I do not believe what Apple says. if Apple requested Nokia licensing for the GSM standard related patents, and they refused to provide them in RAND terms, Apple should have gone to the standard body and tell them Nokia wass not doing what they must do.
Apple has no right to implement them just because Nokia refused RAND terms
If you know something will "temporarily fix" by itself in 24 hours, for something not earth shattering like playing video games (no lives at risk, no mayor issue than your image and a few lost PSN network sales). Will you risk a rushed firmware patch than can cause more problems without proper testing? I don't. I will wait the 24 hours, then later issue a proper fix if it is needed, after testing if there is a possibility of that happening again another year, if 2010 is the only year that could happen, I will not publish a patch until another error must be fixed. To rush a patch that is not needed (no security related) is not welcome in production environment
I am a Thinkpad T500 owner with switchable Intel/ATI, and it is a nice feature even that I need to reboot and change the mode at the BIOS to use one or the other chipset on Linux (I have not tried the recent X server restart experiments), I use more than 95% of the time the Intel IGP, but I still consider this software switching a horrible hack. Why do not design efficient chips (ATI/NVIDIA) able to power down parts of it when not using advanced features?
This is like putting two processor like the most power hungry Intel chip and an Intel Atom, and build software to switch from them when needed. no, you add power management features the the processor and only use one
I think the skype server can send a notification to the iPhone, the user open the notification then it starts skype to finish the connection, ugly for my taste but doable. IIRC multitasking is allowed for Apple applications, so you can have the browser and Skype running at the same time, but if you need to write something on a third party application while on skype, you sure will lost the call
There is no need for a complex firmware update, the PS3 firmware already support special icons on the XMB to be used as placeholder to download an application that will use that icon, like the enhanced photo viewer and Folding at Home/Life with Playtation. So the new firmware update must only add that icon and point it to the PSN servers to download it. Another thing is to build the application, so Sony could try to refactor the firmware blu-ray software in order to be able to reuse part of it on installed applications, like the Java VM needed by blue-ray live currently used by the netflix disk)
The idea of using computers/software is that they must work for me, I do not need to work for them, I do not need to move things manually to see things how a user want it to be (reasonable ideas I mean)
yes, the only problem is that your replies do not show that way (unless it is a mailing list where you receive a copy of your own message). If there is some way to merge the Sent Folder with the threaded view using a search or some kind of virtual folder, please help us
SL was killed by bugs, and I am not talking about virtual insects, The client is the most buggy piece of software I ever used, people got used to "crash", but not everyone is ready to tolerate so may crashes
Who is forcing you to re-buy all your games, do you want to play UMD games?, buy a new PSP-3000 if you do not have one, both models are being sold. Do you scream because when you buy a netbook it does not have a DVD drive to see you movies?, no because the target user for that device is not the same to laptop owners, it is about extra mobility. I own a PSP-3000 and have no interest on the PSP Go (with the exception of the bluetooth support), new games are sold in physical and dogotal distribution, your choice
Anyone who see Wave as a social time waster like twitter do not understand it. It is about collaboration, It is about writing a document with concurrency tracking, I can read notes online when people is writing it and fix it at the moment, I can be offline and read later what people have added since I left. It is not a web chat room.
It also ignores the productivity gains that we've gotten from RSS feeds, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
This guy is crazy, calling Twitter as something that give you productivity gains, well only if your job is marketting
Have you tried any non IE browser on an enterprise environment?, Mozilla is a pain to centrally configure, you need to add file to the installation directory to lock settings like proxy settings, or disable extensions installations. Chrome installer is a joke, it is installed on each user %APP_LOCAL_DATA, and if more than one person uses it on the same computer, each one of them will have a different copy and need to download updates separately
Giving the option to use IE and its powerful AD configuration options + a modern renderer is a good option
Any added code bring new possible security vulnerabilities, but given IE record, I am sure the Webkit/Chrome team is competent enough to fix them when they arise. I prefer this option than using Flash to simulate HTML5 features on IE
Note: forcing websites into Google Chrome Frame with these techniques may lead to unexpected behavior. Google Chrome Frame will fetch URLs using the host browser's network stack, so the web site will send content intended for the host browser
So it looks they are only replacing the renderer and not the networking and other internal parts of IE, so it will behave remotely as a real IE, only that the content is displayed by the plugin. This is not a new idea, people tried to do it with Gecko, the advantage of WebKit is that the host (in this case IE) can provide a lot, instead Gecko is tightly tied to NetLib (The Mozilla Networking Library), NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime), NSS (Network Security Services) so it was not practical as a plugin because it will be a complete browser inside IE
Will you write a program to update the files already cached on users browsers? will you distribute?, when something is cached, it is already cached. You can not force it to be cleared with a META tag. but that do not deny that EBay developers probably must be more careful how to use cache , maybe they need to start using versioned URLs for the applications assets like JS files
Apologies accepted, and sorry for being harsh but I have been hit by that behavior many times here on slashdot....
