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Quote: Originally Posted by frugality Notice that while the execs made some comments -- which we may not agree with -- what I find amusing that the Appleinsider folks characterize it as 'lashing out'. The execs didn't 'lash out'. They did make …
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Quote: Originally Posted by That HP guy Apple's relationship with partners is transactional, completely. Apple doesn’t have an inclusive philosophy of partner capabilities, and that's just absurd Maybe someone can translate this for me, because…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alexkhan2000 The comments from these wanna-be's are as predictable as their me-too products. I disagree. The statements in this article are so mind-boggling stupid I can't imagine anyone predicting that this is what…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiggin But you are missing the genious of Apple's marketing. Just think of all the free publicity Apple has gotten from the predictable annual iPhone releases. People know the new iPhone will be released in the summ…
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Very interesting, especially the WebDAV stuff. I'm curious what kind of iOS sharing I should think of seeing this, and what it means for Linux and Windows clients. Removing FTP from the UI only seems logical, it's like telnet in terms of securit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jra@samba.org I've been doing this for nearly 30 years, both proprietary and Open Source, so I think I have a wider perspective about this, also from "the real world" :-). I wasn't talking about all software for al…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jra@samba.org Hate to drag you back into the real world, but IBM, Netgear, CISCO, Google, Symantec and other are regular contributors to GPLv3 Samba, and have products based on it, or using it. It's a shame Apple doesn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Habañero not Flash; the Flash Player: "The core engine of Flash Player (AVM+) is open source and was donated to the Mozilla Foundation, where it is actively maintained. The file formats supported by Flash Player, SWF …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TammyT How can an "all metal back" help improve the antenna? I would think it would just: 1. Using metal would *BLOCK* the signal. (not help it) 2. If the metal *IS* the antenna... now we have to not-touch t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulMJohnson Of all the dumbass things Microsoft have done over the years, I would vote releasing a Zune in brown as the second dumbest thing. The dumbest obviously is Balmer being appointed CEO. What do you thin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross For some things it might work. But even for browsing, it would be slower. Remember that the gpu would have to render four times the pixels. That still requires more power. I'm noticing on my iPad2 that most th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d-range Yeah right... 30% more pixels == 4 times lower graphics performance... Also, triangle throughput is independent from resolution... But keepin hanging on to every last bit of justification for your own asser…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Galbi Comparing a 1024 x 768 resolution benchmark with a 1280 x 800 resolution benchmark. This is like saying "wow! my graphics card runs 120FPS at 640x480 but yours runs it at 34 at 1440x900! My card is superior!"…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 I think we're only just scratching the surface with the iPad 2 graphics. We're going to see some very interesting stuff in the next 8 months. Big question: Do we need OpenGL3 in iPad 3? Seeing that the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross If the retina display comes our, and I doubt we'll see it this year, will require new hardware, and newer drivers. With 4 times the pixels, it will require a gpu 4 times faster in order to keep up with the cur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Andykemp You seem to know nothing about Operating Systems in general. I guess they ones you use don't need any RAM. Don't give me that crap that iOS is "Special" and manages its RAM differently. It still needs RAM and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor I can't believe they haven't done this yet. They're touting html5 but without tools, how do they expect it to take off? The iAd Producer is almost exactly that: an authoring tool for interactive/animated h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RKpro I find that hard to believe. The iPad has a big logo on the back, and it wasn't good enough for cellular reception, they had to add another hole at the top. Probably that had something to do with the WiFi ante…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jcoz I think I'd rather start seeing the rumor mill churn on iOS 5, which is much more far-reaching for apple, and also not much is known yet. Very true. We all know the iPhone 5 hardware will be great: it's going to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee Not trying to rag on you here, but if you would add a little "white space" in your posts they would be a lot easier to read .... especially on "tired eyes" like mine. I suspect you have a lot of interesting p…