Flash is alive not because of a World Wide conspiracy against HTML5, it is alive because it is backed by Adobe Design tools which are used by designers in a complete workflow.
When HTML5 really finalizes to usable stage, they won't use emacs or vi, they will still use Adobe tools supporting HTML5 output. If you haven't been to a professional design house, visit one of them soon and see the scene.
MS still dreams that these people will install Visual something "nerd" thing to Windows (right, Windows not OS X) and use them while these guys barely uses mouse anymore because they memorized all keyboard shortcuts.
Where are the design tools for OS X? Or are we still playing "if you don't use my OS, fsck you" kind of passive aggressive games MS? I stopped following after they talked about Eclipse IDE on OS X.
Does Mcafee corporate offer a different concept like white list instead of black list, e.g. like guys Kaspersky or Avast (5+) does or they keep on checking same, unchanged and signed system files over and over?
Svchost scandal wouldn't happen if they carried that approach which requires actual R&D people instead of signature hunter outsourced people so... no I guess.
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I really wonder which PR genius company fooled Intel that they can turn around MCafee's horrible image.
If they can do it, I am sure it will be part of.edu lessons.
Intel made a horrible choice, they were all fine investing/helping smaller AV companies and help them to take off. For example, AVG/Grisoft. That really helped to sustain the security damage to "Wintel" planet. There are companies like Grisoft, lesser known but does have amazing technologies and amazing detect rates and a very different, modern way of looking to the issue.
Lets say these companies are the ones who fits to "atom processor powered" or "arm powered", "3G+ connected" future which arguably happens right now in first World.
For example, this company from China recently started to take off. Besides "Chinese" image and usual engrish quirks, their products should really worry established AV companies. http://www.netqin.com/en/
The company Intel purchased was just recently (a week ago or so) claiming Steve Gibson's grc.com was full of viruses,trojans and offers "dangerous downloads", showing on Yahoo search results. It was so absurd that I mailed to Mr. Gibson telling about the weird results, he seems to have contacted them and kinda got manually fixed the absurdity. It still shows some stupid results at bottom: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/grc.com
As Mr. Gibson replied, it still claims "dangerous downloads" but fails to show any actual ones.
That is the company you bought Intel shareholders.
I know 10 guys will point me to some proposed standards after saying it but this just happened yesterday, on IE. A security company needed to make absolutely sure that I am really `me` as I order a critical service. I asked if we can hurry, they asked if I have webcam. I thought they wanted me tol take pic of my ID. Nope. They pointed me to a page featuring Flash plugin, Flash asked whether I want site to access my webcam, I said `yes`, guy saw me and said `it is OK now, thanks for your time`.
Now, this has been a debate at Opera blogs too, there isn`t a working, cross browser standard which allows it. For non technical user, installing a standards compliant browser doesn`t really work. Even if there was a chance, there is no browser that does webcam thing.
I am really afraid that HTML5 is not progressing well not just because of technical but political reasons. E.g. some guys may find it uncool. Remember, each GIF you see in 2010 exists because PNG guys didn`t really like the idea of animated images. Or, MNG is there. It isn`t evil MS to blame this time either, MS was one of the quickest to implement PNG once they figured it is a real solution to a real problem.
I think they found the easiest way to close/revoke license of an IMAX theatre. If you can't make money with your IMAX technology theater and want it to be revoked, just announce this movie. A poster would be enough. Perhaps you won't have to pay a fee to Sony for early termination, that is the genius part:)
Movie business, especially high end IMAX etc. aren't really youtube. You can't upload everything and expect them to play it. Wonder if that guy really have any clue about the business side of things?
No, I am afraid that some great "action" and film will be wasted if they didn't investigate who owns IMAX brand, most of the theaters, technology and whether it will be really possible to show their "work" on IMAX.
IMAX=Sony and Sony isn't really known to be liberal about porn. The "tape length" story is kinda overrated but Sony really didn't want beta format factories to press porn/sex movies. That is a fact.They are liberal about actual art BTW, don't misunderstand.
If you think companies like Sony or Disney doesn't have power to stop such nonsense, think again or just ask that genius tried to get his blurays printed at factory where Disney blu-rays were printed.
There was some "patent blogger" on first story regarding this absurd decision by Oracle. Guy was actually giving "Mono", yes Mono as example of how things should be done.
