See my point? Why would the industry suddenly decide they would provide the infrastructure for data storage, at great cost to themselves?
Well we already know what the likes of Google get out of it - more information about you, so they can target ads at you better.
You ask what Apple gets out of it? $USD99/year
This is exactly why I'm happy to pay apple for 20GB of space that I can use for email, storage, when the whole world seems to be in love with Google. What surprises me most of all is how many nerds are happy that Google reads all their email just to show them Ads.
nobody wants to pay to download Wired magazine's 500 megabyte iPad edition (which is what happens when you cancel flash support and leave everyone scrambling).
Two things...
Apple never indicated that Flash would be supported on it's iPhoneOS devices, so how can they cancel support for something they never supported?
How is it Apples fault that Adobes "solution" for a lack of flash, is to bundle a heap of IMAGESinto an App?
It's not that it's problematic. It's that I want to be certain that when I check in changes to the tree, they're not going to break my server when the update goes live.
This is what testing environments are for. Your dev workstation is not a testing environment.
I do web dev and I've developed sites/web apps to run on Windows, Linux, BSD, and even god-damn Netware (not OES - Netware 5!) servers, and I can't remember ever having an issue with case-sensitivity.
I think you're making a problem where one doesn't exist.
Want flash on your phone? Too bad because there isn't a full version of flash for ANY mobile platform, and the version that will finally make it, will only be available to a fraction of the users/devices of a single mobile platform at launch, and there is no timeline for when it will reach any other platforms.
A secondary reboot seems like a small price to pay. It's not like you don't need to do this on windows - and if as suggested it's automated deployment, what does it matter if the machines reboot an extra time? Being Linux I'd imagine you still need less reboots than when deploying a Windows Image - you need to reboot after image (first boot), then after it's installed drivers (second boot) then quite possibly after network software installs, whereas I seem to remember that hardly any User Apps on Linux require a reboot.
Last time I played around with linux on desktop (SuSE i seem to recall) NVidia drivers could be downloaded without much trouble? Surely there's a way to automate this?
Well that's great. It's been several years since I did more than deploy web apps to already-running Linux servers, so auto-downloading drivers is great... so long as it has a generic NIC controller i guess..
this was solved a long time ago. Sysprep allows you to bundle whatever drivers you want, and it will just load what it needs on first boot.
Combine that with a network imaging solution (back when I worked in that area, we used ZENworks, but there are other options), and ideally network installs of software (i.e. the image should be a base OS and not much else) and you should have limited problems. A new machine type will require a new image, but you can just deploy the old one, add the new drivers, run sysprep and re-create the image.
I never had to do mass-imaging of Linux machines, but surely you could take a similar approach for the Ubuntu images?
if this codec was default on YouTube it would be THE standard in about 15 seconds flat.
I doubt it. I'd imagine sites like Vimo would instead become more popular.
You sweaty linux nerds need to realise that end users don't give a flying fuck about what codec the video uses, they care about being able to watch something. Until this codec has even close to the same kind of hardware support as H.264 it's going to be a second choice, especially for embedded/mobile platforms.
is Adobe continuing their trend of writing awful, inconsistent, ugly, usually-slow UIs?
This came up a while ago, on John Nack (PS product manager)'s blog.
Basically they think their custom UI stuff for CS is the beez knees, and you unlucky shmoes who "have to use" CS will be getting MORE not less of their crap in future (including CS5) versions.
Sure, they've put up a "standards group" to make it seem like they care about others think, but the WHATWG standard is really "what Apple thinks best suits their interest".
Not quite, old chap.
WHATWG was formed by people from Apple, Mozilla and Opera. They invited a Microsoft guy but he declined.
The current editor of WHATWG specs is Ian Hickson, who works for Google.
Yes, people are abusing Canvas just like they abuse Flash, but at least with Canvas, Apple, Google, Mozilla, etc can DO something about the poor performance, rather than just listening to Adobe piss and moan and blame others, because Apple doesn't give a fucking browser plugin direct access to hardware.
Symbian does not differentiate between leaving and closing an app.
