These kinds of apps aren't really "Fire up XCode and code couple of lines" things. People also have tendency to rely on the data they get without reading the EULA and you end up being blamed as result. The programmers of these apps must be getting huge money and they must be working a lot...
So, spend millions of dollars just to get some intern reject your application? Only Adobe would do such mistake. If they get some sort of guarantee from Apple, that would make developers of other 99.995 apps mad so it is not a option. Remember what happened with Google Voice.
I think, they should keep enhancing the Google maps on other, open platforms (I just click a link in Symbian browser) and it would push Apple to stop this "code, submit and pray" silliness. If I were them, I would even work with Opera ASA to make a very simple, Opera Mini like "maps" client for J2ME.
"Put it this way: back in the day before Flash video became popular some sites used Quicktime for video, some used Real, and some used WMV. "
Now, all those players are simply using mpeg4 standard one way or another. Even Real switched to H264/AAC+, they just did some tweaks. Oh WMV uses VC1 and I bet H264 is there very soon as MS made clear with Silverlight.
People just don't get how a great thing H264 served and how much it is liked by industry themselves. The container may change but H264 is there to stay, Google is really a bit late to the party. The devices are already produced,shipped and people have set their stuff up. VP guys did a huge mistake by not opening the codec themselves, back in MPEG4-SP days.
MPEG-LA is protecting the rights of the real patent owners which I bet, may even include some open source heroes. MPEG-LA isn't some large, evil company. It is just an organization to protect the rights of the codec owners. For example, if you want to have VC-1, you contact them too.
Google did the best decision which most already predicted when they acquired On2, great for them to open the codec but it doesn't make MPEG-LA or any codec companies "evil". They either can't afford to give away their all rights or they simply can't do it.
Once you air to millions of set top boxes, offer mpeg4 files to millions of devices and go up space with mpeg2 or h264, things look different to you and no, nothing goes away.
Do you really want that hack inside your browser? If I were a IE user, I wouldn't. IE isn't designed to do such things and there is enough trouble already with it. People who aren't allowed to install any other browser can't already install some deep level activex anyway.
It is just like Input Manager hacks on OS X Safari. They just can't admit the browser isn't designed to be hacked that way and it is way more viable to use a browser that allows extensions by architectural design.
That is, in case your device/computer doesn't have a real chip to do h264 decoding or there isn't any CPU acceleration (SSE/Altivec) in the decoder software. In some cases, like Adobe's situation with Apple, the chip (GPU) is there, they just can't reach it using any official/hack API so there we have 100% CPU using Flash on Apple with Apple user/fans bitching about Adobe instead.
I have problem believing Google will spend time and money hardware accelerating VP8 on, lets say PowerPC. They didn't even bother to release a browser. What about Symbian? They got some great software up and running on Symbian but not something really complex like a video player.
Sad thing is, the only viable alternative (if you ignore Real) is Quicktime. Sadly, it is Apple themselves which didn't put actual Quicktime (with all features) to iPhone/iPod. It really shows how could flash become that common, thanks to Apple Quicktime dept. and Real Networks mistakes.
Flash became de facto standard not because someone put a gun to users/developer's head, it became standard when all Real, MS, Apple and the entire open source camp ignored users and companies needs. Is it even possible to add subtitle to ogg video other than using.srt file hacks? It is just an example.
Every time I see a plain mp4 served at Apple Trailers, knowing what Quicktime framework is capable of, it saddens me.
Oh well, if Apple messes with something related to Microsoft, they know what will happen. On the other hand, 25% of Creative Suite sales belongs to Apple platform so, Adobe has nothing to do rather than blogging about it.
As a Symbian user, it means Adobe will focus on things other than that prison device so I am happy for it. I already run several flash applications, without any weird tricks and no, they don't "eat battery".
I believe you can code an application in Visual Basic 6 and as far as it is 32bit, it will run. I believe even 16bit will run under 32bit OS. Please, don't mention MS on that purpose, it is their only powerful side (and most evil one,for them).