Perhaps some companies actually started to think that open source guys are dumb? I mean you come to a story speaking about a big company suing other for patents and you come up with mono advertisement. One really has to have balls to do that on slashdot.
I started to feel like Oracle's acquisition of Sun will end up like Amiga focusing on CD32, Sinclair spending millions to ship that weird C5, IBM rejecting Win32 API on OS/2. You know tech stories like "Company was doing great, if they didn't make that horrible decision."
I was telling they can't be that stupid to undermine Java or MySQL, things turned out to be very different. Java and J2ME already have some questions and as this patent lawsuit is on, I am sure some companies question their inclusion of java techology in operating system, devices. Did you also figure IBM is still silent about this? If I were Ellison, I would think about it.
They don't ask a simple question, a very simple one.
"We have our technology preinstalled to near billion handheld/mobile devices. We have industry giants who submits their own enhancements. Opera Mini (and soon Locago) proved those users will care to install something if it means something to them. So, what was wrong with J2ME and why Google went their own way instead of enhancing J2ME?"
If you can get answer, ask any high level executive in MS what would they feel if some MS technology, like "silverlight lite" was preinstalled to dozens of different brands, thousands of models. Man they would kill for it.
They should sit and pray to Norwegian gods that something like Opera Mini exists or device manufacturers would have no problem removing J2ME from future models.
Lets say someone sets up a website actually streaming Avatar movie in full length to users, do you think nobody will go after them?
WoW is actually Avatar sized, in terms of market value, the actual economy of it beating countries, a brand worth millions alone.
If users could be educated, there wasn't a problem like phishing anyway, from the beginning. I can tell you that they are under attack, the amount of phishes reported (and remember, that is community powered site) went rocket high lately.
If they don't care about their brand (I doubt), they should at least care about their users. Look what happened after MS sued the hell out of phishers.
I believe Meego will find its way to N900, even via fake-anonymous contributors from Intel/Nokia. As you guys are "top paying" owners of devices, even commercial developers who are dealing with real complex code (think about quickoffice) will say to them "We can't and won't reinvent the wheel, upgrade our consumers".
Even Intel has to do a favor. Why? Because Intel has to prove that they are really after a mobile device linux, not only something that will save "once netbook fashion dies, it is dead" atom processor. Their coders should really prove it and it will tell the industry that Intel can/will support ARM architecture. Intel is really like AMD on mobile land, does things but industry doesn't really take them serious. Of course they are taken serious but, not like desktop.
Nokia? Well, my 2 years old E71 just got a new update and remember, we are running ordinary, closed source Symbian. Not ^something. It now has many features, including free maps built into "ROM". I can't understand why that very same company would abandon N900 owners especially they aren't dealing with 20 millions of complex mess called S60V3. Seriously, their design lead asked them to make a minor (cosmetic) change on E71 home screen, they couldn't find the code which needs to be modified to make that change. That was the Nokia just 2 years ago and now they became open source heroic company.
Well, as I said and people replied, nobody cares really... They will line up for iPhones and whine on Slashdot instead. I even regret posting that message now.
Their "Ovi Suite" (which is Qt4 based) does a lot on Windows, there is also an official application which runs on OS X which does great amount of OS X friendly media/photos/music syncing even beating iTunes as it can convert the selected media files to device even if they are in.avi etc formats (via ffmpeg embedded).
I think, they should port it to Linux, the light Application as Ovi Suite is more like a savior for Windows users. There is a pressure on them to port it to OS X (which I believe, it can be ported as it is qt4) but it will be a serious overkill. It is more like "lets see if you actually support OS X" pressure, not realistic and useful. I bet same people will flame them for shipping a heavy weight suite for OS X which already has all the software provided by Apple.
They have a serious PR problem especially with Mac/OS X users. I know many people who were absolutely amazed when they have seen that little "nokia multimedia transfer" as they didn't know about it. Worse is, they think "Oh Nokia wouldn't support Mac anyway" and they don't even check http://www.nokia.com/mac which includes OS X style support, e.g. without re-inventing wheel, plug into iSync/iPhoto/iTunes.
Finally, if you are happy with iPhone, there is nothing to change. It does do good job syncing with OS X but, in my setup, Nokia even syncs better. E.g. multiple Nokias (one S40, one S60) merging their phonebooks via iSync etc. I was really amazed that I didn't see iPhone when I launched iSync on my brother's iPhone for example.