Except, when it does. There is a big fucking button in the corner of my Symbian SE smartphone. It gives you two things - a program "switcher" and a task manager. This is necessary, as so far only two of the Apps I've ever had on the damn thing (the built in picture viewer and music player) actually close on their own. The rest all have to be killed via the Task Manager. The task manager is however, about as useful as a shit in a paper bag. If an app hangs, you're fucked. You have to restart the phone. This happens a lot recently, when using the browser - Opera. All of a sudden the page won't scroll and the UI is unresponsive, except for the fucking Task Manager button. Great I have the task manager open. So in theory I should be able to swtich to an App that isn't hung, or just kill the one that is. Nope. Can't do either. Can't even turn the phone off properly. Pressing the power button gives me the prompt to turn off or go to flight mode, but the buttons don't do fucking anything. I have to either hold the power button down, or take the fucking battery out.
Apps that are in a state where they can terminate without losing data are terminated automatically when the system is low on resources.
Except, when they aren't. I've had my phone restart on its own, even in the middle of a fucking phone call, and when it comes back on it gives me a cheery "Your phone has restarted to improve performance" message.
They're pulling people away from Flash because they want to be the gateway to Internet content
Apple aren't the only ones who would rather live without Flash.
The sheer fact that browser plugins like ClickToFlash, FlashBlock, etc exist show that people are sick of the generally crummy things Flash is used for.
In fact, speaking of an unencumbered codec, have you noticed that Safari, by deliberate choice, does not support Ogg Theora?
It's not as though Google created WebKit and put support for Ogg into the codebase, and Apple remove it in their own builds.
Google added Ogg support themselves. I'm guessing because if they didn't the Chromium crowd would get NO video codecs included.
This makes your logic backwards. It would be a deliberate choice to add Ogg support, as it requires action.
It can be really hard if the OS designer really doesn't care about backwards compatibility and just expects all the users to buy new versions of every piece of software every couple years.
This is Mozilla pure and simple. Apple offers Safari 4 for OS X 10.4 (Tiger), so it's clearly not an impossible task to have an up to date browser on the OS.
And by business world I mean the people in suits and ties who drink real coffee and get stuff done, not those guys with turtlenecks and lattes whose job is to pat other turtleneck wearers on the back while simultaneously judging them on their eyewear.
You mean the kind who are shackled to a desk 9-5 with a strict 30 minute lunch break, and get kicks out of really awesome spreadsheets?
You can keep your "real coffee" and your fucking suit, I'll stick to working a job that is flexible around me, not the other way around.
Those of you still running Tiger on your G3s will have to switch to Opera 10, and considering how slooooow those ancient machines are with the modern Web you ought to be using Opera anyhow.
Or they could just, ya know, use Safari 4. Firefox and Opera are both pretty crummy examples of good Mac software.
Exactly, I have family members in the same boat. You've got people with Macs *still under warrantee* (if they got Applecare) and they won't be able to run the latest version of Firefox without upgrading the OS? Not cool.
Updates for Safari (including v4) are available for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) so what's the big issue?
If these users aren't upgrading their OS, they probably aren't the sort of people who are particularly bothered about having a specific browser.
It's not like Firefox is a spectacularly great browser on OS X anyway.
So do you instead prefer fully-locked-down, all apps from our App Store PC's? Do you prefer a fully-locked-down environment and living in a police nation to save you from those who abuse the freedom?
Wow, way to miss the point. I was making light of the fact that windows is notorious for security breaches and a plethora of shitty apps that come bundled with shite the user doesn't want.
It's funny that people always complain about DRM, locked-down consoles and proprietary standards and want more open and free, but when it's about Apple then it doesn't matter anymore. btw, you can blame Apple for HTML5 video never going to happen - they're pushing hard towards H.264, which is never going to be reality for Firefox because it can't be distributed in the source code.
HTML5 Video isn't going to happen? H.264 is never going to be a reality? Because Firefox isn't going to support H.264? Yeah, that's stopped people before. If someone is using firefox, they already know how to download a DIFFERENT browser. If Firefox doesn't do what they want, they'll get a better one.
