I would grant that apple's UIs are more consistent and less bloated. Wonderful experience is a strange choice of words that reeks of bias. I expect microsoft products to put everything and the kitchen sink into the UI. I expect apple to carefully place only the items they think are most important in the UI. I think the wonderfulness of the experience is tied closely to how often you agree with apple's choice of included functionality.
I like IKEA too. We have a lot of IKEA stuff in our house and it looks nice and didn't break the bank. When we remodeled our kitchen we went with IKEA cabinets. We love our kitchen. it looks fantastic and everything works great. We were warned that everything is particle board and told that we should get hardwood cabinets etc. That's complete crap. Will hardwood cabinets last 100 years? yes. Will IKEA cabinets last longer than 25 years? probably not, but who the fuck cares? for the price we paid, we can afford to replace our cabinets every 10 years and still not spend as much as those stupid hardwood cabinets
or is it the shrewdest businessmen who become the largest and most successful musicians? Kiss was a business. It was about marketing and maximizing profits. Of course the people at the head of that machine are concerned about every angle they could pursue and every dime they could possibly get.
well duh, just symlink lib.version.x to your lib.version.x+5 and you should be good to go! Well maybe your app calls deprecated or missing functions from the old lib. maybe you can still get the old version from git. if not, no biggie just get the source, fork your own version and wrap the new methods in calls the replicate the missing symbols from the old version, or even better, modify the source for the app you are trying to run so it's compatible with the latest version of lib.version. everyone would appreciate that! I know that's what my grandma does.
People have found 2D projections useful, informative, and entertaining long before there was TV. Movies, Photography, painting, map making, cave walls all predate TV.
Your retina is 2D. the depth perception comes from your brain analyzing subtle differences between the eyes and state of the muscles focusing them, but your brain also seems to do a fair bit of extrapolation about depth as well. It's fairly easy to fool someone's depth perception with tricks like making a room that gets wider at the far end. Your eyes are recording the same delta between them, you must have to focus farther away to see the far end, but because lines you think are parallel are not, your brain overrules depth perception.
If you close one eye, you notice you are impaired but it hardly impedes you. People even close an eye purposefully because they find the 2D view of the world advantageous for certain tasks.
In school (I went for fine art), a couple of my teachers recounted tales of how people need to learn to read 2D. They claimed people of primitive cultures not exposed to paintings and photographs couldn't make sense of them. Those anecdotes seem to conflict with evidence that primitive people painted 2D depictions of people and animals. No, they didn't understand the math of projections, but they clearly understood occlusion and may or may not have understood that things appear smaller the farther away from the viewer they are. It also clashes with other anecdotes of how primitive people think photographs are somehow soul stealing because the representation is so perfect.
So do people like 2D content because they grew up consuming tv, or do people like to consume TV because it represents an inborn way of looking at the world? I dunno, but it sounds like something that the 3D tv people should be studying.
But they take a stab at it. They instinctively feel that the world before them can be represented by a 2d plane. The mathematics of projections are not obvious, but the idea is instinctive. And many kids do know that things get projected smaller ad they recede from the viewer.
it's different because apps cost $0.99 and don't have as large a potential consumer base. is $0.99 going to be profitable when you have to pay an army of testers overtime and have developers working feverishly to squash bugs for a year?
Most people want higher resolution. HD was a compelling shift in tv technology. One look and people saw it was better. Wide aspect ratios were compelling as they take advantage of our natural FOV. 3D is just kind of MEH .
I think people generally think of what they see in the day to day world as a 2D scene. Sure you rely on depth perception, but it's sort of at a lower level of thought. You know when to catch a ball that someone throws you, but you don't marvel at the depth of field. You appreciate rich landscapes, but are mostly focused at infinity. Kids don't really struggle with projecting a 3D scene onto a 2D plane. They just start drawing what they see on paper. They don't even think about vanishing points and projections. That interpretation is natural as our vision is really based on 2D sensors.
