
Apple. And they're thoroughly pissed about that: yeah, they're making more money than ever before but that's not what this is about
Are you a complete idiot? How can you possibly not know that music industry revenue and profits have PLUMMETED in recent years?
http://j-walk.com/images/MusicRevenueChart_8E6C/MusicIndustry.jpg
Which of course is totally retarded because using an on-screen zoom bar is horrible for proper tactile control and makes the screen wobble like fuck. Another Apple win.
Surely wins the Slashdot TinFoil Hat Post of the Year Award 2011?
Here's a few off the top of my head:
No touch interface support (full API in Flash, very early stages of development with HTML5)
No alpha channel support on top of video
No dynamic objects (captions / titles etc) or navigational items on top of video
Can't interact (e.g. record from) a webcam
Can't record audio from your microphone
Can't create desktop applications with HTML5
Very limited set of codecs (audio and video) in HTML5
No built in color correction
Can't handle binary data
No peer to peer support
No binary network sockets
No progressive streaming support (i.e. you can't jump into the middle of a video without downloading everything to that point)
No DRM support
No accessibility support
No Full Screen mode
In addition for most Flash games of any level of sophistication, recreating them in JS + HTML5 will be an incredibly painful experience for developers. AS3 has evolved into a robust, full featured language that well supports the needs of developers.
Hurrah! Year of the Linux Desktop predicted to occur in AD5311.
The most common source of waves is due to wind action on the water, not the interaction of the earth and the moon (although this does have some effect).
Wow, no kidding. I haven't seen a web page like that since the glory days of webpagesthatsuck.com
No. This is the NA perspective. Understand this: only in NA are phones subsidised as a norm.
Not true. In the UK (and I suspect most of the EU) phones are subsidised as the norm on 12-24 month contract plans. e.g. http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/iPhone-finder If you sign up to a 24 month contract you get an iPhone for free.
I have never seen a laptop with only one USB port.
Yup, epic fail here as noted by others. Check out the Dell E4200 which is a *current* model and note the single USB port. Unfortunately I own one of these suckers and it is as insanely annoying as you might imagine: http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/business/Dell-Laptops/laptop_latitude_e4200/pd.aspx?refid=laptop_latitude_e4200&cs=ukbsdt1&s=bsd
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky