Seriously, you are asking "why would anyone buy it"? After all the millions of iPhones sold? Could it be that *gasp* the people just don't care and iPhone is a pretty darn good device.
Apple is not "deciding" anything for you, you can still pick the applications you can run. You are therefore asking the wrong question. You should be asking: "Why would anyone want to buy a device which has restrictions imposed on it by the manufacturer?" And the answer is "Because there are still tons of application that are great and they are what 99% of buyers need."
Videogames business is defined by technology? Not true anymore, it's pretty much all about the content. Everyone is at the moment accustomed to great graphics so that argument just don't cut anymore. That's why games like GTA and Fallout 3 are top sellers. People just won't buy "gfx demos" like Doom3 anymore, because they can easily check the word about the game from 'net, or from Steam directly.
PC gaming has only gotten better in the last 3-4 years. You can get GREAT discounts from Steam if you don't mind downloading your games and not having physical media. I guess a lot of thanks goes out to Valve for this, and not PC per se.
With JavaScript we have a situation where every browser has a slightly implementation of the execution environment. The problem with GWT is it just hides the problem (although pretty well): We need a new standard to building applications and not just JavaScript on top of JavaScript.
I really do not see the actual benefits of JavaScript vs. Flash plugins for example: To me they are just execution environments within the browser.
Good call on the GWT obfuscation/compression, I didn't realize it was controlled that way.
GWT JavaScript code is obfuscated and compressed. But if you can expand that back to readable code, you can also argue that every piece of code ever written is "open" because it can be reassembled somehow and run with a debugger.
Don't get me wrong, GWT is absolutely great, I love working with it. Really great innovation. But I would not call it "open" just because it works on JavaScript.
I don't think iPhone runs Silverlight either. This is really Apple's fault. But for some reason, when Microsoft pulls this stuff they get blamed for shutting competitors out, but Apple just gets more praise.
If you look GWT stuff, they use JavaScript in a way it might just as well be proprietary compiled code. As for the required Flash plugin, so what? It's already everywhere.
They are not even trying to completely stop piracy. They are trying to convince the great public downloading copyrighted material is wrong. That is the motive behind the scare tactics and stupid ads.
The ads are NOT targeted for people who know better piracy isn't stealing: They are for the great audience who can't tell the difference. So they are repeating the message: "Piracy is stealing. Stealing is wrong.".The most important thing for them is trying to stop piracy from really going mainstream.
Yes, that's correct. Which means in "corporate speak" there would be a %1 increase in sales if there aren't downloads available. Which is why the companies want downloading to stop. Even the %1 is a pretty hefty sum of money.
It's not a question of choice, really. It's just the lack of a standard. Why can't GUI components have standard programming interfaces to them and then have various implementations of the them like Qt and GTK+?
I have never installed an Ubuntu system that would have worked well with my hardware. And it always has been "the next version" that will work perfectly, according to forums ans support.
I stick to Windows for now, the tweaking days are over for me.
Did you know in many parts of the world, contacts saying you can't work on same field for X years, etc. are actually NOT even legal? Because constitutions say a company or some other party cannot limit your freedom for making a living with such contracts.
Ok, so IF I install Ubuntu 9 on my 400mhz AMD K6-3 machine with 256 megs of RAM, it will run just fine? I even drop Compiz because I don't think the Voodoo3 card on the system would fly with it. Because I know Ubuntu 5.10 run on it just fine.
So why don't KDE or Gnome include legacy interfaces? I mean, aren't they always pushing the new UI stuff for the end user with new major releases? I liked my GUI perfectly fine when I was using Gentoo back in the day. Then came a new version of Gnome with it and everything changed. Just like Windows.
That's because you're in the capital city. Try finding those books in University of Kuopio (where I reside), for example. Yeah, I know the funding should be equal as per student. It's not.
Yes, if you could select any song or a recording you want any time on a FM radio then yes, it would have been a huge blow to recording industry...
And yes, if you could take that an empty VHS tape and any movie you want would magically appear on it in a few hours, it would have been a huge blow to the movies.
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Seriously, you are asking "why would anyone buy it"? After all the millions of iPhones sold? Could it be that *gasp* the people just don't care and iPhone is a pretty darn good device.
Apple is not "deciding" anything for you, you can still pick the applications you can run. You are therefore asking the wrong question. You should be asking: "Why would anyone want to buy a device which has restrictions imposed on it by the manufacturer?" And the answer is "Because there are still tons of application that are great and they are what 99% of buyers need."
