It is there but software to auto create them missing. Quicktime container can do all and Quicktime player will play the menu, you can even make a Flash menu in earlier versions.
Bjork's official website used to have nice examples. Unfortunately even Apple doesn't use the actual Quicktime these days. All they do is put a amateur link (10mbit streaming?!?!) even on their trailers site.
It is also "human rule'. Do we really want to hear 3-4 idiots personal lives while we fly? I really don't especially after 14 hours Japan and HK flight. The overpriced and strange plane phone was attached to all seats on my flight and nobody was using it since you have to use your credit card and pass couple of strange menus. It was like IQ test and nobody dared to use them.
Bus companies are also using "climate control system" and "ABS" as excuse for years. ABS excuse is also a death threat so it works. Everyone who is a bit technical knows especially Setra (Mercedes high end) and Neoplan (MAN high end) won't get effected but we stay silent. Better than that old lady calling his friend at 4 AM.
Tidbits is in fact older than www (It is 18 years old) and it doesn't need to have "lots of ads". Tidbits is a very prestigious Apple focused mailing list and doesn't need the tricks you suggest. I am not even sure they track "impressions" of couple of gifs there.
I hope Leadtek already got CVS commit accounts in VLC, mplayer, ffmpeg, x264 projects for their optimisations.
That is the most practical way to gain full support to Windows, OS X and Linux. Also imagine a micro laptop which can crunch data better than a desktop PC when on demand.
I asked about 48bit tiff support on GIMP as that toy like Photoshop Elements advertises it can support. I politely asked, very specifically without any rant or even a joke. "Is there 48bit support on GIMP yet?", some idiot who thinks he support project by sitting in #gimp and mess with newbies said "No, because you didn't code it.". I found myself ordering Photoshop Elements in 10 secs. Glad Adobe geniuses doesn't sell to my country online:)
The CYMK, previously Colour profiles, the 48bit which every home user with a good scanner has potential to use (they archive/fix family photos!) isn't the issue. It is the idiots who poisons every open source software channel acting like official part of team and treating poor users like shit. That is the problem of open source. You won't find any Adobe employee joking with your naive question.
See that category list with links? It will keep growing and growing and the only thing you DON'T need to run cloud based client computing is the bulky XP or Vista. Launching "Office" on a EeePC is going to Google Docs site for example. It is all WWW standards and other standard networking products.
They figure there is no place for them with current offers. Back in 1995, Marc Andreessen made the biggest mistake by openly saying "Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.", the windows of 1995 he talks about is not existent anymore, it is full of hacks on hacks, patches on patches, 5-6 frameworks doing same job. So people look to a system which will do everything on Web with least overhead. It is Linux.
All they now need is some "DirectCloud" with the usual suspect coding some Linux non working backwards clone. You get what I mean.
I think Apple trusts to their fanatics and fans while doing such absurd things. Such people also has potential to lead them in wrong direction as we have seen in Amelio times.
They made Microsoft Windows Mobile look as "freedom" and people started to defend Symbian on all platforms. Usually Symbian users will buy the device, enhance it to a point that nobody will understand how their phone can boot and bitch about it on Web.
That is a real achievement.To repeat: Windows Mobile looks "open" with "freedom" compared to iPhone Unix/NeXT based OS.
Spend months developing your application under strict NDA terms and get your application rejected because some idiot working at App Store thinks it has potential to be competitive?
I don't feel pity for iPhone developers. It is same as customers. They accept such abuse while buying the device or firing up XCode new iPhone app project.
Java is also object oriented and there is a very object oriented OS in hand which has more than 200 million users. Symbian that is. Symbian developers could release working iPhone apps in full functionality in months time. They also had to mess with stupid "hack" thing let alone fixing their own issues.
I keep saying that Developer should maintain a Windows Mobile or better, Symbian "mirror" of application. Symbian developers can ship their apps in whatever way they want, they can even mail the.sisx file to users. It is a lot different on iPhone official scene. If that idiot clicks "reject" template, you are doomed. You can't even TELL that the idiot clicked "reject" to your potential customers.
Also Symbian fixing their only issue. The closed source kernel. It was taken way more seriously than some people in Cupertino expected. No industry fight happened too.
