Android will be a competitor for sure, the same way they are now. Just as the Tata car is a competitor to Lexus.
You walk into a store and they give you an incentive to buy the Android phone because they are cheap, a commodity now. A lot of people get it because it's cheap, not because it's any better.
When Verizon starts giving out Android tablets "free" with their data plan, sure, people will snap them up. It'll be just as pathetic up against an iPad as the Android is against the iPhone, but subsidized purchasing from the cell networks by the shipload will ensure that there are quite a few of these devices out there.
Neither. At this point it is sheer momentum. Microsoft's marketing is inept and laughable, and technology wise it is far from the best solution.
The ipad sells because in the past, tablets were thick, chunky, expensive, and have awful battery light. The ipad is thin, light, slick, and has excellent battery life. You can put a USB port on a pig but that doesn't mean you have accomplished anything useful.
Intel tablets will fail, as the Atom sucks for low power applications. Windows tablets, therefore, will fail.
Apple's marketing has nothing to do with their current uptake among the hardcore geek segment. That part is simply due to Apple having the best damn laptops, extremely powerful workstations, phones that aren't a joke, and a tablet that is literally the only thing on the market that isn't utter shit.
Now the 14 year old girls who love apple, the soccer moms, they are victims of marketing. But your engineers and biologists and mathematicians use macs for totally different and very legitimate reasons.
As a lens increases in size, it actually decreases in performance and more aberrations appear.
Using the smallest diameter lens you can, and still let in enough light to photograph by, is a better move than using a large diameter lens.
You'll just have to take my word on this, but a Carl Zeiss camera phone lens (sells to OEMs for a few dollars) will outperform their MasterPrime cinematography lenses which cost many thousands of dollars apiece.
Works the same? What if you need a professional grade Midi tracker, video editor, or photo editor?
A better CD / DVD burner? I doubt it - I have't ever run into problems with my G4 running 10.5...
And finally, the fact that you claim Linux supports more hardware checks out... at first. Sure, it supports loads of obscure hardware on most architectures, but on PPC? Are you really sure you got your morning coffee?
I know Apple bashing is fashionable around here but sheesh dude, everything you said was just flat wrong.
Are you seriously suggesting that Apple stole cut and paste? Apple, who has had cut and paste for over a quarter century?
They didn't have it in the iphone, now they do. As long as we are ripping on phones that are copycats, how about all the phones that are all screen, just like the iphone? How about all the phones that auto-rotate, just like the iphone?
I could go on all day but it's pointless. The real point that needs considering is that on Android or the Palm Pre, things are sluggish, shitty, and ugly, and on the iphone they are slick, quick, and nifty.
You'll easily saturate gigabit ethernet with such a setup.
With ZFS performance is largely independent of storage media speed.
I did a similar thing with laptop drives in an external sata cage, over firewire, with FreeBSD and the sustained speeds were still really good - about equal to our $10,000 Dell Storage Server machine with Windows Storage Server 2003.
The production machine runs Opensolaris and is faster than nipple whiz.
"Allow me to expand on that. It's sad that just digital SD and not full HDTV is the only "mandated" standard when both could have been forced given a couple more years to allow for larger HDTV penetration."
There are problems with this idea. First, what about old content that is in 4:3? Either you accept the black bars, stretch it, or crop it to 16:9. The problem is that these are solely up to the user's preference, and broadcasting the 4:3 SD video allows the individual user to choose their preferred way of viewing it.
Another problem with older content is that a lot of it is naturally about 720x480, the NTSC studio broadcast resolution. Are you going to legally force them to literally refilm Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Let the market sort it out. People like you who care about stuff like this can buy your TV connection from a company that also cares. If shows filmed in HD are desirable, then as we have seen, people may be willing to pay to watch them.
As for me, tv is still shit even if viewed in high fidelity. When the digital switch happened, I too the opportunity to remain with my old equipment and wait to see what I can pick up used. Quite a lot of high end gear has been sold at fire sale prices, just because it's not "digital."
There's precious little that YDL can do that OS X can't. I doubt a person could name 5 things that they can do with YDL that they can't do with OS X. Contrariwise, it's easy to name 5 things that OS X does that Linux can't.
"Adobe isn't totally removed from these technologies, however: its Flash Player includes H.264 support, and its AIR technology has built-in HTML and CSS support through inclusion of the WebKit browser on which Apple's Safari is based."
What a stupid thing to say. Clearly the writer either doesn't understand technology, or is attempting to make nice with Adobe. The tone of the article implies the latter.
Most of them have *NO IDEA* that Mao ever killed anybody. Most of them are completely unaware of Tienamin Square, other than a nice place to take a stroll.
They are hardly aware of these things. It is somewhat dishonest to suggest they "don't care" when they don't know, when all books, videos, an mention of these things has been erased from history.
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Android will be a competitor for sure, the same way they are now. Just as the Tata car is a competitor to Lexus.
You walk into a store and they give you an incentive to buy the Android phone because they are cheap, a commodity now. A lot of people get it because it's cheap, not because it's any better.
When Verizon starts giving out Android tablets "free" with their data plan, sure, people will snap them up. It'll be just as pathetic up against an iPad as the Android is against the iPhone, but subsidized purchasing from the cell networks by the shipload will ensure that there are quite a few of these devices out there.
Who has multimedia content that will only play on apple devices?
Are you talking about iTunes store? Because it's DRM free and has been for a while now.
TV shows still have DRM but you can thank the media companies for that, not Apple.
iTunes is a platform just like Netflix or any other media delivery platform. The only problem people have with Apple is that it's Apple.
Neither. At this point it is sheer momentum. Microsoft's marketing is inept and laughable, and technology wise it is far from the best solution.
