A number of inaccuracies here.
No, the OSNews article does not want people to download the video instead. It merely summaries my letter, which asks that Mozilla do not advocate JavaScript to do video fallbacks, but instead use my code (Video for Everybody) that does the same thing even better and without any JavaScript.
I'm thinking of the user's experience first by creating a solution that doesn't require JavaScript.
No, this has cost Nintendo precisely 0. They have not/lost/ a billion from the bank because of the shortage, they have simply not earnt that money.
The Wii is popular, and profitable. They've lost nothing, only potential sales. Sony could only dream of such a thing. PS3 availability was good even days after release, as Penny Arcade proved
That's crap, all software on the net faces the exact same issue. If anything, Opera suffers much worse considering they've had over 100 million downloads, and still have a share measuring 0.8 ~ 1.8%.
The fact of the matter is that Firefox is the first browser to take market share back from Microsoft. It is a massive, massive achievement and people should be proud because it is open source.
Yes, but the bad thing is that if you're running any third party software, you're boned. What if you don't use Apple's Mail / Calander / iTunes / iPhoto? You're perfectly within your rights to prefer Thunderbird+Lightening / Songbird / Picasa. Except now you've got a phone no better than a non-bluetooth, PC-only via datacable and dodgy drivers, copy-paste affair.
Ironically, it was IBM who sold the punched-tape based computers to the Nazi party, which helped make the holocaust possible; but they don't refer to that in their company history.
On Windows, I hated shareware with a passion. I would go out of my way to avoid having to pay for anything. Software was something to be hoarded. Things could not be more polar on the Mac. Mac software is often of such high quality, and with great attention to detail, that you want to pay for it. With no spyware, nor viruses on the Mac either, you are not in a constant state of paranoia about what you are installing onto your machine.
The author is stuck in a PC mind set, and it takes longer than 30 days to unwind and realised that life is more important than fighting with Windows shortcomings, even if you sacrifice a little choice for something that you can actually/enjoy/.
I never used to/enjoy/ using Windows XP, even though I knew it so well. It's the opposite with OS X, and that makes one hell of a difference in the long run.
I beg to differ. I recently got a new phone with 2.0mp camera, whilst still not the highest quality on the market, it has a flash/light, night mode, burst mode and a macro mode which I used to capture this. Not bad for a phone at all.
Guh, that one always gets me. Whoever decided that a fifteen button combo to change the display brightness was better than an analogue roller was obviously an IBM Engineer.
"I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox." No, you're trolling. Criticizing would mean you had some semblence of an idea about what you were talking about, which you clearly do not.
"Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this" Yes they do. Firefox is being simplified in order to appeal to the greater market. You know, the ones who make up 85% of the market and matter alot more than you do. IE is a simple browser, it's one of its successes, and Firefox aims to be something that IE users can feel comfortable switching too without being bombarded with anal retentive geek features. Firefox can be customized and as geeky and powerful as you want it to be with extensions, so how simple it is is up to you.
Since version 1.5 it hardly leaks at all. Firefox has high memory requirements, complain about that if you must but stop spinning your tired, ignorant, uniformed, arrogant bullshit. K, thnx.
Except that almost all phone/pda browsers can only handle HTML 3.2 at best and bork at the slighest bit of CSS. This article is day dreaming at best. We're a long way off ever serving the same page to mobile browsers as desktop browsers.
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Look up the etymology of "Television".
A number of inaccuracies here. No, the OSNews article does not want people to download the video instead. It merely summaries my letter, which asks that Mozilla do not advocate JavaScript to do video fallbacks, but instead use my code (Video for Everybody) that does the same thing even better and without any JavaScript. I'm thinking of the user's experience first by creating a solution that doesn't require JavaScript.
Asking Linux users to accept DRM is like asking them if it's alright to take a shit in their kitchen.
There is *no* cool way you can word it.
Innovation.
A small, off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden!
> What's this?
It's a red and blue striped golfing umbrella!
