Their DirectX console (XBox) is failing. Everyone goes for open technology (e.g. opengl,openal) based at least supporting console platforms.
The reason of console popularity explosion could be directx too. People love Macs and also likes to play games goes out to store and buy a PS/3 instead of DirectX PC or Cider based overpriced incompatible windows junk on their OS X. They should thank their best buddies EA about it;)
What is the current Vista configuration needed for playing a action game on 60 fps with 5.1 Audio on 1920x1080 display? What is the price of PS/3 which is _guaranteed_ to achieve it without any hardware upgrades for 5 years at least?
Another question: What kind of Windows based PC required to have flawless, insane bandwidth 1080p encyripted video with uncompressed PCM audio? That is Blu Ray...
I can't believe the guy misses the real reason for this degree of paranoia.
If you openly "packet inspect" your own customers IP traffic and "punish" them in case they dare to download anything from P2P (even including GNU), your "gesture camera" will be amplified to "big brother watches TV with me" camera in people's eyes.
I wouldn't wish their customers to start reading about what connected (DSL, analogue,whatever) TV Settop Boxes can and will send to the cable/satellite operator. It is a global privacy issue and never mentioned on mainstream media. That could be the main reason why they don't want pure TCP/IP/multicast based cable boxes. If there is TCP/IP, there is packet inspection by CONSUMER, not themselves.
A company dares to filter their users packets and breaking their connection in case they use P2P, even for GNU Linux won't send all your viewing habits to big brother (themselves) and share with other big brothers in case you disable their camera? Even "user has disabled camera with a duct tape at xx:xx at $DATE" is a precious data.
And how long will this stay? Interesting is, it is open to UK IPs only so even while you are "cheating" "hacking" user agent and taking time to do it, you are trying to get the content you already paid for.
I still think whole iPlayer thing should be reason for a huge government investigation. If it was 2002-2003, it would be OK to put a windows media only thing as a service but if they did after OS X/iPhone/iPod video/mp4 compatible zillions of devices with _very tough_ DRM (if needed) built in, some "exclusive agreement" under the table is going on.
We all keep forgetting about J2ME too. Youtube already has a working J2ME player which runs all fine on my Nokia E65. It plays better than Desktop/Flash sometimes. http://www.youtube.com/yt_mobile_app . BTW I invite those iPhone guys to see it to figure what is possible with that "ugly" Java Apple hiding from them.
The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer.
Well what is meaning of Ad Block if the largest search engine on planet with petabytes (if not zeta) storage offers a free tool to webmasters (and themselves of course) to watch your behaviour on pages with single line?
Another thing is the shadowy ISP issue. Comcast can ignore the FCC which is considered God for communication companies and can still mess with peoples connection if they dare to use bittorrent right? Even for paid content. What if they abuse their consumer behaviour? Every single page request, every "click" passes through ISP. Cookies, anything.
I reported 10 "blogspot" abusing spams which are not cheap Viagra but rather actual Microsoft, Adobe piracy advertising scams just last week. Of course, Blogspot (owned by Google) got only 3 of the URLs since they had the genius (!) idea of telling spamcop.net not to send them URL spamming reports. You know the only companies does not want spam reports? The ones who wouldn't care to do anything about them or the CNN/Fox etc. hosting providers which the stories are often abused by scammers. Also ones who are founded for a single reason: hosting spam sites.
The others were reported to piracy@microsoft.com , better "more evil than satan himself" deal with them.;)
Usenet has become completely horrifying experience since Google News came in. Deja News was doing hell of a better job while Usenet was way more popular than today. They are the only legit big mail provider managed to get in to highly respected RBLs like SORBS and guess what? "Domainkey verified" Google sent mail messages are ending in my Yahoo spam folder. Bug? Hell no, they are all real spams by every definition.
As nobody on net can mess with them, they don't just act like AOL of 1990s, they also try to give news about Spam techniques. It is like a bad joke.
If we are speaking about strict, locked at a standard like 29.997 fps or 60 fps, you will never understand the difference. You are talking about FPS going up and down to 15-20 fps levels or the graphics losing the VSync. Such things are unheard on professional video/3d market.
At TV or some movie production, there are/were hardware equipment sometimes (in analogue) to make sure the output is strictly conforming to FPS of a given output standard.
