The problem I have with all these technophiles decrying the iPad's lack of flash is this: are you not the same group that beats down any flash site?
Damn, when are you morons going to realise, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PERSON ON THIS SITE. And we all have different opinions. Look at yourself, you clearly have a different opinion to the person you are responding to.
Why do you feel the need to group all these technophiles with one brush stroke. Most of use here to hate flash. So shut the fuck up, and wake up.
Personally, I think the iPad is a great idea, and can't wait to get one, but also understand why some people don't like the direction that we are heading.
I've been observing with great amusement the geek outrage over Apple's closed, locked-down ecosystem, starting with the iPod and iPhone, and culminating with the iPad, and I say: more power to Apple.
Haven't you learnt from the problems in the past, when one company becomes to powerful. First there was IBM, and then there was Microsoft. As much as I love Apple products, I still don't want to see them in this position.
You are a moron. So we can already add a webview with a non-flash ad, and since most ads on the web seem to be non-flash, who cares about flash.
Also, you can already have web games without flash. According to you, this is a huge area that Apple should shut down, but they are not, and they are encouraging people to go this way.
I would rather see this included commentary, than some stale press release.
In general, we here hate facebook because of the incredibly compromises to privacy they are making perfectly acceptable to the majority of the population. DNA logins can not be far behind.
When the 5% aren't bottom feeders, then yes. Just as Ferrari and Porsche seem to survive, despite not even having 5% of the car market. And you can still find people to repair you car, somehow.
Something about Newton really annoys me and that's the crediting of solely him with infinitesimal calculus. Why am I annoyed? No one ever talks about Leibniz who, by most accounts, deserves at least partial credits for this work.
Everybody talks about leinbniz, we use his notation in maths, not Newtons incredibly unwieldly version. If you have never heard anyone talk about leibniz, then you are hanging around the wrong crowd, or more likely, talking shit anyway.
The Newton/Leibniz debacle was a huge part of history. I can't understand someone saying they have never heard of this before.
And anyway, you seem to be arguing with an Apple troll. Why try reasoning with fanboys of any nature, it will not work.
Anyone who says this is ignorant of what Apple offers, and ignorant of marketing as well.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that has kept Mac from having any virus infections.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that means I never have to reboot my mac, unlike my Windows PC.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that means I don't have to disable all their eye candy, unlike the brand new Windows 7 machine I have at work, that looks ridiculous until I did.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that made the first usable smartphone, that every single other phone produce is now copying.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that produced the first ipod I actually wanted to buy (the iPod Touch), and had superior internet handling than any other device out there. And still does.
I could go on, but you are probably too stupid to concede these points.
I converted to the Apple side over a year ago, have gone iPhone for the last 10 months.
That said, as much as I appreciate the ease of using Apple stuff (especailly my macbook cf IBM Thinkpad with XP, and hating using W7 at work), there are some reasonable criticisms lobied at Apple.
Sure there are the Windows fanboys (sounds so strange), who hate on anything, but there are also Apple fanboys who do the same.
Best to ignore all the fanboys, and learn to appreciate decent criticism when you come across it.
And, more importantly, for the machines that don't have a h.264 coded installed on them, but do have flash. Flash means that you can play your video anywhere, as long as the user has flash. This is an actual decent use for flash, maybe the first time ever.
Surely you can see the advantage of having one file contain all elements of a movie (movie, audio, etc...).
Surely you can understand that different companies have come up with different ways of doing this, at the same time (Windows AVI, WMV, Apple QT4, etc...)
You must be a Microsoft fan with your in depth knowledge of Antitrust law.
Just because two companies compete, does not mean they can not merge. You may have the most ignorant take on antitrust law I have ever seen. But why waste time reading up on something you don't understand, much better to just talk rubbish.
Palm messed up a long time ago. They had the initial momentum, a great product, but then they failed to add anything to hardware or software for years, while iPaq and their kin came over and owned the higher end.
Palm owned this space, and messed up big time, when they could have ruled it all.
Fuck off, they didn't start anything. They brought the big guns to the table with the first Compaq iPaq, but there were plenty of other WinMo phones release at exactly the same time, and they weren't the first smartphones.
What the fuck does the press release have to do with anything? Do you think that they can't outright lie in a press release? Where have you been all these years?
Who the fuck are you? Do you actually work in IT, or are you one of the cleaners? Maybe you could find out why, rather than just typing out useless shit.
You still don't get it. We all understand the problems with IE6, but we new these problems WHEN YOU GUYS WERE RECOMMENDING IT.
Often, decisions you make early on cause problems later on, so you make sure you think about these things before you do them, rather than just going with the flow.
So, were you one of the guys who recommended that they standardize on IE6, and if anyone doesn't like it they can come and bite you, or do your job for you?
What a wonderful attitude to have. You must be great to work with.
1. Medical staff are the most arrogant and technically useless people in the world. They can stop your from dying, so why should they have to learn anything else - that is there attitude.
2. UK people are the most work shy people I have ever met. If something is not in the job requirements, they will not do it. They would rather argue with you for hours, than change their habits for 2 minutes. If you ask them to do something different, it gives them something to complain about, and boy do they love to complain.
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The problem I have with all these technophiles decrying the iPad's lack of flash is this: are you not the same group that beats down any flash site?
Damn, when are you morons going to realise, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PERSON ON THIS SITE. And we all have different opinions. Look at yourself, you clearly have a different opinion to the person you are responding to.
Why do you feel the need to group all these technophiles with one brush stroke. Most of use here to hate flash. So shut the fuck up, and wake up.
Personally, I think the iPad is a great idea, and can't wait to get one, but also understand why some people don't like the direction that we are heading.