He can't go mad about it since it is Apple's fault. First, the last minute change to OS X so Carbon 64bit is impossible. I don't have the slightest clue how could Trolltech etc. guys could cope with it, fortunately they are owned by Nokia now so they have amazing resources. On the other hand, Adobe Professional suite is not some tiny shareware that they can switch to Cocoa that easy. Only MS could do it and they don't need to do things which Adobe Pro apps has to do 24/7.
Another thing? You can't GPU accelerate anything video on OS X, you don't have access like Quicktime X has. So, Adobe doesn't offer GPU Accelerated flash which is a true wonder on supported GPUs even including integrated stuff.
Is there a single computer which forces you to a single variant of a single language, I really wonder. Lets talk about it, go back to 8bit days if you want to or even Altair. Don't let me start about real smart phones which has really gone crazy and may have even more options than your average windows/mac desktop.
It would be true for 10 years earlier but today, a bad performing opengl or direct3d driver means a bad performing OS. Everything is opengl accelerated, even the office suite and 3d accelerated browsers are otw.
Forget everything, 1080P video isn't 320x240 mpeg1 video of older times. It needs acceleration too.
He was assigned by FSF to code an alternative for KDE which relied on Trolltech Qt and Trolltech was refusing to make it pure GPL for some business reasons.
So, the very same guy assigned to that project for that very single reason came up with Mono, a clone of Microsoft.NET framework. That is the part where people go nuts.
Interestingly and very luckily, Nokia did their best decision to buy Trolltech and as they are a gigantic company, they could convert it to LGPL which Trolltech would go out of business if they dared. So, the very reason of existence of Gnome is gone and Icaza&team does everything to make more people switch to KDE. I would be really pissed if I was a patent licensee of MS on Debian Linux just because I got curious about a note taking application for instance.
Things became so pathetic that people started to check dependencies of Gnome apps before they try them, just in case they depend on Mono trojan.
I think he and his gang along with that pathetic dying company should leave Gnome, Linux alone. No more trickery to insert Mono to Debian, flagship open source Linux which is (was) like a manifesto of open source philosophy until it got that stupid notes app.
OK, lets agree to MS that Linux is a piece of uncontrolled anarchic software. What about OS X which they could convert multi million line monster to Cocoa in matter of year? Yes, MS Office.
They also make huge money from MS Office sales on OS X, there is something like Apple Inc. which they can call anytime. The API is stable, nobody comes up and invents another sound system. So... Where the hell is.NET 3.5 SP1 for OS X?
Yes, I am expecting them to ship that framework for OS X if it is really a standard, not a trick to save their own Windows OS. No, I don't want some guy's clone, I want the real thing. Code will load on XCode (the same Xcode they use), compile without a single modification and run. That is what Java, Trolltech (Nokia) Qt and their own (!) GTK 2 is. Community isn't an issue either, nobody on OS X land (real, general users) gives a heck to DRM or free sofware philosophy. No RMS here either.
So, MS , where is.NET_3.5SP1.DMG we can download and install?
Without any "Nokia" hate, just based on technical facts, can someone really explain why Mozilla team ignores/always ignores Symbian platform? Especially after the entire thing became open source?
It is not like we are begging for it, we already have Opera Mobile 10 and numerous (ironically,one is a ff proxy) browsers to choose from. Is there a purely technical reason for ignoring Symbian especially after the doors shut to their faces by MS?
Symbian is not good as dead, it is coming to 100M+ devices/year as soon as next year. Entire Nokia mid-end switches to Symbian foundation. E65 isn't a bad phone either, it just lacks RAM and software must be carefully chosen.
If you are American or you don't care enough to read Symbian sites, you don't have to know these. I must admit the Nokia's PR has been more pathetic than ever lately. What bothers me is, Developers who are advanced enough to join Mozilla also ignores Symbian which has everything one can imagine to develop on.