Funny is the Android release and Symbian going open source is also happening thanks to iPhone. Nobody can say Apple doesn't change things. I could never imagine Nokia and their biggest rivals agreeing to make Symbian open source. Even Flash 3 lite release which is rumoured to be free download for end user is Adobe's iPhone and Silverlight reaction. They asked millions of dollars from manufacturers before.
If Apple just allowed actual competition in iPhone itself without lame excuses like security and battery life?
There are 5-6 competing third party and official apps exist on Symbian for things you mention. They update and enhance even monthly since there is a huge, healthy competition where you can show the finger to Nokia's own mail client and use a third party client as default.
If I tell you there are 3-4 different titles (recently that famous windows one) to display PDF from free to commercial, you can easily guess the competition.
I am all for competition and freedom unless it dangers my security. Symbian and sadly Windows mobile provides it. iPhone doesn't. You can't even get more secure on iPhone since antivirus or firewall is practically impossible. Nobody will spare millions to develop a security solution which customer will have to hack their device to install it. Thanks to Apple for the absurdity in my previous sentence:)
A single bug in Safari for iPhone can prevent it from running and all Apple has to say is "oops". As it doesn't even allow other browsers like Opera, you will be in big trouble.
iPhone is not a business device as long as it is run by a fascistic policy. I pity the businesses who buys Apple's claims with 2-3 poster child apps and I _run_ everything on OS X/XServe.
If you stop buying Apple's claim that iPhone is a smart phone, it will be easier for you to understand.
iPhone is something like moving shell for iTunes and a device embedded OS X. Apps are like music and movies which Apple has control.
Symbian and Windows Mobile devices are computers running a dedicated expandable operating system which vendor has only control over "security" and "safety" of user. Apple tries (in fact accomplishes) to control the whole experience on device. When you buy it, you accept it. If you stay on actual smart phones like Symbian and Windows Mobile and even J2ME, especially if you are Apple computer user, you send a message.
Apple is blocking every potential "iTunes store" competitor in fact. If you look to all that SDK madness, Flash not being included, no Java (even if Sun codes free) and "no apps can interpret".
WinME is even worse. It tries to achieve NT on Windows 98. You have to boot to it and use it for a week. You will see the amount of insanity in the idea. I can't express it even. Just think system restore running on FAT32 instead of NTFS which has legendary shadow copy. Problem begins exactly at that point.
It is more like Rhapsody on Mac land. I mean the strangeness Very interesting for IT history:)
Google was after "hosts" for a while and when they got enough data they turned to "clients". I can easily predict slashdot front page in 5 years and it is not a pretty sight.
If google pays slashdot for these, they make a huge mistake. Slashdot community except the ones makes thousands from Google adwords have some idea about their manners about privacy and they will post basic questions like "What about privacy and behavioural targeting?"
Not just advertising. Did you see/read gmail privacy policy? That is same company who will run it. If they feed enough behavioural data and private data, they won't need to put ads in it.
If people doesn't get the slightest idea of what means putting all personal mails and files to some "cloud' controlled by another company, governments have right to be concerned about their citizens (bosses) commercial and private safety. Even politicians figured what kind of disaster coming.
The local company puts all your private info to Amazon or Google without having basic idea of the long term. That is what RMS is concerned about.
Perhaps they should require some sort of license to get on the internet commercially? Thing is already out of hand, do you notice some doctors have gmail addresses? Have fun mailing them your private issues.
I wonder if someone will dare to interview other legendary people with decades of expertise and already part of computer history. I wonder what would Knuth (who isn't hard liner like RMS) does say about idea of uploading your data to some cloud and agree that they have same rights as you over your data.
RMS is advocating open source software without patents. Neither he or GNU thinks everyone should be poor coding in some basement.
If you are using free and open source, especially GNU licensed software, you are taking advantage of "free" part of that ideology. The ideology and the suggestion is way bigger than "ISO to be downloaded free". It is not communism either.
The idea of putting all your private data to some companies server and let them take advantage of it effectively OWNING it is totally insane in GNU mentality.