Thing is, Matrox, as a professional video/medical company was never in "100+ fps" race. For them, a strict 29.997 or 60 fps is the ideal solution. I was trying to describe the entirely different World of gaming.
Matrox had their lesson trying to sell their excellent cards to gamers. Everyone came to forums and whined about seeing "30 fps" while their friends have "120 fps". Some sane people tried to tell the specs of human eye but it didn't matter.
I bet there are rich but non techie guys buying Quadro for gaming right now. I know a one bought ATI FireGL along with 15K RPM SCSI disk and couldn't sleep because of noise. Not just that,his game got locked to 30 fps:)
I would add Windows 2000 to list too. As long as Nvidia/ATI provides professional driver support (DirectX is irrelevant for pros), TV studios, Engineering offices will stay in what is working. Security issues etc. generally doesn't matter since the machines are not connected to Internet or only connected to LAN with a very strict firewall.
I don't think professionals are on latest Linux kernel (major version) either.
Also even on Apple, at least the AVID people are sticking with OS X Tiger 10.4.10 (not 11) with older Quicktime. I am betting CAD people stay with whatever Autodesk tells them.
If I was to benchmark a thing like OpenGL, I would go for bare bones Linux like Slackware or Debian., Vista Business edition and Solaris (non developer). If there was OS X opportunity, I would choose clean installed OS X without developer tools, especially "CHUD" tools.
They were completely wrong on OS choices not just Ubuntu.
It could be the same deal on OS X Leopard too. Leopard (10.5) is still yet not to Tiger (10.4) levels on OpenGL performance. Of course we have another issue, we can't bug NVidia and ATI, they tell us "Apple does drivers". These are the same guys who sells exactly same chip for 30-40% more expensive price even after Intel switch.
Of course Tiger is at.11 point release while Leopard is just.2 along with lots and lots of changes at kernel. Leopard is more like Vista 64bit while thanks to Apple, no end user has to take any action for it. Also FPS levels getting better each update.
I was expecting someone to come up with the fact that Olympic official website of NBC (which runs in free economy) will force you to run Windows or OS X (if Silverlight 2 isn't late!) if you want to see the videos. Instead it is the cold war all over again along with needless defence of their country by their citizens.
Lets say you are a happy Ubuntu user but somehow interested in Olympic content. As Icaza (future author of future clone) already started whining, the only way to watch videos from official site will be install windows. As nobody will pay for Windows, they will pirate it, an american product! Guess who is the king of Windows piracy? China! That is the real red conspiracy my friend!;)
The first Java you used was not advanced as current one. Java 5-6 are huge things , they had to evaluate based on needs. Nobody could code a complex thing like Azureus for example at that time. Nobody had the idea of natively playing a mpeg 4 file, interact with a webcam etc. Desktop Java has features, libraries which your (or mine) phone would never, ever need or use. Additional security is required along with a strict policy for network usage, phones have features which doesn't exist on PCs (e.g. dialling) or even GPS in new models. Memory is still an issue, even iPhone got limited RAM, my Symbian S60 (E65) has 64MB RAM but when it is booted, only 24-26 MB available maximum. Funny thing is, Apple would die rather than getting into J2ME process. It is like Nokia, Samsung and Sony may work on same standard proposal together while trying to erase each other from market. It is very visible on J2ME standards. To see what J2ME has to deal with, start with the CLDC (connected limited device configuration) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLDC . It is how it became de facto standard for mobile devices.
Can you give me a single example of security breach occurred because of Java on ANY platform/device?
iPhone is running things like UID 0, it was dreamed to be a completely closed platform and right after they saw people easily crack their protection, they opened it up to developers.
Java is running things in a sandbox since it was invented. Java applications can't see anything except their directory, J2ME/Symbian has plain English (or whatever language) basic questions like "Do you want to allow this application to access your phonebook data?", user says "Yes" or "No" and it occurs _ONLY_ if the Application has a security certificate. If your application wants to access to net, J2ME or Symbian kernel will ask "Allow this Application to access network?".
Java doesn't have a superb AI framework which does proactive security or application heuristic watching. It is secure by design. That is why it is preferred.
If I had a iPhone, I would be bugging F-Secure and Kaspersky about plans to ship their security products right now. Unless they sit with Apple to agree on a special access right, iPhone official SDK won't even be able to run a security solution. As they still force users to "hack" their phones by asking $100 etc. and offer a single channel, there will be very interesting issues with it. They can ask their rival Nokia about what would happen since they somehow, amazingly do the same mistakes of them which they barely recover to this date.
