I think you must be mistaken. You must have used the built-in youtube application. It's only a subset of youtube's videos that are converted to be playable on the iphone.
This would have bumped everything but the bleeding edge off the map 10 years ago on processor speed and ram alone, and 128MB of graphics memory
This is not 10 years ago.
Hey, guess what? The requirements for Safari on Windows are as follows:
Windows XP or Vista
At least 256MB of RAM
500Mhz Pentium-class processor or better
The iPhone seems to run it just fine. Things can easily be optimized when you have a single-known hardware to work off of.
Not sure about your part of the world, but where I live, quitting a job due to having to use IE for a payroll site is...stupid.
Choice of employment is not up to the individual. If it were, I'd be "that-guy-that-sits-on-his-ass-playing-videogames-and-getting-paid-millions".
Except for a major difference: unlike the 10.4.11 update, this is NOT a public release and contrary to what the summary is, is NOT available on Windows Update.
Uhh...all of those documents are 7 years old. Not to mention, all companies call themselves innovators; it's called marketing, otherwise known as pure and utter bullshit. Frankly, Apple is one of the biggest offenders with their BS.
May I ask...who cares if Microsoft is not an innovator? In your example, Microsoft recognized a technology that, per your admittance, is excellent. So instead of them developing their own networking system for Windows, they realized that incoporating an already developed and tested system is far better for them and their users.
Everyone purchases other companies or licenses technologies from them. Guess what? OS X? Built off BSD and NextOS. Safari? Built off webkit. Google purchased Picasa, Sketchup and Earth Viewer (ie Google Earth). This 'endless cycle' you speak off is not limited to Microsoft.
It's not a personal pet peeve of mine, but of quite a few people. If the Linux community wants to be taken seriously by those not within it, they need to stop their childish behaviour. No one's going to take people claiming that Linux is better than Windows if they say things like M$ in the same sentence.
Yes, because in a topic about Microsoft, on a site like Slashdot, someone seeing the letters MS might think it means Multiple Sclerosis, Master of Science or Mississippi. Yup, that totally makes sense, and the parent used M$ to stop the confusion people might suffer unfairly, rather than be childish.
The M$ moniker is perfectly legitimate and weakens nobody's position in the slightest.
Arguments are weakened by false or inaccurate premises, writing M$ gives a perfect idea of the bias of the poster
Durr. Those two statements contradict each other. Yes, writing M$ DOES give a perfect idea of the bias of the poster...that is, a blind Microsoft hater that takes any opportunity to criticize them.
It's fun when you're joking around, or if you use it sparingly, but the parent was trying to make a serious point and kept on using M$ like a childish brat, which immediately makes him lose any credibility he would have had.
Either call it MS, or take your childish-ness to the next level and call it M$N. Seriously, you sound like a bitter kid living in his mom's basement when you continuously use M$. Give it up, it does nothing for you but lose whatever point you were trying to make in the first place.
Even though you've heard of Flex, you don't seem to be that familiar with it. Flex is getting quite close to Java in terms of programming methods and it's framework is pretty solid. In fact, where I work, whenever we need to hire someone we just look at Java developers and they're up and running in no time. And I've found I've been able to look at Java myself even though I've never had much experience with it. And yes, we do build a real enterprise level application.
(I'm still holding onto the hypothesis that our clocks "slow" down as we age which is why time seems to go faster when you're older...)
The reason time seems to go faster when you're older is quite simple. When you're 5, one year is 1/5 of your life and it seems to take ages. When you're 25, one year is 1/25th of your life and seems infinitely smaller by comparison.
America's intervention helped saved Iran from the horrors of Communism, and that's a (very) good thing in itself.
a) Socializing the petroleum industry != communism.
b) Each country has a right to go through whatever political process it wishes
c) Says who? Because communism didn't happen? If America didn't intervene, you can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that Iran was to become communist?
Not your call to make, is it? The fact that there was a revolution, which lead directly to the hostage situation in Iran, pretty much tells you that the people in Iran weren't exactly happy that their sovereignty was messed with by the US.
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I think you must be mistaken. You must have used the built-in youtube application. It's only a subset of youtube's videos that are converted to be playable on the iphone.
May I ask how you installed the flash player on the iphone? (Mine's already jail-broken)
This would have bumped everything but the bleeding edge off the map 10 years ago on processor speed and ram alone, and 128MB of graphics memory This is not 10 years ago. Hey, guess what? The requirements for Safari on Windows are as follows: Windows XP or Vista At least 256MB of RAM 500Mhz Pentium-class processor or better The iPhone seems to run it just fine. Things can easily be optimized when you have a single-known hardware to work off of.