Microsoft is expected to support HTML5 in IE9.. And I know where I'd be putting my money when it comes to Microsoft supporting H.264 or the lower performance, lower quality, non-hardware accelerated Ogg/Theora video.
Why do you think it's so out of the question? Apple is already doing it on every other device they have, and it's good market for them.
I think you're very confused about what constitutes a "device".
Of the Apple products that allow user installable applications (so, all computers, iphone, ipod touch and ipad), seven allow "full access", and three rely on the App store for distribution of apps.
Every time I hear someone complaining about the App store, I'm reminded of all those sweaty linux fans living in their parent's basements, who think all software everywhere should be free and run under fucking Gnome and look like it was raped at birth by a horse.
Get a fucking life. If you don't like the iPhone OS, don't buy a device that runs it. There are plenty of alternatives out there, and I keep hearing how a Dell running Windows 7 for all of 45 minutes will be such a better experience while you watch it running a fucking virus scan for the first 30 minutes.
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Well we already know what the likes of Google get out of it - more information about you, so they can target ads at you better. You ask what Apple gets out of it? $USD99/year This is exactly why I'm happy to pay apple for 20GB of space that I can use for email, storage, when the whole world seems to be in love with Google. What surprises me most of all is how many nerds are happy that Google reads all their email just to show them Ads.
Two things...
This is what testing environments are for. Your dev workstation is not a testing environment. I do web dev and I've developed sites/web apps to run on Windows, Linux, BSD, and even god-damn Netware (not OES - Netware 5!) servers, and I can't remember ever having an issue with case-sensitivity. I think you're making a problem where one doesn't exist.
I'm pretty sure you meant to say:
A secondary reboot seems like a small price to pay. It's not like you don't need to do this on windows - and if as suggested it's automated deployment, what does it matter if the machines reboot an extra time? Being Linux I'd imagine you still need less reboots than when deploying a Windows Image - you need to reboot after image (first boot), then after it's installed drivers (second boot) then quite possibly after network software installs, whereas I seem to remember that hardly any User Apps on Linux require a reboot.
Last time I played around with linux on desktop (SuSE i seem to recall) NVidia drivers could be downloaded without much trouble? Surely there's a way to automate this?
Well that's great. It's been several years since I did more than deploy web apps to already-running Linux servers, so auto-downloading drivers is great... so long as it has a generic NIC controller i guess..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzDbNFDdP4
I've never once heard the word historic pronounced as "istoric", by anyone, English or otherwise.
VMWare has a tool to create an image from a "real" PC.http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
Only if you're an american. the rest of the English speaking world manages to pronounce H's fine.
Let's try it together. H-E-R-B-S.
this was solved a long time ago. Sysprep allows you to bundle whatever drivers you want, and it will just load what it needs on first boot. Combine that with a network imaging solution (back when I worked in that area, we used ZENworks, but there are other options), and ideally network installs of software (i.e. the image should be a base OS and not much else) and you should have limited problems. A new machine type will require a new image, but you can just deploy the old one, add the new drivers, run sysprep and re-create the image. I never had to do mass-imaging of Linux machines, but surely you could take a similar approach for the Ubuntu images?
I doubt it. I'd imagine sites like Vimo would instead become more popular. You sweaty linux nerds need to realise that end users don't give a flying fuck about what codec the video uses, they care about being able to watch something. Until this codec has even close to the same kind of hardware support as H.264 it's going to be a second choice, especially for embedded/mobile platforms.
Because those same developers have been optimising the fuck out of their JavaScript implementations, which people actually use right now.
This came up a while ago, on John Nack (PS product manager)'s blog. Basically they think their custom UI stuff for CS is the beez knees, and you unlucky shmoes who "have to use" CS will be getting MORE not less of their crap in future (including CS5) versions.
Not quite, old chap.
WHATWG was formed by people from Apple, Mozilla and Opera. They invited a Microsoft guy but he declined.
The current editor of WHATWG specs is Ian Hickson, who works for Google.
