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by halo 18y ago
Why? Creating cross-platform non-native custom widgets on the desktop isn't much easier.
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by halo 18y ago
Seems like a direct response to the Obama election team and administration's use of the Internet and technology over recent months. In the short-term it's not going to win them any votes, but it's good for the GOP brand and setting up infr
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by halo 18y ago
I believe this is a case of self-confirmation bias. Checking for similar articles from 2003, around 2 years after the launch of XP, I found this gem: "Windows XP, the most current version of Windows, was found on just 6.6 percent of the [bu
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by halo 18y ago
And we all know that Java on the desktop has been such a great success..
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by halo 18y ago
V8 is BSD-licensed, so they potentially could.
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by halo 18y ago
I actually quite like SMS. It's cheap enough for anybody to afford yet expensive enough to prevent idiots and spammers which give it a great signal-to-noise ratio. It's ubiquitous, push and fast. There are already alternatives, from e-mail
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by halo 18y ago
I've long thought one of the biggest problems with PHP, the ugly inconsistent non-namespaced standard library, could be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. While keeping the current function-names for backwards compatibility, mo
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by halo 18y ago
It doesn't mention Opera Mini which also has 21 million users - http://www.opera.com/smw/2008/10/
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by halo 18y ago
Would it be emulate the canvas tag seemlessly for browsers that don't support it such as IE?
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by halo 18y ago
I think Nokia would be a much better fit for Palm. Nokia are desperately lacking a next-generation smartphone platform, they have plenty of hardware experience, they have relatively little penetration in the US where the Palm brand could po
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by halo 18y ago
I think it's fairly obvious that Blu-Ray will succeed by any reasonable measure of success and it's fairly clear it's going to be the next-generation disk format of choice. The question is whether it will supplant DVD in terms of popularity
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by halo 18y ago
Except the author of the article explicitly says they didn't mean that: The iPhone has climbed to the top of the most popular smartphones in the U.S. with a single model.
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by halo 18y ago
Once again, the web, a completely open standard and largely built on open-source software. The web has done much more for "hackers", "indies" and "small shops" than the iPhone, OS X and XNA have /combined/. Let's not forget that the iPhone
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by halo 18y ago
the ability of open source to create large and lucrative markets coherent enough to attract commercial developers in the consumer markets is yet to be proven. What about the web?
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by halo 18y ago
Terrible companies can make terrible products irrespective of whether they're running Android or not. The only difference being is that if it is running Android, articles like this are written. Edit: the iPhone has climbed to the top of
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by halo 18y ago
I'm not saying he stole it, but it is a fairly natural extension of older ideas. The Garfield Randomizer, which randomised panels from Garfield strips, came out sometime in 2005, then the idea of removing Garfield's speech bubbles from the
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by halo 18y ago
Silverlight being better than Flash doesn't logically conclude to making Silverlight a good idea and deserving of support. A lesser evil is still an evil. I consider the fact that Flash is pretty terrible a feature, as at least is helps dis
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by halo 18y ago
>IMHO, it is a better and more open RIA technology than Flash A lesser evil is still an evil.
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by halo 18y ago
Palm recently got a $100m investment by private equity firm Elevation so they should be able to stay buoyant for now. Internet buzz will help, and presumably Sprint are going to be doing a lot of advertising for them and push the phone heav
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by halo 18y ago
I think this may be validation of Microsoft's approach with the .NET platform since one its core conclusions seems to be that Cocoa is too closely coupled to Objective-C to make alternative dynamic languages attractive as they don't "fit to
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by halo 18y ago
They don't need to "dethrone the iPhone" to succeed, in the same way Apple didn't need to "dethrone Windows" to succeed. There's no reason why multiple manufacturers can't all have viable businesses in the same market space.
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by halo 18y ago
You may criticise the branding and marketing, but I think the product's as close to the ideal as anyone on the market has managed to announce so far. MMS? Check. Stereo Bluetooth? Check. Copy/paste? Check. Headphone jack? Check. Physical vo
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by halo 18y ago
But that can quickly devolve into arguments as to what counts as a 'right': the most obvious examples being food, water, shelter, healthcare and education. That 'minimum' is an arbitrary line.
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by halo 18y ago
Newspapers that survive may get a second wind once the infrastructure, technology and critical mass is there to sell subscriptions for e-book readers.
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by halo 18y ago
Great if you want an application to look like a web app, but it's not an ideal solution by any stretch.
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by halo 18y ago
On the other hand, Picasa is free.
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by halo 18y ago
I'm sure it does, it's just out of reach of most small developers due to its commercial nature so is less likely to have as big of an impact as the others.
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by halo 18y ago
The port might be via Wine, same as the Linux version. I wish more Mac OS X application developers would port their software to other platforms, but sadly this is basically unheard of. With continued improvements to WxWidgets, GTK+ and (to
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by halo 18y ago
Someone killed the redirect because it was in article space. The original article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not_...
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by halo 18y ago
There's also a Mac OS X port out there: http://blogs.gnome.org/pbor/2008/12/28/gedit-on-osx/ The major cross-platform toolkits are getting better and better all the time and have come on leaps and bounds in terms of providing a native loo

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