A $3000 TCO device owner is a black hats dream and Apple doing everything possible to make sure people get used to "hack" their devices.
You really think Novell hiring Icaza right before/after MS deal is a co-incidence? If there is one day I will defend Novell is this day. He is acting very dirty now even more dirtier than the day he started Mono. "Forgive me guys, those evil Novell guys gave the orders, I have nothing to do with it".
He owes a great apology to Gnome people, Mono developers, soon Silverlight developers and the original, real Suse people.
It is simple, Gnome people will get rid of Mono requiring stuff (if there are) , openly say "We have nothing to do with Icaza", openly stand up against OOXML.
They don't do these. Can you blame people? It is up to me to choose which desktop environment to use. I see KDE lot more neutral, professionally coded, nobody blogs how great OOXML is, nothing requires Mono and especially on Gnome case, doesn't bitch amateurly about the OS I use (OS X) and its filesystem down to bugzillas. So I type install bundle-kde instead of bundle-gnome on my OS X.
Novell is dead once they stopped being rival/alternative to MS. RIP for a long time. They took that great distro with them too. I know people who ordered Suse Linux CD from 5000 kilometres away before broadband age because they loved it. Now why should they choose Suse? Not to get sued by MS?
Last time I checked his blog he was wondering whether to buy a PS/3 or XBox 360 for himself.
Lets compare PS3 to XBox PS3: Uses Cell CPU, got actually working Linux which comes with Gnome as default environment (YDL etc), everything is somehow tied to standards like OpenGL XBox360: A Power variant CPU running Direct3d/Windows thing.
That is the guy you deal with and who says he is sorry for the deal.
Image loss of Novell and Icaza are more than billions of dollars. Novell was a tough Microsoft rival who are _very_ serious in their business and services and had products showing MS offerings like joke before the deal.
Now? People even reject to use Gnome because Icaza was involved at its startup.
For IT managers, if they are feeling really paranoid about Linux and MS Patents, they won't get Novell/Suse, they will go for Solaris, *BSD and AIX. Also losing the "nerd support" is big deal too. At the end, they ask the slashdot poster guy "What should we upgrade/buy?". Guy can really ignore Novell at that point. I am afraid they already do as the guy is "sorry" now.
I would believe his regret if he demanded.Net 2.x and 3.x compatibility documents/support for Mono threatening to cancel the project. Same deal in upcoming Silverlight 2.0 too, I am near sure. Silverlight 2.0 will be somehow "late" to OS X and Linux, especially Linux. They may also do some tricks like putting mandatory DRM to standard to create excuse. Just remember I said it.
Everyone on Windows got.NET 2.x or 3.x installed, companies ship.NET requiring products but we don't see anything on OS X or Linux. Where is the ground breaking standard technology he spoke about?
If SJobs said "We decided J2ME is too light for iPhone" , it wouldn't bother anyone. Everyone knows when handsets can be comparable to a cheap celeron laptop, J2ME will be a thing of past and people will use real JRE.
Guy said it is insecure and nobody asked for it. With apocalypse like "Taking down entire East Coast network". That is something you would expect from Ballmer but they got a very good $500M lesson for acting like that.
While doing the iPhone J2ME, I hope they use their Cocoa abilities to start coding Java 6/7 for OS X for BOTH Intel and PPC, accelerated for both CPUs. They should have started a very long time ago right at 10.4.x times where Apple showed first signs. They sit and code one of the most good performing, compatible JRE for Windows. Reason? MS hates them and tried to kill it. Guess the very single desktop OS not having JRE 6?
Linux/PPC has Java 6 for more than a year now, thanks to IBM never abandoning their users.
Do you remember why Sun took over the Windows Java development even fighting in a court for it? Microsoft. Now Apple gets the same treatment, "If you don't ship it and spread false rumours about it, we code and ship ourselves".
Comparing Windows JRE to OS X JRE, I think it would be a lot better port than Apple would ever provide. As Sun says "Once the capacity of devices are comparable to laptop, we will look for desktop java on mobile" or it is the general thinking, I wonder if iPhone being the only $100+ phone not having J2ME would be the first handset with "real" JRE instead of J2ME in future. That would be really ironic.
Security and Performance concerns? No, it is openness concerns. What is a meaning of iPhone software store if user can click a jad/jar file which is SECURELY signed from their browser and install it?