I guess the N8 (which has good specs) which carries the "Nokia" brand and proudly powered by Qt 4, if it sells well it could be a game changer for already prestigious Qt.
They have to get rid of this negativity but they should do it in old fashioned way, not like their recent "Boss will be on Twitter, ask whatever you like" lame web 2.0 thing. For example, put (non animated, not talking!) ads to Mac focused sites, like "Did you know your Nokia can sync to OS X via iSync?". I bet they don't know that many OS X users doesn't really do a "step 2" when they see iSync doesn't figure their phones.
I noticed this many times even after Microsoft figured they can never possibly test all possible uses of Windows and kinda gave away Windows 7 beta. Think about it, the Microsoft as we know gives away free, usable, fully functioning OS knowing some people will hack the "time bomb".
Lets talk about OS X. High level developer merely changes wallpaper to something cool (they don't even do it), installs XCode, all OS X updates and codes. There is no resident software, no UI hacks (thanks to Apple, you gotta hack to have themes), nothing hogging CPU every 5 min, all files in place, no kind of insane settings (I even seen one sharing entire home folder to everyone). It is not a "test" machine, it is a Developer machine.
As guy doesn't mention what kind of software he writes, I can only assume things but it is the general problem. End user machines are overlooked. For example, nobody says "lets go to macupdate.com, download and install top 10 software and see how my software gets along with them", including Apple it is:)
For testing popular software, you need end users and "general" types, not high technical types. You gotta be nice to them yourself and make sure _everyone_ on IRC channel, forums, bug report replies are nice. I would even kickban the first ever so-called "supporter" who treats others like shit. That is one thing makes me really stay away from testing many open source software let alone using them. You know, you gotta kickban the first genius who seriously says "Where is the patch?" to already frustrated user. If they did it, many open source software would be in different place now.
I try to be nice and keep on reporting phishes regarding WoW for weeks now, it has become kinda absurd as they are actually buying domains which contains their trademark and serving phishes for days.
Look at the live phishes (means, please don't go to them) right now, which are "online".
These are the WoW phishing pages. Some very known hosting companies (not some garage guys) are also being used. I think if Blizzard spends time/money to use one of them, admins will magically start caring.
BTW WoW is the only game which has its own category next to banks on phishtank, this seems to be a huge, organized thing. The pattern is always the same and some real advanced tricks are being used, it is not some "lets hack guys images directory and put a cgi to it" thing.
Nokia is known to be obsessed with environment and living standards of their workers. They are also one of the most truly global thinking companies who cares about cultural diversity.
Not just that, they purchased Qt from Trolltech and spend millions of engineering hours with millions of dollars to open source their key operating system. That massive work also finds its way to Linux/BSD.
It is your type who goes to newegg.com, set the sorting to cheapest to most expensive and pick the cheapest one.
Apple could be hypocrite but people buying things who are just 10 dollars cheaper and bitching/whining as AC or some chit chat at Starbucks are more disgusting.
For me, this explains the white iPhone mystery. It wasn't about the "perfect white tone", it was connected to this guy (IMHO who is doomed) and material manufacturers. I always wondered how Apple, the Apple can't get a manufacturer to produce some tone of white for a device people line up for. It happens to small companies/single designers all the time but not to Apple sized companies.
There was something really mysterious about that white iphone and I think it is connected to this guy and the whole setup.
I think, as it hasn't been settled silently, this thing will be huge soon. BTW; at first read you think like some "cover designer" companies etc. involved, no they talk about the actual device suppliers.
KHTML may live on (!) as System HTML renderer, help renderer, whatever renderer and for people who chooses stability/robustness over "web 2.0" things like most insane javascript performance ever!
Not just that, Webkit stuff comes to KHTML too. They could be just a bit conservative since they have a OS (yea, minus drivers and kernel) which runs happily on 3 different architectures which has nothing to do with each other.
You wouldn't want Konqueror to crash while you move critical files around with it, you know there is no cool "plugin dead, disabled" dialogue in that case:)
Funny that Webkit is kinda sponsored by "us", Apple users and yet we understand the importance of a stable, standards compliant, low memory using and dependable light html renderer.
