All Flash and Silverlight did for video was provide a way of getting it to the browser that is no longer necessary
not a developer eh?
flash and silverlight are much more than portals for video. they are development platforms. as for flash, the dev + design tools available for HTML 5 are no where near what flash has today, and the video players for HTML 5 are no where near as robust.
that's interesting and i wouldn't have guessed that... but... the problem for android tablet manufacturers is that it's 25% spread across 10 (20? 30?) manufacturers, versus 75% all to apple.
i'd also be curious to know what percent of the android tablets are the cheap chinese knockoffs. i'd expect it to be high, as those *are* actually at a price point that makes them attractive compared to an ipad. that would reenforce my point.
they should just give up a cede the entire market to Apple forever
jeez man, reading comprehension?!
the article lists the price at about 100 USD less than an ipad 2. android tablet manufacturers will never understand, it seems. the ipad is the gucci, the mercedes of tablets. there's a market for toyotas, they are good cars... but people aren't going to pay the same price for a toyota as they will for a mercedes.
not the point. no android tablet is a mercedes, or an audi, or a porsche in the consumers' eyes. consider a real gucci purse, or a knockoff. sure people buy lots of knockoff fake gucci purses, but they don't pay the price of the original. the knockoff only attracts at a bargain price. this is irrespective of actual quality.
outside of a few android geeks, ipad is what everyone wants. it has great reviews, great word of mouth. people that have it love, and people that don't have it know someone that has it and have heard how great it is. this isn't the case for android tablets.
The new system aims to carve out a slice of the premium tablet market that Apple's iPad has dominated for so long.
and they think throwing around terms like "quad core tegra 3" and "12 core GPU" is going to do that?
no one even asks how fast or powerful the ipad is. the answer is just as fast, and as powerful as it needs to be. all software for it runs smoothly and without delay, and that's all that matters to most users.
the article lists the price at about 100 USD less than an ipad 2. android tablet manufacturers will never understand, it seems. the ipad is the gucci, the mercedes of tablets. there's a market for toyotas, they are good cars... but people aren't going to pay the same price for a toyota as they will for a mercedes.
With Adobe ending development of Flash for mobile browsers and Microsoft ending development of Silverlight, HTML5 video looks a lot more promising.
no it doesn't. it looks exactly as promising as it was before. the only difference is that there's now less competition driving innovation in that direction. the death of competition is never a good thing.
it's not the 6 degrees, it's the complete collapse of society and the global war that ensues. there are a least a handful of world governments that aren't going to go down in any way other than kicking and screaming and letting their nukes fly.
i don't think we should base any conclusions on what you remember, or what your grandparents remember. no offense, but we have real data.
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Because they have a fucking contract with the US government! Unless the state or Fed is bankrupt, they don't get to just reneg on contracts. Just like private citizens are unable to.
great, well more power to you when the the various govts go bankrupt and *all* of your precious pension is pulled out from underneath you. i guess you can hope that you die before that happens. very forward thinking of you. personally i think bankruptcy is a cheat, and it's better to try (force) those involved arrive at some sustainable middle ground than to go into bankruptcy.
How would you like it if the US government appropriated your 401K retirement money because "the rest of us are having a hard time?" Or what if the bank just up and took your house just before you finished paying your mortgage off, because they needed the income?
unlike a govt pension, a 401k's payout is not guaranteed and is based on the performance of the economy. you must not participate in a 401k, or you'd know that a good portion of the balance has been "appropriated" by the various CEOs and wall street profit takers over the past decade. yup, that's what it's like for the rest of us.
And they act like theirs is the only class you have.
so... your friends' instructors should consider her personal situation including her other classes, work schedule, and probably personal life when they decide due dates and testing days? see any problem with making that work?
Seriously, if I want to learn about history, I'm old enough to research on my own. Colleges are there to confirm that you have the proper knowledge/aptitude within your given field, not make up for a shitty public education system.
for you, there are The University of Phoenix and The Devry Institute.
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the problem is that govt workers, and their unions, can't face the fact that their employers cannot afford these type of benefits any longer. you can cry about waste and corruption but the fact is governments/are/ going bankrupt.
this is happening in our city govt as well... fire and police pensions are killing the city. so, instead of agreeing to reduce benefits and keep their jobs, the jobs are getting outsourced (or cut) completely.
i mean really, sorry folks, but we're in a recession. the rest of us are having a hard time of it and tightening our belts... why do govt workers think they untouchable?