Here you go
Not sure about your part of the world, but where I live, quitting a job due to having to use IE for a payroll site is...stupid. Choice of employment is not up to the individual. If it were, I'd be "that-guy-that-sits-on-his-ass-playing-videogames-and-getting-paid-millions".
I love how Slashdot decides to run what is effectively a (pointless) smear campaign article against the 360, and choose to ignore stories about Microsoft's announcement that people can now self-publish games on the 360. Come on editors. At least show some semblance of non-bias.
Except for a major difference: unlike the 10.4.11 update, this is NOT a public release and contrary to what the summary is, is NOT available on Windows Update.
To answer your question...
...iTunes. It is so slow and buggy on Windows. It's a joke.
Uhh...all of those documents are 7 years old. Not to mention, all companies call themselves innovators; it's called marketing, otherwise known as pure and utter bullshit. Frankly, Apple is one of the biggest offenders with their BS.
May I ask...who cares if Microsoft is not an innovator? In your example, Microsoft recognized a technology that, per your admittance, is excellent. So instead of them developing their own networking system for Windows, they realized that incoporating an already developed and tested system is far better for them and their users.
Everyone purchases other companies or licenses technologies from them. Guess what? OS X? Built off BSD and NextOS. Safari? Built off webkit. Google purchased Picasa, Sketchup and Earth Viewer (ie Google Earth). This 'endless cycle' you speak off is not limited to Microsoft.
It's not a personal pet peeve of mine, but of quite a few people. If the Linux community wants to be taken seriously by those not within it, they need to stop their childish behaviour. No one's going to take people claiming that Linux is better than Windows if they say things like M$ in the same sentence.
Yes, because in a topic about Microsoft, on a site like Slashdot, someone seeing the letters MS might think it means Multiple Sclerosis, Master of Science or Mississippi. Yup, that totally makes sense, and the parent used M$ to stop the confusion people might suffer unfairly, rather than be childish.
Also, for the record, millisecond is ms, not MS.
No, it isn't. Bias, by definition, ignores logic and sees only the data one wishes to see to support his opinion/theory/evidence.
The M$ moniker is perfectly legitimate and weakens nobody's position in the slightest.
Arguments are weakened by false or inaccurate premises, writing M$ gives a perfect idea of the bias of the poster
Durr. Those two statements contradict each other. Yes, writing M$ DOES give a perfect idea of the bias of the poster...that is, a blind Microsoft hater that takes any opportunity to criticize them.
It's fun when you're joking around, or if you use it sparingly, but the parent was trying to make a serious point and kept on using M$ like a childish brat, which immediately makes him lose any credibility he would have had.
Either call it MS, or take your childish-ness to the next level and call it M$N. Seriously, you sound like a bitter kid living in his mom's basement when you continuously use M$. Give it up, it does nothing for you but lose whatever point you were trying to make in the first place.
does everything the iphone does plus more
No wifi and lack of sufficient internal storage, yet you can claim that? It's a competitor, but it doesn't do everything the iPhone does.
Apple do that too.
Even though you've heard of Flex, you don't seem to be that familiar with it. Flex is getting quite close to Java in terms of programming methods and it's framework is pretty solid. In fact, where I work, whenever we need to hire someone we just look at Java developers and they're up and running in no time. And I've found I've been able to look at Java myself even though I've never had much experience with it. And yes, we do build a real enterprise level application.
Designing the Obvious is a fairly good book about UI design. I highly recommend it. Here's a link.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/19/2231235&from=rss uh-oh...
(I'm still holding onto the hypothesis that our clocks "slow" down as we age which is why time seems to go faster when you're older...)
The reason time seems to go faster when you're older is quite simple. When you're 5, one year is 1/5 of your life and it seems to take ages. When you're 25, one year is 1/25th of your life and seems infinitely smaller by comparison.
No, certain things endanger humanity and should be prevented if at all possible. Becoming a Communist country certainly qualifies.
You mean like launching nuclear weapons, especially at non-military targets?
The danger was rather high. The small price paid (by all concerned Iranians included) was well worth the reduction of the risk.
And that attitude is exactly why America isn't exactly the favourite country in the minds of the world.
America's intervention helped saved Iran from the horrors of Communism, and that's a (very) good thing in itself.
a) Socializing the petroleum industry != communism.
b) Each country has a right to go through whatever political process it wishes
c) Says who? Because communism didn't happen? If America didn't intervene, you can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that Iran was to become communist?
Not your call to make, is it? The fact that there was a revolution, which lead directly to the hostage situation in Iran, pretty much tells you that the people in Iran weren't exactly happy that their sovereignty was messed with by the US.