I've been observing with great amusement the geek outrage over Apple's closed, locked-down ecosystem, starting with the iPod and iPhone, and culminating with the iPad, and I say: more power to Apple .
Haven't you learnt from the problems in the past, when one company becomes to powerful. First there was IBM, and then there was Microsoft. As much as I love Apple products, I still don't want to see them in this position.
So if Apple embraces an open web, how come I can't run anything but Safari and Opera on the iPhone?
So if girls like to date, how come I can't find a date.
Well, probably because you are an idiot who confuses two different issues.
You are a moron. So we can already add a webview with a non-flash ad, and since most ads on the web seem to be non-flash, who cares about flash.
Also, you can already have web games without flash. According to you, this is a huge area that Apple should shut down, but they are not, and they are encouraging people to go this way.
You can have your MAC address change every day, by a simple little script.
What, do you work in HR.
I would rather see this included commentary, than some stale press release.
In general, we here hate facebook because of the incredibly compromises to privacy they are making perfectly acceptable to the majority of the population. DNA logins can not be far behind.
I guess we will have no more stories about RIAA/MPAA, and I will have to stop talking about Windows.
Good luck getting Windows 98 USB drivers to do anything. What a joke, even 2000 didn't have great USB support.
When the 5% aren't bottom feeders, then yes. Just as Ferrari and Porsche seem to survive, despite not even having 5% of the car market. And you can still find people to repair you car, somehow.
Something about Newton really annoys me and that's the crediting of solely him with infinitesimal calculus. Why am I annoyed? No one ever talks about Leibniz who, by most accounts, deserves at least partial credits for this work.
Everybody talks about leinbniz, we use his notation in maths, not Newtons incredibly unwieldly version. If you have never heard anyone talk about leibniz, then you are hanging around the wrong crowd, or more likely, talking shit anyway.
The Newton/Leibniz debacle was a huge part of history. I can't understand someone saying they have never heard of this before.
And anyway, you seem to be arguing with an Apple troll. Why try reasoning with fanboys of any nature, it will not work.
Brilliant wisdom.
A house is a house is a house.
A wife is a wife is a wife.
Apple's brilliance is in marketing.
Anyone who says this is ignorant of what Apple offers, and ignorant of marketing as well.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that has kept Mac from having any virus infections.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that means I never have to reboot my mac, unlike my Windows PC.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that means I don't have to disable all their eye candy, unlike the brand new Windows 7 machine I have at work, that looks ridiculous until I did.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that made the first usable smartphone, that every single other phone produce is now copying.
I guess it is their brilliant marketing strategy that produced the first ipod I actually wanted to buy (the iPod Touch), and had superior internet handling than any other device out there. And still does.
I could go on, but you are probably too stupid to concede these points.
I converted to the Apple side over a year ago, have gone iPhone for the last 10 months.
That said, as much as I appreciate the ease of using Apple stuff (especailly my macbook cf IBM Thinkpad with XP, and hating using W7 at work), there are some reasonable criticisms lobied at Apple.
Sure there are the Windows fanboys (sounds so strange), who hate on anything, but there are also Apple fanboys who do the same.
Best to ignore all the fanboys, and learn to appreciate decent criticism when you come across it.
Why do we need flash for video again?
And, more importantly, for the machines that don't have a h.264 coded installed on them, but do have flash. Flash means that you can play your video anywhere, as long as the user has flash. This is an actual decent use for flash, maybe the first time ever.
Surely you can see the advantage of having one file contain all elements of a movie (movie, audio, etc...).
Surely you can understand that different companies have come up with different ways of doing this, at the same time (Windows AVI, WMV, Apple QT4, etc...)
You must be a Microsoft fan with your in depth knowledge of Antitrust law.
Just because two companies compete, does not mean they can not merge. You may have the most ignorant take on antitrust law I have ever seen. But why waste time reading up on something you don't understand, much better to just talk rubbish.
Palm messed up a long time ago. They had the initial momentum, a great product, but then they failed to add anything to hardware or software for years, while iPaq and their kin came over and owned the higher end.
Palm owned this space, and messed up big time, when they could have ruled it all.
Fuck off, they didn't start anything. They brought the big guns to the table with the first Compaq iPaq, but there were plenty of other WinMo phones release at exactly the same time, and they weren't the first smartphones.
What the fuck does the press release have to do with anything? Do you think that they can't outright lie in a press release? Where have you been all these years?
Who the fuck are you? Do you actually work in IT, or are you one of the cleaners? Maybe you could find out why, rather than just typing out useless shit.
You still don't get it. We all understand the problems with IE6, but we new these problems WHEN YOU GUYS WERE RECOMMENDING IT.
Often, decisions you make early on cause problems later on, so you make sure you think about these things before you do them, rather than just going with the flow.
Ok, so they can use IE6, and save millions of dollars, or use something else, which will cost all that money.... for what reason?
Maybe they should upgrade all the old staplers to electric powered staplers that can staple 1000 pages together at once?
Maybe they should replace the free biscuits with a patisserie chef?
Getting rid of IE is easy, go work for a better company.
So, were you one of the guys who recommended that they standardize on IE6, and if anyone doesn't like it they can come and bite you, or do your job for you?
What a wonderful attitude to have. You must be great to work with.
There are two reasons for this.
1. Medical staff are the most arrogant and technically useless people in the world. They can stop your from dying, so why should they have to learn anything else - that is there attitude.
2. UK people are the most work shy people I have ever met. If something is not in the job requirements, they will not do it. They would rather argue with you for hours, than change their habits for 2 minutes. If you ask them to do something different, it gives them something to complain about, and boy do they love to complain.
The obvious reason is that the iPhone/iPad/iPod runs on batteries, and if the OS is updating itself, then runs out of batteries, you are screwed.
This is obvious, to anyone with a technical background.