You know, Symbian, Linux, WinCE handheld devices are "handheld computers". Lets say, the mail client doesn't fit your needs? Go to sourceforge or handango and get a better client for your needs and install. You need a specific function such as GPS? You buy add on device, install its software and you got it.
A $60 J2ME (Java) supporting regular phone is more close to computer than iPhone is.
I may have lost my little remaining trust/respect to Apple centric media after iPhone. That is a big deal since I use Macs whenever possible. I won't be checking Apple hating gray beard sites either. We don't deserve this kind of media...
the processors microcode has nothing to do with the bios therefore there is no reason for motherboard manufacturers to release an update.
my question is though: is this specific to windows, or will linux and other be affected as well?
i'm guessing no, as intel is usually very good about supporting our community; but that is all hearsay without any foundation. I didn't use Linux for ages but isn't there a kernel device just exists for microcode updates?
Also I am completely puzzled how a CPU software issue doesn't effect OS X/Mactel?
I realize that this doesn't matter to a lot of the Slashdot crowd, but Discussion2 is still buggy in IE (IE7, specifically)...//.. You may want to get those issues cleared up before you consider Discussion2 complete. If you had access to Slashdot's web stats, you would fall from chair no less.
Hint: Top browser could not be Firefox. There is no such guarantee.
It happens because of people checking Slashdot at work or plainly choosing IE 7 (which is not a crime).
Firefox 2.0 dose the same thing, but it only happens to me above the 350 point. Slashdot accidentally invented World's most evil Javascript benchmark/bug check? Sorry couldn't stand:)
Which browser works fine with that feature on? I really started to wonder.
Ive' noticed that Discussion2 tends to make Opera 9 chug on large comment pages (usally past 200 It _is_ Opera bug which people like me spent very huge time to report to Opera ASA.
I even included OS X "sample of application", my logs, my system profile just to make them interested a bit. While guys start the day by checking Slashdot there, they don't fix the freaking bug.
Unbelievable, no less.
I hate to give ammo to Opera haters but this is it, I am saying this public. That is a Opera bug which exists since first 9.x versions and lives up to date despite numerous kind of bug reports even posted to their forums.
By risking CmdrTaco getting mad at me:) I added comment to closed bug even to help Opera people if they ever check one of World's popular Tech sites bug database.
They are running Solaris there, the servers serving that Wmedia Junk will be possibly (if gets popular) Helix Servers (Real) since there is no such thing as "Windows Media Server for Solaris". Windows Media Server is a joke for any real World load especially BBC size.
These guys doesn't know about open source? Open source is not very popular in UK? Half of my open source stuff comes from UK.
The "partnership agreement" is the right part. I hope there are courts or mechanisms there to question the recent love of Wmedia at BBC. We could be hearing about some IT bribe scandal of the decade.
"So they should say Windows, Mac and Linux? Or should that be Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD? Or Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and my toy OS that I wrote in CS class?"
Solaris/AIX and other variants exist but huge URLs. I am not even talking about Videolan and how easy to make a custom Videolan player with DRM of my choice.
Point is: If you are actually a media player/server making company, you try to reach ALL available environments. If you are a division of a giant OS monopoly company, you try to alienate all competing OSes and platforms and may even get support from unsuspecting users.
As a Linux user, I just lost a lot of respect for the BBC. Don't forget OS X users. That "promise" of future Mac support made all old timer Mac users smile since there isn't a working Windows Media Player for OS X anymore. That "thing" offered by MS is powerpc only and doesn't even work right when installed to a new OS X system running PPC.
They used Windows Media player offering to get rid of some monopoly accusations and trick some unsuspecting media companies asking for compatibility. It still works for that purpose.
A certain super popular distro based on Debian recently dropped official PowerPC support because "nobody uses them". They didn't say that directly of course but their official post implies it. So, as Apple drops PPC, all those CPUs and machines "disappeared" and they don't need any kind of Linux running on them.:)
What bothered me was the reasoning itself and the fact that they are based on Debian, a distro never,ever drops support for anything like that. Not like I actually lost something by not being able to install it.
Opera MOBILE is a Symbian/WinCE real C/C++ application and supports Flash for ages. Opera Mini, is a tiny little J2ME 2.0 application which supports Flash via host rendering. Yes, that tiny weeny thing cares more about consumer demand. They are not afraid of possible Rhapsody.com/iPhone, Zune.com/iPhone sections either. You know, Flash can act and work as a pure server/client platform for media even including copy protection. Don't make me tell why Apple passes Flash.