> What's this?
An Apple, no,
it's the Bolivian navy armed maneuvers in the south pacific!
No, this has cost Nintendo precisely 0. They have not /lost/ a billion from the bank because of the shortage, they have simply not earnt that money.
The Wii is popular, and profitable. They've lost nothing, only potential sales.
Sony could only dream of such a thing. PS3 availability was good even days after release, as Penny Arcade proved
That's crap, all software on the net faces the exact same issue. If anything, Opera suffers much worse considering they've had over 100 million downloads, and still have a share measuring 0.8 ~ 1.8%. The fact of the matter is that Firefox is the first browser to take market share back from Microsoft. It is a massive, massive achievement and people should be proud because it is open source.
It's not "Soccer", it's "Metric Football"
This is the EU, no silly Americanism's here. :P
It's "De-possible!"
Yes, but the bad thing is that if you're running any third party software, you're boned. What if you don't use Apple's Mail / Calander / iTunes / iPhoto? You're perfectly within your rights to prefer Thunderbird+Lightening / Songbird / Picasa. Except now you've got a phone no better than a non-bluetooth, PC-only via datacable and dodgy drivers, copy-paste affair.
...DRM will ensure that the ads of today won't be around to laugh at.
Ironically, it was IBM who sold the punched-tape based computers to the Nazi party, which helped make the holocaust possible; but they don't refer to that in their company history.
To get away from the anal retention on PC.
/enjoy/.
/enjoy/ using Windows XP, even though I knew it so well.
On Windows, I hated shareware with a passion. I would go out of my way to avoid having to pay for anything. Software was something to be hoarded. Things could not be more polar on the Mac. Mac software is often of such high quality, and with great attention to detail, that you want to pay for it. With no spyware, nor viruses on the Mac either, you are not in a constant state of paranoia about what you are installing onto your machine.
The author is stuck in a PC mind set, and it takes longer than 30 days to unwind and realised that life is more important than fighting with Windows shortcomings, even if you sacrifice a little choice for something that you can actually
I never used to
It's the opposite with OS X, and that makes one hell of a difference in the long run.
I beg to differ. I recently got a new phone with 2.0mp camera, whilst still not the highest quality on the market, it has a flash/light, night mode, burst mode and a macro mode which I used to capture this. Not bad for a phone at all.
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If you came across a RISC OS machine, you'd die. There are _only_ context menus, and the mouse has three buttons!
Guh, that one always gets me. Whoever decided that a fifteen button combo to change the display brightness was better than an analogue roller was obviously an IBM Engineer.
"I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox."
No, you're trolling. Criticizing would mean you had some semblence of an idea about what you were talking about, which you clearly do not.
"Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this"
Yes they do. Firefox is being simplified in order to appeal to the greater market. You know, the ones who make up 85% of the market and matter alot more than you do. IE is a simple browser, it's one of its successes, and Firefox aims to be something that IE users can feel comfortable switching too without being bombarded with anal retentive geek features. Firefox can be customized and as geeky and powerful as you want it to be with extensions, so how simple it is is up to you.
Since version 1.5 it hardly leaks at all. Firefox has high memory requirements, complain about that if you must but stop spinning your tired, ignorant, uniformed, arrogant bullshit. K, thnx.
"And with this change, every mac on the internet will become even more secure than their Windows based counterparts"
TPM isn't in every computer yet, IE/Mac can't just delete itself off people's machines because it's expired.
Except that almost all phone/pda browsers can only handle HTML 3.2 at best and bork at the slighest bit of CSS. This article is day dreaming at best. We're a long way off ever serving the same page to mobile browsers as desktop browsers.
Or network...
In Soviet Russia, the DRM protects you!
sack that, what about the far future where you have to reverse engineer ASCII to even get as far as XML!
And America doesn't?
Is this why there's all those warnings on cases saying don't put tape on the disc? I wonder if the next DRM can be circumvented using direct sunlight?