What if people starts to use the higher than average CPU speed and memory of iPhone to setup "Javatunes Store" ? What if they offer Skype calling? What will phone company say?
If Java was unsecure, we would be fighting eachother with stones and sticks instead of posting to slashdot. Java is secure enough for a BANK, Military, Space, mission critical things. Forget the 1 billion handheld devices having java in them and there hasn't been a single java security issue like worm.
If iPhone gets J2ME, I may consider to buy it since my banks pseudo random password generator runs on it as well as their millions of customers.
It is already invented and being used by Nokia. They have geolocation/spec based catalogues in "Download!" Application coming in Symbian handsets. Handango and couple of others visible from my handset but as I said, it is based on location.
Apple is allergic to such things. I also know developers who will (of course) apply for iTunes store since if you are a commercial, professional developer you can't suggest your consumers to "hack" their things.
Thing is, Apple is ignoring tough lessons which were learned by Nokia and other PDA makers with millions of dollars in cost. Asking $100 for freeware app signing, not allowing competition, forcing users to "hack" their devices...
Ask yourself "how that client is worth $30 instead of $20?" , "would it be $20 if there was adium like open source/free alternative existed which can be practically downloaded from blackberry store?"
That is what I mean by the cost of asking $100 for releasing open source/free software is much higher.
I am sure some good guys/projects will spend the $100 from the donations but there will also be a huge jailbreak market which can be abused by black hats.
It is the Symbian story all over again, it took YEARS to Nokia to wake up and see the mess they created by making 3rd party developers impractical to sign their own apps even while they were freeware. Every Nokia software had "If you see a security warning, ignore" and it ended up with an actual worm/trojan since users got used to "ignore" the security warning. Now Symbian open source developers get free signature for their application and they don't instruct users to "ignore" security warnings. Look to sourceforge, it is full of signed, trustable open source symbian apps.
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Their DirectX console (XBox) is failing. Everyone goes for open technology (e.g. opengl,openal) based at least supporting console platforms.
;)
The reason of console popularity explosion could be directx too. People love Macs and also likes to play games goes out to store and buy a PS/3 instead of DirectX PC or Cider based overpriced incompatible windows junk on their OS X. They should thank their best buddies EA about it
What is the current Vista configuration needed for playing a action game on 60 fps with 5.1 Audio on 1920x1080 display? What is the price of PS/3 which is _guaranteed_ to achieve it without any hardware upgrades for 5 years at least?
Another question: What kind of Windows based PC required to have flawless, insane bandwidth 1080p encyripted video with uncompressed PCM audio? That is Blu Ray...
I can't believe the guy misses the real reason for this degree of paranoia.
If you openly "packet inspect" your own customers IP traffic and "punish" them in case they dare to download anything from P2P (even including GNU), your "gesture camera" will be amplified to "big brother watches TV with me" camera in people's eyes.
I wouldn't wish their customers to start reading about what connected (DSL, analogue,whatever) TV Settop Boxes can and will send to the cable/satellite operator. It is a global privacy issue and never mentioned on mainstream media. That could be the main reason why they don't want pure TCP/IP/multicast based cable boxes. If there is TCP/IP, there is packet inspection by CONSUMER, not themselves.
A company dares to filter their users packets and breaking their connection in case they use P2P, even for GNU Linux won't send all your viewing habits to big brother (themselves) and share with other big brothers in case you disable their camera?
Even "user has disabled camera with a duct tape at xx:xx at $DATE" is a precious data.
I think this kind of optimisation cleverly done with Ono plugin for Azureus bittorrent client. I also think it does even more.
Check details and remember it sends statistics (without private data, not torrent names etc) to the project domain. So, there is some FUD around.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=ono
Azureus and Ono, both are open source (including Azureus 3) and massively multiplatform thanks to Java.
I still think whole iPlayer thing should be reason for a huge government investigation. If it was 2002-2003, it would be OK to put a windows media only thing as a service but if they did after OS X/iPhone/iPod video/mp4 compatible zillions of devices with _very tough_ DRM (if needed) built in, some "exclusive agreement" under the table is going on.
We all keep forgetting about J2ME too. Youtube already has a working J2ME player which runs all fine on my Nokia E65. It plays better than Desktop/Flash sometimes. http://www.youtube.com/yt_mobile_app . BTW I invite those iPhone guys to see it to figure what is possible with that "ugly" Java Apple hiding from them.
