 video is really just Quicktime -- it's one of the reasons Apple was so gung-ho about it, as it allowed them to bypass all 3rd party plug-ins.
HTML5 video when served up with JavaScript controls though, can be a pretty poor experience, at least on my Mac.
So, did you factor in the parent post I was responding to you when you responded to mine? I'm going to go with "no."
Trust me, the euphoria of owning a new toy does eventually wear off; and until then, know that your farts do smell.
Because along with a keyboard, it adds a track-pad, full size USB ports, "another" slot for storage expansion, and of course another full day battery. It also folds up nicely similar to a netbook for protection.
It's an actual accessory designed specifically for this particular tablet, not some 3rd party attachment designed to try and fill a void.
The keyboard and track-pad play nicely with the OS. The keyboard offers plenty of shortcuts for the OS and the track-pad offers a pointer -- which can be toggled on or off with a keyboard button; Android supports pointer input along with multi-toch unlike iOS.
And because it's Android, one can plug a hard-drive, thumb-drive, another keyboard, mouse, whatever into the added USB ports, and of course the tablet itself has Bluetooth support. So the doc makes this more than a tablet.
I own an Asus Transformer, iPad, and a few other tablets for reference. The iPad is a great for what it does, but for what I like to do, it falls way short of my Android tablets. Just adding on a Bluetooth keyboard or extending the battery to an iPad doesn't resolve its shortcomings.
I imagine you're currently festering in your own rage as you let your own biased and quite ignorant outlook on life skew the reality of things. How does that nerve feel that I hit? Or has the saliva that's frothed out of your mouth soothed it?
Why don't you bother being more constructive on Slashdot instead resorting to name calling? Has your frontal lobe not developed yet? You do know that you can post without checking Anonymous Coward? Right?
BTW, I'm from the Apple generation that came before the Think Different campaign. It's apparent that you're not. I'm going to assume that prior to being hyped about Retina displays by Apple's marketing machine, you didn't know jack about PPI, let alone DPI; and in this case, welcome to last century.
As an Apple guy, I can recall a time I liked discussing various tech ( Apple, MS, whatever ) with other nerds; well I still do, but definitely not with this newer generation of Apple zealots that prior to iOS couldn't give one care about this fruity company; they tend to not offer anything constructive outside of what they've been taught to parrot.
Well, going by Apple's own marketing -- which is constantly changing -- the SuperAMOLED+ found on Android devices also have a Retina display.
Since the new non-upgradeable MacBook Pros only have a 220 PPI screen and Apple has proudly labeled them Retina, pretty much every Android phone on the market -- including my old Nexus One -- and most BlackBerry phones are eligible for this Retina moniker that makes so many iPhone guys feel special.
Even when Apple released the newer New newest iPad 3 ( Whatever it's called? ) with its 260 PPI screen, most other phones on the market now had a PPI high enough to be considered Retina happy. So when it comes down to it, many Android phones had Retina displays before Apple's own phones.
Wow, what a zinger! Oh wait, you were being serious... Yeah, considering I've been married for almsot two decades, so probably longer than you've been alive, I'm going to have to pass on being insulted by your childish remark. But hey, good times.
My old Nexus One also has a Retina Display, since all the rules that were established about why a display is tEh Retina, were thrown out the door when Apple's marketing department decided that the iPad 3's ( Oh wait, the NEW iPad's ) lower PPI -- which is similar to my old Nexus -- also qualified for this over-hyped term.
On the other hand, Samsung makes the hype labeled Retina Display.
According to you, your computer is crapper than mine. It's even slower than my last MacBook Pro 17". You should consider upgrading your computer.
I'm sure if I booted into Windows, I'll get better performance than under OS X with the bloat that is JavaScript; but for Wolfenstein in the browser with crappy sound, it's not worth it; besides, DOSBOX handles it just fine and uses less CPU -- I double checked 32% CPU with full audio and most of the resources are just for emulation.
The browser isn't shitty, it's JavaScript. And Chrome has the best JS engine right now, at least the one that has the most hype.
I'm pretty sure that my old 386 DX 40 -- of which I played Wolfenstein 3D through several times via my gravis game pad -- can't even manage 1% of the power of my current MacBook Pro; but yet this browser based bloat really knows how to suck up my resources for something that's so simple compared to today's games.
Maybe I should be playing this on my PC instead, since JavaScript is such a resource hog? My PC is an i7 at 4Ghz with a GTX 580. Maybe it can manage better? Then again, some of my modern games use less resources than this abomination. <sarcasm>Hurray for progress.</sarcasm>
And what a load of bullshit. Stop being such a shill for corporate greed and check your history. MS is by no means a victim in this situation, it was their own actions that brought this on.
Just so you know, MS makes more money off Android phones than they do off their own phones. Why? Because they abused their position to extort money out of companies like HTC and other Android manufactures.
So now that MS is getting back what they've been dishing out, someone like you comes along and naively tries to blame Google and Moto for something that is completely MS's own decision. Oh, poor MS... Yeah RIGHT.
