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I do use Opera as my primary browser since I've gotten used to it from the 5.x timeframe. And I do agree that they could not have chosen a better browser to sell to.

However, I'm wondering if it should have been sold at all, specifically to a company that makes browsers. Why not to a hosting company like Rackspace's acquisition of Mailtrust and perhaps more importantly, why sell at all if it was a pretty profitable entity.

Now this may be the founder's big exit and I sincerely congratulate them for it, however my concern lies about the consumer (me). I hope it all turns out for the best of everyone involved, but I do have my reservations till I actually see FM operating as well as, if not better, than the FM of old.
I often hear people beating down on iTunes on Windows. Can someone explain what is wrong with it? I understand that it's not based on Cocoa, but aside from that what problems does it have?
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I haven't actually ever seen a 3-D movie.

That said, I do think detective stories or other slow-pace movies could genuinely benefit from 3D. The first few would be hopelessly distracting, but eventually people might come to accept the concept, and then you'd be near equal ground with the protagonist. A room full of distractions, some of which the characters draw your attention to; A man on his deathbed, occupying only a corner of the bed and unable to reach the water clearly under a meter away; A couple wandering the streets at night, afraid of thugs until they dodge into a warm and sheltering tavern. I think these kinds of movies could genuinely benefit from a more immersive environment ...eventually.

edit: more likely, by the time people can make such movies, the technology will be commonplace enough that no one will notice, except maybe to complain about how they didn't take proper advantage of it.
Has Apple gone mad in pursuing Gizmodo blogger?
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Reminds me of a quote from a former Uruguayan president: "They pretend to work and I pretend to pay them".

That aside, I guess this approach might work in a results-oriented work environment (not that I've seen many).
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I understand what you're saying and broadly agree with you; though I'd point out that Roy Fielding, the guy who articulated REST, was one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification.
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>The question is why develop for the web at all if your apps only run in a certain browser?

This is a mental block. You're thinking about it from a developer's perspective. He's talking about how to make the web better for users.
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The dithering of the HTML5 editors has no meant that Microsoft have cemented the video codec for HTML5 as H264. Had they only bit the bullet and not been unnecessarily scared of patent issues for Ogg Theora, we could have had a true open video standard for the future web.

If Google release VP8 as open source and license-free, and HTML5 adopt it as a baseline, will MS change their mind?
In most cases I'd guess that it's unauthorised modification of a copyright work. The presentation of a blog for example is formed by design with the adverts - they constitute a part of the work as a whole, removal of the adverts without license would be copyright infringement as it's formation of a "derivative work".

Compare a newsagent (ISP) selling a magazine (website). If the newsagent censors any adverts for a competitor in that magazine by pasting over their own advert before selling it on then they've modified the magazine ; without a license this is copyright infringement.
Can I just say that QT is the most goddamn annoying software? If it wasn't for QT Alternative, I'd swear off the whole thing. Useless shit.
Not much, unfortunately, if you manage any given email database that contains non-mac users.

I don't know if this means it's time for more competing space in offline mailclients because we're seeing a shift to the in-browser emailclients.

Accompanied with that shift moving to HTML5 & CSS3 compliant browsers is priority #1, as always.
Imagine servers refusing to serve flash content.
You're right. That's why I included, "This is why the web does (or, theoretically) works..."

To be honest, I know a few developers that develop with the assumption that JavaScript will be enabled. I've also worked at a few companies that assume clients should have JavaScript enabled...

Unfortunately, I see too many sites that completely fall apart if you disable JavaScript (some sites that are even selling a product!)

JavaScript still has a stigma as being a "toy" language and until developers understand/utilize it's full potential, a lot of crummy code will still be written. Thankfully, jQuery (and other great JS libraries) are opening the potential for JavaScript to developers.
There has been a fascinating series on Lagos on the BBC recently (might still be available on iplayer) called "Welcome to Lagos".

One of the things that struck me was that for all the perceived disadvantage from a western perspective they have an incredible work ethic and a really cool attitude to doing the best with what they have. They have extended the city into the lake for example in a mad cross between venice and a shanty town.

These people are the future - not us with our soft comfortable lives.
Steve Pavlina wrote a post about his one week on, one week off workflow. It's similar to the post that's discussed here. It doesn't really matter how long your on and off days are.

He uses his on days to get as much done as is possible and his off days to just do what he wants. In the off days he gets the inspiration and motivation for another round of high productive on days.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2010/02/one-week-on-one-wee...