The ipad sells because in the past, tablets were thick, chunky, expensive, and have awful battery light. The ipad is thin, light, slick, and has excellent battery life. You can put a USB port on a pig but that doesn't mean you have accomplished anything useful.
Intel tablets will fail, as the Atom sucks for low power applications. Windows tablets, therefore, will fail.
Apple's marketing has nothing to do with their current uptake among the hardcore geek segment. That part is simply due to Apple having the best damn laptops, extremely powerful workstations, phones that aren't a joke, and a tablet that is literally the only thing on the market that isn't utter shit.
Now the 14 year old girls who love apple, the soccer moms, they are victims of marketing. But your engineers and biologists and mathematicians use macs for totally different and very legitimate reasons.
As a lens increases in size, it actually decreases in performance and more aberrations appear.
Using the smallest diameter lens you can, and still let in enough light to photograph by, is a better move than using a large diameter lens.
You'll just have to take my word on this, but a Carl Zeiss camera phone lens (sells to OEMs for a few dollars) will outperform their MasterPrime cinematography lenses which cost many thousands of dollars apiece.
Works the same? What if you need a professional grade Midi tracker, video editor, or photo editor?
A better CD / DVD burner? I doubt it - I have't ever run into problems with my G4 running 10.5...
And finally, the fact that you claim Linux supports more hardware checks out... at first. Sure, it supports loads of obscure hardware on most architectures, but on PPC? Are you really sure you got your morning coffee?
I know Apple bashing is fashionable around here but sheesh dude, everything you said was just flat wrong.
Are you seriously suggesting that Apple stole cut and paste? Apple, who has had cut and paste for over a quarter century?
They didn't have it in the iphone, now they do. As long as we are ripping on phones that are copycats, how about all the phones that are all screen, just like the iphone? How about all the phones that auto-rotate, just like the iphone?
I could go on all day but it's pointless. The real point that needs considering is that on Android or the Palm Pre, things are sluggish, shitty, and ugly, and on the iphone they are slick, quick, and nifty.
People notice this stuff.
WebOS is the most aesthetically pleasing?
You mean, way behind iPhone OS, don't you?
Whoooosh!
You'll easily saturate gigabit ethernet with such a setup.
With ZFS performance is largely independent of storage media speed.
I did a similar thing with laptop drives in an external sata cage, over firewire, with FreeBSD and the sustained speeds were still really good - about equal to our $10,000 Dell Storage Server machine with Windows Storage Server 2003.
The production machine runs Opensolaris and is faster than nipple whiz.
I would bet he is. Battlefield Earth is one of Apple's "Hot Picks" in the iPad's iBooks app.
No, it just makes too damn much sense.
For most people, the lack of flash is a blessing and not a curse.
I am not alone when I consider flash to be the most annoying aspect of the whole web browsing experience.
"Allow me to expand on that. It's sad that just digital SD and not full HDTV is the only "mandated" standard when both could have been forced given a couple more years to allow for larger HDTV penetration."
There are problems with this idea. First, what about old content that is in 4:3? Either you accept the black bars, stretch it, or crop it to 16:9. The problem is that these are solely up to the user's preference, and broadcasting the 4:3 SD video allows the individual user to choose their preferred way of viewing it.
Another problem with older content is that a lot of it is naturally about 720x480, the NTSC studio broadcast resolution. Are you going to legally force them to literally refilm Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Let the market sort it out. People like you who care about stuff like this can buy your TV connection from a company that also cares. If shows filmed in HD are desirable, then as we have seen, people may be willing to pay to watch them.
As for me, tv is still shit even if viewed in high fidelity. When the digital switch happened, I too the opportunity to remain with my old equipment and wait to see what I can pick up used. Quite a lot of high end gear has been sold at fire sale prices, just because it's not "digital."
Actually Apple rejected Theora for the same reasons that movie studios and professional video producers have.
It is simply not that great.
YDL: The OS of choice for masochistic Mac owners.
There's precious little that YDL can do that OS X can't. I doubt a person could name 5 things that they can do with YDL that they can't do with OS X. Contrariwise, it's easy to name 5 things that OS X does that Linux can't.
"Adobe isn't totally removed from these technologies, however: its Flash Player includes H.264 support, and its AIR technology has built-in HTML and CSS support through inclusion of the WebKit browser on which Apple's Safari is based."
What a stupid thing to say. Clearly the writer either doesn't understand technology, or is attempting to make nice with Adobe. The tone of the article implies the latter.
Does Flash on Linux and Solaris also suck because Apple wants those to suck too?
OS X has a lot of open components, including the entire XNU / BSD subsystem, its unique driver architecture, many many frameworks, and so forth.
The GUI is not open source, but pretty much everything else about the system is.
Echochrome seems somewhat similar, but not 4d.
When people claim that folks are leaving Photoshop for the GIMP, I just have to laugh.
I have seen 100 times as many people running pirated Photoshop than I have ever seen with the GIMP, in the wild.
Yes, but GCD can send tasks to your GPU or any other processing resource that can handle it and is sufficiently free enough at the moment.
This is about the most cromulent explanation I have heard about why the iPad is greeted with hostility.
One of these might do the trick:
http://www.arstech.com/item-USB-2-0-to-ISA-card-ROHS-usb2isar.html
Windows is defective or "broken" by design, and the implementation is usually broken as well.
This is just appropriate use of an icon. Microsoft should adopt it as their own.
Talk to a Chinese person. Educated ones.
Most of them have *NO IDEA* that Mao ever killed anybody. Most of them are completely unaware of Tienamin Square, other than a nice place to take a stroll.
They are hardly aware of these things. It is somewhat dishonest to suggest they "don't care" when they don't know, when all books, videos, an mention of these things has been erased from history.
Question: How much did you get paid for your post?