It is their loss really, Opera slowly gaining back its default browser status. In fact, already did on high end Symbians with the Opera 10 Mobile (which you can supposedly run on E65 unsupported, as single app like iPhone).
Funny thing is, people tend to think MS is really unhappy to lose market share. mshtml.dll is what mattered, now it is impossible to think about a Windows OS without MShtml.dll, thousands including MS rivals linking to that dll as well as millions of intranets which can't function without IE/ActiveX.
MS already won, less end user desktop marketshare could be a good thing for them. Users already run their OS. If idiots in management figured this out back in 2003, their image would be a lot better.
If 90% of people use IE, companies won't give a heck to your OS/Browser combination. If you can browse all the web/do govt. things/shop with your own choice of browser, you gotta thank Firefox and its market share for it. If your cellphone browser (lets say Nokia browser) became usable with several m.example.com sites popping up lately, you can thank iPhone browsing fashion.
So, most popular doesn't matter too much but the fact that many popular browsers/engines exist really matters. Randomness created by this ballot even while most of people may choose IE can matter to a person who uses Firefox/Konqueror on FreeBSD.
Better yet, free software authors (developers) aren't hiding anywhere. It would be hard to contact IE team but Mozilla developers can be reached easily, via mail or even IRC.
Posting this warning while it is easy to figure/ask 3.6.2 is OTW really requires some review by German Govt. For example, did someone from that team have some dinner/launch with some company executive lately?
I am using time machine on a g4 mini mac (1.42 ghz CPU) and I haven't seen any taking of resources by backupd (time machine). It could be using idle cpu and I am sure it already watches filesystem activity while doing backup since if I am doing something with the hard disk, it really takes long time backing up.
The stock command coming with XP can convert FAT32 to NTFS in matter of minutes. I guess it would take seconds if it didn't do a chkdsk internally. Now, instead of all that trivial junk being told to user while installing Windows XP, MS could say "We introduce a new filesystem with Windows XP, it is faster, more reliable and has more features. It also makes checking disk needless." with "Convert my startup drive to NTFS" checkmark selected.
That time, users would move to NTFS and no, they would still have no clue about the filesystem they run. So, for 8 years, everyone could be running some kind of modern filesystem rather than something designed for DISKETTES.
Apple did it when they were absolutely sure journaling doesn't create problems for 99.999% of users, with couple of clever UI tricks, they made sure everyone enabled journaling. They still do the similar tricks to prevent users easily disable journaling (mostly because of FUD on www). I wasn't around on Mac scene when HFS got upgraded to HFS+ but I am sure they did similar tricks to make users move and get rid of archaic filesystems.
It doesn't sound great for publicity but, Firefox/Opera/Safari developers should really educate newbies telling they _still have to have windows security updates_ whether they use IE or not.
It is a core part of OS they are running and it will stay for a long time. I saw many people who doesn't update windows just because they use Firefox. Some rare cases, they didn't even have antivirus installed.
OS X scene isn't that horrible yet but for Windows, not having security updates is really crazy unless you are on a isolated/secured/mission critical machine.
Speak with a Windows Developer to learn about the power of "Help" and amazing things it can do. Remember, VBScript is there so it can be exploited. It can also launch apps, you can even embed registry files to help files (saw pc pitstop did it, in white hat way.
They never sit and think why the hell that exploit exists, they just want to release 10002020th patch for a broken thing.
(Obviously, Apple is so lame and old fashioned to stick with plain html files)
If that Polish researcher sold the exploit to black hat mafia for 1M dollars and it took months to figure the cause of a ILOVEYOU sized infection, they would see what irresponsible is. Remember, ILOVEYOU was coded for lame reasons and show off... These days, worms are coded for huge black hat economy nobody dares to predict.
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These kinds of apps aren't really "Fire up XCode and code couple of lines" things. People also have tendency to rely on the data they get without reading the EULA and you end up being blamed as result. The programmers of these apps must be getting huge money and they must be working a lot...