I also noticed similar effects in my own life. It's like creating little deadlines for yourself where you have to get something done within a couple of days, and you make everything work to do just that. Within the 9-to-5, monday through friday mentallity it always seems if there will be another day to get it done. There's no pressure.

Also, the long days off indeed help to think creativly about your work and have idea's and solutions just 'pop up' at random.
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Apple plans and architects, sometimes acting autocratically. Microsoft grows "vegetatively", pushing a variety of technologies and letting the market choose. Honestly, I prefer technology to have a leader. Its almost poetic that the current leader is the underdog. And no, I'm not an Apple shill, I don't even own a Mac (or any other Apple device).
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And then automatically migrate over Lala users to the new iTunes service.
The revisionist history stood out to me as well. We're supposed to believe that MS stopped developing IE6 because "the DOJ and web standards commies intervened", and it was just coincidentally at the same time they killed of Netscape in market share?

We're supposed to believe that the W3C (founded in 1994), and the Web Standards Project (founded in 1998), had to work for years and just coincidentally managed to browbeat MS into stopping development on IE at the same time MS beat Netscape? That they were even capable of "bullying" a company like MS into stopping development on one of their products?

My own exposure to web standards was Zeldman's first "Designing With Web Standards" book, published in 2003. My experience has been that the standardistas have spent most of their time trying to push MS to further develop IE to support standards (which it still lags at), not trying to hinder innovation.
That's a ridiculous comparison. Apple is far more closed and controlling than Microsoft ever was.
I would be quite sad if they delayed the release of this due to the Palm/webOS acquisition, because it looks really nice.

Relevant page on HP's site: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c0208419...

There's Flash Lite 3 support, but I don't see a mention of the Market.
Waging a wild guess, Mac hardware isn't the easiest to support. I don't think Apple is cooperating?
That was on the front page yesterday... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1305749
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Silverlight is fairly irrelevant. Look for it to go the way of all the other MS cast-offs, here in a few years.
I don't get it, admittedly this is a fast turnaround by Slicehost, but how is this news for discussion ?
Slicehost have got it now: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2010/4/30/ubuntu-10-04-lts...
or http://www.github.com
I think the real solution is not to provide more advanced features in the browser, but to provide more primitives. Lots of programming languages over the years have, at least for a while, compiled to C. C is an almost universal primitive. The web doesn't have a universal primitive. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are high level languages. If you try to use a high level language without ever accessing lower level functions, you will eventually run into something you can't do. The web has hit that point. We need a way to fall back to lower level languages when the abstractions become too leaky. The web needs a C: a language which can do anything if you put in the time and energy to make it work, which is blazing fast, and which is available everywhere.
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Its called "simulator sickness" and occurs in a fraction of the population when your inner ear and eyes disagree on your motion. Fun for some, total nausea for others.
I love that you referred to one of the most famous critics of our time as "this guy". The internet has enabled so many people to voice their opinions, that well known folk sometimes become just another guy.
I still use fastmail because I don't like Gmail...
> apple strategically obsoletes stuff like Carbon.

Way I hear things, Apple hasn't completely gotten rid of Carbon yet. iTunes is still around, in all it's terrible glory.
The headline does feel a bit baiting, but if it suckered me, it was worth it. This is a very interesting article about the next five years in computing.

What I'd disagree with is the idea that Apple is trying to transition into a cloud provider with a merely incidental hardware business. I think that's a misunderstanding of Apple's priorities as well as an overestimation of Apple's tendencies to follow fashion.

Apple will stay a hardware company. They will go cloud, but here's the thing: Apple's cloud will be federated. Five years from now you'll buy an iPad and instead of a Mac, its home will be a port-less little monolith of aluminum and rubber that functions as your own little slice of cloud. Even as LTE picks up, a local server will always be ahead with the latest wi-fi revision and no network congestion, and no shared processor load, and this will be Apple's selling point for why their model is better for media use. And, most importantly for Apple's survival, why they can sell you a new one in two years' time.
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A market isn't a language. (And by the way, a "quality OS" that only supports English is a bit of an oxymoron.)