When we watch tv or movies, 2D is good enough because we are used to thinking about the world this way. We appreciate a good 3D scene, but it doesn't really ever add anything that was missing from the 2D scene as we are very adept at reconstituting depth.
You are correct. However, early versions of iOS had poor exchange integration. Microsoft may be able to leverage some fud when marketing w7p.
In my opinion, they seem really late to the party. The os has some glaring omissions like no multitasking, no peer to peer gaming. The hardware seems puny compared to the android and iOS phones. The phones max out at 16gig. iOS and android are competing with more than twice that. I have 24 gig of photos alone on my iPhone. I know I could never use one of these phones the same way I use my iPhone.
When I point these shortcomings out to my friends, the majority of them just get all starry eyed and go on about Xbox live.
They have XBox Live integration. I don't really understand it because i never got into live, but i have friends who love their xboxes dearly. They would do just about anything to have a phone that lets them see their buddies' achievements not to mention allow them to get new achievements. Some of them are even willing to buy out their iphone contracts to move to windows 7 phone.
That "killer" feature strikes me as something of a double edged sword though. Most analysts think a phone platform has to win enterprise adoption to really be successful, but what CTO for a large business is going to see xbox live integration as a selling point? Sure it's also got active sync and great exchange integration, but so does blackberry.
personally, i'd be interested in getting a device if there is an analog to the ipod touch (something i also wish existed for android, and no, i don't consider the weird chinese android devices an option). afaik the zune HD is not win 7 phone, yet. I have no interest in breaking my current phone contract though.
HTML5 can generate and save 5 meg of data locally, but as far as i know there isn't a limit to how many megs of resources they can cache from the server. The server could easily save tons of information in the form of images and text files or whatever you want in your local cache. I don't think it can be read by other sites though.
i also don't really understand the html5 part of this. for example, one claim is that websites will be tracking your gps location via html5. Ok. some people don't want that tracked. that's understandable. But that information comes from a smartphone. People already have a ton of apps that are capturing that information and doing who knows what with it. Those apps aren't even protected by HTML5's sandboxing and limitations. People are going bonkers to freely share that information in facebook and foursquare. It seems silly to be warning everyone how html5 will pose huge threats to online privacy when we are already in a situation worse than the foretold disaster.
Hexxeh was able to put Chrome OS on an iPad because the open source code for the operating system is available in its Chromium state
I am unfamiliar with the term "Chromium state". If more open source code was available in a Chromium state, could we install it on ipads? Is there something about this state that makes it easier to compile the source code for ipads?
BOTF was cool, but AI processing time went up exponentially with each successive turn. after a few hours of play, it was agonizing to wait for the chance to do something again. then it crashed. Maybe it worked better on your system.
i'm not absolving engineering of responsibility. there are certainly plenty blame to go around. There is however a fairly large window in the development of any software where it doesn't work yet. Many of us have had the experience of dealing with unrealistic or flat out wrong views from management within this window.
To me, that seems to closely parallel what's happening with this project. The developers didn't claim they were done. I don't think there is a hard deadline for when it will be done. It's clearly not done.
I have also seen the flip side where developers (never me OF COURSE) have claimed to have finished something but it was shoddy and broken. This is usually where the, "it's a feature, not a bug" argument comes in. That doesn't seem to be what's transpiring with this particular project.
it didn't "launch". as i understand it, they released some kind of alpha. I know i've worked for many managers who have this weird idea that software should be perfect before it's even done, but i didn't expect so many people in this community to hold that ideal.
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I would grant that apple's UIs are more consistent and less bloated. Wonderful experience is a strange choice of words that reeks of bias. I expect microsoft products to put everything and the kitchen sink into the UI. I expect apple to carefully place only the items they think are most important in the UI. I think the wonderfulness of the experience is tied closely to how often you agree with apple's choice of included functionality.