Adobe already has separate installer for IE (ActiveX in browser installation) and the traditional.EXE installer for other browsers. Introducing and XPI will not remove the need for an EXE installer (other NP plugin based browsers need it) so you are right about the extra burden.
Adobe has a license for redistribution but is restricted to intranet cases, or public but only using physical media (adobe installers without modification), but they had made exceptions before Warren Togami used to package then in RPM format with Adobe permission, before they started their own yum repository
... because an XPI extension is written in XUL and/or Javascript, while a plugin is a compiled DLL that the browser loads up into its address space. they are two different things that work in different ways, even though they both add features to the browser. That's not to say that Flash couldn't be hosted on Mozilla's add-ons site, just that you are unlikely to see it in the form of an XPI file.
Why some people always assume the person that is talking has no knowledge of what he or she is saying?, please take a look at Mozilla Extension reference and you will see that you can package plugins inside an XPI (/plugins/* reference on the exampleExt.xpi sample)
Mozilla has provided the tools to do it with extensions, I do not know the reason why Adobe is afraid to build an XPI with Flash and publish all updates on Mozilla Add-ons site. They already do a yum repository for us, users of RPM based Linux dsitributions
are iPhone owners not paying AT&T for internet bandwith? I did not know that. <sarcasm>ohhh AT&T is so nice, you receive free internet, you can for example see all YouTube videos for free from an iPhone</sarcasm>
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I do not believe what Apple says. if Apple requested Nokia licensing for the GSM standard related patents, and they refused to provide them in RAND terms, Apple should have gone to the standard body and tell them Nokia wass not doing what they must do.
Apple has no right to implement them just because Nokia refused RAND terms
If you know something will "temporarily fix" by itself in 24 hours, for something not earth shattering like playing video games (no lives at risk, no mayor issue than your image and a few lost PSN network sales). Will you risk a rushed firmware patch than can cause more problems without proper testing? I don't. I will wait the 24 hours, then later issue a proper fix if it is needed, after testing if there is a possibility of that happening again another year, if 2010 is the only year that could happen, I will not publish a patch until another error must be fixed. To rush a patch that is not needed (no security related) is not welcome in production environment
I am a Thinkpad T500 owner with switchable Intel/ATI, and it is a nice feature even that I need to reboot and change the mode at the BIOS to use one or the other chipset on Linux (I have not tried the recent X server restart experiments), I use more than 95% of the time the Intel IGP, but I still consider this software switching a horrible hack. Why do not design efficient chips (ATI/NVIDIA) able to power down parts of it when not using advanced features?
This is like putting two processor like the most power hungry Intel chip and an Intel Atom, and build software to switch from them when needed. no, you add power management features the the processor and only use one
I think the skype server can send a notification to the iPhone, the user open the notification then it starts skype to finish the connection, ugly for my taste but doable. IIRC multitasking is allowed for Apple applications, so you can have the browser and Skype running at the same time, but if you need to write something on a third party application while on skype, you sure will lost the call
It is not a fork it is just upstream Firefox + patches build with options to use an alternative branding
There is no need for a complex firmware update, the PS3 firmware already support special icons on the XMB to be used as placeholder to download an application that will use that icon, like the enhanced photo viewer and Folding at Home/Life with Playtation. So the new firmware update must only add that icon and point it to the PSN servers to download it. Another thing is to build the application, so Sony could try to refactor the firmware blu-ray software in order to be able to reuse part of it on installed applications, like the Java VM needed by blue-ray live currently used by the netflix disk)
The idea of using computers/software is that they must work for me, I do not need to work for them, I do not need to move things manually to see things how a user want it to be (reasonable ideas I mean)
The best advice on this thread has been to use the Copy Sent to Current Add-on
yes, the only problem is that your replies do not show that way (unless it is a mailing list where you receive a copy of your own message). If there is some way to merge the Sent Folder with the threaded view using a search or some kind of virtual folder, please help us
then change your ntp configuration to use your country server pool: <country-code>.pool.ntp.org
If you have more then one client to configure, you must be running a local ntp server already, then change that one
SL was killed by bugs, and I am not talking about virtual insects, The client is the most buggy piece of software I ever used, people got used to "crash", but not everyone is ready to tolerate so may crashes
he can have good intentions, and the prize could be given to him for what he could do in the future
They do not need to migrate, just hardcode C:\ or use \ as file separators instead of the java.io.File.separator constant
That is being solved with Filesystem capabilities. Fedora 11 still has ping as setuid, not sure if Fedora 12 beta already switched it
(5) Apple start blocking those LPs not made by Apple on iTunes, they will add a hash to verify who build them
Who is forcing you to re-buy all your games, do you want to play UMD games?, buy a new PSP-3000 if you do not have one, both models are being sold. Do you scream because when you buy a netbook it does not have a DVD drive to see you movies?, no because the target user for that device is not the same to laptop owners, it is about extra mobility. I own a PSP-3000 and have no interest on the PSP Go (with the exception of the bluetooth support), new games are sold in physical and dogotal distribution, your choice
Anyone who see Wave as a social time waster like twitter do not understand it. It is about collaboration, It is about writing a document with concurrency tracking, I can read notes online when people is writing it and fix it at the moment, I can be offline and read later what people have added since I left. It is not a web chat room.