Well, that joke will eventually hit +5 funny but, let me tell what happened today.
Was in market for a end user VPN account, you know they really depend on your IP to their IP speed/path. The largest and known/old VPN provider for such use has made all speed tests in Java. As I was testing something on OS X 10.4.11 Tiger (read as: OLD) and Apple stopped updating Tiger long time ago, along with security updates, I don't dare to enable "applets".
So until the gcc451 test was finished, I was prisoned on that partition.
This is exactly why people want the possibility of having flash/java applet and even shockwave on their browser. Not because they love 3rd party stuff, because a page out there may feature them and that page could matter to you.
I love watching people attack Larry Ellison/Oracle and Java in same context instead of questioning the "cool" guys like Apple and Google.
Are you being sarcastic or spreading misinformation? MS didn't really evolve Java, they wanted to do their usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" trick. Court didn't buy it, they paid $500M. End of story.
I wonder if they would tie it to directx 10 or 11, if they managed to pull it off.
Logitech couldn't manage to sell the "iFeel" mouse, back in 2000 which does make you "feel" the underlying objects on desktop. I have one, hardware still works. They are a huge name in input devices with a huge prestige. People still didn't buy the idea.
Who came up with this electrocute user idea? Doesn't Toshiba guys have anything else to do like, make use of the freaking Cell chip they invested billions in?
There are good examples how you can be even more successful and none of them involves around any money.
Skype's own clients on mobile devices are really problematic and third parties (read as:free coders) like Fring, which is a giant on mobile scene have been treated really bad recently.
I personally use Nimbuzz but removed Skype from its profiles as connection was always shaky (for some reason) with Skype servers. So, I decided to install their "official" version, a nice attempt but a giant in terms of Symbian devices. It was also packaged (think like deb,msi,pkg) wrong so, it installs a very critical tiny framework to "storage" which causes severe issues. The real issue is, they are re-inventing wheel needlessly. Such issues with "network switching", "auto reconnect" has been long fixed on Fring, Nimbuzz and whatever IM program which are very mature.
BTW, this is experience from Symbian which is very close to Android in terms of "developer freedom". There is no "don't use that api or we won't post it to app store" like stuff going on. So, it is not like iPhone where you give credit to developers for coding rather lightly/basic because of its SDK/TOS etc.
You know, I hope they don't say "Even Google didn't go their own way and adopted XMPP/Jabber" at one point. Things really started to remind the ICQ 1998. Their serious issue is, they are much like 1990s minded AOL. These days, it is all about open source, I am not talking about Linux on Desktop:) For example, check http://world.waze.com/ , its client which does way more than Skype is open source and GPL V2 even.
There were several and yet fixable "antennagate" happenings on Nokia, the 40% share (for now) not-taken-seriously smart phone giant.
N97 for example, a device which made everyone drool and yet shipped with 256MB of RAM (remember, Symbian and users heavily multitask) and no hardware accelerated UI. Now, N97 owners say "OK you tell us Symbian 3 is great, upgrade us for free and we stop bitching". While technically possible (know anything Qt doesn't work?) Nokia is very silent. Stupid guys could even have "free beta testers" for their next flagship N8 which is extremely important these days. Remember, MS essentially gave Windows 7 free to testers.
N900, based on Linux has no word from Nokia whether its firmware will be fixed or better switched to MeeGo (Intel/Nok thing).
These are "iPhone class" devices I talk about. They dream that, owners of these devices, cursing every moment will flock to Nokia stores to buy N8 for a iPhone sec. hand price.
These are just 2 "flagships", several more software scandals which are fixable are happening but they are a bit deeper technical issues.
Imagine Apple doing these mistakes and chief of hardware still stays. Man, they would even fire SJobs if they felt like it. Apple's success comes from "no mercy" policy, even on OS X.
You know, if someone (not just black hat, can be anyone) manages to tap into that Govt. enforced system and did some cool tricks, the economy of France and effectively, all large economies of World could collapse in Domino logic. Think about it, a backdoor installed to every single machine on an established economy like that. Obviously, it is not detected or forgiven by security software. Not to sound like a lunatic, it would be WTC of the digital economy.
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Flash is alive not because of a World Wide conspiracy against HTML5, it is alive because it is backed by Adobe Design tools which are used by designers in a complete workflow.