You know the worse thing? When a "We are nice guys" believing company or person chooses to backup (!) all mail to Gmail or whatever privacy killer is around that time, it sells YOUR soul and your mails too.
Cloud computing (the privacy killing fake one) is more like a pyramid scheme.
Cheaper more silent and easily upgradable is Windows. I can make a PC which beats hell out of OS X in 1 day at most. It will need a comprehensive security solution and a high quality Windows maintenance tool though.
It will run Windows of course. Sounds strange? No' I have chosen limited amount but quality software accompanied with a quality hardware myself. I am not the average "OMG I got spyware, let me move to Apple" switcher.
Let me give GPU example as it is the most visible one. If you think it is "Apple" that stops you from buying a cheap video card to Mac and running it smoothly, think again. ATI and NVIDIA duopoly are the ones who doesn't fire XCode and whatever they use for firmware code and fire up a new IOKit project for driver. So what happens? "OMG robber Apple. A Graphics card is $400" Hell no, it is ATI or NVidia putting that price to that card for a shitty outsource written Firmware excuse.
There is no "Apple evil plan" there, it is Microsoft and cheap Taiwan junk manufacturers forming a Windows gang. Also idiotic manufacturers like Matrox/Creative not leaving Adobe/MS tail like it helps them at all.
I am not a laptop guy but MBA lack of CPU speed (although better than Atom) can be masked with a special usage style already built into OS X (especially Leopard). You need at least 811N wireless though with a very speedy line. I am speaking about these:
I am not a laptop customer but you can be sure I would beat any "high speed bulky" laptop using such technologies. For example if my P1i can't render a video (smart phone), I mail it to my mail with a special subject line. My Quad G5 renders it and mails back when ready. All done via Unix layer and ffmpeg combined with Automator. Apple ships the device, you can't blame them if they don't use it right or use for showing off.
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It is there but software to auto create them missing. Quicktime container can do all and Quicktime player will play the menu, you can even make a Flash menu in earlier versions.
Bjork's official website used to have nice examples. Unfortunately even Apple doesn't use the actual Quicktime these days. All they do is put a amateur link (10mbit streaming?!?!) even on their trailers site.
It is also "human rule'. Do we really want to hear 3-4 idiots personal lives while we fly? I really don't especially after 14 hours Japan and HK flight. The overpriced and strange plane phone was attached to all seats on my flight and nobody was using it since you have to use your credit card and pass couple of strange menus. It was like IQ test and nobody dared to use them.
Bus companies are also using "climate control system" and "ABS" as excuse for years. ABS excuse is also a death threat so it works. Everyone who is a bit technical knows especially Setra (Mercedes high end) and Neoplan (MAN high end) won't get effected but we stay silent. Better than that old lady calling his friend at 4 AM.
Tidbits is in fact older than www (It is 18 years old) and it doesn't need to have "lots of ads". Tidbits is a very prestigious Apple focused mailing list and doesn't need the tricks you suggest. I am not even sure they track "impressions" of couple of gifs there.
I hope Leadtek already got CVS commit accounts in VLC, mplayer, ffmpeg, x264 projects for their optimisations.
That is the most practical way to gain full support to Windows, OS X and Linux. Also imagine a micro laptop which can crunch data better than a desktop PC when on demand.
I use a commercial mailing and web hosting package from 2 vendors. I have never used any form of ISP mail.
I asked about 48bit tiff support on GIMP as that toy like Photoshop Elements advertises it can support. I politely asked, very specifically without any rant or even a joke. "Is there 48bit support on GIMP yet?", some idiot who thinks he support project by sitting in #gimp and mess with newbies said "No, because you didn't code it.". I found myself ordering Photoshop Elements in 10 secs. Glad Adobe geniuses doesn't sell to my country online :)
The CYMK, previously Colour profiles, the 48bit which every home user with a good scanner has potential to use (they archive/fix family photos!) isn't the issue. It is the idiots who poisons every open source software channel acting like official part of team and treating poor users like shit. That is the problem of open source. You won't find any Adobe employee joking with your naive question.
Look at what they are afraid of:
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/
See that category list with links? It will keep growing and growing and the only thing you DON'T need to run cloud based client computing is the bulky XP or Vista. Launching "Office" on a EeePC is going to Google Docs site for example. It is all WWW standards and other standard networking products.