China doesn't care what anybody else thinks, we can't realistically threaten to boycott them (what are you reading this on, and where was it made?) and they essentially control the dollar and are making big inroads into the Euro as well.
it's economic mutually assured destruction. both economies will collapse if the relationship changed.
San Francisco-based Chomp is one of the companies trying to fix mobile app search and discovery by leapfrogging Apple, Google, and the other app store providers. Founder and CEO Ben Keighran, creator of the once-hugely-popular Bluepulse text messaging system for Java phones, says the company plumbs the app stores, the Web, Twitter, and other sources to distill accurate keywords ('appwords') for each app. The top apps at Chomp for the search terms 'restaurant guide': Yelp, Urbanspoon, and Zagat, just as you'd expect."
so.../. is free advertising for startups now? anyone excited to hear the Ben Keighran is the author of text messaging system for java phones? are we impressed?
if they can fool anyone into funding them, good for them. they are providing a service that you have to think google can and will solve in milliseconds.
nah that's misleading. no phone manufacturer makes their hardware. they do the industrial design, fit the various components into a package make sure they work together. that's how it works with everyone.
there are some phone manufacturers that coincidentally end up making some of the components that they go into their phone, but at this level, you are essentially talking about business divisions so separate they might as well be different companies.
i have a plastic model at home that looks like the stealth bomber as well. however, if you really press me on it, i'd have to come clean and admit it doesn't fly, it's made out of plastic, and exhibits no stealth capabilities whatsoever.
education at HARVARD, YALE, STANFORD, et al. are luxuries. if you took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans to go to harvard, and chose a degree that offered no prospect of paying that off... you deserve your fate.
Why not? If in your country, you have a quality resource, should it be underused? Does it make sense to teach classes that are half empty or less? That's just a waste.
why not? because they can't afford it. we should be growing public, affordable universities. if private university attendance is falling short, they can offer scholarships, or lower prices, or whatever. they are private, so let supply and demand dictate their prices.
that, and those resources are hardly underused. top universities turn away thousands applicants... from the US, and abroad.
like it or not the US society is highly classed. there are people that can afford harvard, yale, and stanford et al. because they have trust funds, their parents are well to do, or whatever. and now, there are people that can't afford it, but are taking out ridiculous, crippling, loans because they have the "why not me?" attitude. there's a whole hell of a lot i'd like to have, and have had in this life that i'm reasonable enough to know i can't afford.
p.s., i went to the smallest and cheapest state school in my state.
at least part of the problem is the feeling of entitlement that permeates US culture. entitled to a BMW, entitled to a 4000 sq ft home, entitled to an ipad and iphone and a macbook pro and a big screen TV. and now... entitled to harvard, yale, stanford, et al. it's all a cultural scam perpetrated by business upon us. we have it hammered into our heads that we must have all of these things to be happy in life. so, we take out mortgages, car loans, student loans, and rack up credit cards to have them.
So the government gives loans to the poor, to go to a school that it is statistically unlikely that they will graduate from, learn anything from, or even gain any positive benefit from.
wtf? you know, paying for college comes after getting accepted. AFAIK, the government isn't forcing university to accept unqualified applicants.
Do you have many people graduating with student loan debt that's the equivalent of $250,000 US?... But no, I don't think you can compare your student loans with ours in size.
that'd be the problem of the idiot that took out the loan. unless you have a trust fund or some really, very nice parents, you should be looking at a state school and augmenting the loan with part time work on the side.
the bigger problem is the feeling of "where's mine?" that permeates the US culture. it's not just that people feel they are entitlement to ipads, BMWs, and a 4000 sq ft home... but they also feel they are entitled to harvard, yale, and stanford.
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All Flash and Silverlight did for video was provide a way of getting it to the browser that is no longer necessary
not a developer eh?
flash and silverlight are much more than portals for video. they are development platforms. as for flash, the dev + design tools available for HTML 5 are no where near what flash has today, and the video players for HTML 5 are no where near as robust.