When HTML5 really finalizes to usable stage, they won't use emacs or vi, they will still use Adobe tools supporting HTML5 output. If you haven't been to a professional design house, visit one of them soon and see the scene.
MS still dreams that these people will install Visual something "nerd" thing to Windows (right, Windows not OS X) and use them while these guys barely uses mouse anymore because they memorized all keyboard shortcuts.
Where are the design tools for OS X? Or are we still playing "if you don't use my OS, fsck you" kind of passive aggressive games MS? I stopped following after they talked about Eclipse IDE on OS X.
1) Buy the worst performing AV on planet ever
2) Hand it out for free or some cheap price
3) Let them NEED your CPU upgrades!
4) Profit!!!
Does Mcafee corporate offer a different concept like white list instead of black list, e.g. like guys Kaspersky or Avast (5+) does or they keep on checking same, unchanged and signed system files over and over?
Svchost scandal wouldn't happen if they carried that approach which requires actual R&D people instead of signature hunter outsourced people so... no I guess.
I really wonder which PR genius company fooled Intel that they can turn around MCafee's horrible image.
If they can do it, I am sure it will be part of .edu lessons.
Intel made a horrible choice, they were all fine investing/helping smaller AV companies and help them to take off. For example, AVG/Grisoft. That really helped to sustain the security damage to "Wintel" planet. There are companies like Grisoft, lesser known but does have amazing technologies and amazing detect rates and a very different, modern way of looking to the issue.
Lets say these companies are the ones who fits to "atom processor powered" or "arm powered", "3G+ connected" future which arguably happens right now in first World.
For example, this company from China recently started to take off. Besides "Chinese" image and usual engrish quirks, their products should really worry established AV companies.
http://www.netqin.com/en/
The company Intel purchased was just recently (a week ago or so) claiming Steve Gibson's grc.com was full of viruses,trojans and offers "dangerous downloads", showing on Yahoo search results. It was so absurd that I mailed to Mr. Gibson telling about the weird results, he seems to have contacted them and kinda got manually fixed the absurdity. It still shows some stupid results at bottom:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/grc.com
As Mr. Gibson replied, it still claims "dangerous downloads" but fails to show any actual ones.
That is the company you bought Intel shareholders.
I know 10 guys will point me to some proposed standards after saying it but this just happened yesterday, on IE. A security company needed to make absolutely sure that I am really `me` as I order a critical service. I asked if we can hurry, they asked if I have webcam. I thought they wanted me tol take pic of my ID. Nope. They pointed me to a page featuring Flash plugin, Flash asked whether I want site to access my webcam, I said `yes`, guy saw me and said `it is OK now, thanks for your time`.
Now, this has been a debate at Opera blogs too, there isn`t a working, cross browser standard which allows it. For non technical user, installing a standards compliant browser doesn`t really work. Even if there was a chance, there is no browser that does webcam thing.
I am really afraid that HTML5 is not progressing well not just because of technical but political reasons. E.g. some guys may find it uncool. Remember, each GIF you see in 2010 exists because PNG guys didn`t really like the idea of animated images. Or, MNG is there. It isn`t evil MS to blame this time either, MS was one of the quickest to implement PNG once they figured it is a real solution to a real problem.
I think they found the easiest way to close/revoke license of an IMAX theatre. If you can't make money with your IMAX technology theater and want it to be revoked, just announce this movie. A poster would be enough. Perhaps you won't have to pay a fee to Sony for early termination, that is the genius part :)
Movie business, especially high end IMAX etc. aren't really youtube. You can't upload everything and expect them to play it. Wonder if that guy really have any clue about the business side of things?
No, I am afraid that some great "action" and film will be wasted if they didn't investigate who owns IMAX brand, most of the theaters, technology and whether it will be really possible to show their "work" on IMAX.
IMAX=Sony and Sony isn't really known to be liberal about porn. The "tape length" story is kinda overrated but Sony really didn't want beta format factories to press porn/sex movies. That is a fact.They are liberal about actual art BTW, don't misunderstand.
If you think companies like Sony or Disney doesn't have power to stop such nonsense, think again or just ask that genius tried to get his blurays printed at factory where Disney blu-rays were printed.
There was some "patent blogger" on first story regarding this absurd decision by Oracle. Guy was actually giving "Mono", yes Mono as example of how things should be done.
