No - he's talking about UI consistency and overall layout, not performance on older hardware. Whether you meant to do it or not, you've set up a straw man here.
Err, the quote was that Windows and Office were bloated(which directly translates to bad performance on older hardware), not about UI consistency of layout. You're the one setting up a straw man here.
Now comes word that Microsoft's head designer Ray Ozzie -- officially Chief Software Architect, de facto the highest-level designer in the company, with a purview outside the tired Windows/Office megalith -- has decided to take a break.
Someone that gets confused between a designer and an architect has no right to write a tech article such as this one.
Seriously, Windows 7 runs on old Pentium 4's nicely and Office 2007 and 2010 are not really bloated compared to their functionality. But iTunes on the other hand....
But why are apps that just *manage* bittorrent downloads on other machines banned? You can even use Safari with uTorrent's web interface. Maybe it should be banned.
And people have every right to 'blast Apple for rejecting apps'. The submission guidelines are not the ten commandments that we all should follow just because they're sacred. We should be free to criticize them.
The app that Apple pulled needed to perform various steps to enable the easter egg, so it's not as if the volume buttons are instantly reconfigured. You have to go out of your way substantially to enable it, and still people did it, because they really wanted to.
You've got it bass ackwards. It's Apple that has sued HTC for patent violations and HTC is embroiled in a big suit that they need MS's help to defend. MS is saying that, hey, you won't have that issue with our OS, we'll take care of any software patents.
What a blur! Only somewhat better than VP8, and still worse than JPEG. And that’s using the same encoder and the same level of analysis — the only thing done differently is dropping the psy optimizations. Thus we come back to the conclusion I’ve made over and over on this blog — the encoder matters more than the video format, and good psy optimizations are more important than anything else for compression. libvpx, a much more powerful encoder than ffmpeg’s jpeg encoder, loses because it tries too hard to optimize for PSNR.
These results raise an obvious question — is Google nuts? I could understand the push for “WebP” if it was better than JPEG. And sure, technically as a file format it is, and an encoder could be made for it that’s better than JPEG. But note the word “could”. Why announce it now when libvpx is still such an awful encoder? You’d have to be nuts to try to replace JPEG with this blurry mess as-is. Now, I don’t expect libvpx to be able to compete with x264, the best encoder in the world — but surely it should be able to beat an image format released in 1992?
Earth to Google: make the encoder good first, then promote it as better than the alternatives. The reverse doesn’t work quite as well.
I don't understand why Apple gets a free pass on everything from many otherwise intelligent people on here whereas MS gets demonized regardless of what they do.
The point that I was making(that obviously went over your head) is Apple gets a huge chunk of money from selling you a Mac and uses that money to subsidize Mac OS and software. Microsoft does not do this.
i.e There is a hidden extra cost behind the numbers in the parent post for OS X and iWork that you HAVE to pay when buying the hardware to use that software. i.e The Apple tax. This is the reason that Apple disallows you from running it to non Mac hardware and even prohibits virtualizing it, showing that their software is subsidized by their hardware.
Android is not an iPhone alternative; it simply doesn't offer the same benefits. No, no, no it doesn't. The social benefits (the app store and its cleanliness) are not equivalent; not even close.
An alternative has to match everything? Sure, Android is not perfect, but offers a lot of alternatives in hardware choice. Want a hardware keyboard for your phone? Nope, the iPhone does not do the job. Shitty AT&T coverage coverage near your home or office? iPhone does not do the job for you.
While I agree that there are irrational haters, there are legitimate reasons to not like Apple too. The reasons being barely any choice in hardware, and the total locking down of the software ecosystem and treating developers like crap on their mobile devices and tablets. The next biggest reason is a profileration of Apple fanbois(who are otherwise very intelligent and geeky) but who absolutely worship anything coming out of Apple, demonize alternatives regardless of merits and try to justify and downplay any shortcomings. They get very touchy about any criticism, and have been known to give out death threats to people who may be seen as exposing Apple's flaws(remember the OS X wireless exploit?).
And that software runs by itself? What about the hardware to run it on? You're not counting the Apple tax which is used to subsidize Mac OS X and other software.
One major weakness of the cloud you're espousing... it dies without a constant network connection. And why not have the best of both the worlds? It's not as if allowing native data storage is going to make the cloud go away.
These things are vastly easier to administer than a a laptop, and high school students by and large, don't need to know how to program a computer.