It also ignores the productivity gains that we've gotten from RSS feeds, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
This guy is crazy, calling Twitter as something that give you productivity gains, well only if your job is marketting
Have you tried any non IE browser on an enterprise environment?, Mozilla is a pain to centrally configure, you need to add file to the installation directory to lock settings like proxy settings, or disable extensions installations. Chrome installer is a joke, it is installed on each user %APP_LOCAL_DATA, and if more than one person uses it on the same computer, each one of them will have a different copy and need to download updates separately
Giving the option to use IE and its powerful AD configuration options + a modern renderer is a good option
applying the same crazy MS thoughts, then Silverlight make IE less secure
Any added code bring new possible security vulnerabilities, but given IE record, I am sure the Webkit/Chrome team is competent enough to fix them when they arise. I prefer this option than using Flash to simulate HTML5 features on IE
From Chrome Frame Developer's Guide:
Note: forcing websites into Google Chrome Frame with these techniques may lead to unexpected behavior. Google Chrome Frame will fetch URLs using the host browser's network stack, so the web site will send content intended for the host browser
So it looks they are only replacing the renderer and not the networking and other internal parts of IE, so it will behave remotely as a real IE, only that the content is displayed by the plugin. This is not a new idea, people tried to do it with Gecko, the advantage of WebKit is that the host (in this case IE) can provide a lot, instead Gecko is tightly tied to NetLib (The Mozilla Networking Library), NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime), NSS (Network Security Services) so it was not practical as a plugin because it will be a complete browser inside IE
Will you write a program to update the files already cached on users browsers? will you distribute?, when something is cached, it is already cached. You can not force it to be cleared with a META tag. but that do not deny that EBay developers probably must be more careful how to use cache , maybe they need to start using versioned URLs for the applications assets like JS files
Apologies accepted, and sorry for being harsh but I have been hit by that behavior many times here on slashdot....
Adobe already has separate installer for IE (ActiveX in browser installation) and the traditional .EXE installer for other browsers. Introducing and XPI will not remove the need for an EXE installer (other NP plugin based browsers need it) so you are right about the extra burden.
Adobe has a license for redistribution but is restricted to intranet cases, or public but only using physical media (adobe installers without modification), but they had made exceptions before Warren Togami used to package then in RPM format with Adobe permission, before they started their own yum repository
... because an XPI extension is written in XUL and/or Javascript, while a plugin is a compiled DLL that the browser loads up into its address space. they are two different things that work in different ways, even though they both add features to the browser. That's not to say that Flash couldn't be hosted on Mozilla's add-ons site, just that you are unlikely to see it in the form of an XPI file.
Why some people always assume the person that is talking has no knowledge of what he or she is saying?, please take a look at Mozilla Extension reference and you will see that you can package plugins inside an XPI (/plugins/* reference on the exampleExt.xpi sample)
Mozilla has provided the tools to do it with extensions, I do not know the reason why Adobe is afraid to build an XPI with Flash and publish all updates on Mozilla Add-ons site. They already do a yum repository for us, users of RPM based Linux dsitributions
are iPhone owners not paying AT&T for internet bandwith? I did not know that. <sarcasm>ohhh AT&T is so nice, you receive free internet, you can for example see all YouTube videos for free from an iPhone</sarcasm>