Here is why:
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/12/13/index.dml
Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU
The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Opera has requested the Commission to take the necessary actions to compel Microsoft to give consumers a real choice and to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer.
(good joke)
Well what is meaning of Ad Block if the largest search engine on planet with petabytes (if not zeta) storage offers a free tool to webmasters (and themselves of course) to watch your behaviour on pages with single line?
I am speaking about Google Analytics.
Enjoy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4001
Another thing is the shadowy ISP issue. Comcast can ignore the FCC which is considered God for communication companies and can still mess with peoples connection if they dare to use bittorrent right? Even for paid content. What if they abuse their consumer behaviour? Every single page request, every "click" passes through ISP. Cookies, anything.
I reported 10 "blogspot" abusing spams which are not cheap Viagra but rather actual Microsoft, Adobe piracy advertising scams just last week. Of course, Blogspot (owned by Google) got only 3 of the URLs since they had the genius (!) idea of telling spamcop.net not to send them URL spamming reports. You know the only companies does not want spam reports? The ones who wouldn't care to do anything about them or the CNN/Fox etc. hosting providers which the stories are often abused by scammers. Also ones who are founded for a single reason: hosting spam sites.
;)
The others were reported to piracy@microsoft.com , better "more evil than satan himself" deal with them.
Usenet has become completely horrifying experience since Google News came in. Deja News was doing hell of a better job while Usenet was way more popular than today. They are the only legit big mail provider managed to get in to highly respected RBLs like SORBS and guess what? "Domainkey verified" Google sent mail messages are ending in my Yahoo spam folder. Bug? Hell no, they are all real spams by every definition.
As nobody on net can mess with them, they don't just act like AOL of 1990s, they also try to give news about Spam techniques. It is like a bad joke.
If we are speaking about strict, locked at a standard like 29.997 fps or 60 fps, you will never understand the difference. You are talking about FPS going up and down to 15-20 fps levels or the graphics losing the VSync. Such things are unheard on professional video/3d market.
At TV or some movie production, there are/were hardware equipment sometimes (in analogue) to make sure the output is strictly conforming to FPS of a given output standard.
Thing is, Matrox, as a professional video/medical company was never in "100+ fps" race. For them, a strict 29.997 or 60 fps is the ideal solution. I was trying to describe the entirely different World of gaming.
Matrox had their lesson trying to sell their excellent cards to gamers. Everyone came to forums and whined about seeing "30 fps" while their friends have "120 fps". Some sane people tried to tell the specs of human eye but it didn't matter.
,his game got locked to 30 fps :)
I bet there are rich but non techie guys buying Quadro for gaming right now. I know a one bought ATI FireGL along with 15K RPM SCSI disk and couldn't sleep because of noise. Not just that
I would add Windows 2000 to list too. As long as Nvidia/ATI provides professional driver support (DirectX is irrelevant for pros), TV studios, Engineering offices will stay in what is working. Security issues etc. generally doesn't matter since the machines are not connected to Internet or only connected to LAN with a very strict firewall.
I don't think professionals are on latest Linux kernel (major version) either.
Also even on Apple, at least the AVID people are sticking with OS X Tiger 10.4.10 (not 11) with older Quicktime. I am betting CAD people stay with whatever Autodesk tells them.
If I was to benchmark a thing like OpenGL, I would go for bare bones Linux like Slackware or Debian., Vista Business edition and Solaris (non developer). If there was OS X opportunity, I would choose clean installed OS X without developer tools, especially "CHUD" tools.
They were completely wrong on OS choices not just Ubuntu.
It could be the same deal on OS X Leopard too. Leopard (10.5) is still yet not to Tiger (10.4) levels on OpenGL performance. Of course we have another issue, we can't bug NVidia and ATI, they tell us "Apple does drivers". These are the same guys who sells exactly same chip for 30-40% more expensive price even after Intel switch.
.11 point release while Leopard is just .2 along with lots and lots of changes at kernel. Leopard is more like Vista 64bit while thanks to Apple, no end user has to take any action for it. Also FPS levels getting better each update.
Of course Tiger is at
I was expecting someone to come up with the fact that Olympic official website of NBC (which runs in free economy) will force you to run Windows or OS X (if Silverlight 2 isn't late!) if you want to see the videos. Instead it is the cold war all over again along with needless defence of their country by their citizens.