Perhaps some companies actually started to think that open source guys are dumb? I mean you come to a story speaking about a big company suing other for patents and you come up with mono advertisement. One really has to have balls to do that on slashdot.
I started to feel like Oracle's acquisition of Sun will end up like Amiga focusing on CD32, Sinclair spending millions to ship that weird C5, IBM rejecting Win32 API on OS/2. You know tech stories like "Company was doing great, if they didn't make that horrible decision."
I was telling they can't be that stupid to undermine Java or MySQL, things turned out to be very different. Java and J2ME already have some questions and as this patent lawsuit is on, I am sure some companies question their inclusion of java techology in operating system, devices. Did you also figure IBM is still silent about this? If I were Ellison, I would think about it.
They don't ask a simple question, a very simple one.
"We have our technology preinstalled to near billion handheld/mobile devices. We have industry giants who submits their own enhancements. Opera Mini (and soon Locago) proved those users will care to install something if it means something to them. So, what was wrong with J2ME and why Google went their own way instead of enhancing J2ME?"
If you can get answer, ask any high level executive in MS what would they feel if some MS technology, like "silverlight lite" was preinstalled to dozens of different brands, thousands of models. Man they would kill for it.
They should sit and pray to Norwegian gods that something like Opera Mini exists or device manufacturers would have no problem removing J2ME from future models.
Lets say someone sets up a website actually streaming Avatar movie in full length to users, do you think nobody will go after them?
WoW is actually Avatar sized, in terms of market value, the actual economy of it beating countries, a brand worth millions alone.
If users could be educated, there wasn't a problem like phishing anyway, from the beginning. I can tell you that they are under attack, the amount of phishes reported (and remember, that is community powered site) went rocket high lately.
If they don't care about their brand (I doubt), they should at least care about their users. Look what happened after MS sued the hell out of phishers.
I believe Meego will find its way to N900, even via fake-anonymous contributors from Intel/Nokia. As you guys are "top paying" owners of devices, even commercial developers who are dealing with real complex code (think about quickoffice) will say to them "We can't and won't reinvent the wheel, upgrade our consumers".
Even Intel has to do a favor. Why? Because Intel has to prove that they are really after a mobile device linux, not only something that will save "once netbook fashion dies, it is dead" atom processor. Their coders should really prove it and it will tell the industry that Intel can/will support ARM architecture. Intel is really like AMD on mobile land, does things but industry doesn't really take them serious. Of course they are taken serious but, not like desktop.
Nokia? Well, my 2 years old E71 just got a new update and remember, we are running ordinary, closed source Symbian. Not ^something. It now has many features, including free maps built into "ROM". I can't understand why that very same company would abandon N900 owners especially they aren't dealing with 20 millions of complex mess called S60V3. Seriously, their design lead asked them to make a minor (cosmetic) change on E71 home screen, they couldn't find the code which needs to be modified to make that change. That was the Nokia just 2 years ago and now they became open source heroic company.
Well, as I said and people replied, nobody cares really... They will line up for iPhones and whine on Slashdot instead. I even regret posting that message now.
Their "Ovi Suite" (which is Qt4 based) does a lot on Windows, there is also an official application which runs on OS X which does great amount of OS X friendly media/photos/music syncing even beating iTunes as it can convert the selected media files to device even if they are in .avi etc formats (via ffmpeg embedded).
I think, they should port it to Linux, the light Application as Ovi Suite is more like a savior for Windows users. There is a pressure on them to port it to OS X (which I believe, it can be ported as it is qt4) but it will be a serious overkill. It is more like "lets see if you actually support OS X" pressure, not realistic and useful. I bet same people will flame them for shipping a heavy weight suite for OS X which already has all the software provided by Apple.
They have a serious PR problem especially with Mac/OS X users. I know many people who were absolutely amazed when they have seen that little "nokia multimedia transfer" as they didn't know about it. Worse is, they think "Oh Nokia wouldn't support Mac anyway" and they don't even check http://www.nokia.com/mac which includes OS X style support, e.g. without re-inventing wheel, plug into iSync/iPhoto/iTunes.
Finally, if you are happy with iPhone, there is nothing to change. It does do good job syncing with OS X but, in my setup, Nokia even syncs better. E.g. multiple Nokias (one S40, one S60) merging their phonebooks via iSync etc. I was really amazed that I didn't see iPhone when I launched iSync on my brother's iPhone for example.