That lawsuit has nothing to do with MS's decision to charge for DVD playback, it's called greed; and given the mentality of the populous of our society -- especially the younger crowd -- they know they can get away with it.
But Open Street Map's founder Steve Coast works for Microsoft. Both Microsoft and "Apple" are backing OSM. Both Bing and OSM share map data. So yeah, OSM is gaining lots of momentum, because Apple and MS want it to replace Google maps and have financially motivated it.
The way I see it -- note, that this is pure conjecture on my part -- is that this is not some ideological or heroic move on Wikipedia's part to support open source on their mobile app.
I see it as either a nudged move(as in an influential "donation") by two juggernauts that want Wikipedia to move away from their competition Google on the mobile front, because Google Maps is already dominant and Android is becoming a titan in the mobile space.
Or as for compatibility it just makes sense; MS and Apple don't want Google maps on their mobile devices -- just like they don't support any 3rd party plug-ins -- but they do want OSM and have said so with their wallets. By going this route, it will probably make it easier for Wikipedia to implement their app onto these closed off devices; as in MS and Apple will give them lots of support to do it.
Anyways, was this Slashdot article just a coincidence, or is it part of some strategic FUD attack against Google, when considering the prior article below this one about them... Don't answer that, I've already assumed the answer.
I've noticed a similar pattern here in OC and LA area. Priuses that aren't being driven by older people are in general are overly aggressive from what I've observed; LA drivers being the worse offenders.
:)
I just assume that all Prius drivers are the same, so I put up an extra layer of defense when I see them in my rear view mirror driving their slower car. I must add that I've noticed Rav 4 drivers are some what similar in their behavior.
And down here, lots of people don't use their turn signal. I'm thinking it's because most of them can't multi-task, so it's too much for them to handle while driving -- but yet they put it on when they get into the obvious turn-only-lane.
Anyways, rage, and most of it is probably just me being subjective.
MS gave Apple money, so that they would ship every new Mac with IE. It wasn't MS saving them, it was because at that time Netscape was the king of browsers and MS wanted to dethrone it.
Apple wasn't doing great at that time, but they had 6 billion in the bank from what I recall.
What really saved Apple, was the return of that **** Jobs. He killed the clones off ( Which would have been the death of Apple outside of software. ) and focused completely on consumers for the first few years of his return; and we can also give Adobe credit here, because without Photoshop and a few other key graphic apps, Macs would have been nothing but an overpriced PC in the nineties -- outside of the art departments(where I've always been), hardly anyone used Macs.
Americans? Hey thanks! Thanks for generalizing the actions of a few self-righteous-morons to the entire populous. Should I assume the same to where ever you're from? I can tell you that I won't, because I'm not that naive -- I can't say the same for you.
Arrrgh! I was going to post a Voltron comment. :)
That were breaking the license agreement of the code they based their app on; so SNesoid and Gensoid as an example. One can still download a ton of different emulators from Google's market; some are free, some cost a tid-bit.
Only Metro 8 for "Tablets" does not support anything but Microsoft's plug-in. This is not true for desktops. Windows 8 desktop supports all plug-in; and if and when that changes, computers are going to suck IMO, as that means they'll all be really locked down.
RAGE!! Grrr!!! So you think HTML5 is god? Did you reply to the wrong comment? Were you having a rage-conversation in your head when you replied to my comment? It baffles mes that you got all of that from my comment, which when it comes down to it states I agree with the insightful comment above, and definitely not your orignal and rather myopic comment.
And great! Since you've spewed your fanaticism at me, I'll bite... So you're under the assumption that an optional plug-in is exclusionary? Really? When the alternative for a very long time has been the limitations and incompatibilities of browsers and platforms; which btw has not changed. Plug-ins have been a consistent bridge that have helped to progress the web beyond just Hyper Text Markup and browser progressing a slug's pace and rarely being on the same page -- and btw, how do you think Apple plays back HTML5 video on their devices? It's via plug-in called Quicktime.
It's painfully obvious that those that want to exclude choice like a plug-in, are rather naive to the web's past, and in some cases not too bright; and always myopic.
You're going to encounter vulnerabilities with any popular standard, that's a given; and BTW, Flash has already been attached to Chrome and it's currently the most secure browser; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/245856/chrome_is_most_secure_of_the_top_three_browsers_study_finds.html
So that throws your theory out the door.
Anyways, look at Windows, the majority of its vulnerabilities that were exploited were not because Microsoft hadn't addressed them, but because many people had not bothered patching their OS. The same can also be said about Flash, which Adobe has addressed many vulnerabilities. They release security updates often and if you're using Chrome it's a transparent update and if you're on a PC there's an automatic updater -- OS X is a different story, but I still keep Flash up to date on FireFox and Safari; even thoughI rarely use them.
I don't have any mod points or I would, but you have actual insightful information unlike the parent post.