The difference is that even though people complain about a lack of compatibility between the browsers, the differences are in fact very minor when compared to the differences between operating systems.
The main concern are old browsers, they are a nuisance. Modern browsers behave surprisingly alike.
WebSocket is developed to shine where HTTP fails. It's not yet ready for the masses, but Firefox 4, Opera, Chrome and Safari already have some support. WebSocket will make Ajax and polling in general a thing of the past, enabling even more application-like behaviour in your browser.
If you need to provide your users with application-like behavior, then just write a native application!
When there was just one popular platform to run these native applications on, this was a fine solution. I mean back when everybody did everything in Windows. But nowadays, people are using all sorts of systems. Not just Mac OS X and Linux on the desktop, but iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackberryOS and Symbian on mobile devices as well. So "just write a native applications" actually becomes "write a native applications and then port it to 7 other platforms". That's when a web application suddenly starts to look like a viable alternative.
You are being tracked by Facebook, whether you have an account or not. Every time you see a FB like button on a website (any website), Facebook learns something about you.
The guy on the left says something like "Don't panic, people. In about three months..." and the other guy continues: "...we'll have a different name and a different corporate identity!"
Just like PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML, Linux, the web or the internet itself for that matter. The technology of the web is a giant happy accident and it's really quite amazing it all seems to work as decent as it does.
I'm not saying this situation is perfect and improving upon it would be bad. I'm just saying Javascript isn't any worse than all the other popular technology that makes the web tick.
So instead of waiting for the system to boot up, you now have to wait for the system to shut down (because it is writing the files required for fast booting). What an innovation!
The Fox-IT audit did not find any evidence of fraudulent certificates under this root, so there no clear and present danger for these certificates.
That is old information. The Dutch government only asked Mozilla to not block their root while the Fox-IT audit was still in progress. But by the time it was finished, it could not be proven the Staat Der Nederlanden CA was clean, so they then gave up on DigiNotar entirely and gave Mozilla the OK to block everything.
Yeah, stop overpaying for Apple's stuff and just switch to another Unix operating system with support for commercial applications like Photoshop, AutoCAD or Cubase. Oh wait, there isn't one.
Because the only way to create the kind of smooth GUI animations you see in iOS with the slow CPU of the original iPhone is to do hardware acceleration by a dedicated graphics chip.
You might think it's insane to include a GPU capable of 3D graphics just for GUI animations, but it's exactly the sort of thing Steve Jobs demands.
I come from the art community, one of the bitching points about the iPad is that the capacitive screen makes it completely unusable for drawing any more fine than fingerpainting.
They've had this strategy for years. I'm not sure why people still don't understand that they're not shooting for dominant marketshare; they're just trying to make boatloads of cash, and they're doing that well.
Exactly right. And all of that is because when Steve Jobs took over in 1996, there was no cash at Apple and they weren't making any. Apple was 4 months away from filing for bankruptcy at the time. So everything Steve Jobs did at Apple was focused at making sure the company would become more healthy financially. He created a team of people to do this, devised a strategy to achieve this and stuck to it. That's why Apple is so big nowadays. Not because they have most market share, but because they are making money.
There are lots of video's on the websites of the national government. This is just one example, but there's a lot more. There's a whole team dedicated within the Ministry of General Affairs to the production of video's.
In the Netherlands, all national government websites offer their video's in RealVideo as a fallback for QuickTime, which is itself a fallback for Windows Media Player, which is a fallback for Flash.
It never feels like a gain in reality, because you only get more of your last years, which are crappy anyway. Having more of your middle years would be great, but alas, instead of having fun, you're now exercising during those times.
There are lots of smartphone games telling a story or describing a world. There are lots of RPG's as well. The main reason these games are not on my little list, is because I don't particulary like them. Not on my phone anyway. I need something that is challenging and fun while riding the 20 minute train to work, and I like a good puzzle more than I like a good story. But thats just me.
The people who say that iPhones and tablets are going to kill handheld gaming systems are the same people saying that netbooks and laptops will replace the desktop computer. They're different systems with different intended audiences and are completely distinct in terms of user experience.
