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Microsoft Silverlight
As well, Microsoft is wanting to advance their Silverlight runtime
platform for client-executed Web applications but this platform
has not yet been ported for anything outside general-purpose
computers running the Windows operating-system family. Again,
this is another platform for Web-based highly-interactive content
that requires the client machine to work with a “runtime
module”.
Apple’s control over what runs on their platforms
One of the main cornerstones in this debate is what Apple wants
out of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch platforms. They want to
maintain control over programs and highly-interactive content
that runs on this platform and preserve the requirement that all
such content is obtained through the iTunes App Store. The
practice of supplying a “runtime module” for pre-compiled
“p-code” software available elsewhere, such as what happens
with Java and Flash, works against this ideal because Apple can’t
see the program’s code before it runs on an iPod or iPhone.
Therefore Apple have proscribed the creation of such modules
for this platform.
Some Apple skeptics may also have afear that Apple may change
their desktop platform away from the Macintosh (MacOS X)
platform where their is a “free-for-all” for software development
towards aplatform not dissimilar to the iPhone or iPad platform
with acontrolled development environment. This is like how they
retired the Apple II platform in the early 90s in order to focus on
the Macintosh platform.
The open question
Therefore, there is an “open question” concerning Web-based
software development. It is whether the likes of Farmville or
Bejewelled should be developed using HTML5 and in
avulnerably-open manner or whether they should be packaged
as “p-code” and delivered to aruntime environment? It also
includes whether Apple should expect developers to create
aseparate client-side app for their iPhone /iPod /iPad devices for
each game or highly-interactive site that they workon.
Product Review – Western
Digital MyBook World
network-attached storage
device (1 Terabyte)
11/05/2010 04:40
[1]I am now reviewing the Western Digital MyBook World
network-attached storage device which is the first such device to
be reviewed in thisblog.
It is awhite box about the size of an average paperback book
such as apersonal Bible but has awhite “operation” light along
the spine. This light can be turned off through the Web-based
configuration menus under the “System-Advanced” screen in the
Advanced menus. There is avent along the top of the unit to
allow for proper cooling.
Connection
It can connect to an Ethernet network, even aGigabit one which
would be part of high-end routers and equipment optimised for
“next-generation” broadband services. There is also aUSB
socket for use with adding external USB storage or USB printers
that can work as network printers to the network.
Storage
This unit has 1Terabyte worth of storage available on it, which
would be the minimum required for these devices. If you use it
primarily as amedia server, you would have plenty of room for
many hours of high-definition video, oodles of “many-megapixel”
pictures and many hours of audio content using good-quality
codecs.
This is provisioned through one hard disk but the step-up model
(WD MyBook World EditionII) has the ability to work with two
user-replaceable hard disks and can support atwo-disk RAID
data-mirror setup.
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