Videogames business is defined by technology? Not true anymore, it's pretty much all about the content. Everyone is at the moment accustomed to great graphics so that argument just don't cut anymore. That's why games like GTA and Fallout 3 are top sellers. People just won't buy "gfx demos" like Doom3 anymore, because they can easily check the word about the game from 'net, or from Steam directly.
If they were ordinary biologists researching at home people here would scorn them for potential dangerous experimenting at home environment
I bet if Hitler had open sourced nazism, people here would accept it with cheers.
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But you can block Flash, so you won't see it. Can you block HTML 5?
PC gaming has only gotten better in the last 3-4 years. You can get GREAT discounts from Steam if you don't mind downloading your games and not having physical media. I guess a lot of thanks goes out to Valve for this, and not PC per se.
With JavaScript we have a situation where every browser has a slightly implementation of the execution environment. The problem with GWT is it just hides the problem (although pretty well): We need a new standard to building applications and not just JavaScript on top of JavaScript.
I really do not see the actual benefits of JavaScript vs. Flash plugins for example: To me they are just execution environments within the browser.
Good call on the GWT obfuscation/compression, I didn't realize it was controlled that way.
GWT JavaScript code is obfuscated and compressed. But if you can expand that back to readable code, you can also argue that every piece of code ever written is "open" because it can be reassembled somehow and run with a debugger.
Don't get me wrong, GWT is absolutely great, I love working with it. Really great innovation. But I would not call it "open" just because it works on JavaScript.
I don't think iPhone runs Silverlight either. This is really Apple's fault. But for some reason, when Microsoft pulls this stuff they get blamed for shutting competitors out, but Apple just gets more praise.
If you look GWT stuff, they use JavaScript in a way it might just as well be proprietary compiled code. As for the required Flash plugin, so what? It's already everywhere.
I want all the stuff for free also, like you.
They are not even trying to completely stop piracy. They are trying to convince the great public downloading copyrighted material is wrong. That is the motive behind the scare tactics and stupid ads.
The ads are NOT targeted for people who know better piracy isn't stealing: They are for the great audience who can't tell the difference. So they are repeating the message: "Piracy is stealing. Stealing is wrong.".The most important thing for them is trying to stop piracy from really going mainstream.
Yes, that's correct. Which means in "corporate speak" there would be a %1 increase in sales if there aren't downloads available. Which is why the companies want downloading to stop. Even the %1 is a pretty hefty sum of money.
It's not a question of choice, really. It's just the lack of a standard. Why can't GUI components have standard programming interfaces to them and then have various implementations of the them like Qt and GTK+?
Yeah, but can it run linux and work with modern eye candy enabled in X11 without any lockups?
I'm not kidding.
I have never installed an Ubuntu system that would have worked well with my hardware. And it always has been "the next version" that will work perfectly, according to forums ans support.
I stick to Windows for now, the tweaking days are over for me.
So when do I get to play as Japan? Because it would probably be a fresh approach to WWII.
Maybe US would not approve players bombing Pearl Harbor... Some wounds are tough to heal.
Did you know in many parts of the world, contacts saying you can't work on same field for X years, etc. are actually NOT even legal? Because constitutions say a company or some other party cannot limit your freedom for making a living with such contracts.
Ok, so IF I install Ubuntu 9 on my 400mhz AMD K6-3 machine with 256 megs of RAM, it will run just fine? I even drop Compiz because I don't think the Voodoo3 card on the system would fly with it. Because I know Ubuntu 5.10 run on it just fine.
So why don't KDE or Gnome include legacy interfaces? I mean, aren't they always pushing the new UI stuff for the end user with new major releases? I liked my GUI perfectly fine when I was using Gentoo back in the day. Then came a new version of Gnome with it and everything changed. Just like Windows.
So why does Ubuntu now need a lot more hardware to run properly than when it was first released?
And maybe it's a little too early to walk about Windows 7 like it has failed, since it has not yet been released :)
The graph shows it was killing far more very small children (1 year old).
That's because you're in the capital city. Try finding those books in University of Kuopio (where I reside), for example. Yeah, I know the funding should be equal as per student. It's not.
Your prequel's plot description is too much like the world we are living in now :)
How about iPineApple - next generation hand granade.
Let's fix your analogies:
Yes, if you could select any song or a recording you want any time on a FM radio then yes, it would have been a huge blow to recording industry...
And yes, if you could take that an empty VHS tape and any movie you want would magically appear on it in a few hours, it would have been a huge blow to the movies.