Yes, people are abusing Canvas just like they abuse Flash, but at least with Canvas, Apple, Google, Mozilla, etc can DO something about the poor performance, rather than just listening to Adobe piss and moan and blame others, because Apple doesn't give a fucking browser plugin direct access to hardware.
Except, when it does. There is a big fucking button in the corner of my Symbian SE smartphone. It gives you two things - a program "switcher" and a task manager. This is necessary, as so far only two of the Apps I've ever had on the damn thing (the built in picture viewer and music player) actually close on their own. The rest all have to be killed via the Task Manager. The task manager is however, about as useful as a shit in a paper bag. If an app hangs, you're fucked. You have to restart the phone. This happens a lot recently, when using the browser - Opera. All of a sudden the page won't scroll and the UI is unresponsive, except for the fucking Task Manager button. Great I have the task manager open. So in theory I should be able to swtich to an App that isn't hung, or just kill the one that is. Nope. Can't do either. Can't even turn the phone off properly. Pressing the power button gives me the prompt to turn off or go to flight mode, but the buttons don't do fucking anything. I have to either hold the power button down, or take the fucking battery out.
Except, when they aren't. I've had my phone restart on its own, even in the middle of a fucking phone call, and when it comes back on it gives me a cheery "Your phone has restarted to improve performance" message.
Actually, they did. They threatened PC manufacturers who wanted to bundle Netscape/Realplayer with their PCs.
Obviously you haven't followed the news about Windows Phone 7.
Apple aren't the only ones who would rather live without Flash. The sheer fact that browser plugins like ClickToFlash, FlashBlock, etc exist show that people are sick of the generally crummy things Flash is used for.
It's not as though Google created WebKit and put support for Ogg into the codebase, and Apple remove it in their own builds. Google added Ogg support themselves. I'm guessing because if they didn't the Chromium crowd would get NO video codecs included. This makes your logic backwards. It would be a deliberate choice to add Ogg support, as it requires action.
This is Mozilla pure and simple. Apple offers Safari 4 for OS X 10.4 (Tiger), so it's clearly not an impossible task to have an up to date browser on the OS.
You mean the kind who are shackled to a desk 9-5 with a strict 30 minute lunch break, and get kicks out of really awesome spreadsheets?
You can keep your "real coffee" and your fucking suit, I'll stick to working a job that is flexible around me, not the other way around.
Or they could just, ya know, use Safari 4. Firefox and Opera are both pretty crummy examples of good Mac software.
Updates for Safari (including v4) are available for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) so what's the big issue?
If these users aren't upgrading their OS, they probably aren't the sort of people who are particularly bothered about having a specific browser.
It's not like Firefox is a spectacularly great browser on OS X anyway.
Wow, way to miss the point. I was making light of the fact that windows is notorious for security breaches and a plethora of shitty apps that come bundled with shite the user doesn't want.
HTML5 Video isn't going to happen? H.264 is never going to be a reality? Because Firefox isn't going to support H.264? Yeah, that's stopped people before. If someone is using firefox, they already know how to download a DIFFERENT browser. If Firefox doesn't do what they want, they'll get a better one.
Microsoft is expected to support HTML5 in IE9.. And I know where I'd be putting my money when it comes to Microsoft supporting H.264 or the lower performance, lower quality, non-hardware accelerated Ogg/Theora video.
I think you're very confused about what constitutes a "device".
Of the Apple products that allow user installable applications (so, all computers, iphone, ipod touch and ipad), seven allow "full access", and three rely on the App store for distribution of apps.
Every time I hear someone complaining about the App store, I'm reminded of all those sweaty linux fans living in their parent's basements, who think all software everywhere should be free and run under fucking Gnome and look like it was raped at birth by a horse.
Get a fucking life. If you don't like the iPhone OS, don't buy a device that runs it. There are plenty of alternatives out there, and I keep hearing how a Dell running Windows 7 for all of 45 minutes will be such a better experience while you watch it running a fucking virus scan for the first 30 minutes.
This has been especially helpful for the developers of apps that contain trojans, not to mention the drive-by-download virus writers.
What exactly are you smoking?