I don't hate Apple, I hate the so called community who are fanatic enough not to check couple of pages from "enemy" aka Opera.com.
I am not buying ANY product which I can't install Opera to. I am NOT allowing Apple to make decisions for me. I pay my $30 and enjoy my Opera browser.
I also assume this is still Slashdot, not Digg.com Apple section which is a disgrace to real Apple owners and users so trying to give information. At last, I would lose some karma, whatever...
There is J2ME, a standard built with devices in mind and it runs on 2 BILLION phones. Opera Mini which is barely 98 KB (yes, KILOBYTE) is a good example of J2ME 2.0 Applications. There are also dozens of pseudo-random password generators, corparate secure access solutions and the classic, SSH applications.
I am not asking for real thing (Desktop) while I could. If it is $600, if it is "built on OS X", I have right to ask ANY technology which exists on OS X.
About the "massive memory" horror stories, Apple focused Versiontracker lists Limewire as one of the top 10 downloaded applications. Limewire is PURE Java. Azureus too. ImageJ which is a programming miracle is also coded in Java. I recently used it to colour balance a 150 MB TIFF image, I didn't smell anything burning.
Do you want my serials of all 3 macs and OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, 10.4.x receipts from Apple? Or do you want to see my 4-5 sites which are hosted on Xserve based solutions? Would you ask any shareware vendor which made useful product about me? Or any open source developer who codes stuff for OS X?
I am not against Apple or hating them. I am just a consumer who used real smart devices which you can install software and change every single thing based on your needs. I also respect the millions of 3rd party developers, freeware or commercial and their struggle to make something having ~100,300 Mhz CPU usable. Using "iPhone" and "Smart" in same paragraph is enough to make me mad.
I am a consumer, not some blinded cult member and I am in fact disgusted by the fact that I could be getting confused with some loudmouth lifeless cult member like idiots who DOES HARM Apple by not pushing them to their full potential. Watch news at 30th, see those classy wannabe idiots who line up for a device they will pay $600 plus 2 year contract with some hideous cell phone provider, wonder about the first hint to some Mac hint site which enables device function which was locked by Apple for their future policy, watch the first appearings of trojans claiming to enable flash on iPhone.
I am a Nokia 9300 owner and I use excellent OS X abilities with it such as VNC or SSH without having to get paranoid. It is a smart device which I could actually install SSH and VNC when I needed it. While it is a enterprise focused (S80) phone, it does have Flash and thanks to flash, I can navigate some sites such as my bank. No, the guy sitting on that IBM Z990 mainframe isn't impressed with my "how evil flash is" mumbles. I also added Realplayer just for fun and while connection is expensive, I actually used it to listen to BBC World service on middle of nowhere.
If someone comes and asks which smart device instead of laptop he/she should buy with their $600 spare, I will divert them to Symbian or even Windows CE based devices which Symbian would be a better choice since it also supports J2ME.
I was speaking about site which is referenced by the article and horrible choices made by webmaster himself or herself.
Going -1 levels is not big deal, it is just something Slashdot is on wrong path with recent editorial policy changes. They are trying to be some site which copied it and it will really fail horribly. Looks like the reader profile already made their way and actually got moderation points.
Dear newbie moderators: "off topic" means something out of topic, completely off the base. It doesn't mean "I don't agree with that comment", it means "It doesn't have anything to do with the submitted content". This is not Digg.com. You actually lose Karma after taking horrible decisions like that, this is not some kid site to play around and "sink" or "Digg" whatever you don't agree.
Point is: You don't "off topic" a comment which is based on the entire content of the website which is referenced at TFA.
iPhone potential customerbase will even buy a monochrome phone which does couple of cool tricks as long as it has Apple logo on it.
I am not saying World turned down iPhone, no they will LINE UP at stores to buy it. I am just saying calling iPhone anything smart is complete offense against users and the real smartphone/device manufacturers.
I am horrified by Slashdot crowd actually defending No SDK, even "Flash excluded so nobody will code anything meaningful" device whether it is Apple or not. I mean Slashdot crowd, not some other site, this is Slashdot or.. apple section has been invaded and worthless already. There are thousands of sites which I can find robot, cult member like iPhone praising you know?
