Death of the PowerPC - official

GNU/Linux Distros Silently Drop PowerPC

A Rift in the Space-Time Continuum

 What Happens When Apple Passes Microsoft In Value?

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Here’s the real problem for Microsoft though. If Apple does in fact pass Microsoft in market cap, I can see CEO Steve Ballmer losing it, and that could steal his focus away from what should still be considered his real enemy: Google. It is Google, after all, that is directly attacking the core Microsoft brands, Office and Windows, where the company makes practically all of its money. Google Apps and Chrome OS are meant to do two things: Kill Office and kill Windows. Sure, Apple’s OS X competes with Windows, but Apple is clearly never going to license out its OS (after a disastrous attempt to do so in the 1990s when Steve Jobs was away), so its market share can only ever be as big as people buying expensive Apple machines. Apple simply cares more about profits and controlling the high end of the market, then going directly after Windows.

Death of the PSP

Managed to decline in a growing market



Apple iPhone and iPod touch Capture U.S. Video Game Market Share

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Total Portable Sales: 2008= $2.25bil;      2009=$2.50bil
iPhone Game Sales:    2008=$0.12bil;       2009=$0.50bil
PSP Game Sales:       2008=$0.45bil;       2009=$0.28bil
DS Game Sales:        2008=$1.69bil;       2009=$1.75bil

Here's why I think the iPhone OS gaming is growing at a huge pace:

• iPod touch starts at $200 (no monthly fees)
• Majority of games under $5
• Games sell for a fraction of their PSP/DS price (Final Fantasy sells for $9 and GTA: Chinatown for $10)
• No need to carry physical media (your games are always with you)
• Thousands of sub $2 games for quick and casual gaming

The PSP dropped for obvious reasons:

• The hardware sucks
• Very few quality games (I only bought SMT Persona)

Chaos Rings - Epic JRPG for iPhone OS

It seems I'll be getting me another iPhone this summer. Apple is gonna have me a customer for life.

The game is mind-blowingly epic, can't wait.

IE no longer evil? 999 the Inverse of the Beast

Internet Explorer 9: A Fresh Start, With HTML5 - Internet Explorer 9 - Gizmodo
Platform Preview gives Web developers first taste of IE9

The good

• Faster JavaScript performance
• CSS3
• HTML5
• H.264
• SVG
• MP3 and AAC

The bad

• 55/100 on Acid 3 but Microsoft vowed to improve the score before official release
• Still Windows only

The epic

• DirectX for smoother graphics and better performance (GPU acceleration)

I'm amazed. If Microsoft keeps this up, I just might start to like them again.
Competition is good, we all win.

Mama and Papa are fighting and I'm confused

 




As a committed Apple and Google fan the recent skirmish between the two has left me heartbroken with no idea who to side with.

Is this how it feels when your parents are fighting with you in the middle?

Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

More than just an oversized iPod touch

Microsoft's Vaporware vs. Apple's Lateware

The iPad will launch one week late, the WiFi-only iPad has been pushed from late March to early April. I'm gonna assume similar delay for WiFi+3G iPad. Regardless I'd take something I can buy over vaporware any day. Which brings us to the courier.


Courier digital journal mockup demo

Make no mistake the demo is epic, I'd buy one today if it were on sale, but this being Microsoft and going by their history I'm gonna have to write it off as vaporware. Until Microsoft puts a release date and price tag on it, the Courier is moot in any discussion involving tablets and the iPad.

Microsoft Demos Game Across Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360, and Windows 7

Ignores Zune HD

During the keynote presentation at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Microsoft's Eric Rudder played the same Indiana Jones-ish game on a Windows computer, a Windows Phone 7 phone, and an Xbox 360. Gaming is about to get real ubiquitous.

Not only is the game itself playable on all three platforms, but the session is maintained when you move from device to device: if you're playing on your Xbox and have to run out the door, you'll be on the same level when you fire it up on your Windows Phone 7 Series phone. Basically, you'll never have an excuse not to be gaming.

http://gizmodo.com/5487232/microsoft-demos-game-across-windows-phone-7-xbox-360-and-windows-7

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I guess Microsoft is leaving the Zune HD to whither and die, just as it did with previous Zunes. I can't believe Microsoft isn't trying to take Zune gaming seriously

Chromium in my Firefox?

The folks at Mozilla are making good use of FOSS and reusing all the good code out there instead of reinventing the wheel. Kudos to them for being humble and pragmatic instead of ego-driven.
This time, they are reusing portions of Chrome's multiprocess architecture, to run Flash and other plugin's out of process, or as Mozilla now calls it  Out of Process Plugin (OOPP).

Maybe, just maybe I can like Firefox again.

Bugzilla - Electrolysis

Shut the fuck up!

No one gives a fuck about your crappy shells. Shitty browsers I've never heard of or cared for. 4 of them are shells on top of Trident (IE's engine), 2 shells on top of Gecko (Firefox) and 1 duals Trident and Gecko.
Go fuck off! Anyone can put together a partially usable UI and then forwards everything to a renderer, doesn't make you special or worthy of the oxygen you breath.

We've got 5 major rendering engines: WebKit (Safari and Chrome), Gecko (Firefox), Trident (Internet Explorer), Presto (Opera) and KHTML (Konqueror). Konqueror is second fiddle and still in alpha stage on Windows with a port that requires all of KDE-base to be installed. NO surprise it wasn't mentioned.

Hacking a different shell on top of a rendering engine doesn't make you worthwhile of any notice, it is more than enough that Microsoft included you in the ballot. If I were Microsoft I would have limited it to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer. So shut the fuck up! Instead of whining and complaining, how about innovating?

Ballot screen

Nitro in my Firefox??

JaegerMonkey - MozillaWiki
JaegerMonkey – Fast JavaScript, Always! » Mystery Bail Theater

The beauty of FOSS.

The good folks at Mozilla are importing Nitro's assembler to speed up Firefox's JavaScript performance.

For those who don't know, Nitro is the JavaScript engine used in Apple's Safari 4.x.