;)
Lets say you are a happy Ubuntu user but somehow interested in Olympic content. As Icaza (future author of future clone) already started whining, the only way to watch videos from official site will be install windows. As nobody will pay for Windows, they will pirate it, an american product! Guess who is the king of Windows piracy? China! That is the real red conspiracy my friend!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143232-page,1/article.html
The first Java you used was not advanced as current one. Java 5-6 are huge things , they had to evaluate based on needs. Nobody could code a complex thing like Azureus for example at that time. Nobody had the idea of natively playing a mpeg 4 file, interact with a webcam etc.
Desktop Java has features, libraries which your (or mine) phone would never, ever need or use. Additional security is required along with a strict policy for network usage, phones have features which doesn't exist on PCs (e.g. dialling) or even GPS in new models. Memory is still an issue, even iPhone got limited RAM, my Symbian S60 (E65) has 64MB RAM but when it is booted, only 24-26 MB available maximum.
Funny thing is, Apple would die rather than getting into J2ME process. It is like Nokia, Samsung and Sony may work on same standard proposal together while trying to erase each other from market. It is very visible on J2ME standards.
To see what J2ME has to deal with, start with the CLDC (connected limited device configuration) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLDC . It is how it became de facto standard for mobile devices.
Can you give me a single example of security breach occurred because of Java on ANY platform/device?
iPhone is running things like UID 0, it was dreamed to be a completely closed platform and right after they saw people easily crack their protection, they opened it up to developers.
Java is running things in a sandbox since it was invented. Java applications can't see anything except their directory, J2ME/Symbian has plain English (or whatever language) basic questions like "Do you want to allow this application to access your phonebook data?", user says "Yes" or "No" and it occurs _ONLY_ if the Application has a security certificate. If your application wants to access to net, J2ME or Symbian kernel will ask "Allow this Application to access network?".
Java doesn't have a superb AI framework which does proactive security or application heuristic watching. It is secure by design. That is why it is preferred.
If I had a iPhone, I would be bugging F-Secure and Kaspersky about plans to ship their security products right now. Unless they sit with Apple to agree on a special access right, iPhone official SDK won't even be able to run a security solution. As they still force users to "hack" their phones by asking $100 etc. and offer a single channel, there will be very interesting issues with it. They can ask their rival Nokia about what would happen since they somehow, amazingly do the same mistakes of them which they barely recover to this date.
A $3000 TCO device owner is a black hats dream and Apple doing everything possible to make sure people get used to "hack" their devices.
You really think Novell hiring Icaza right before/after MS deal is a co-incidence? If there is one day I will defend Novell is this day. He is acting very dirty now even more dirtier than the day he started Mono. "Forgive me guys, those evil Novell guys gave the orders, I have nothing to do with it".
He owes a great apology to Gnome people, Mono developers, soon Silverlight developers and the original, real Suse people.
It is simple, Gnome people will get rid of Mono requiring stuff (if there are) , openly say "We have nothing to do with Icaza", openly stand up against OOXML.
They don't do these. Can you blame people? It is up to me to choose which desktop environment to use. I see KDE lot more neutral, professionally coded, nobody blogs how great OOXML is, nothing requires Mono and especially on Gnome case, doesn't bitch amateurly about the OS I use (OS X) and its filesystem down to bugzillas. So I type install bundle-kde instead of bundle-gnome on my OS X.
Novell is dead once they stopped being rival/alternative to MS. RIP for a long time. They took that great distro with them too. I know people who ordered Suse Linux CD from 5000 kilometres away before broadband age because they loved it. Now why should they choose Suse? Not to get sued by MS?
Last time I checked his blog he was wondering whether to buy a PS/3 or XBox 360 for himself.
Lets compare PS3 to XBox
PS3: Uses Cell CPU, got actually working Linux which comes with Gnome as default environment (YDL etc), everything is somehow tied to standards like OpenGL
XBox360: A Power variant CPU running Direct3d/Windows thing.
That is the guy you deal with and who says he is sorry for the deal.
Image loss of Novell and Icaza are more than billions of dollars. Novell was a tough Microsoft rival who are _very_ serious in their business and services and had products showing MS offerings like joke before the deal.