I guess the N8 (which has good specs) which carries the "Nokia" brand and proudly powered by Qt 4, if it sells well it could be a game changer for already prestigious Qt.
They have to get rid of this negativity but they should do it in old fashioned way, not like their recent "Boss will be on Twitter, ask whatever you like" lame web 2.0 thing. For example, put (non animated, not talking!) ads to Mac focused sites, like "Did you know your Nokia can sync to OS X via iSync?". I bet they don't know that many OS X users doesn't really do a "step 2" when they see iSync doesn't figure their phones.
I noticed this many times even after Microsoft figured they can never possibly test all possible uses of Windows and kinda gave away Windows 7 beta. Think about it, the Microsoft as we know gives away free, usable, fully functioning OS knowing some people will hack the "time bomb".
Lets talk about OS X. High level developer merely changes wallpaper to something cool (they don't even do it), installs XCode, all OS X updates and codes. There is no resident software, no UI hacks (thanks to Apple, you gotta hack to have themes), nothing hogging CPU every 5 min, all files in place, no kind of insane settings (I even seen one sharing entire home folder to everyone). It is not a "test" machine, it is a Developer machine.
As guy doesn't mention what kind of software he writes, I can only assume things but it is the general problem. End user machines are overlooked. For example, nobody says "lets go to macupdate.com, download and install top 10 software and see how my software gets along with them", including Apple it is :)
For testing popular software, you need end users and "general" types, not high technical types. You gotta be nice to them yourself and make sure _everyone_ on IRC channel, forums, bug report replies are nice. I would even kickban the first ever so-called "supporter" who treats others like shit. That is one thing makes me really stay away from testing many open source software let alone using them. You know, you gotta kickban the first genius who seriously says "Where is the patch?" to already frustrated user. If they did it, many open source software would be in different place now.
I try to be nice and keep on reporting phishes regarding WoW for weeks now, it has become kinda absurd as they are actually buying domains which contains their trademark and serving phishes for days.
Look at the live phishes (means, please don't go to them) right now, which are "online".
http://www.phishtank.com/target_search.php?target_id=88&valid=All&active=y&Search=Search
These are the WoW phishing pages. Some very known hosting companies (not some garage guys) are also being used. I think if Blizzard spends time/money to use one of them, admins will magically start caring.
BTW WoW is the only game which has its own category next to banks on phishtank, this seems to be a huge, organized thing. The pattern is always the same and some real advanced tricks are being used, it is not some "lets hack guys images directory and put a cgi to it" thing.
Nokia is known to be obsessed with environment and living standards of their workers. They are also one of the most truly global thinking companies who cares about cultural diversity.
Not just that, they purchased Qt from Trolltech and spend millions of engineering hours with millions of dollars to open source their key operating system. That massive work also finds its way to Linux/BSD.
The point is, seen anyone giving a fsck lately?
Dear AC,
It is your type who goes to newegg.com, set the sorting to cheapest to most expensive and pick the cheapest one.
Apple could be hypocrite but people buying things who are just 10 dollars cheaper and bitching/whining as AC or some chit chat at Starbucks are more disgusting.
For me, this explains the white iPhone mystery. It wasn't about the "perfect white tone", it was connected to this guy (IMHO who is doomed) and material manufacturers. I always wondered how Apple, the Apple can't get a manufacturer to produce some tone of white for a device people line up for. It happens to small companies/single designers all the time but not to Apple sized companies.
There was something really mysterious about that white iphone and I think it is connected to this guy and the whole setup.
I think, as it hasn't been settled silently, this thing will be huge soon. BTW; at first read you think like some "cover designer" companies etc. involved, no they talk about the actual device suppliers.
KHTML may live on (!) as System HTML renderer, help renderer, whatever renderer and for people who chooses stability/robustness over "web 2.0" things like most insane javascript performance ever!
Not just that, Webkit stuff comes to KHTML too. They could be just a bit conservative since they have a OS (yea, minus drivers and kernel) which runs happily on 3 different architectures which has nothing to do with each other.
You wouldn't want Konqueror to crash while you move critical files around with it, you know there is no cool "plugin dead, disabled" dialogue in that case :)
Funny that Webkit is kinda sponsored by "us", Apple users and yet we understand the importance of a stable, standards compliant, low memory using and dependable light html renderer.