Do you have a clue about what you are writing? Everyone is trying to get people interested in programming at younger ages and you're here saying that high school students don't need to how to program? And this is supposedly because people can screw up the device? Pray, tell me how approving this App can in any way lead to 'screwing up the device'. These things are vastly easier to administer than a a laptop, and high school students by and large, don't need to know how to program a computer.
And by the way, if your a registered developer (like a school district's net admin) you can do ad hoc software distribution to your own devices of any software you write outside of the Apple lockdown. So lighten up.
How will that help if such software doesn't get developed by software developers because they can't distribute the app except to jailbroken devices and to registered developers? How many school districts have their own software development teams to develop Windows and Mac educational software instead of just buying it off the market?
Strawman. I was talking about some simple programming ON it, not FOR it. Apple explicitly bans any and all programs on the iPad that *may* be construed as being programming tools(even if they're not).
Naysayers of the iPad miss the point? Huh, here I thought that all the hype about desktop, laptops and netbooks being killed off by iPads was created by Apple fans.
The point is that the rules suck and that a device that is being pushed as a educational tool by schools and universities is locked down stopping kids from learning how to program. Not enough people being distracted by 'Ooh shiny' know about this.
Not just that, the app store rules are ambiguously and capriciously enforced. For example, Lua for game scripting has been approved though it violates the rules. There's no way of telling what will and will not be approved.
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You forgot to factor in the 25GB Exchange online mailboxes and Sharepoint Online for each user that doesn't come with Office Professional.
Not sure why this is marked troll.
Exchange Online is part of the deal, providing all those services.
No - he's talking about UI consistency and overall layout, not performance on older hardware. Whether you meant to do it or not, you've set up a straw man here.
Err, the quote was that Windows and Office were bloated(which directly translates to bad performance on older hardware), not about UI consistency of layout. You're the one setting up a straw man here.
Now comes word that Microsoft's head designer Ray Ozzie -- officially Chief Software Architect, de facto the highest-level designer in the company, with a purview outside the tired Windows/Office megalith -- has decided to take a break.
Someone that gets confused between a designer and an architect has no right to write a tech article such as this one.
Seriously, Windows 7 runs on old Pentium 4's nicely and Office 2007 and 2010 are not really bloated compared to their functionality. But iTunes on the other hand....
It's a joke. I use Google.
Wow, taking a sample of one from around 80,000 employees. Looks like someone turned off their logical thinking skills.
"If you're parenting skills aren't up to snuff, Apple's got a patent on the device that will allow you to control what you child sends and receives.
Yes it is pretty good. Copy paste is not working on /. for some reason... search Youtube for Windows Phone 7 Browser Comparison
But why are apps that just *manage* bittorrent downloads on other machines banned? You can even use Safari with uTorrent's web interface. Maybe it should be banned.
And people have every right to 'blast Apple for rejecting apps'. The submission guidelines are not the ten commandments that we all should follow just because they're sacred. We should be free to criticize them.
Are you serious? Some very few examples:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/159887/rejected_10_iphone_apps_that_didnt_make_apples_app_store.html
http://www.macgasm.net/2010/04/30/apple-seals-fate-of-canadian-game-isealclub-rejected-from-app-store/
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/18/apple-rejects-yoot-saitos-iphone-game-dev-staff-considered-sea/
Not to mention all the rejections of games that used the Unity framework.
The app that Apple pulled needed to perform various steps to enable the easter egg, so it's not as if the volume buttons are instantly reconfigured. You have to go out of your way substantially to enable it, and still people did it, because they really wanted to.
What about this? http://gizmodo.com/5592521/how-a-guy-tricked-apple-with-a-disguised-iphone-tethering-app
If tethering can make it past the Apple gates, why won't other 'features'?
You've got it bass ackwards. It's Apple that has sued HTC for patent violations and HTC is embroiled in a big suit that they need MS's help to defend. MS is saying that, hey, you won't have that issue with our OS, we'll take care of any software patents.
From the x264 link:
What a blur! Only somewhat better than VP8, and still worse than JPEG. And that’s using the same encoder and the same level of analysis — the only thing done differently is dropping the psy optimizations. Thus we come back to the conclusion I’ve made over and over on this blog — the encoder matters more than the video format, and good psy optimizations are more important than anything else for compression. libvpx, a much more powerful encoder than ffmpeg’s jpeg encoder, loses because it tries too hard to optimize for PSNR.
These results raise an obvious question — is Google nuts? I could understand the push for “WebP” if it was better than JPEG. And sure, technically as a file format it is, and an encoder could be made for it that’s better than JPEG. But note the word “could”. Why announce it now when libvpx is still such an awful encoder? You’d have to be nuts to try to replace JPEG with this blurry mess as-is. Now, I don’t expect libvpx to be able to compete with x264, the best encoder in the world — but surely it should be able to beat an image format released in 1992?