Opera Mobile (the real deal) supports Flash for ages, even the "mini" version does Flash.
Stop getting blinded by Apple, even Sony PSP which doesn't claim to be anything iPhone is supports Flash.
Absolutely superior? I wonder if that kind of browsing was superior, why don't I see millions of downloads at Zinio reader. It works exactly that way and has some real cool content which is much more higher resolution than iPhone. People doesn't like randomly zooming in and out after a while?
That is some transcoded file which even lost the lost content of 4:3 pan/scan hack genius webmaster did. Half of guys head gone:)
They are partnering with Apple on iTMS and they didn't spare their time to post HD Trailer to de facto place of movie trailers. The result would be viewed by VLC too.
When will they learn? You know, these kinds of stupid errors on sci-fi scene may actually lose viewers. A real good amount of them. For example, if I didn't think how horrible it looks over flash, I would pass the movie when it hits cinema.
I have this horrid fear. Fear that sites like that is what "Joe" prefers. Just look at MySpace! Or Facebook! *shudders*. 90% of the world is crazy I tell you, and soon all the web will be collected under an interactive flash video with background music.
The future is a dark and scare place If Joe has a widescreen monitor (wallpapers are 4:3) or a good broadband connection (max 300kbps flash movie), he won't love that site.
Trailer is also 4:3 which is a horrible easy way to make movies director mad, it is missing 20% or more of actual content. Some directors even spare their DVD Extras to teach viewer why 4:3 or Pan/Scan is an horrible hack. "The Interpreter" director Sydney Pollack have used his extra time on DVD showing viewer on AVID why he/she shouldn't use pan/scan instead of letterbox.
Some guy/gal will find a better formatted at least 720p trailer, post it to some tracker and these idiots will shamessly use it as example that how "horrible,evil" p2p technology is in some future court.
Note to our flash genius webmaster if he reads slashdot: Next time you create (!) a Flash portal, spare time to call studio and ask them if they have anything 16:9 to post to web. Also check top selling monitors and their aspect ratios would you?
You didn't see Sun site? It is famous for having "Add to Cart" button next to $1 M mainframe grade machines. I actually added stuff to cart and got bored when I hit $5M.
Now imagine if they had "1 Click Ordering". Thanks to Amazon for patenting it!
A Sparc portable machine/tablet with some extra-extra security chips, devices (non military/spy grade) pre installed along with latest Solaris can really sell. People would buy it for reliability and security. Especially companies and even home users who are really tired of unreliable laptops. It MUST be end user friendly.
What they try to do now is trying to sell a very bare minimum DESKTOP, nothing included machine just happens to have a SPARC chip more expensive than anything Intel based. http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=0&stab=2
I am planning to buy a Nokia N800 just because it is not Intel based, runs a flavor of Linux and potentially hassle free. I am just waiting to see if they really care about end user needs and give up stupid things like requiring x86 Linux to get firmware updates since I run OS X under G4/G5.
SInce WIndows Mobile and the Treo and Blackberry have been around forever, by now then the ability to install third party apps must have delivered many killer apps, each selling above a million or so.
Name them. If third party apps are really so important, name the ones that a majority of the smartphone market finds indespensible. This is just from Handango which is mainly Symbian download/license site... In fact, it is one of "classy" sites, people generally buy their software directly from Vendor.
Millions of unique monthly visitors 650,000+ newsletter subscribers 190,000+ content titles 16,000+ content partners Hundreds of licensees Hundreds of countries Dozens of currencies Dozens of languages 9 operating systems 7+ years commercial usage
Lets see Opera Mini which is a J2ME (Java) Application which uses the platform Mr. Jobs claimed "nobody asked for it"
""This is a celebration for our users," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Thanks to the more than 10 million people who have downloaded and used Opera Mini, we've changed the way users and mobile operators think about the mobile Web. Because of the tremendous grassroots support, Opera Mini is now a movement." http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/01/26/
These are CONSUMER/END USER products. VPN/Blackberry/Exchange/Notes etc. solutions which are purchased in bulk numbers in customised manner doesn't count. E.g. no company goes to Handango and add 10.000 VPN client licenses to "shopping cart" of course.:)
Opera's numbers excludes the massive numbers distributed by cell networks sometimes embedded in phone pre-installed too.
