With the exception of connectBot, all of those you listed do not in literal sense quit the app, or close it. You can just as well press the home button, with the exact same effect - the application in question will be kept in memory, and the process will not be destroyed, unless Android deems it necessary.
What IS true however, is that you cannot sign-off, thus Skype marks itself active, and Android will not attempt to close it (and free it's resources) like it should. But I've corrected myself about that.
Except, what developer would willingly agree to hand over his product to this kind of a store? Is having an app that's featured in a walled garden store where other people have control over your app a desirable thing nowadays?
In other words : are there programmers who would like to take in the ass from amazon?
While i agree with most of what you said, there's one thing that i think you should know about the multitasking bit.
The way that apple described it's multitasking capabilities in iPhone OS 4.0, seem to be identical in how android handles multitasking - eg your app can have a background worker, that does stuff in the background (media player, IMs, background task for periodically checking stuff), and then the user-visible multitasking of switching apps, where the app that was used gets its state saved, then the process gets killed. If that app is then resumed the code handles the reading of the state.
This behaviour has been there since Android 1.0 (@override onPause() and @override onResume())
> This is in stark contrast to a Mac where you will first download your app and then be told to manually sort out dependencies.
See that's the thing. We don't have dependencies. No need to run after libfoo to run appbar. Just open the DMG, drag and drop to wherever (/Applications is nice) and run.
BZZTT! Wrong! Well, kinda wrong. If we're talking about commercial software, then you kinda have this one right - Apple for example. But Microsoft has its pony everywhere right now, especially in india (don't believe me? check out the last names in the 'about' box. How many of those are american?)
And then we have open-source, which again is all over the place. Even games are made almost equally or less in the US than they used to be. MMO's are koreas pony. Ubisoft Montreal, DICE (Sweden).
Aircraft
Will skip this one, since i don't have the sufficient knowledge
Microprocessors
BZZZT! Wrong again! Sure, intel is US-based. But the best fabs they have is Jerusalem based as far as i know. AMD/ATi is fabless and uses TSMC. Pretty much anyone who isn't intel is using TSMC or something in the likes of those, because making or mainatining a fab in the US is too expensive. Check it out - pretty much all of the components of this computer are made in Asia (CPU - Malaysia, RAM - China, LCD - china, and so on..). The only US thing about is the "Design by Apple in California" text..
Automobiles
Hahahah! Maybe from the perspective from a US consumer, since you all drive hummers and SUVs there. And is GM even still making cars? Like, NORMAL cars? Right now Daewoo is making cars with Chevy brand. How low is that? The rest of the world enjoys the comfort, safety and economy of japanese (toyota, honda) and european (renault, volksvagen, audi..) cars.
Food
If your country cannot even provide food for its own populace, its in for some deep shit. Take a look at some african nations right now for an example. This is NOT a saving grace of ANY kind.
Btw, this was not meant as a flame, but i guess it went the rant-way. Whatever, i got karma to burn, and some Americans here are overdue for their wake up.
So, the version i am running from Snow Leopard, that says "compatible with Windows 7" right there on the setup screen is actually NOT compatible with windows 7.
FTFA:
You cannot run your Mac applications simultaneously
No one notified me of this! Ive been running it like that since I installed it!
You cannot safely resize the Mac or Windows partitions
Got me again! Next time i'll try it, i'll make sure to do it as unsafely as i can.
You cannot easily transfer files between the two partitions (without third-party support)
I'll stop using the hfs driver in boot camp right away (once i learn to disable it. Damn apple making stuff just work).
Seriously, anyone reading CNet for legitimate stories should have his head checked.
Despite being a design that is over 5 years old, the WRT54GL is still one of the best selling routers on Newegg. It has nearly 3,000 user reviews, the best wireless router rating on the website, and has been nominated for the "best router" category for the last 30 consecutive months.
There's one problem tho. After you get to faster speeds (above 25MB), even the wired packet switching in that baby can't handle the speed. Right now i have a 50MBit DOCSIS 3.0 connection from my ISP, yet when using my trusty 54gl as a router for the connection, when 3 clients try to use the network, they only get about 11-12mbits per client. ON WIRE. The g-generation hardware just wasnt built for these kinds of speeds.
