- HTML5 and open standards might be seen as a reason, but it's not. Apple will always use closed Apple API's if they believe this will give the best result. Apple loves the web because it gives them access to millions of potential users who just browse Facebook and GMail all day long. Safari is an easy sell. Also, Safari is based on open source and Apple hand is more or less forced.

Sure, the iPad is a very cool product. But it's basically a DRM platform for people people who claim to hate DRM. The fight against music DRM was not "won". The reason Apple removed DRM from music was because, unlike movies and software, music is something we move around with. We listen to music in the car, on our cell phone, while painting a fence and when we wake up. Music needs to be mobile and multi-platform. Music needs to be an open standard.

I don't care about DRM or no-DRM. I just build what people want and what is financially sustainable. And the iPad more or less tells us everything we need to know about the marked. And that most people are children who can't understand copyright warnings.

There is no "no-copyright" world. Only more DRM. Like Xbox, Bluray, Kindle, iPhone and iPad. The alternative story would be that 3G forces a DRM solution. But is that really the case when you run one application at a time ?

No multitasking ? Uploading files while surfing the web is too fancy ? Downloading email while checking out some music in iTunes is advanced ? Working in a console while moving files ?

Does this thing only run Apple signed applications ?

People who hate the wide bezel are idiots. You totally need it.

Does this product prove that Apple users pirate music, film and software because they can't afford the hardware in the first place ? Feels a bit like a DRM platform.

The application "iBooks" looks like something from Delicious Monster.

There is no camera because why would you need one ? It would shake around like a rubber ball.

Are we all sitting like girls now ? What about people with testicles and small sofas ?

Windows 7 tablet users will make fun of it. LOL, it only runs one app at a time.

It's affordable because it has to be. If it had cost a $1000 everyone would buy a MacBook or an HP instead. If they had the money to begin with that is. The economy is weak and the credit marked tight.

What's pretty funny about this whole drama is that Microsoft is backing down from their "pure WPF/Silverlight" mantra. Because almost all their internal developers are pissed off by msbuild and slower than Java Swing bootup time. WPF is pretty and simple, but heavy and hard to debug when something goes wrong. Read something somewhere about binding logic creating new types of memory leaks as well.

Here is the dirt from Oracle. Check out "Java" and "Developer Tools".

Sure, Oracle will still support Swing and add features. It just looks like one part of Sun is trying to get another part of Sun fired. How do you else explain SwingComponent.wrap() and JXScene ?

The reason Java is not on the iPhone has little to do with Java and everything to do with Cocoa Touch being a fork without all the crufty Carbon stuff which still lies underneath Cocoa. And Flash was banned too because Flash 10 has privacy issues (advertising trackers) and uses way too much CPU. An iPhone with Flash would survive 12 hours, or something like that, if the user was a fan of Youtube. People would be mad as hell and blame Apple. Apple will probably use HTML5, Animated PNG/MNG/SVG and CSS3 as a replacement.

I love the web. Love it. But spending my life in web apps all day long sounds like a nightmare. This because Internet bandwidth and Javascript speed is not the problem. People see YouTube and suddenly think it's like TV, except it's not. And people see "web apps" and think they're like other apps. And for many people Facebook is "the killer app". But the thing is that the biggest problem in computing is latency. And 3G sucks at latency. And yet mobile computing and cloud computing is seen as the future.

• Install crazy big Windows SDK and Visual Studio on Windows 7.


• Realize that the Windows documentation is wrong when it comes to "vcvarsall.bat amd64".


• Dig around for a while.


• Find the correct BAT based configuration files and drag them into the application menu.


• Create custom makefiles.


• Scratch your head as Microsoft uses the suffix "32" in paths and library names everywhere.


• More mind numbingly boring rewriting of makefiles.


• Everything compiles, but Winsock related code is broken. Might be configuration. Might be worse.


• Realize that 64bit JRE writes a registry JVM value that points to a non-existent file. My fault ?


• But the code supports that, so just use TEPPEFALL_JVM variable.


• Success!

Release notes 2.6
The old theme is still supported, but you must now add a parameter to activate it. On Windows you use the parameter -Xgraphite and on OS X you must follow the instructions inside the Info.plist file. You only get the old advanced color panel by choosing this theme.
Tiger support is solid, but Leopard and Snow Leopard users might have problems if they have incompatible system wide settings. This is a result of Apple choosing to lock the JRE to the OS X version. This makes it harder to test multiplatform software.
The Colorspace Hue value is not RGB compatible. This is not a bug. The color logic used internally is based on RYB (red-yellow-blue). This has no effect on the color picker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYB_color_model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Color_star-en.svg

Native LAF logic is being rewritten
-Xlaf=org.jvnet.substance.skin.SubstanceOfficeSilver2007LookAndFeel

Happy holidays and a happy new year!

Platespiller.net is a 100 percent meta-music service based on web services. This means that Teppefall depends 100% on external content providers and that the service can be altered or shut down at any moment.

Basically, this is just an experiment. It's all about learning new things. Platespiller.net is targeted at the Scandinavian marked. The idea is to think of music as social objects that move from friend to friend through the social web. There are no plans to support Facebook or Myspace integration.

This product is a work in progress.

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The volume component gives it away. But Silverlight 4 may change that.

By being hell bent on "finishing" JavaFX instead of augmenting Swing Sun has more or less destroyed their credibility as a desktop platform company. The reality is that Swing plus a scene graph, accelerated layers and a new media framework is more valuable than the entire JavaFX ecosystem. Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Opera, Mozilla and Google all believe that XML is the future of layout and yet Sun believes a non-standard syntax based on Lisp and JSON is the way to go. And the fact that C#, Actionscript, Dalvik and Javascript are all Java clones seems to indicate that Java is just fine as a user interface language. Adobe even exports twine animation code as XML and vectors as SVG. I sit here working in Adobe Creative Suite and wonder what Sun is thinking.