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right, and have you seen how that renders?
that's interesting and i wouldn't have guessed that ... but ... the problem for android tablet manufacturers is that it's 25% spread across 10 (20? 30?) manufacturers, versus 75% all to apple.
i'd also be curious to know what percent of the android tablets are the cheap chinese knockoffs. i'd expect it to be high, as those *are* actually at a price point that makes them attractive compared to an ipad. that would reenforce my point.
they should just give up a cede the entire market to Apple forever
jeez man, reading comprehension?!
the article lists the price at about 100 USD less than an ipad 2. android tablet manufacturers will never understand, it seems. the ipad is the gucci, the mercedes of tablets. there's a market for toyotas, they are good cars ... but people aren't going to pay the same price for a toyota as they will for a mercedes.
^^^
not the point. no android tablet is a mercedes, or an audi, or a porsche in the consumers' eyes. consider a real gucci purse, or a knockoff. sure people buy lots of knockoff fake gucci purses, but they don't pay the price of the original. the knockoff only attracts at a bargain price. this is irrespective of actual quality.
outside of a few android geeks, ipad is what everyone wants. it has great reviews, great word of mouth. people that have it love, and people that don't have it know someone that has it and have heard how great it is. this isn't the case for android tablets.
The new system aims to carve out a slice of the premium tablet market that Apple's iPad has dominated for so long.
and they think throwing around terms like "quad core tegra 3" and "12 core GPU" is going to do that?
no one even asks how fast or powerful the ipad is. the answer is just as fast, and as powerful as it needs to be. all software for it runs smoothly and without delay, and that's all that matters to most users.
the article lists the price at about 100 USD less than an ipad 2. android tablet manufacturers will never understand, it seems. the ipad is the gucci, the mercedes of tablets. there's a market for toyotas, they are good cars ... but people aren't going to pay the same price for a toyota as they will for a mercedes.
With Adobe ending development of Flash for mobile browsers and Microsoft ending development of Silverlight, HTML5 video looks a lot more promising.
no it doesn't. it looks exactly as promising as it was before. the only difference is that there's now less competition driving innovation in that direction. the death of competition is never a good thing.
i think you poor grammar.
it's not the 6 degrees, it's the complete collapse of society and the global war that ensues. there are a least a handful of world governments that aren't going to go down in any way other than kicking and screaming and letting their nukes fly.
everyone thinks burning thermite is cool, but i don't think it can be used to model the earth's ecosystem.
i don't think we should base any conclusions on what you remember, or what your grandparents remember. no offense, but we have real data.
Because they have a fucking contract with the US government! Unless the state or Fed is bankrupt, they don't get to just reneg on contracts. Just like private citizens are unable to.
great, well more power to you when the the various govts go bankrupt and *all* of your precious pension is pulled out from underneath you. i guess you can hope that you die before that happens. very forward thinking of you. personally i think bankruptcy is a cheat, and it's better to try (force) those involved arrive at some sustainable middle ground than to go into bankruptcy.
How would you like it if the US government appropriated your 401K retirement money because "the rest of us are having a hard time?" Or what if the bank just up and took your house just before you finished paying your mortgage off, because they needed the income?
unlike a govt pension, a 401k's payout is not guaranteed and is based on the performance of the economy. you must not participate in a 401k, or you'd know that a good portion of the balance has been "appropriated" by the various CEOs and wall street profit takers over the past decade. yup, that's what it's like for the rest of us.
And they act like theirs is the only class you have.
so ... your friends' instructors should consider her personal situation including her other classes, work schedule, and probably personal life when they decide due dates and testing days? see any problem with making that work?
Seriously, if I want to learn about history, I'm old enough to research on my own. Colleges are there to confirm that you have the proper knowledge/aptitude within your given field, not make up for a shitty public education system.
for you, there are The University of Phoenix and The Devry Institute.
the problem is that govt workers, and their unions, can't face the fact that their employers cannot afford these type of benefits any longer. you can cry about waste and corruption but the fact is governments /are/ going bankrupt.
this is happening in our city govt as well ... fire and police pensions are killing the city. so, instead of agreeing to reduce benefits and keep their jobs, the jobs are getting outsourced (or cut) completely.
i mean really, sorry folks, but we're in a recession. the rest of us are having a hard time of it and tightening our belts ... why do govt workers think they untouchable?