It's not about "killing" anything, it is about where the money is. In that regard, the desktop PC is already long gone. Sales have been declining, laptops have been outselling desktops for years and profit margins are nearly non-existant. The desktop PC has become a products for some niches (office workers, gamers, some professionals), but the general public isn't too interested in desktops anymore. That doesn't mean the desktop is "dead" or you wont be able to get a desktop in the future or something, but it's defintely not as mainstream as it used to be.
Same thing with handheld gaming devices. They wont go away. They wont die. But they will be a whole lot less dominant, and that's mainly because of people playing now on their smartphones instead.
Yeah, just like they talk about "digital music" when referring to downloads. I remember the press going crazy when The Beatles got on iTunes, because now their music was available digitally for the first time. Like CDs are analog or something...
Real Racing, Peggle, Flight Control, Lemonade Tycoon, Infinity Blade, Trainyard, Rage, Tower Defense: Lost Earth, Reckless Getaway, Zombie Gunship, Sonic Racing, Civilization Revolution, Bomberman, Plants vs Zombies, Boost 3D... just to name a few. I've spent hours and hours on these great games. They all feel very good in combination with the small touch screen of a smartphone and some of them look & sound amazing as well.
I'm currently playing Anomaly: Warzone Earth and thats just a fantastic title. It's these kinds of quality games Sony & Nintendo should really be worried about. When I'm able to get those games for just 1 or 2 dollars each and run them on a device that I'm always carrying with me anyway, there's just no reason for me whatsoever to get a Vita or 3DS. I already own a DS Lite and enjoyed it a lot. But since I got my smartphone, I've rarely touched it to be honest.
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The difference is that even though people complain about a lack of compatibility between the browsers, the differences are in fact very minor when compared to the differences between operating systems.
The main concern are old browsers, they are a nuisance. Modern browsers behave surprisingly alike.
The fact that porting requires work shouldn't be an excuse to turn web browsers into fancy VMs.
Why not? Isn't it about getting your application to as many people as possible, with the least amount of effort?
WebSocket is developed to shine where HTTP fails. It's not yet ready for the masses, but Firefox 4, Opera, Chrome and Safari already have some support. WebSocket will make Ajax and polling in general a thing of the past, enabling even more application-like behaviour in your browser.
If you need to provide your users with application-like behavior, then just write a native application!
When there was just one popular platform to run these native applications on, this was a fine solution. I mean back when everybody did everything in Windows. But nowadays, people are using all sorts of systems. Not just Mac OS X and Linux on the desktop, but iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackberryOS and Symbian on mobile devices as well. So "just write a native applications" actually becomes "write a native applications and then port it to 7 other platforms". That's when a web application suddenly starts to look like a viable alternative.
You are being tracked by Facebook, whether you have an account or not. Every time you see a FB like button on a website (any website), Facebook learns something about you.
This is a popular Dutch comic: http://foksuk.nl/nl?cm=79&ctime=1315260000
The guy on the left says something like "Don't panic, people. In about three months..." and the other guy continues: "...we'll have a different name and a different corporate identity!"
That's the old video from last year. Although the German Intel engineer is pretty funny to listen to, especially when he talks about "ze monsters".
Javascript is something of an accidental success.
Just like PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML, Linux, the web or the internet itself for that matter. The technology of the web is a giant happy accident and it's really quite amazing it all seems to work as decent as it does.
I'm not saying this situation is perfect and improving upon it would be bad. I'm just saying Javascript isn't any worse than all the other popular technology that makes the web tick.
Liquidity itself is very valuable, but you can seriously doubt about the value of a millisecond of extra time to liquidate an asset.
South Korea obviously. Like YouTube would have a North Korean portal website.
So instead of waiting for the system to boot up, you now have to wait for the system to shut down (because it is writing the files required for fast booting). What an innovation!
The Fox-IT audit did not find any evidence of fraudulent certificates under this root, so there no clear and present danger for these certificates.
That is old information. The Dutch government only asked Mozilla to not block their root while the Fox-IT audit was still in progress. But by the time it was finished, it could not be proven the Staat Der Nederlanden CA was clean, so they then gave up on DigiNotar entirely and gave Mozilla the OK to block everything.