I like IKEA too. We have a lot of IKEA stuff in our house and it looks nice and didn't break the bank. When we remodeled our kitchen we went with IKEA cabinets. We love our kitchen. it looks fantastic and everything works great. We were warned that everything is particle board and told that we should get hardwood cabinets etc. That's complete crap. Will hardwood cabinets last 100 years? yes. Will IKEA cabinets last longer than 25 years? probably not, but who the fuck cares? for the price we paid, we can afford to replace our cabinets every 10 years and still not spend as much as those stupid hardwood cabinets
or is it the shrewdest businessmen who become the largest and most successful musicians? Kiss was a business. It was about marketing and maximizing profits. Of course the people at the head of that machine are concerned about every angle they could pursue and every dime they could possibly get.
it's a shining example. i think this country could stand to have a few more government officials quit to start tv shows.
i think it was at a pool in las vegas.
It was either this myth or, "All your balance is in your pinky toe."
I don't know why they keep choosing to redo the solar death ray. Who wouldn't want to watch Jamie lop off one of Adam's pinky toes?
well duh, just symlink lib.version.x to your lib.version.x+5 and you should be good to go! Well maybe your app calls deprecated or missing functions from the old lib. maybe you can still get the old version from git. if not, no biggie just get the source, fork your own version and wrap the new methods in calls the replicate the missing symbols from the old version, or even better, modify the source for the app you are trying to run so it's compatible with the latest version of lib.version. everyone would appreciate that! I know that's what my grandma does.
Ok, it's even worse. Luckilly I think consumers are becoming less focused on quality. Facebook being a prime example.
I don't know. That's a good question.
People have found 2D projections useful, informative, and entertaining long before there was TV. Movies, Photography, painting, map making, cave walls all predate TV.
Your retina is 2D. the depth perception comes from your brain analyzing subtle differences between the eyes and state of the muscles focusing them, but your brain also seems to do a fair bit of extrapolation about depth as well. It's fairly easy to fool someone's depth perception with tricks like making a room that gets wider at the far end. Your eyes are recording the same delta between them, you must have to focus farther away to see the far end, but because lines you think are parallel are not, your brain overrules depth perception.
If you close one eye, you notice you are impaired but it hardly impedes you. People even close an eye purposefully because they find the 2D view of the world advantageous for certain tasks.
In school (I went for fine art), a couple of my teachers recounted tales of how people need to learn to read 2D. They claimed people of primitive cultures not exposed to paintings and photographs couldn't make sense of them. Those anecdotes seem to conflict with evidence that primitive people painted 2D depictions of people and animals. No, they didn't understand the math of projections, but they clearly understood occlusion and may or may not have understood that things appear smaller the farther away from the viewer they are. It also clashes with other anecdotes of how primitive people think photographs are somehow soul stealing because the representation is so perfect.
So do people like 2D content because they grew up consuming tv, or do people like to consume TV because it represents an inborn way of looking at the world? I dunno, but it sounds like something that the 3D tv people should be studying.
But they take a stab at it. They instinctively feel that the world before them can be represented by a 2d plane. The mathematics of projections are not obvious, but the idea is instinctive. And many kids do know that things get projected smaller ad they recede from the viewer.
So I gather you aren't interested in a 3D tv.
it's different because apps cost $0.99 and don't have as large a potential consumer base. is $0.99 going to be profitable when you have to pay an army of testers overtime and have developers working feverishly to squash bugs for a year?
Most people want higher resolution. HD was a compelling shift in tv technology. One look and people saw it was better. Wide aspect ratios were compelling as they take advantage of our natural FOV. 3D is just kind of MEH
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I think people generally think of what they see in the day to day world as a 2D scene. Sure you rely on depth perception, but it's sort of at a lower level of thought. You know when to catch a ball that someone throws you, but you don't marvel at the depth of field. You appreciate rich landscapes, but are mostly focused at infinity. Kids don't really struggle with projecting a 3D scene onto a 2D plane. They just start drawing what they see on paper. They don't even think about vanishing points and projections. That interpretation is natural as our vision is really based on 2D sensors.