So, spend millions of dollars just to get some intern reject your application? Only Adobe would do such mistake. If they get some sort of guarantee from Apple, that would make developers of other 99.995 apps mad so it is not a option. Remember what happened with Google Voice.
I think, they should keep enhancing the Google maps on other, open platforms (I just click a link in Symbian browser) and it would push Apple to stop this "code, submit and pray" silliness. If I were them, I would even work with Opera ASA to make a very simple, Opera Mini like "maps" client for J2ME.
"Put it this way: back in the day before Flash video became popular some sites used Quicktime for video, some used Real, and some used WMV. "
Now, all those players are simply using mpeg4 standard one way or another. Even Real switched to H264/AAC+, they just did some tweaks. Oh WMV uses VC1 and I bet H264 is there very soon as MS made clear with Silverlight.
People just don't get how a great thing H264 served and how much it is liked by industry themselves. The container may change but H264 is there to stay, Google is really a bit late to the party. The devices are already produced,shipped and people have set their stuff up. VP guys did a huge mistake by not opening the codec themselves, back in MPEG4-SP days.
MPEG-LA is protecting the rights of the real patent owners which I bet, may even include some open source heroes. MPEG-LA isn't some large, evil company. It is just an organization to protect the rights of the codec owners. For example, if you want to have VC-1, you contact them too.
Google did the best decision which most already predicted when they acquired On2, great for them to open the codec but it doesn't make MPEG-LA or any codec companies "evil". They either can't afford to give away their all rights or they simply can't do it.
Once you air to millions of set top boxes, offer mpeg4 files to millions of devices and go up space with mpeg2 or h264, things look different to you and no, nothing goes away.
Do you really want that hack inside your browser? If I were a IE user, I wouldn't. IE isn't designed to do such things and there is enough trouble already with it. People who aren't allowed to install any other browser can't already install some deep level activex anyway.
It is just like Input Manager hacks on OS X Safari. They just can't admit the browser isn't designed to be hacked that way and it is way more viable to use a browser that allows extensions by architectural design.
That is, in case your device/computer doesn't have a real chip to do h264 decoding or there isn't any CPU acceleration (SSE/Altivec) in the decoder software. In some cases, like Adobe's situation with Apple, the chip (GPU) is there, they just can't reach it using any official/hack API so there we have 100% CPU using Flash on Apple with Apple user/fans bitching about Adobe instead.
I have problem believing Google will spend time and money hardware accelerating VP8 on, lets say PowerPC. They didn't even bother to release a browser. What about Symbian? They got some great software up and running on Symbian but not something really complex like a video player.
Sad thing is, the only viable alternative (if you ignore Real) is Quicktime. Sadly, it is Apple themselves which didn't put actual Quicktime (with all features) to iPhone/iPod. It really shows how could flash become that common, thanks to Apple Quicktime dept. and Real Networks mistakes.
Flash became de facto standard not because someone put a gun to users/developer's head, it became standard when all Real, MS, Apple and the entire open source camp ignored users and companies needs. Is it even possible to add subtitle to ogg video other than using .srt file hacks? It is just an example.
Every time I see a plain mp4 served at Apple Trailers, knowing what Quicktime framework is capable of, it saddens me.
Oh well, if Apple messes with something related to Microsoft, they know what will happen. On the other hand, 25% of Creative Suite sales belongs to Apple platform so, Adobe has nothing to do rather than blogging about it.
As a Symbian user, it means Adobe will focus on things other than that prison device so I am happy for it. I already run several flash applications, without any weird tricks and no, they don't "eat battery".
I believe you can code an application in Visual Basic 6 and as far as it is 32bit, it will run. I believe even 16bit will run under 32bit OS. Please, don't mention MS on that purpose, it is their only powerful side (and most evil one,for them).
