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Comment on No Good Deed Goes Unpunished in Tracey by Renee

Renee — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:28:25 +0000

This has been a source of contention here in the Central Valley since it was announced originally in June 2009. But I can tell you the origins of this… it is the 9-1-1 abusers. There are people who treat the 9-1-1 system as their personal free taxi service for non-emergency issues, and it is really causing a lot of financial hardship for communities.

It won’t affect people who dial 9-1-1 on their cell phones as a Good Samaritan. It will affect those who live in Tracey. There is still a great deal of confusion over this, and it may just be something for Tracy residents only when it is over and done with. I do believe there is also a way for someone to request the fee be waived.

Comment on First Day With the Google Nexus One by lux

lux — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:57:57 +0000

@Sajaan — no, my car doesn’t have bluetooth

Comment on First Day With the Google Nexus One by Sajaan

Sajaan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:45:13 +0000

Have you tested the Nexus bluetooth connectivity with your car??

Comment on 2009 Wrap-Up Post by Katie Lipka

Katie Lipka — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:02:57 +0000

Inspiration! Take it where you can get it! Maybe you’ll leave London with some unexpected new dreams and goals? I hope you have a blast and you get to take some time to see some theater.
Love.

Comment on Dear Apple – 1984 Called, They Want Their Video Back by JamesDX

JamesDX — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:37:02 +0000

Maybe this is me talking nonsense, but it seems like Google isn’t a company run strictly by the top and they seem to be doing quite well.

Comment on First Day With the Google Nexus One by Ain

Ain — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:14:13 +0000

Yeah, Flash works nicely on it indeed, even though it still has bugs and is awaiting Beta 3 shortly.

As emphasized by so many Flash devs lately I too encourage all the readers here to join in on reporting bugs for Flash Platform if they should encounter any (let’s hope they don’t!).

See the list of Flash Player 10.1 bugs I’ve recently found.

Comment on Dear Apple – 1984 Called, They Want Their Video Back by PF

PF — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:56:25 +0000

If you’ve read 1984, the old ad may actually be quite appropriate. At least if you consider that Apple has always been big brother and that the one wielding the hammer has always been the user.

For the book itself described a perpetual system where Big Brother always wins. It actively sought out dissidents who thought differently by tricking them into believing they could revolt against the system. But before they could ever do any real damage, they would be railed into room 101, be forced to betray themselves, and after being broken apart, be but put back in line as renewed devotees of big brother.

And just as in the book, Oceania was always at war to explain the rations, Apple too constantly needs enemies to justify its own shortcomings. If it isn’t Microsoft, it’s Adobe. And if it isn’t Adobe, it will be Google.

If you think about it, the parallels are astonishing. Except for the fact that in the book, all the TV screens had built in cams, while in the real world, people are complaining that the iPad doesn’t come with a webcam.

And for those who haven’t read the book yet, it’s in the public domain: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984.htm

Comment on Dear Apple – 1984 Called, They Want Their Video Back by ElaineGiles.co.uk » Blog Archive » Flash Mob

ElaineGiles.co.uk » Blog Archive » Flash Mob — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:19:36 +0000

[...] Much has been made in the pro-Apple camp of the fact that HTML 5 is an open standard whereas Adobe and it’s Flash platform is a commercial entity. However, this stance conveniently ignores the roots of the Mac community exemplified in the pivotal 1984 advert for Macintosh. The ideology of Apple as the David against the Goliath of IMB is clear from that advert and the seeming reversal of roles is clearly advanced by this erudite post from Adobe Community Manager Rachel Luxemburg. [...]

Comment on Dear Apple – 1984 Called, They Want Their Video Back by joe

joe — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:59:42 +0000

Rachel,

I commented on my blog regarding your update but I still do not believe it is a fair assumption. (and thank you for accepting my comment and replying)

In every single AAPL conference call Peter Oppenheimer explicitly states that the AppStore is operating just above break even on operational costs. True he does not give a number at all due to competitive reasons, but I would hesitate to equate “just above break even” with “massively profitable”. Unless of course Oppenheimer is lying on record every quarter, which I highly doubt.

Do you believe that the profit from the AppStore comes close to rivalling the profit ADBE makes from Flash CS5 development tools? This was one of the reasons I found the comment of “massively profitable” in bad taste.

Comment on Dear Apple – 1984 Called, They Want Their Video Back by lux

lux — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:05:01 +0000

John -- the issue of why Adobe doesn't open-source Flash is a good one (and perennial, Ryan Stewart and Ted Patrick both addressed it back in 2007: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=340 and http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/04/flash-player-open-history.php). My totally off-the-cuff understanding is that there's 2 main issues: patents used by the Flash Player and the fact that an open-sourced Player has greater risk of fragmentation. A Flash Player that's fragmented gives us the same problem that HTML has today -- no consistency, lots of extra code to write to make sure stuff runs the same in different browsers.