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Quote: Originally Posted by bbwi Recommending corporations move to ODF is a joke. Right now, MS dictates business document format... period. This is why iLife is "Microsoft Office for the rest of your life". Office is the de-facto standard. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by johnmcboston Hey, my 160GB classic is almost full - when will the new classic come out??? Just out of curiosity, what do you have on there? Tons of video and lossless music?
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I find it interesting that Apple is generally regarded as a company that sells products to high-end markets (ex Macs are generally regarded as a "premium" product vs. regular PCs) yet it sells to the low (shuffle), medium (classic, nano) and high (t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer What do you not understand regarding Verizon? They dictate the Apps and OS on phones they support. There is a reason AT&T and Apple are enjoying their partnership. When AT&T moves to rolling o…
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If you have a docking station at home, the question may be irrelevant. You can use the 13 inch screen itself when you want a portable computing experience (coffee shop, sitting in front of the TV), and the docking station with a 20 inch or larger m…
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Here's a question that I have: Is it possible for a hardware or software manufacturer to include access to a Blu-Ray drive without the media? That is, could I potentially buy a Mac with a Blu-Ray drive that is only usable for file storage but that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The XBox seems to have gotten away from MS, to put it lightly. They are and have been making money off the devices for awhile now and of course from the games, but it seems unlikely that the billions they los…
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I'm a Mac user and generally dislike Microsoft products. Having said that, I tried Bing out, and it does a pretty decent job of searching. I also find it very fast. That's not to say that I prefer it over Google, but if I was stuck with only Bin…
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...especially in Canada. 'Nuff said.
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea The slope is downward not upward. True, but the JVM has more than one language. The Java language has been in legacy mode since Java 5. Groovy, Scala, JPython, JRuby, and JavaFX are picking up much of the g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Sure, but this is the same as saying .NET or Silverlight is standard. Well...yeah, for MS based platforms (ignore Mono and Moonlight for the moment). Yes. .NET is a standard according to the point that I was…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Actually, the other thing you seem to forget is that Google's use of Java isn't standard, either in GWT or in Android or in ChromeOS. So no common runtime...Android isn't J2ME. ChromeOS won't be J2SE. And An…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tauron Humm lets see... the iphone, the 2007 invention of the year, has sold 22 million copies worldwide and over 1 billion apps have been downloaded from the app store. I never disagreed with the fact that the iPho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea "The more you tighten your grip, Ellison, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." No, it wasn't pretty. We used to have a comp'd dev license for prototype development which Oracle nix'd. So no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tauron Android will become the laughing stock. I read all these comments on AppleInsider about how Android will "suck", "fail", or both, and that the only mobile platform that has a snowball's chance in hell of succ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Java is most popular but look at the slope. Not sure I see your point. The only other language that's even close is C. Quote: Sun lost due to missteps at two key points. Charging too much for Sol…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I thought we were talking about mobile platforms where IE has next to no influence. HTML/CSS/Javascript are coming together and is the major web development platform of the future. What part of "no common …
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Yah...Sun...the new Xerox PARC. Nice tech, horrible business models. Somehow I don't think Oracle will do any better. So....Oracle goes from being a database vendor to a database + middleware + ERP vendor …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike They put in the work to release a native C/C++ development kit for "performance sensitive" applications. If they keep this SDK to only exclusive parties, then we'll know if they are religious about Java. If not,…
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I wonder if Apple will use the new iMacs as an opportunity to launch the rumoured trackpad mouse that's similar to the MacBook Pro trackpad.