There are a lot of Apple haters, mostly with their fortunes tied to its failure. That's not going so well. TFA is just a response to the avalanche of bought-and-paid Microsoft FUD reporters who can't seem to get the term "unbiased" right. Call for an iPhone boycott? You can always hope - suckers. This article is biased toward outing those buffoons with nothing else to do except panic. I cringe at some the venom this guy has published, but as uppity and fanboyish as Dan is, he's mostly right.
You don't have to be Apple hater to hope it fails (!). A device claiming to be smartphone which its producer spitted worst FUD against Java just because he doesn't want his precious locked environment broken by millions of java developers is enough to hate it.
Horrible media scene of Mac which apple.slashdot.org can't find unbiased articles to post is another factor.
Fanboys claiming they don't need Flash on a $600 devices browser adds more to your madness. As you can guess why Flash was not included, you go more mad. Just because they don't want iTunes competitors working inside Mini Safari of iPhone... IMHO of course.
I am not calling for boycott, I am just preventing my friends and family from falling into Apple's trick and buy iPhone instead of some real smart device which you can INSTALL SOFTWARE and CHANGE THE BATTERY. I am doing this as owner of 3 Macs at home alone and get Xserve (sometimes expensive) based services whenever I can.
If the final version of KDE4 really turns out to be stable on OS X, Konqueror will be really popular on Mac. If you use a real powerbook (g4 based), you would be impressed by its amazingly low cpu usage even at alpha stage.
If Xwindows subsystem didn't look alien on OS X, I would be already using Konqueror 3.x but as you know, it is intended for fullscreen Xwindows running KDE. I was really impressed with its settings, configuration and "business feel" of browser.
I could be old fashioned but unless I see Safari 3 hitting top of download.com top 10 list and Apple webservers struggling to handle demand, I wouldn't call it a "hit" or anything.
Forget the Konqueror (which I will use as default when KDE 4 finals), Safari 3 is _not_ popular in Windows standards.
I've never sent a picture message, nor received one. I know one bloke who has for sure, may be 2 or 3 others who have. No one uses it regularly. In Europe there are millions (if not billions already) MMS messages which are sent daily. It is the most easy and guaranteed way to send a small photo or even sound to your recipient.
My provider (Turkcell) uses MMS technology for voice messages. When you enable it, the voice messages you receive are "pushed" to your phone instead of dialing anything or mess with buttons. They also use it with service partners to send premier league goals almost realtime via 3G video files.
I guess the reason why Apple doesn't include MMS and it is really shame for my platform of choice.
Slashdot Mirror
A computer, by common definition since 1980s means something you can install programs, there is some payware or free SDK open to development .
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I am speaking about these:
http://www.symbian.com/developer/index.html
http://trolltech.no/developer
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/default
http://www.java.net/
You know, Symbian, Linux, WinCE handheld devices are "handheld computers". Lets say, the mail client doesn't fit your needs? Go to sourceforge or handango and get a better client for your needs and install. You need a specific function such as GPS? You buy add on device, install its software and you got it.
A $60 J2ME (Java) supporting regular phone is more close to computer than iPhone is.
I may have lost my little remaining trust/respect to Apple centric media after iPhone. That is a big deal since I use Macs whenever possible. I won't be checking Apple hating gray beard sites either. We don't deserve this kind of media...
my question is though: is this specific to windows, or will linux and other be affected as well?
i'm guessing no, as intel is usually very good about supporting our community; but that is all hearsay without any foundation. I didn't use Linux for ages but isn't there a kernel device just exists for microcode updates?
Also I am completely puzzled how a CPU software issue doesn't effect OS X/Mactel?
You may want to get those issues cleared up before you consider Discussion2 complete. If you had access to Slashdot's web stats, you would fall from chair no less.
Hint: Top browser could not be Firefox. There is no such guarantee.
It happens because of people checking Slashdot at work or plainly choosing IE 7 (which is not a crime).
Which browser works fine with that feature on? I really started to wonder.
I even included OS X "sample of application", my logs, my system profile just to make them interested a bit. While guys start the day by checking Slashdot there, they don't fix the freaking bug.
Unbelievable, no less.
I hate to give ammo to Opera haters but this is it, I am saying this public. That is a Opera bug which exists since first 9.x versions and lives up to date despite numerous kind of bug reports even posted to their forums.