Yeah, stop overpaying for Apple's stuff and just switch to another Unix operating system with support for commercial applications like Photoshop, AutoCAD or Cubase. Oh wait, there isn't one.
Because the only way to create the kind of smooth GUI animations you see in iOS with the slow CPU of the original iPhone is to do hardware acceleration by a dedicated graphics chip.
You might think it's insane to include a GPU capable of 3D graphics just for GUI animations, but it's exactly the sort of thing Steve Jobs demands.
I come from the art community, one of the bitching points about the iPad is that the capacitive screen makes it completely unusable for drawing any more fine than fingerpainting.
What are you talking about?
They've had this strategy for years. I'm not sure why people still don't understand that they're not shooting for dominant marketshare; they're just trying to make boatloads of cash, and they're doing that well.
Exactly right. And all of that is because when Steve Jobs took over in 1996, there was no cash at Apple and they weren't making any. Apple was 4 months away from filing for bankruptcy at the time. So everything Steve Jobs did at Apple was focused at making sure the company would become more healthy financially. He created a team of people to do this, devised a strategy to achieve this and stuck to it. That's why Apple is so big nowadays. Not because they have most market share, but because they are making money.
There are lots of video's on the websites of the national government. This is just one example, but there's a lot more. There's a whole team dedicated within the Ministry of General Affairs to the production of video's.
In the Netherlands, all national government websites offer their video's in RealVideo as a fallback for QuickTime, which is itself a fallback for Windows Media Player, which is a fallback for Flash.
And on which 16 month/year planet would that be, then?
Actually, it's a net gain.
It never feels like a gain in reality, because you only get more of your last years, which are crappy anyway. Having more of your middle years would be great, but alas, instead of having fun, you're now exercising during those times.
Ah great! I like funny jokes a lot better than unfunny ones. Well done, blog administrator for including my favorite type of joke!
There are lots of smartphone games telling a story or describing a world. There are lots of RPG's as well. The main reason these games are not on my little list, is because I don't particulary like them. Not on my phone anyway. I need something that is challenging and fun while riding the 20 minute train to work, and I like a good puzzle more than I like a good story. But thats just me.
The people who say that iPhones and tablets are going to kill handheld gaming systems are the same people saying that netbooks and laptops will replace the desktop computer. They're different systems with different intended audiences and are completely distinct in terms of user experience.
It's not about "killing" anything, it is about where the money is. In that regard, the desktop PC is already long gone. Sales have been declining, laptops have been outselling desktops for years and profit margins are nearly non-existant. The desktop PC has become a products for some niches (office workers, gamers, some professionals), but the general public isn't too interested in desktops anymore. That doesn't mean the desktop is "dead" or you wont be able to get a desktop in the future or something, but it's defintely not as mainstream as it used to be.
Same thing with handheld gaming devices. They wont go away. They wont die. But they will be a whole lot less dominant, and that's mainly because of people playing now on their smartphones instead.
Yeah, just like they talk about "digital music" when referring to downloads. I remember the press going crazy when The Beatles got on iTunes, because now their music was available digitally for the first time. Like CDs are analog or something...
Real Racing, Peggle, Flight Control, Lemonade Tycoon, Infinity Blade, Trainyard, Rage, Tower Defense: Lost Earth, Reckless Getaway, Zombie Gunship, Sonic Racing, Civilization Revolution, Bomberman, Plants vs Zombies, Boost 3D... just to name a few. I've spent hours and hours on these great games. They all feel very good in combination with the small touch screen of a smartphone and some of them look & sound amazing as well.
I'm currently playing Anomaly: Warzone Earth and thats just a fantastic title. It's these kinds of quality games Sony & Nintendo should really be worried about. When I'm able to get those games for just 1 or 2 dollars each and run them on a device that I'm always carrying with me anyway, there's just no reason for me whatsoever to get a Vita or 3DS. I already own a DS Lite and enjoyed it a lot. But since I got my smartphone, I've rarely touched it to be honest.