When i "previewed" photoshop from a warez site in the 90's, i recieved, in addition to the full experience, a handful of viruses. Technically i got more than the full experience.
If you are a dedicated.net developer looking to make mobile apps, this makes the android platform really appealing.
Mono touch on iphone still requires a paid account, and suffers from an uncertain future. Windows phone only has silverlight and xna options. I don't know much about silverlight really, but i have little interest in learning it, and xna is pretty low level if you intend to make forms type things. Android is like this happy place of unencumbered.net app development. Who'd have thought it?
It certainly reads like the poster has an ax to grind against the retina display. for all we know, this will be the tech that drives the iphone6's display.
the mainframe age vanished because PC's were cheaper and almost as good. At least they let people accomplish most of the tasks they wanted to in a simpler manner. That sounds a lot like the edge the ipad has. It's cheap and it lets you browse your photos and stream a netflix with relative ease.
I don't see what difference replacing OSX with iOS makes. Jobs needs developers to make apps for iOS. if he's going to supplant OSX with iOS entirely you are going to need dev tools that run on iOS. So you pay your hundred bucks a year and get the dev app for iOS. Or maybe the dev tool actually runs on windows or linux at that point, but i think that's less likely.
I would think that once iOS has a dev app, you would also need to leverage source control and multitasking. In the end how is it going to be much different? You would launch the dev app. work on your code. compile and test it. probably send the binary right to the appstore. Or maybe iOS at that point supports only html5 and then you can make content on anything you want.
hmmm, i suppose so. But it's sort of a misnomer on flash's part and when people say vector based they think "something that i can put text into and it will scale infinitely without getting jaggy."
I'm unaware of any curve based functions in open gl es that let me specify a circle or a bezier or catmul-rom or nurb. I assume they don't exist in WebGL. If you want to sample a curve on your own and make a vertex buffer from it, you could, but most people when faced with the problem of displaying text in a 3d api, opt to render the text to a texture and map it to a quad. That isn't going to exhibit the same behavior as flash, and i guess that was the difference i meant to imply.
Aside from not being vector based, WebGL and Javascript are pretty low level compared to flash and silverlight. There's the question of, "what technology will allow me to animate X across the screen and react to input?", and there's the question of, "what technology will my development team be able to use?". The intersection of those domains are valid for your project.
Flash and silverlight are usable by a lot of people, some of which really have no business coding. WebGL is going to demand a higher caliber of developer that likely costs more and is in shorter supply. The ease of creation is what flash and silverlight are selling. I don't really see anything competing with that at the moment.
Silverlight has abysmal support on WINDOWS! I have all the dev tools installed and certain Microsoft pages still ask me to install silverlight when I visit them.
This is everything on facebook. All the "find out what Brady bunch character you are" polls exist only to gain access to your account. Even farmville is just a clever trick to lire users in with a game. Then it spans you and makes money from offers and by directly asking you for money.
Hell, even facebook itself is just a moneymaking ruse cleverly designed as a way to keep in touch with friends while it gains all your personal info. .
I don't know about androids, but the gps In the iPhone serves only to augment positional data received by cell tower triangulation. I don't think it sees more than one or two satellites at a time. It works like crap if you don't have a signal. That's why the Tom Tom kit comes with it's own external gps receiver.
I greatly prefer my pos $99 gamin gps to my iPhone for road trips. It's not hackable. It has no features. But it always knos where I am.
but your example statement seems to make sense. i don't know what a and b are, but i'm going to guess they are 4 and -1. If you are like the kids in the article, you might have supposed that a and b were 0 and 1.
4 + -1 = 1 + 2 = 3 the = is a statement.
0 + 1 = 1 + 2 = 3 the = is an operand.
i doubt there's anything wrong with the 2nd if your intent was to total up a bunch of stuff. If you saw a + b = 1 + 2 would your instinct be that the sum of a and b is 3 or that the sum of a and b is 1?
the article wasn't complaining about a running statement like x=y=b=a. it was complaining that the kids were not parsing a statement like x+y = c to mean that both sides of the equation were equal in value, they were reacting to the equals sign as a command to total up everything to the left of it.
Yeah, i think the real revelation of this study is, "test givers don't understand parentheses"
i have NEVER seen that notation before. if you give someone 3.3 = i * (brown red red blue) and they can't find i, you don't blame it on a lack of their understanding of algebra.
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When i "previewed" photoshop from a warez site in the 90's, i recieved, in addition to the full experience, a handful of viruses. Technically i got more than the full experience.
If you are a dedicated .net developer looking to make mobile apps, this makes the android platform really appealing.
.net app development. Who'd have thought it?