Original Slasdot bug report (not mine)
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=det
By risking CmdrTaco getting mad at me
They are running Solaris there, the servers serving that Wmedia Junk will be possibly (if gets popular) Helix Servers (Real) since there is no such thing as "Windows Media Server for Solaris". Windows Media Server is a joke for any real World load especially BBC size.
s es/index/by_nr_75.html#i37_792
These guys doesn't know about open source? Open source is not very popular in UK? Half of my open source stuff comes from UK.
The "partnership agreement" is the right part. I hope there are courts or mechanisms there to question the recent love of Wmedia at BBC. We could be hearing about some IT bribe scandal of the decade.
Windows Media and their tricks are already documented at
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/antitrust/ca
MS LOST that case and BBC is trying to lock people to that specific format/platform.
This thing is a very serious one, that open source organization really knows what they are doing while taking it to court.
"So they should say Windows, Mac and Linux? Or should that be Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD? Or Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and my toy OS that I wrote in CS class?"
d ucts/player/index.html
http://www.helixcommunity.org/
http://www.real.com/linux (FreeBSD runs it too)
http://www.realnetworks.com/industries/mobile/pro
http://www.real.com/mac/
Solaris/AIX and other variants exist but huge URLs. I am not even talking about Videolan and how easy to make a custom Videolan player with DRM of my choice.
Point is: If you are actually a media player/server making company, you try to reach ALL available environments. If you are a division of a giant OS monopoly company, you try to alienate all competing OSes and platforms and may even get support from unsuspecting users.
They used Windows Media player offering to get rid of some monopoly accusations and trick some unsuspecting media companies asking for compatibility. It still works for that purpose.
A certain super popular distro based on Debian recently dropped official PowerPC support because "nobody uses them". They didn't say that directly of course but their official post implies it. So, as Apple drops PPC, all those CPUs and machines "disappeared" and they don't need any kind of Linux running on them. :)
What bothered me was the reasoning itself and the fact that they are based on Debian, a distro never,ever drops support for anything like that. Not like I actually lost something by not being able to install it.
Opera MOBILE is a Symbian/WinCE real C/C++ application and supports Flash for ages. Opera Mini, is a tiny little J2ME 2.0 application which supports Flash via host rendering. Yes, that tiny weeny thing cares more about consumer demand. They are not afraid of possible Rhapsody.com/iPhone, Zune.com/iPhone sections either. You know, Flash can act and work as a pure server/client platform for media even including copy protection. Don't make me tell why Apple passes Flash.
I don't hate Apple, I hate the so called community who are fanatic enough not to check couple of pages from "enemy" aka Opera.com.
I am not buying ANY product which I can't install Opera to. I am NOT allowing Apple to make decisions for me. I pay my $30 and enjoy my Opera browser.
I also assume this is still Slashdot, not Digg.com Apple section which is a disgrace to real Apple owners and users so trying to give information. At last, I would lose some karma, whatever...
There is J2ME, a standard built with devices in mind and it runs on 2 BILLION phones. Opera Mini which is barely 98 KB (yes, KILOBYTE) is a good example of J2ME 2.0 Applications. There are also dozens of pseudo-random password generators, corparate secure access solutions and the classic, SSH applications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J2me
I am not asking for real thing (Desktop) while I could. If it is $600, if it is "built on OS X", I have right to ask ANY technology which exists on OS X.
About the "massive memory" horror stories, Apple focused Versiontracker lists Limewire as one of the top 10 downloaded applications. Limewire is PURE Java. Azureus too. ImageJ which is a programming miracle is also coded in Java. I recently used it to colour balance a 150 MB TIFF image, I didn't smell anything burning.
Do you want my serials of all 3 macs and OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x, 10.4.x receipts from Apple? Or do you want to see my 4-5 sites which are hosted on Xserve based solutions? Would you ask any shareware vendor which made useful product about me? Or any open source developer who codes stuff for OS X?
I am not against Apple or hating them. I am just a consumer who used real smart devices which you can install software and change every single thing based on your needs. I also respect the millions of 3rd party developers, freeware or commercial and their struggle to make something having ~100,300 Mhz CPU usable. Using "iPhone" and "Smart" in same paragraph is enough to make me mad.
I am a consumer, not some blinded cult member and I am in fact disgusted by the fact that I could be getting confused with some loudmouth lifeless cult member like idiots who DOES HARM Apple by not pushing them to their full potential. Watch news at 30th, see those classy wannabe idiots who line up for a device they will pay $600 plus 2 year contract with some hideous cell phone provider, wonder about the first hint to some Mac hint site which enables device function which was locked by Apple for their future policy, watch the first appearings of trojans claiming to enable flash on iPhone.