The EU has no internal borders; it is a single market on a single currency.
I certainly think a great 3D movie CAN be made. Imagine a WWII fighter-plane movie in 3D! Heck, even Avatar did some cool things with it. Blame the director - sending things out of the screen into the audience because you CAN is just poor cinematography. I'll wait until the next generation of more artful 3D films, then decide.
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i must say id be very interested in seeing a android netbook.. and id love to play with it, but i cant imagine it being that usefu, i think it would be rather slow and probaby just like a nexus one or a droidl, i hope im wrong because id really like to encourage the use android and the upcoming meego.
It's laggy, stuttery, junk. It's basically the only non-game application I can run that'll spike my CPU to 100%.
Big, slow, bloated, heavy-handed with settings (no, I don't want Safari, or QuickTime, or for you to phone home every five minutes), leaks memory, installs wads of silent 'helper' processes, non-native UI, frequent crashes, insanely jealous of all other ways to add songs to iPods...
I see what they've done there... and it's very smart. In fact, when I was learning CSS I always assumed it could support variables.

However, I'm not convinced that putting yet another layer between your code and the browser is worth the complexity. But then I feel the same about HAML. Obviously, lots of other people disagree.

I'd prefer to see these features in CSS itself rather than a separate technology
This is a really verbose post, but he does get around to alluding to a very good point: if iStuff supported Flash, you could develop in Flash and bypass the App Store.

I think it's a pretty compelling argument.
As somebody said in another post, Flash great distribution it's because it was something that designers could do with little programming (if not none at all). What Adobe should really focus is to create a valid equivalent for HTML5 and try to become the standard editor for HTML5 for all those people who don't know how to code.
How are Homo Sapiens NOT the pinnacle of evolution? What are we then, the hind-end? Brick wall? Full Stop?
Performance of Flash on the N770 was pretty bad but I have a feeling that the 252Mhz OMAP and 64MB of RAM were the problem.

I bet the 1Ghz Snapdragon/512MB RAM combo you're seeing in new HTC devices could run Flash fine if the Nokia Maemo devices could chug along.
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That's a very low quality stream, and the website doesn't even link to it. The website links to the "premium" version of that provider, which you have to pay for. It looks like they have a lot of technology issues to work out.
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I was interested in finding out more about this article there is a more detailed write up on law.com - http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432065544&Blog...

I think this is where she went wrong: "Hale weighed in on the subject, accusing Too Much Media of engaging in fraud and "illegal and unethical use of technology," violating New Jersey's Identity Theft Protection Act and profiting from stolen e-mail addresses. She also said the company's principals "may threaten your life if you report any of the specifics."

So first of all, she has a blog but that is not where her comments were - they were on a forum. Second, she is claiming this company is using click fraud to not pay its affiliates and saying they are stealing email addresses. I don't get how being a journalist would help her in this case. Maybe instead her defense should have been proving her accusations?
Does the nobel prize even mean anything, anymore? Peace prize winners like Obama and Kissinger (Chile, 1973 anyone?) make me think it doesn't.
so what are they going to do about html5 when it can do everything flash can do?
> Ask yourself this: do you like the BBC because it supports things you already believe?

Whilst I appreciate that this is a useful exercise to consider, if he was watching the BBC solely to affirm his own beliefs he would hardly be watching Al Jazeera as well.

> ... many people here actively distrust it, and resent paying the tax that supports it.

I don't know anyone that feels that way. Most of the people I've talked to on the subject have said that they trust the BBC more than any of the newspapers. Even in other countries, especially in the USA, I've met people who prefer to watch BBC World rather than their own news channels.

It far from perfect of course but my general impression has been thats its one of the most trusted news sources for most people.
It's important to remember that when NeXTStep and Objective-C were first invented, they were invented explicitly from the inspiration of Smalltalk. Apple today is a descendant of NeXT. I'd speculate that not only that they've taken notice of Ruby, but have decided that since Ruby is the spiritual descendant of Smalltalk, it's worth trying to make Ruby the first-class applications programming language for OS X platforms.
Actually Linux is not supported by them. I think it's Windows, Mac OSX, iPhone and Wii. Still cross-platform certainly.
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so i absolutly agree, im also a big ARM fan,and id love to see them get into the server market. its about time for another architecture to be doin something.. i think with the right approach enough software "muscle" will get ported. the the proposition to have chips that perform at a tiny fraction of the power consumption as current chips is just too lucrative to give up.
My impression of IE is that Microsoft stopped developing it right at the point when they realized "Oh shit! If this gets any better, it could replace Office!"
Newer Flash Videos codecs like H.264 probably are that intensive. Codecs have changed over the years, giving us better quality, but also requiring hardware support or lots of go juice to run well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Codec_support
3D seems to work significantly better on 100% animated movies. Both Coraline and UP were better with 3D than without, IMO.
So do it already.
There's essentially three questions: can it be done, how can it be done, and which movie will do it.