He can't go mad about it since it is Apple's fault. First, the last minute change to OS X so Carbon 64bit is impossible. I don't have the slightest clue how could Trolltech etc. guys could cope with it, fortunately they are owned by Nokia now so they have amazing resources. On the other hand, Adobe Professional suite is not some tiny shareware that they can switch to Cocoa that easy. Only MS could do it and they don't need to do things which Adobe Pro apps has to do 24/7.
Another thing? You can't GPU accelerate anything video on OS X, you don't have access like Quicktime X has. So, Adobe doesn't offer GPU Accelerated flash which is a true wonder on supported GPUs even including integrated stuff.
Is there a single computer which forces you to a single variant of a single language, I really wonder. Lets talk about it, go back to 8bit days if you want to or even Altair. Don't let me start about real smart phones which has really gone crazy and may have even more options than your average windows/mac desktop.
It would be true for 10 years earlier but today, a bad performing opengl or direct3d driver means a bad performing OS. Everything is opengl accelerated, even the office suite and 3d accelerated browsers are otw.
Forget everything, 1080P video isn't 320x240 mpeg1 video of older times. It needs acceleration too.
So you were infected by tomboy trojan and all you need is switch to gnote.
Rest are depending things, not big deal.
He was assigned by FSF to code an alternative for KDE which relied on Trolltech Qt and Trolltech was refusing to make it pure GPL for some business reasons.
So, the very same guy assigned to that project for that very single reason came up with Mono, a clone of Microsoft .NET framework. That is the part where people go nuts.
Interestingly and very luckily, Nokia did their best decision to buy Trolltech and as they are a gigantic company, they could convert it to LGPL which Trolltech would go out of business if they dared. So, the very reason of existence of Gnome is gone and Icaza&team does everything to make more people switch to KDE. I would be really pissed if I was a patent licensee of MS on Debian Linux just because I got curious about a note taking application for instance.
Things became so pathetic that people started to check dependencies of Gnome apps before they try them, just in case they depend on Mono trojan.
I think he and his gang along with that pathetic dying company should leave Gnome, Linux alone. No more trickery to insert Mono to Debian, flagship open source Linux which is (was) like a manifesto of open source philosophy until it got that stupid notes app.
Would they agree on that?
OK, lets agree to MS that Linux is a piece of uncontrolled anarchic software. What about OS X which they could convert multi million line monster to Cocoa in matter of year? Yes, MS Office.
They also make huge money from MS Office sales on OS X, there is something like Apple Inc. which they can call anytime. The API is stable, nobody comes up and invents another sound system. So... Where the hell is .NET 3.5 SP1 for OS X?
Yes, I am expecting them to ship that framework for OS X if it is really a standard, not a trick to save their own Windows OS. No, I don't want some guy's clone, I want the real thing. Code will load on XCode (the same Xcode they use), compile without a single modification and run. That is what Java, Trolltech (Nokia) Qt and their own (!) GTK 2 is. Community isn't an issue either, nobody on OS X land (real, general users) gives a heck to DRM or free sofware philosophy. No RMS here either.
So, MS , where is .NET_3.5SP1.DMG we can download and install?
Without any "Nokia" hate, just based on technical facts, can someone really explain why Mozilla team ignores/always ignores Symbian platform? Especially after the entire thing became open source?
It is not like we are begging for it, we already have Opera Mobile 10 and numerous (ironically,one is a ff proxy) browsers to choose from. Is there a purely technical reason for ignoring Symbian especially after the doors shut to their faces by MS?
Symbian is not good as dead, it is coming to 100M+ devices/year as soon as next year. Entire Nokia mid-end switches to Symbian foundation. E65 isn't a bad phone either, it just lacks RAM and software must be carefully chosen.
If you are American or you don't care enough to read Symbian sites, you don't have to know these. I must admit the Nokia's PR has been more pathetic than ever lately. What bothers me is, Developers who are advanced enough to join Mozilla also ignores Symbian which has everything one can imagine to develop on.