I am a Nokia 9300 owner and I use excellent OS X abilities with it such as VNC or SSH without having to get paranoid. It is a smart device which I could actually install SSH and VNC when I needed it. While it is a enterprise focused (S80) phone, it does have Flash and thanks to flash, I can navigate some sites such as my bank. No, the guy sitting on that IBM Z990 mainframe isn't impressed with my "how evil flash is" mumbles. I also added Realplayer just for fun and while connection is expensive, I actually used it to listen to BBC World service on middle of nowhere.
If someone comes and asks which smart device instead of laptop he/she should buy with their $600 spare, I will divert them to Symbian or even Windows CE based devices which Symbian would be a better choice since it also supports J2ME.
Does it get me fired from Cult? Thanks!
I was speaking about site which is referenced by the article and horrible choices made by webmaster himself or herself.
Going -1 levels is not big deal, it is just something Slashdot is on wrong path with recent editorial policy changes. They are trying to be some site which copied it and it will really fail horribly. Looks like the reader profile already made their way and actually got moderation points.
Dear newbie moderators: "off topic" means something out of topic, completely off the base. It doesn't mean "I don't agree with that comment", it means "It doesn't have anything to do with the submitted content". This is not Digg.com. You actually lose Karma after taking horrible decisions like that, this is not some kid site to play around and "sink" or "Digg" whatever you don't agree.
Point is: You don't "off topic" a comment which is based on the entire content of the website which is referenced at TFA.
There a real offtopic for you, idiots.
iPhone potential customerbase will even buy a monochrome phone which does couple of cool tricks as long as it has Apple logo on it.
I am not saying World turned down iPhone, no they will LINE UP at stores to buy it. I am just saying calling iPhone anything smart is complete offense against users and the real smartphone/device manufacturers.
I am horrified by Slashdot crowd actually defending No SDK, even "Flash excluded so nobody will code anything meaningful" device whether it is Apple or not. I mean Slashdot crowd, not some other site, this is Slashdot or.. apple section has been invaded and worthless already. There are thousands of sites which I can find robot, cult member like iPhone praising you know?
Opera Mobile (the real deal) supports Flash for ages, even the "mini" version does Flash.
Stop getting blinded by Apple, even Sony PSP which doesn't claim to be anything iPhone is supports Flash.
Absolutely superior? I wonder if that kind of browsing was superior, why don't I see millions of downloads at Zinio reader. It works exactly that way and has some real cool content which is much more higher resolution than iPhone. People doesn't like randomly zooming in and out after a while?
That is some transcoded file which even lost the lost content of 4:3 pan/scan hack genius webmaster did. Half of guys head gone :)
They are partnering with Apple on iTMS and they didn't spare their time to post HD Trailer to de facto place of movie trailers. The result would be viewed by VLC too.
When will they learn? You know, these kinds of stupid errors on sci-fi scene may actually lose viewers. A real good amount of them. For example, if I didn't think how horrible it looks over flash, I would pass the movie when it hits cinema.
The future is a dark and scare place If Joe has a widescreen monitor (wallpapers are 4:3) or a good broadband connection (max 300kbps flash movie), he won't love that site.
Trailer is also 4:3 which is a horrible easy way to make movies director mad, it is missing 20% or more of actual content. Some directors even spare their DVD Extras to teach viewer why 4:3 or Pan/Scan is an horrible hack. "The Interpreter" director Sydney Pollack have used his extra time on DVD showing viewer on AVID why he/she shouldn't use pan/scan instead of letterbox.
Some guy/gal will find a better formatted at least 720p trailer, post it to some tracker and these idiots will shamessly use it as example that how "horrible,evil" p2p technology is in some future court.
Note to our flash genius webmaster if he reads slashdot: Next time you create (!) a Flash portal, spare time to call studio and ask them if they have anything 16:9 to post to web. Also check top selling monitors and their aspect ratios would you?
You didn't see Sun site? It is famous for having "Add to Cart" button next to $1 M mainframe grade machines. I actually added stuff to cart and got bored when I hit $5M.
Now imagine if they had "1 Click Ordering". Thanks to Amazon for patenting it!