When we watch tv or movies, 2D is good enough because we are used to thinking about the world this way. We appreciate a good 3D scene, but it doesn't really ever add anything that was missing from the 2D scene as we are very adept at reconstituting depth.
You are correct. However, early versions of iOS had poor exchange integration. Microsoft may be able to leverage some fud when marketing w7p.
In my opinion, they seem really late to the party. The os has some glaring omissions like no multitasking, no peer to peer gaming. The hardware seems puny compared to the android and iOS phones. The phones max out at 16gig. iOS and android are competing with more than twice that. I have 24 gig of photos alone on my iPhone. I know I could never use one of these phones the same way I use my iPhone.
When I point these shortcomings out to my friends, the majority of them just get all starry eyed and go on about Xbox live.
They have XBox Live integration. I don't really understand it because i never got into live, but i have friends who love their xboxes dearly. They would do just about anything to have a phone that lets them see their buddies' achievements not to mention allow them to get new achievements. Some of them are even willing to buy out their iphone contracts to move to windows 7 phone.
That "killer" feature strikes me as something of a double edged sword though. Most analysts think a phone platform has to win enterprise adoption to really be successful, but what CTO for a large business is going to see xbox live integration as a selling point? Sure it's also got active sync and great exchange integration, but so does blackberry.
personally, i'd be interested in getting a device if there is an analog to the ipod touch (something i also wish existed for android, and no, i don't consider the weird chinese android devices an option). afaik the zune HD is not win 7 phone, yet. I have no interest in breaking my current phone contract though.
somehow i think most companies aren't eagerly looking for someone with extensive bioshock play time either legally purchased or pirated.
HTML5 can generate and save 5 meg of data locally, but as far as i know there isn't a limit to how many megs of resources they can cache from the server. The server could easily save tons of information in the form of images and text files or whatever you want in your local cache. I don't think it can be read by other sites though.
i also don't really understand the html5 part of this. for example, one claim is that websites will be tracking your gps location via html5. Ok. some people don't want that tracked. that's understandable. But that information comes from a smartphone. People already have a ton of apps that are capturing that information and doing who knows what with it. Those apps aren't even protected by HTML5's sandboxing and limitations. People are going bonkers to freely share that information in facebook and foursquare. It seems silly to be warning everyone how html5 will pose huge threats to online privacy when we are already in a situation worse than the foretold disaster.
Someone spent the time to determine that if you are a polarizing inappropriate racist you won't have many friends?
Ah. I see. You should write summaries. The summary as it is is copied from a copy. This is why we don't rtfa.
However, when you consider that the solar wind is the only thing keeping the aliens at bay, you might think twice about disrupting them.
Hexxeh was able to put Chrome OS on an iPad because the open source code for the operating system is available in its Chromium state
I am unfamiliar with the term "Chromium state". If more open source code was available in a Chromium state, could we install it on ipads? Is there something about this state that makes it easier to compile the source code for ipads?
ha ha! Ultimately the segway DID change the city. It prompted people to ban something that previously was not banned.
BOTF was cool, but AI processing time went up exponentially with each successive turn. after a few hours of play, it was agonizing to wait for the chance to do something again. then it crashed. Maybe it worked better on your system.
i'm not absolving engineering of responsibility. there are certainly plenty blame to go around. There is however a fairly large window in the development of any software where it doesn't work yet. Many of us have had the experience of dealing with unrealistic or flat out wrong views from management within this window.
To me, that seems to closely parallel what's happening with this project. The developers didn't claim they were done. I don't think there is a hard deadline for when it will be done. It's clearly not done.
I have also seen the flip side where developers (never me OF COURSE) have claimed to have finished something but it was shoddy and broken. This is usually where the, "it's a feature, not a bug" argument comes in. That doesn't seem to be what's transpiring with this particular project.
it didn't "launch". as i understand it, they released some kind of alpha. I know i've worked for many managers who have this weird idea that software should be perfect before it's even done, but i didn't expect so many people in this community to hold that ideal.