It is their loss really, Opera slowly gaining back its default browser status. In fact, already did on high end Symbians with the Opera 10 Mobile (which you can supposedly run on E65 unsupported, as single app like iPhone).
Funny thing is, people tend to think MS is really unhappy to lose market share. mshtml.dll is what mattered, now it is impossible to think about a Windows OS without MShtml.dll, thousands including MS rivals linking to that dll as well as millions of intranets which can't function without IE/ActiveX.
MS already won, less end user desktop marketshare could be a good thing for them. Users already run their OS. If idiots in management figured this out back in 2003, their image would be a lot better.
If 90% of people use IE, companies won't give a heck to your OS/Browser combination. If you can browse all the web/do govt. things/shop with your own choice of browser, you gotta thank Firefox and its market share for it. If your cellphone browser (lets say Nokia browser) became usable with several m.example.com sites popping up lately, you can thank iPhone browsing fashion.
So, most popular doesn't matter too much but the fact that many popular browsers/engines exist really matters. Randomness created by this ballot even while most of people may choose IE can matter to a person who uses Firefox/Konqueror on FreeBSD.
Better yet, free software authors (developers) aren't hiding anywhere. It would be hard to contact IE team but Mozilla developers can be reached easily, via mail or even IRC.
Posting this warning while it is easy to figure/ask 3.6.2 is OTW really requires some review by German Govt. For example, did someone from that team have some dinner/launch with some company executive lately?
I am using time machine on a g4 mini mac (1.42 ghz CPU) and I haven't seen any taking of resources by backupd (time machine). It could be using idle cpu and I am sure it already watches filesystem activity while doing backup since if I am doing something with the hard disk, it really takes long time backing up.
The stock command coming with XP can convert FAT32 to NTFS in matter of minutes. I guess it would take seconds if it didn't do a chkdsk internally. Now, instead of all that trivial junk being told to user while installing Windows XP, MS could say "We introduce a new filesystem with Windows XP, it is faster, more reliable and has more features. It also makes checking disk needless." with "Convert my startup drive to NTFS" checkmark selected.
That time, users would move to NTFS and no, they would still have no clue about the filesystem they run. So, for 8 years, everyone could be running some kind of modern filesystem rather than something designed for DISKETTES.
Apple did it when they were absolutely sure journaling doesn't create problems for 99.999% of users, with couple of clever UI tricks, they made sure everyone enabled journaling. They still do the similar tricks to prevent users easily disable journaling (mostly because of FUD on www). I wasn't around on Mac scene when HFS got upgraded to HFS+ but I am sure they did similar tricks to make users move and get rid of archaic filesystems.
It doesn't sound great for publicity but, Firefox/Opera/Safari developers should really educate newbies telling they _still have to have windows security updates_ whether they use IE or not.
It is a core part of OS they are running and it will stay for a long time. I saw many people who doesn't update windows just because they use Firefox. Some rare cases, they didn't even have antivirus installed.
OS X scene isn't that horrible yet but for Windows, not having security updates is really crazy unless you are on a isolated/secured/mission critical machine.
Speak with a Windows Developer to learn about the power of "Help" and amazing things it can do. Remember, VBScript is there so it can be exploited. It can also launch apps, you can even embed registry files to help files (saw pc pitstop did it, in white hat way.
They never sit and think why the hell that exploit exists, they just want to release 10002020th patch for a broken thing.
(Obviously, Apple is so lame and old fashioned to stick with plain html files)
If that Polish researcher sold the exploit to black hat mafia for 1M dollars and it took months to figure the cause of a ILOVEYOU sized infection, they would see what irresponsible is. Remember, ILOVEYOU was coded for lame reasons and show off... These days, worms are coded for huge black hat economy nobody dares to predict.
Where is the binary for PPC/OSX ? Also does it do exactly what Silverlight 3/Win does?
Moonlight... Come on really.