A Sparc portable machine/tablet with some extra-extra security chips, devices (non military/spy grade) pre installed along with latest Solaris can really sell. People would buy it for reliability and security. Especially companies and even home users who are really tired of unreliable laptops. It MUST be end user friendly.
What they try to do now is trying to sell a very bare minimum DESKTOP, nothing included machine just happens to have a SPARC chip more expensive than anything Intel based.
http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=0&stab=2
I am planning to buy a Nokia N800 just because it is not Intel based, runs a flavor of Linux and potentially hassle free. I am just waiting to see if they really care about end user needs and give up stupid things like requiring x86 Linux to get firmware updates since I run OS X under G4/G5.
Name them. If third party apps are really so important, name the ones that a majority of the smartphone market finds indespensible. This is just from Handango which is mainly Symbian download/license site... In fact, it is one of "classy" sites, people generally buy their software directly from Vendor.
http://corp.handango.com/Handango.jsp?siteId=1&ji
Millions of unique monthly visitors
650,000+ newsletter subscribers
190,000+ content titles
16,000+ content partners
Hundreds of licensees
Hundreds of countries
Dozens of currencies
Dozens of languages
9 operating systems
7+ years commercial usage
Lets see Opera Mini which is a J2ME (Java) Application which uses the platform Mr. Jobs claimed "nobody asked for it"
""This is a celebration for our users," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Thanks to the more than 10 million people who have downloaded and used Opera Mini, we've changed the way users and mobile operators think about the mobile Web. Because of the tremendous grassroots support, Opera Mini is now a movement."
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/01/26/
These are CONSUMER/END USER products. VPN/Blackberry/Exchange/Notes etc. solutions which are purchased in bulk numbers in customised manner doesn't count. E.g. no company goes to Handango and add 10.000 VPN client licenses to "shopping cart" of course.
Opera's numbers excludes the massive numbers distributed by cell networks sometimes embedded in phone pre-installed too.
That was quick.
There are a lot of Apple haters, mostly with their fortunes tied to its failure. That's not going so well. TFA is just a response to the avalanche of bought-and-paid Microsoft FUD reporters who can't seem to get the term "unbiased" right. Call for an iPhone boycott? You can always hope - suckers. This article is biased toward outing those buffoons with nothing else to do except panic. I cringe at some the venom this guy has published, but as uppity and fanboyish as Dan is, he's mostly right.
You don't have to be Apple hater to hope it fails (!). A device claiming to be smartphone which its producer spitted worst FUD against Java just because he doesn't want his precious locked environment broken by millions of java developers is enough to hate it.Horrible media scene of Mac which apple.slashdot.org can't find unbiased articles to post is another factor.
Fanboys claiming they don't need Flash on a $600 devices browser adds more to your madness. As you can guess why Flash was not included, you go more mad. Just because they don't want iTunes competitors working inside Mini Safari of iPhone... IMHO of course.
I am not calling for boycott, I am just preventing my friends and family from falling into Apple's trick and buy iPhone instead of some real smart device which you can INSTALL SOFTWARE and CHANGE THE BATTERY. I am doing this as owner of 3 Macs at home alone and get Xserve (sometimes expensive) based services whenever I can.
If the final version of KDE4 really turns out to be stable on OS X, Konqueror will be really popular on Mac. If you use a real powerbook (g4 based), you would be impressed by its amazingly low cpu usage even at alpha stage.
If Xwindows subsystem didn't look alien on OS X, I would be already using Konqueror 3.x but as you know, it is intended for fullscreen Xwindows running KDE. I was really impressed with its settings, configuration and "business feel" of browser.
I could be old fashioned but unless I see Safari 3 hitting top of download.com top 10 list and Apple webservers struggling to handle demand, I wouldn't call it a "hit" or anything.
Forget the Konqueror (which I will use as default when KDE 4 finals), Safari 3 is _not_ popular in Windows standards.
As you are from Poland, you forgot that iPhone will lack the innovative stuff made by http://www.psiloc.com/ like companies.
I was setting my Nokia 7650 (S60) profile based on my cell location back in 2002 or something thanks to their products.
My provider (Turkcell) uses MMS technology for voice messages. When you enable it, the voice messages you receive are "pushed" to your phone instead of dialing anything or mess with buttons. They also use it with service partners to send premier league goals almost realtime via 3G video files.
I guess the reason why Apple doesn't include MMS and it is really shame for my platform of choice.