Well, that joke will eventually hit +5 funny but, let me tell what happened today.
Was in market for a end user VPN account, you know they really depend on your IP to their IP speed/path. The largest and known/old VPN provider for such use has made all speed tests in Java. As I was testing something on OS X 10.4.11 Tiger (read as: OLD) and Apple stopped updating Tiger long time ago, along with security updates, I don't dare to enable "applets".
So until the gcc451 test was finished, I was prisoned on that partition.
This is exactly why people want the possibility of having flash/java applet and even shockwave on their browser. Not because they love 3rd party stuff, because a page out there may feature them and that page could matter to you.
I love watching people attack Larry Ellison/Oracle and Java in same context instead of questioning the "cool" guys like Apple and Google.
Are you being sarcastic or spreading misinformation? MS didn't really evolve Java, they wanted to do their usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" trick. Court didn't buy it, they paid $500M. End of story.
I wonder if they would tie it to directx 10 or 11, if they managed to pull it off.
Logitech couldn't manage to sell the "iFeel" mouse, back in 2000 which does make you "feel" the underlying objects on desktop. I have one, hardware still works. They are a huge name in input devices with a huge prestige. People still didn't buy the idea.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/172/1183 -->press release.
Who came up with this electrocute user idea? Doesn't Toshiba guys have anything else to do like, make use of the freaking Cell chip they invested billions in?
There are good examples how you can be even more successful and none of them involves around any money.
Skype's own clients on mobile devices are really problematic and third parties (read as:free coders) like Fring, which is a giant on mobile scene have been treated really bad recently.
I personally use Nimbuzz but removed Skype from its profiles as connection was always shaky (for some reason) with Skype servers. So, I decided to install their "official" version, a nice attempt but a giant in terms of Symbian devices. It was also packaged (think like deb,msi,pkg) wrong so, it installs a very critical tiny framework to "storage" which causes severe issues. The real issue is, they are re-inventing wheel needlessly. Such issues with "network switching", "auto reconnect" has been long fixed on Fring, Nimbuzz and whatever IM program which are very mature.
BTW, this is experience from Symbian which is very close to Android in terms of "developer freedom". There is no "don't use that api or we won't post it to app store" like stuff going on. So, it is not like iPhone where you give credit to developers for coding rather lightly/basic because of its SDK/TOS etc.
You know, I hope they don't say "Even Google didn't go their own way and adopted XMPP/Jabber" at one point. Things really started to remind the ICQ 1998. Their serious issue is, they are much like 1990s minded AOL. These days, it is all about open source, I am not talking about Linux on Desktop :) For example, check http://world.waze.com/ , its client which does way more than Skype is open source and GPL V2 even.
There were several and yet fixable "antennagate" happenings on Nokia, the 40% share (for now) not-taken-seriously smart phone giant.
N97 for example, a device which made everyone drool and yet shipped with 256MB of RAM (remember, Symbian and users heavily multitask) and no hardware accelerated UI. Now, N97 owners say "OK you tell us Symbian 3 is great, upgrade us for free and we stop bitching". While technically possible (know anything Qt doesn't work?) Nokia is very silent. Stupid guys could even have "free beta testers" for their next flagship N8 which is extremely important these days. Remember, MS essentially gave Windows 7 free to testers.
N900, based on Linux has no word from Nokia whether its firmware will be fixed or better switched to MeeGo (Intel/Nok thing).
These are "iPhone class" devices I talk about. They dream that, owners of these devices, cursing every moment will flock to Nokia stores to buy N8 for a iPhone sec. hand price.
These are just 2 "flagships", several more software scandals which are fixable are happening but they are a bit deeper technical issues.
Imagine Apple doing these mistakes and chief of hardware still stays. Man, they would even fire SJobs if they felt like it. Apple's success comes from "no mercy" policy, even on OS X.
You know, if someone (not just black hat, can be anyone) manages to tap into that Govt. enforced system and did some cool tricks, the economy of France and effectively, all large economies of World could collapse in Domino logic.
Think about it, a backdoor installed to every single machine on an established economy like that. Obviously, it is not detected or forgiven by security software. Not to sound like a lunatic, it would be WTC of the digital economy.