.Net 2.x and 3.x compatibility documents/support for Mono threatening to cancel the project. Same deal in upcoming Silverlight 2.0 too, I am near sure. Silverlight 2.0 will be somehow "late" to OS X and Linux, especially Linux. They may also do some tricks like putting mandatory DRM to standard to create excuse. Just remember I said it.
.NET 2.x or 3.x installed, companies ship .NET requiring products but we don't see anything on OS X or Linux. Where is the ground breaking standard technology he spoke about?
Now? People even reject to use Gnome because Icaza was involved at its startup.
For IT managers, if they are feeling really paranoid about Linux and MS Patents, they won't get Novell/Suse, they will go for Solaris, *BSD and AIX. Also losing the "nerd support" is big deal too. At the end, they ask the slashdot poster guy "What should we upgrade/buy?". Guy can really ignore Novell at that point. I am afraid they already do as the guy is "sorry" now.
I would believe his regret if he demanded
Everyone on Windows got
If SJobs said "We decided J2ME is too light for iPhone" , it wouldn't bother anyone. Everyone knows when handsets can be comparable to a cheap celeron laptop, J2ME will be a thing of past and people will use real JRE.
Guy said it is insecure and nobody asked for it. With apocalypse like "Taking down entire East Coast network". That is something you would expect from Ballmer but they got a very good $500M lesson for acting like that.
While doing the iPhone J2ME, I hope they use their Cocoa abilities to start coding Java 6/7 for OS X for BOTH Intel and PPC, accelerated for both CPUs. They should have started a very long time ago right at 10.4.x times where Apple showed first signs. They sit and code one of the most good performing, compatible JRE for Windows. Reason? MS hates them and tried to kill it. Guess the very single desktop OS not having JRE 6?
Linux/PPC has Java 6 for more than a year now, thanks to IBM never abandoning their users.
Do you remember why Sun took over the Windows Java development even fighting in a court for it? Microsoft. Now Apple gets the same treatment, "If you don't ship it and spread false rumours about it, we code and ship ourselves".
Comparing Windows JRE to OS X JRE, I think it would be a lot better port than Apple would ever provide. As Sun says "Once the capacity of devices are comparable to laptop, we will look for desktop java on mobile" or it is the general thinking, I wonder if iPhone being the only $100+ phone not having J2ME would be the first handset with "real" JRE instead of J2ME in future. That would be really ironic.
Security and Performance concerns? No, it is openness concerns. What is a meaning of iPhone software store if user can click a jad/jar file which is SECURELY signed from their browser and install it?
What if people starts to use the higher than average CPU speed and memory of iPhone to setup "Javatunes Store" ? What if they offer Skype calling? What will phone company say?
If Java was unsecure, we would be fighting eachother with stones and sticks instead of posting to slashdot. Java is secure enough for a BANK, Military, Space, mission critical things. Forget the 1 billion handheld devices having java in them and there hasn't been a single java security issue like worm.
If iPhone gets J2ME, I may consider to buy it since my banks pseudo random password generator runs on it as well as their millions of customers.
It is already invented and being used by Nokia. They have geolocation/spec based catalogues in "Download!" Application coming in Symbian handsets. Handango and couple of others visible from my handset but as I said, it is based on location.
Ignore the horrible theme , it can be seen at http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2213057745_e094dd290f.jpg?v=0
Apple is allergic to such things. I also know developers who will (of course) apply for iTunes store since if you are a commercial, professional developer you can't suggest your consumers to "hack" their things.
Thing is, Apple is ignoring tough lessons which were learned by Nokia and other PDA makers with millions of dollars in cost. Asking $100 for freeware app signing, not allowing competition, forcing users to "hack" their devices...
Ask yourself "how that client is worth $30 instead of $20?" , "would it be $20 if there was adium like open source/free alternative existed which can be practically downloaded from blackberry store?"
That is what I mean by the cost of asking $100 for releasing open source/free software is much higher.
I am sure some good guys/projects will spend the $100 from the donations but there will also be a huge jailbreak market which can be abused by black hats.
It is the Symbian story all over again, it took YEARS to Nokia to wake up and see the mess they created by making 3rd party developers impractical to sign their own apps even while they were freeware. Every Nokia software had "If you see a security warning, ignore" and it ended up with an actual worm/trojan since users got used to "ignore" the security warning. Now Symbian open source developers get free signature for their application and they don't instruct users to "ignore" security warnings. Look to sourceforge, it is full of signed, trustable open source symbian apps.