Earth to Google: make the encoder good first, then promote it as better than the alternatives. The reverse doesn’t work quite as well.
Why can't you get a Blackberry and use it on Sprint with the same plan and contract?
I don't understand why Apple gets a free pass on everything from many otherwise intelligent people on here whereas MS gets demonized regardless of what they do.
The point that I was making(that obviously went over your head) is Apple gets a huge chunk of money from selling you a Mac and uses that money to subsidize Mac OS and software. Microsoft does not do this.
i.e There is a hidden extra cost behind the numbers in the parent post for OS X and iWork that you HAVE to pay when buying the hardware to use that software. i.e The Apple tax. This is the reason that Apple disallows you from running it to non Mac hardware and even prohibits virtualizing it, showing that their software is subsidized by their hardware.
Android is not an iPhone alternative; it simply doesn't offer the same benefits. No, no, no it doesn't. The social benefits (the app store and its cleanliness) are not equivalent; not even close.
An alternative has to match everything? Sure, Android is not perfect, but offers a lot of alternatives in hardware choice. Want a hardware keyboard for your phone? Nope, the iPhone does not do the job. Shitty AT&T coverage coverage near your home or office? iPhone does not do the job for you.
While I agree that there are irrational haters, there are legitimate reasons to not like Apple too. The reasons being barely any choice in hardware, and the total locking down of the software ecosystem and treating developers like crap on their mobile devices and tablets. The next biggest reason is a profileration of Apple fanbois(who are otherwise very intelligent and geeky) but who absolutely worship anything coming out of Apple, demonize alternatives regardless of merits and try to justify and downplay any shortcomings. They get very touchy about any criticism, and have been known to give out death threats to people who may be seen as exposing Apple's flaws(remember the OS X wireless exploit?).
Is someone a 'hater' because they come to know something like this http://www.businessinsider.com/latest-app-store-rejection-outrage-apple-rejects-app-that-teaches-kids-to-program-2010-4 and decide that iPads are something that don't do the job for them?
And that software runs by itself? What about the hardware to run it on? You're not counting the Apple tax which is used to subsidize Mac OS X and other software.
One major weakness of the cloud you're espousing... it dies without a constant network connection. And why not have the best of both the worlds? It's not as if allowing native data storage is going to make the cloud go away.
These things are vastly easier to administer than a a laptop, and high school students by and large, don't need to know how to program a computer.
Do you have a clue about what you are writing? Everyone is trying to get people interested in programming at younger ages and you're here saying that high school students don't need to how to program? And this is supposedly because people can screw up the device? Pray, tell me how approving this App can in any way lead to 'screwing up the device'. These things are vastly easier to administer than a a laptop, and high school students by and large, don't need to know how to program a computer.
And by the way, if your a registered developer (like a school district's net admin) you can do ad hoc software distribution to your own devices of any software you write outside of the Apple lockdown. So lighten up.
How will that help if such software doesn't get developed by software developers because they can't distribute the app except to jailbroken devices and to registered developers? How many school districts have their own software development teams to develop Windows and Mac educational software instead of just buying it off the market?
You're the one that needs to see the light.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-scratch-app/
Strawman. I was talking about some simple programming ON it, not FOR it. Apple explicitly bans any and all programs on the iPad that *may* be construed as being programming tools(even if they're not).
See http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/0027210/iPhone-App-In-App-Store-Limbo-Open-Sourced
http://www.businessinsider.com/latest-app-store-rejection-outrage-apple-rejects-app-that-teaches-kids-to-program-2010-4
Naysayers of the iPad miss the point? Huh, here I thought that all the hype about desktop, laptops and netbooks being killed off by iPads was created by Apple fans.
A small sample:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175600/The_iPad_is_the_future_for_home_computing
http://gizmodo.com/5506692/ipad-is-the-future
http://www.macworld.com/article/146038/2010/01/ipad_future_shock.html
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-future/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/ipad/
The point is that the rules suck and that a device that is being pushed as a educational tool by schools and universities is locked down stopping kids from learning how to program. Not enough people being distracted by 'Ooh shiny' know about this.
Not just that, the app store rules are ambiguously and capriciously enforced. For example, Lua for game scripting has been approved though it violates the rules. There's no way of telling what will and will not be approved.
Edit: Looks like 10k was asked, not given, and the school is classified as a high poverty school...