China doesn't care what anybody else thinks, we can't realistically threaten to boycott them (what are you reading this on, and where was it made?) and they essentially control the dollar and are making big inroads into the Euro as well.
it's economic mutually assured destruction. both economies will collapse if the relationship changed.
Do you have ANY IDEA how reliant we are on their manufacturing base?
if not, consider that the failing of a tiny, insignificant nation (greece) has the potential to throw us into a global recession.
Microsoft started offering their own Virtual PC software for free, but it's shit compared to features of VMware products.
that is such a terrible, terrible comparison.
take a look at virtual box,
https://www.virtualbox.org/
free, and it's about 95% of vmware.
San Francisco-based Chomp is one of the companies trying to fix mobile app search and discovery by leapfrogging Apple, Google, and the other app store providers. Founder and CEO Ben Keighran, creator of the once-hugely-popular Bluepulse text messaging system for Java phones, says the company plumbs the app stores, the Web, Twitter, and other sources to distill accurate keywords ('appwords') for each app. The top apps at Chomp for the search terms 'restaurant guide': Yelp, Urbanspoon, and Zagat, just as you'd expect."
so ... /. is free advertising for startups now? anyone excited to hear the Ben Keighran is the author of text messaging system for java phones? are we impressed?
if they can fool anyone into funding them, good for them. they are providing a service that you have to think google can and will solve in milliseconds.
well, apple doesn't make hardware either.
nah that's misleading. no phone manufacturer makes their hardware. they do the industrial design, fit the various components into a package make sure they work together. that's how it works with everyone.
there are some phone manufacturers that coincidentally end up making some of the components that they go into their phone, but at this level, you are essentially talking about business divisions so separate they might as well be different companies.
i have a plastic model at home that looks like the stealth bomber as well. however, if you really press me on it, i'd have to come clean and admit it doesn't fly, it's made out of plastic, and exhibits no stealth capabilities whatsoever.
education at HARVARD, YALE, STANFORD, et al. are luxuries. if you took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans to go to harvard, and chose a degree that offered no prospect of paying that off ... you deserve your fate.
Why not? If in your country, you have a quality resource, should it be underused? Does it make sense to teach classes that are half empty or less? That's just a waste.
why not? because they can't afford it. we should be growing public, affordable universities. if private university attendance is falling short, they can offer scholarships, or lower prices, or whatever. they are private, so let supply and demand dictate their prices.
that, and those resources are hardly underused. top universities turn away thousands applicants ... from the US, and abroad.
like it or not the US society is highly classed. there are people that can afford harvard, yale, and stanford et al. because they have trust funds, their parents are well to do, or whatever. and now, there are people that can't afford it, but are taking out ridiculous, crippling, loans because they have the "why not me?" attitude. there's a whole hell of a lot i'd like to have, and have had in this life that i'm reasonable enough to know i can't afford.
p.s., i went to the smallest and cheapest state school in my state.
well put, and agreed.
at least part of the problem is the feeling of entitlement that permeates US culture. entitled to a BMW, entitled to a 4000 sq ft home, entitled to an ipad and iphone and a macbook pro and a big screen TV. and now ... entitled to harvard, yale, stanford, et al. it's all a cultural scam perpetrated by business upon us. we have it hammered into our heads that we must have all of these things to be happy in life. so, we take out mortgages, car loans, student loans, and rack up credit cards to have them.
So the government gives loans to the poor, to go to a school that it is statistically unlikely that they will graduate from, learn anything from, or even gain any positive benefit from.
wtf? you know, paying for college comes after getting accepted. AFAIK, the government isn't forcing university to accept unqualified applicants.
Do you have many people graduating with student loan debt that's the equivalent of $250,000 US? ... But no, I don't think you can compare your student loans with ours in size.
that'd be the problem of the idiot that took out the loan. unless you have a trust fund or some really, very nice parents, you should be looking at a state school and augmenting the loan with part time work on the side.
the bigger problem is the feeling of "where's mine?" that permeates the US culture. it's not just that people feel they are entitlement to ipads, BMWs, and a 4000 sq ft home ... but they also feel they are entitled to harvard, yale, and stanford.