Tthere is a n-generation router that in my eyes serves as the 54gl (which i still use successfully after patching it with an SD card and running openwrt on it), has beefier hardware, and dual-band radio. Linksys wrt-610nl. Faster CPU, gigabit on all ports, dual-band radios, compliant with the full n specification (not draft n), and usb. Oh, and it runs dd-wrt and openwrt (which i will flash on it right after i unpack it - i don't have any need for the stock firmware). The only thing thats wrong with it is the price, and that's to be expected.
By Quartz Java i guess you mean a Cocoa Java. Yes, apple used to do that, but stopped, since nobody used it, and java itself is beeing heavily replaced on desktop markets (not corporate tho i guess), which guess what - is the core of Apple's marketspace.
It's not viable for Apple to code something maybe 5% of their users use, Sun SHOULD do it themselves. I can use one hand to count how many times i used Java since i got 10.5.
And maybe i DID pay a premium for this hardware - nothing wrong with that, as far as i'm getting exactly what i do, which is well thought out hardware and probably the best desktop Unix OS. And i think i do.
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With the exception of connectBot, all of those you listed do not in literal sense quit the app, or close it. You can just as well press the home button, with the exact same effect - the application in question will be kept in memory, and the process will not be destroyed, unless Android deems it necessary.
What IS true however, is that you cannot sign-off, thus Skype marks itself active, and Android will not attempt to close it (and free it's resources) like it should. But I've corrected myself about that.
This is how all of android apps work, by design.
Except, what developer would willingly agree to hand over his product to this kind of a store?
Is having an app that's featured in a walled garden store where other people have control over your app a desirable thing nowadays?
In other words : are there programmers who would like to take in the ass from amazon?
This is more or less how the new game consoles (X360 and PS3) work.
4) all of the above
No they haven't. The PPC-making subdivision splitted off for some time now, under the name of Freescale
Ah, but O'Brien got promoted to engineer at DS9, and he scored a pretty hot asian!
Waaaay back when i had an amiga, installing Win98 on my PC borked **both** machines. Had to sell the amiga, and do a clean install on the PC.
Just sayin'
Just tried running it. It requires the partition be case-insensitive! What is this valve? 2004?
While i agree with most of what you said, there's one thing that i think you should know about the multitasking bit.
The way that apple described it's multitasking capabilities in iPhone OS 4.0, seem to be identical in how android handles multitasking - eg your app can have a background worker, that does stuff in the background (media player, IMs, background task for periodically checking stuff), and then the user-visible multitasking of switching apps, where the app that was used gets its state saved, then the process gets killed. If that app is then resumed the code handles the reading of the state.
This behaviour has been there since Android 1.0 (@override onPause() and @override onResume())
Umm, no they're not. Only the dash (huge green X) is lit up, or rather flashes on certain occasions.
> This is in stark contrast to a Mac where you will first download your app and then be told to manually sort out dependencies.
See that's the thing. We don't have dependencies. No need to run after libfoo to run appbar. Just open the DMG, drag and drop to wherever (/Applications is nice) and run.
Well, in regards to Poland - you're wrong. Era (our t-mobile) sells the phones unlocked by default, same thing with Plus and the new Play network.
The only backwards network that doesn't do this is orange, but that's because it's owned by a frenchie monopolist.
The people who have rooted phones have this bug patched. However the version number is not what rogers expects.
Some factual errors there kiddo
What does the United States make anymore?
Software
BZZTT! Wrong! Well, kinda wrong. If we're talking about commercial software, then you kinda have this one right - Apple for example. But Microsoft has its pony everywhere right now, especially in india (don't believe me? check out the last names in the 'about' box. How many of those are american?)
And then we have open-source, which again is all over the place.
Even games are made almost equally or less in the US than they used to be. MMO's are koreas pony. Ubisoft Montreal, DICE (Sweden).
Aircraft
Will skip this one, since i don't have the sufficient knowledge
Microprocessors
BZZZT! Wrong again!
