Monthly Archives: February 2013

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What Tech Company is Healthier Than Apple?

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What Tech Company is Healthier Than Apple?

In fact my only concern for Apple is that they are having trouble keeping up with demand. Their earnings call revealed that Apple was supply constrained in almost every product category. Apple could not make enough products fast enough.
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I recognize that investors have a distorted and mostly short term view of the world. So I can’t fault them for being short sighted. But I would encourage them to dig deep down and ask themselves what tech company is more heathy than Apple and better positioned for success in the long run? If Apple isn’t still on the forefront of innovation then who is?

Agreed. Apple is a successful company with a vertical model, and I also think Apple will be relevent in the game 10 years from now.

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WebKit, the new standard, is more troublesome than IE?

Opera decided to ditch its Presto engine and change its rendering engine to WebKit, so now the major web browsers except IE(use Trident) and Firefox(use Gecko) is using WebKit.

WebKit is a open source web rendering engine started by Apple based on KDE’s KHTML. (Wikipedia) Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers use it, and now it has the most market share at over 40%.

 

However, Dave Methvin, the president of the jQuery foundation and a member of the core programming team, complains that WebKit is broken as older IE versions.

Tragedy of the WebKit Commons

Each release of Chrome or Safari generates excitement about new bleeding-edge features; nobody seems to worry about the stuff that’s already (still!) broken. jQuery Core has more lines of fixes and patches for WebKit than any other browser. In general these are not recent regressions, but long-standing problems that have yet to be addressed.

jQuery is a widely used JavaScript library to handle multiple browsers, and he claims that WebKit requires more patches than others.

On the other hand, Peter Kasting, a developer of Chromium, left a comment :

It’s not clear from your blog post: are the majority of the bugs you’re complaining about things that are still broken on the WebKit trunk? Or things that you have to hack around because of the number of out-of-date WebKit-based UAs? If the former, are there bugs on file at bugs.webkit.org?

I ask this because we spend a lot of time fixing bugs in each release, and if there are major problems we’re missing, then I’d like to ensure they get triaged and investigated properly. But the complaint you write here isn’t really actionable, because it’s short on details.

Yes. WebKit is a open source project, and anyone can report a bug and anyone can commit a bug fix. Also, the bug reports are available on the public. WebKit may have many problems, but what kind of SW wouldn’t? Still I think WebKit is better than a closed, proprietary software from MS.

Anyway, the competition between the three rendering engines will be better than a monopoly.

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Lovely Video : Yellow Ribbon

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Les Miserables ROK Air Force Parody

Korean Air Force made a parody movie of ‘Les Miserables’, as ‘Les Militaribles’.

The quality of the movie is quite high. It’s AWESOME. Also, even the actors are real airmen, they act and sing well.
(The actor of the girlfriend is first lieutenant!)

It starts with cleaning snow while singing ‘Look down’, and it reminds the start of the ‘Les Miserables’. The lyrics are changed well, too.

The video is getting popular by Russell Crowe’s tweet.

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