They figure there is no place for them with current offers. Back in 1995, Marc Andreessen made the biggest mistake by openly saying "Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.", the windows of 1995 he talks about is not existent anymore, it is full of hacks on hacks, patches on patches, 5-6 frameworks doing same job. So people look to a system which will do everything on Web with least overhead. It is Linux.
All they now need is some "DirectCloud" with the usual suspect coding some Linux non working backwards clone. You get what I mean.
I think Apple trusts to their fanatics and fans while doing such absurd things. Such people also has potential to lead them in wrong direction as we have seen in Amelio times.
They made Microsoft Windows Mobile look as "freedom" and people started to defend Symbian on all platforms. Usually Symbian users will buy the device, enhance it to a point that nobody will understand how their phone can boot and bitch about it on Web.
That is a real achievement.To repeat: Windows Mobile looks "open" with "freedom" compared to iPhone Unix/NeXT based OS.
Spend months developing your application under strict NDA terms and get your application rejected because some idiot working at App Store thinks it has potential to be competitive?
I don't feel pity for iPhone developers. It is same as customers. They accept such abuse while buying the device or firing up XCode new iPhone app project.
Java is also object oriented and there is a very object oriented OS in hand which has more than 200 million users. Symbian that is. Symbian developers could release working iPhone apps in full functionality in months time. They also had to mess with stupid "hack" thing let alone fixing their own issues.
I keep saying that Developer should maintain a Windows Mobile or better, Symbian "mirror" of application. Symbian developers can ship their apps in whatever way they want, they can even mail the .sisx file to users. It is a lot different on iPhone official scene. If that idiot clicks "reject" template, you are doomed. You can't even TELL that the idiot clicked "reject" to your potential customers.
Also Symbian fixing their only issue. The closed source kernel. It was taken way more seriously than some people in Cupertino expected. No industry fight happened too.
Funny is the Android release and Symbian going open source is also happening thanks to iPhone. Nobody can say Apple doesn't change things. I could never imagine Nokia and their biggest rivals agreeing to make Symbian open source. Even Flash 3 lite release which is rumoured to be free download for end user is Adobe's iPhone and Silverlight reaction. They asked millions of dollars from manufacturers before.
If Apple just allowed actual competition in iPhone itself without lame excuses like security and battery life?
There are 5-6 competing third party and official apps exist on Symbian for things you mention. They update and enhance even monthly since there is a huge, healthy competition where you can show the finger to Nokia's own mail client and use a third party client as default.
If I tell you there are 3-4 different titles (recently that famous windows one) to display PDF from free to commercial, you can easily guess the competition.
I am all for competition and freedom unless it dangers my security. Symbian and sadly Windows mobile provides it. iPhone doesn't. You can't even get more secure on iPhone since antivirus or firewall is practically impossible. Nobody will spare millions to develop a security solution which customer will have to hack their device to install it. Thanks to Apple for the absurdity in my previous sentence :)
A single bug in Safari for iPhone can prevent it from running and all Apple has to say is "oops". As it doesn't even allow other browsers like Opera, you will be in big trouble.
iPhone is not a business device as long as it is run by a fascistic policy. I pity the businesses who buys Apple's claims with 2-3 poster child apps and I _run_ everything on OS X/XServe.
So you think IBM which is in size of a country would get same treatment as that poor freeware coder?
If you stop buying Apple's claim that iPhone is a smart phone, it will be easier for you to understand.
iPhone is something like moving shell for iTunes and a device embedded OS X. Apps are like music and movies which Apple has control.
Symbian and Windows Mobile devices are computers running a dedicated expandable operating system which vendor has only control over "security" and "safety" of user. Apple tries (in fact accomplishes) to control the whole experience on device. When you buy it, you accept it. If you stay on actual smart phones like Symbian and Windows Mobile and even J2ME, especially if you are Apple computer user, you send a message.
Apple is blocking every potential "iTunes store" competitor in fact. If you look to all that SDK madness, Flash not being included, no Java (even if Sun codes free) and "no apps can interpret".
WinME is even worse. It tries to achieve NT on Windows 98. You have to boot to it and use it for a week. You will see the amount of insanity in the idea. I can't express it even. Just think system restore running on FAT32 instead of NTFS which has legendary shadow copy. Problem begins exactly at that point.
It is more like Rhapsody on Mac land. I mean the strangeness Very interesting for IT history :)
Google was after "hosts" for a while and when they got enough data they turned to "clients". I can easily predict slashdot front page in 5 years and it is not a pretty sight.
If google pays slashdot for these, they make a huge mistake. Slashdot community except the ones makes thousands from Google adwords have some idea about their manners about privacy and they will post basic questions like "What about privacy and behavioural targeting?"
Not just advertising. Did you see/read gmail privacy policy? That is same company who will run it. If they feed enough behavioural data and private data, they won't need to put ads in it.
If people doesn't get the slightest idea of what means putting all personal mails and files to some "cloud' controlled by another company, governments have right to be concerned about their citizens (bosses) commercial and private safety. Even politicians figured what kind of disaster coming.
The local company puts all your private info to Amazon or Google without having basic idea of the long term. That is what RMS is concerned about.
Perhaps they should require some sort of license to get on the internet commercially? Thing is already out of hand, do you notice some doctors have gmail addresses? Have fun mailing them your private issues.
I wonder if someone will dare to interview other legendary people with decades of expertise and already part of computer history. I wonder what would Knuth (who isn't hard liner like RMS) does say about idea of uploading your data to some cloud and agree that they have same rights as you over your data.
RMS is advocating open source software without patents. Neither he or GNU thinks everyone should be poor coding in some basement.
If you are using free and open source, especially GNU licensed software, you are taking advantage of "free" part of that ideology. The ideology and the suggestion is way bigger than "ISO to be downloaded free". It is not communism either.
The idea of putting all your private data to some companies server and let them take advantage of it effectively OWNING it is totally insane in GNU mentality.
You know the worse thing? When a "We are nice guys" believing company or person chooses to backup (!) all mail to Gmail or whatever privacy killer is around that time, it sells YOUR soul and your mails too.
Cloud computing (the privacy killing fake one) is more like a pyramid scheme.
There is a very good excuse for me. My mails are private and I don't give anyone right to retain them forever or analyse them for ads.
There are many other ways to backup your mailbox without selling your soul. Mail comes from Unix land which everything is a plain file.
Cheaper more silent and easily upgradable is Windows. I can make a PC which beats hell out of OS X in 1 day at most. It will need a comprehensive security solution and a high quality Windows maintenance tool though.
It will run Windows of course. Sounds strange? No' I have chosen limited amount but quality software accompanied with a quality hardware myself. I am not the average "OMG I got spyware, let me move to Apple" switcher.
Let me give GPU example as it is the most visible one. If you think it is "Apple" that stops you from buying a cheap video card to Mac and running it smoothly, think again. ATI and NVIDIA duopoly are the ones who doesn't fire XCode and whatever they use for firmware code and fire up a new IOKit project for driver. So what happens? "OMG robber Apple. A Graphics card is $400" Hell no, it is ATI or NVidia putting that price to that card for a shitty outsource written Firmware excuse.
There is no "Apple evil plan" there, it is Microsoft and cheap Taiwan junk manufacturers forming a Windows gang. Also idiotic manufacturers like Matrox/Creative not leaving Adobe/MS tail like it helps them at all.
I am not a laptop guy but MBA lack of CPU speed (although better than Atom) can be masked with a special usage style already built into OS X (especially Leopard). You need at least 811N wireless though with a very speedy line.
I am speaking about these:
http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/hpc/xgrid_intro.html (XGrid)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1294717/macmost_now_77_leopard_screen_sharing/ (Screen Sharing)
http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
I am not a laptop customer but you can be sure I would beat any "high speed bulky" laptop using such technologies. For example if my P1i can't render a video (smart phone), I mail it to my mail with a special subject line. My Quad G5 renders it and mails back when ready. All done via Unix layer and ffmpeg combined with Automator. Apple ships the device, you can't blame them if they don't use it right or use for showing off.