Mono touch on iphone still requires a paid account, and suffers from an uncertain future. Windows phone only has silverlight and xna options. I don't know much about silverlight really, but i have little interest in learning it, and xna is pretty low level if you intend to make forms type things. Android is like this happy place of unencumbered
It certainly reads like the poster has an ax to grind against the retina display. for all we know, this will be the tech that drives the iphone6's display.
Instead of computers having bugs, bugs can FINALLY have computers!!!
I don't recall seeing any progress bars on the box for WoW.
the mainframe age vanished because PC's were cheaper and almost as good. At least they let people accomplish most of the tasks they wanted to in a simpler manner. That sounds a lot like the edge the ipad has. It's cheap and it lets you browse your photos and stream a netflix with relative ease.
I don't see what difference replacing OSX with iOS makes. Jobs needs developers to make apps for iOS. if he's going to supplant OSX with iOS entirely you are going to need dev tools that run on iOS. So you pay your hundred bucks a year and get the dev app for iOS. Or maybe the dev tool actually runs on windows or linux at that point, but i think that's less likely.
I would think that once iOS has a dev app, you would also need to leverage source control and multitasking. In the end how is it going to be much different? You would launch the dev app. work on your code. compile and test it. probably send the binary right to the appstore. Or maybe iOS at that point supports only html5 and then you can make content on anything you want.
Starting an ipad reading winnie the pooh at the slowest speed, then hiding it in an air vent at work is one of the greatest gags ever!
They made a garbage dump in space a LONG time ago. It's called Earth.
Yes. I agree. I'm just used to trying to explain to my managers and artists why something that's simple in flash is complicated in xna.
hmmm, i suppose so. But it's sort of a misnomer on flash's part and when people say vector based they think "something that i can put text into and it will scale infinitely without getting jaggy."
I'm unaware of any curve based functions in open gl es that let me specify a circle or a bezier or catmul-rom or nurb. I assume they don't exist in WebGL. If you want to sample a curve on your own and make a vertex buffer from it, you could, but most people when faced with the problem of displaying text in a 3d api, opt to render the text to a texture and map it to a quad. That isn't going to exhibit the same behavior as flash, and i guess that was the difference i meant to imply.
Aside from not being vector based, WebGL and Javascript are pretty low level compared to flash and silverlight. There's the question of, "what technology will allow me to animate X across the screen and react to input?", and there's the question of, "what technology will my development team be able to use?". The intersection of those domains are valid for your project.
Flash and silverlight are usable by a lot of people, some of which really have no business coding. WebGL is going to demand a higher caliber of developer that likely costs more and is in shorter supply. The ease of creation is what flash and silverlight are selling. I don't really see anything competing with that at the moment.
In Soviet Russia, app censors YOU!
Silverlight has abysmal support on WINDOWS! I have all the dev tools installed and certain Microsoft pages still ask me to install silverlight when I visit them.
In Russia this type of propaganda is as acceptable as Americans whole believe Obama is not a US citizen.
that's the lamest Yakov Smirnoff i've ever seen here.
They usually start out fine, but my act incorporates torches and chainsaws.
Man did I get screwed over by iPhone spell replacement.
This is everything on facebook. All the "find out what Brady bunch character you are" polls exist only to gain access to your account. Even farmville is just a clever trick to lire users in with a game. Then it spans you and makes money from offers and by directly asking you for money.
Hell, even facebook itself is just a moneymaking ruse cleverly designed as a way to keep in touch with friends while it gains all your personal info. .
I don't know about androids, but the gps In the iPhone serves only to augment positional data received by cell tower triangulation. I don't think it sees more than one or two satellites at a time. It works like crap if you don't have a signal. That's why the Tom Tom kit comes with it's own external gps receiver.
I greatly prefer my pos $99 gamin gps to my iPhone for road trips. It's not hackable. It has no features. But it always knos where I am.
Does this mean that the .NET 4.0 dynamic type will exist only for people to abuse it?
but your example statement seems to make sense. i don't know what a and b are, but i'm going to guess they are 4 and -1. If you are like the kids in the article, you might have supposed that a and b were 0 and 1.
4 + -1 = 1 + 2 = 3 the = is a statement.
0 + 1 = 1 + 2 = 3 the = is an operand.
i doubt there's anything wrong with the 2nd if your intent was to total up a bunch of stuff. If you saw a + b = 1 + 2 would your instinct be that the sum of a and b is 3 or that the sum of a and b is 1?
wait, TF2 is NOT the Mario Kart of shooters?
ha! i said the exact same thing
the article wasn't complaining about a running statement like x=y=b=a. it was complaining that the kids were not parsing a statement like x+y = c to mean that both sides of the equation were equal in value, they were reacting to the equals sign as a command to total up everything to the left of it.
Yeah, i think the real revelation of this study is, "test givers don't understand parentheses"
i have NEVER seen that notation before. if you give someone 3.3 = i * (brown red red blue) and they can't find i, you don't blame it on a lack of their understanding of algebra.