The solution to all three questions is exactly what's happening: throw as many parallel filmmakers at the problem as we can spare and wait to get the answers. (Of course, the question "can it be done" is undecidable.)
Ehm, sorry. I didn't notice the "upcoming". So it's not yet released but soon to be. (Is there any way to modify the title?)
To give themselves the option? Having a high install base could prove to be useful down the track. I think silverlight helps the developer more than the end user. I don't see it as something really necessary for its graphics/ multimedia functionality. More so for allowing a .NET developer a better model for making a ajax based web app. And of course for .NET desktop ports.
(Edit: Never mind. This is just for unspent credit. Resume being pissed.)

For everyone pissed about being forced to have iTunes credit: You can also have a check instead. Log in and read the fine print. You just have to fill out your mailing address on a form.
you could develop in Flash and bypass the App Store.

Well, if Apple were making a bulk of money from App Store this point would hold. But Apple does not: they are making money on hardware. Anything that helps to sell hardware is good. Flash would make iP* seem unreliable and battery hungry—bad. Hence, no Flash.
You also need a cellphone connection to use google maps/earth. If you're exploring a city, i think the phone form factor is more convenient. If you're out in the wilderness, you probably don't have an Internet connection.
It is a nice fit for enterprise internal applications, it's an easy sell to upgrade systems written in .NET/ VB6.
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The 70's: Own the data center (IBM)

The 80's: Own the desktop (Microsoft)

The 90's: Own the network (AOL)

The 2000's: Own the browser (Microsoft, et. al.)

The 2010's: Own the 'Experience' (Apple)

If Apple can entice us all into their walled garden, they'll own our entire experience - not just our desktops or data centers. It'll be AOL, pre-Internet, except it'll be way, way nicer - nice enough that most of us will not complain.
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If by 'fail' you mean 'get bought by Apple', then yeah.
I don't. Apple hasn't impressed with anything it's really done. People point to apple products as innovative, and remark how it's amazing they work so well. It's really not. It's much harder to develop a product that works well on things you can't control then when you can control the entire ecosystem. Windows doesn't just work on HP computers. They work within a standardized ecosystem, and place Apple doesn't play. If MS closed up and did what Apple was doing, of course it would be easier to do everything Apple did.

It's why Linux still suffers on the desktop. Linux support is incredibly wide. Gnome has to keep this into consideration, as does KDE. They don't have the easy route to development that Apple has: a closed, controlled world.

Apple gets credit for that final polish, and they do deserve it. And at the consumer end, they end up with great products. I'm not saying their approach is wrong. They live and breathe DRY. But I don't see that they are pushing boundaries. They let other people do that. And when the other people succeed or fail, Apple takes note of that, and then comes out with their own effort, usually lacking significant features.
Isn't that only for unused credits, not for credit which has been used on songs
They can totally CONTROL what html5 can do in their devices.
Here's the email from Lala http://i.imgur.com/LzQ3l.png
Don't fool yourself. Both companies are there to do nothing else but make a profit (not saying that in itself is a bad thing) but do it in a different way.

The only way to be free of artificial restrictions is to use OSS.
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iTunes isn't built on Cocoa: http://daringfireball.net/2009/09/itunes_and_cocoa
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So, "cyberwar" can happen once (we fix stuff so the second time doesn't happen), and the cyberwar has to happen all at once, with no preliminary "skirmishes", and no warning "shots", otherwise, we fix stuff so it doesn't happen again.

And yes, I've read about Titan Rain, Ghost Net, Operation Aurora, Coolswallow, Giving Wings to the Tiger, The Dark Visitor, Estonia's "Web War One" and more. All of this talk of "cyberwar" strikes me as merely a modern-day regurgitation of Cold War Boogie Man Stories, like Missile Gaps, and Bomber Gaps, Bears in the Forest, and Yellow Hordes, and stoic Spetznaz supermen. The emergent behavior seems to be lining up a successor magic funding word to "terrorism", should bin Laden die.
As long as most sites don't require ie, because i don't have windows.
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Calling anything the 'pinnacle' of evolution implies some sort of progress towards perfection. Evolution does not work that way.