Sure, intel is US-based. But the best fabs they have is Jerusalem based as far as i know. AMD/ATi is fabless and uses TSMC. Pretty much anyone who isn't intel is using TSMC or something in the likes of those, because making or mainatining a fab in the US is too expensive. Check it out - pretty much all of the components of this computer are made in Asia (CPU - Malaysia, RAM - China, LCD - china, and so on..). The only US thing about is the "Design by Apple in California" text..
Automobiles
Hahahah! Maybe from the perspective from a US consumer, since you all drive hummers and SUVs there. And is GM even still making cars? Like, NORMAL cars? Right now Daewoo is making cars with Chevy brand. How low is that? The rest of the world enjoys the comfort, safety and economy of japanese (toyota, honda) and european (renault, volksvagen, audi..) cars.
Food
If your country cannot even provide food for its own populace, its in for some deep shit. Take a look at some african nations right now for an example. This is NOT a saving grace of ANY kind.
Btw, this was not meant as a flame, but i guess it went the rant-way. Whatever, i got karma to burn, and some Americans here are overdue for their wake up.
Seems the developers of VMWare and Parallels are in disagreement with you.
So, the version i am running from Snow Leopard, that says "compatible with Windows 7" right there on the setup screen is actually NOT compatible with windows 7.
FTFA:
You cannot run your Mac applications simultaneously
No one notified me of this! Ive been running it like that since I installed it!
You cannot safely resize the Mac or Windows partitions
Got me again! Next time i'll try it, i'll make sure to do it as unsafely as i can.
You cannot easily transfer files between the two partitions (without third-party support)
I'll stop using the hfs driver in boot camp right away (once i learn to disable it. Damn apple making stuff just work).
Seriously, anyone reading CNet for legitimate stories should have his head checked.
Then how come does it have GNU in the name? GNOME = Gnu Network Object Model Environment ?
However, i do feel that RMS is batshit insane, and that the GNOME ppl are doing the right thing.
Despite being a design that is over 5 years old, the WRT54GL is still one of the best selling routers on Newegg. It has nearly 3,000 user reviews, the best wireless router rating on the website, and has been nominated for the "best router" category for the last 30 consecutive months.
There's one problem tho. After you get to faster speeds (above 25MB), even the wired packet switching in that baby can't handle the speed. Right now i have a 50MBit DOCSIS 3.0 connection from my ISP, yet when using my trusty 54gl as a router for the connection, when 3 clients try to use the network, they only get about 11-12mbits per client. ON WIRE. The g-generation hardware just wasnt built for these kinds of speeds.
Tthere is a n-generation router that in my eyes serves as the 54gl (which i still use successfully after patching it with an SD card and running openwrt on it), has beefier hardware, and dual-band radio. Linksys wrt-610nl. Faster CPU, gigabit on all ports, dual-band radios, compliant with the full n specification (not draft n), and usb. Oh, and it runs dd-wrt and openwrt (which i will flash on it right after i unpack it - i don't have any need for the stock firmware). The only thing thats wrong with it is the price, and that's to be expected.
Looks like a job for Dropbox, money-throwing included. Word is they're also working on LAN sync, so no need for the data to go to the server and back.
Except it's been fixed in 10.5.8, maybe even before that. How long has it been since it's out?
:/
Unfortunately your argument is moot
By Quartz Java i guess you mean a Cocoa Java. Yes, apple used to do that, but stopped, since nobody used it, and java itself is beeing heavily replaced on desktop markets (not corporate tho i guess), which guess what - is the core of Apple's marketspace.
It's not viable for Apple to code something maybe 5% of their users use, Sun SHOULD do it themselves. I can use one hand to count how many times i used Java since i got 10.5.
And maybe i DID pay a premium for this hardware - nothing wrong with that, as far as i'm getting exactly what i do, which is well thought out hardware and probably the best desktop Unix OS. And i think i do.
movibook:~ movi$ uname -a
Darwin movibook.lan 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
movibook:~ movi$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_15"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03-219)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.1-b02-90, mixed mode)
Your point beeing?
And the EU commision would be on them like flies on a pile of shit (eg. fast). This is just what they're waiting for.
I *highly* doubt it, because of licensing issues. GPL2/3 in Darwin? Over Apple's dead body..