No, Windows Mobile or Blackberry would be in Android's position, because most of the phone manufacturers wouldn't want to give that up, or in many cases, couldn't.
Yeah, looking through that list, I now need to get ahold of Troika by Alistair Reynolds. I don't recognize many other than him on that list, but damn, he's probably the best currently active SciFi author (IMNSHO)
Aside from the lack of apps, which is true, I'd have to say, I find my Toshiba Thrive much less clunky than an iPad. Yes it's larger, but it has a higher screen resolution, USB (which works with a hub) that can connect to a keyboard and mouse if I like, I believe it can do the same with bluetooth, DVI, audio, and storage can be expanded both with USB drives and a/SD([XH]C)?/ card.
I have access to an excellent email client, good web browsers, flash (actually, I'd uninstall it if I could, for security reasons), quite a few excellent games, good calendar apps... This is without resorting to apps that I have to pay for.
Samsung Moment and Transform. They had good video, screen, good color, etc. However, there is no excuse, IMO, for a phone crashing, especially when it is on Android. Currently I have an HTC Windows Phone 7, which works great. I've used a friends HTC Evo, none of those issues, I have a Toshiba Honeycomb tablet, and not had the "sleep of death" issue, which is the only common issue for that device.
Plenty of good stuff out there.
And, by "lockup" do you mean crash/stall that forced you to restart? If so, and you don't find anything annoying about a "couple" of those, I'd say that says something bad about the user as well as the phone.
I have a HTC WP7 device as well (the Arrive). I like it better than my Samsung Androids. The static page orientation all over the UI, that often requires flipping my phone between horizontal and vertical annoys me.
Aye, but there's also something this doesn't cover - region. Many of these companies perform differently if you use their service in different cities.
Where I live, you can regularly expect AT&T DSL to give you about +10% of advertised speed, and we have Wide Open West, which is good (but not listed there). The Insight and Time Warner list there probably overestimate the quality of service here where I live. Actually, since Insight (at least here) uses the TimeWarner infrastructure, it doesn't surprise me at all that they show so similar.
However, if we conversely go to a friend in another city, her Time Warner acually does meet advertised peak speed, and does so fairly regularly, but equally regularly goes down to DSL speeds.
The charts that are listed on the TFA are useless except on a per-city basis.
Ha! I actually ran into something similar with a 80mm case fan that an old heatsink supported. The CPU fan power on the mobo wouldn't run it. So the CPU fan was plugged into a case fan plug on the mobo, and put a 50mm fan somewhere in the case, on the CPU fan plug.
You'd still have to buy the craptacular overpriced fan in your scenario, but nobody would know you weren't running it on the CPU cooler.
They certainly didn't on the i7 I built. It came with a heatsink, but I had to install it myself.
And you install an sold-separately heat sink the same way you install a heatsink that comes with the item. Yeah, I'm sure you meant to ask something else, but that's the way it reads.
Given the only other decent Phone OS options get you iPwned, or Windows 7 (good ideas, easy development, complete lack of polish or apps), and, oh yeah, BlackBerry, I'm glad of it.
And for tablet, the options are one fewer for now.
I for one am GLAD google didn't stick to just search engines.
Still, as a manager, knowledge of the tools can be useful. He should remain in the managerial track, but learn the tools, possibly assist those under him. Though at the same time, would that be a waste of the managerial time, which could be better spent elsewhere.
Although related to your post, this is written as directed to the author of TFS.
1) With that, and regarding TFS, I would say, C# is nice with a delphi background, from a lot of what I heard. 1.1) Contrary to what a lot of Java fanbois are thinking,.NET isn't going the way of the dodo, but it will probably be relegated to a non-ui front, for the most part 1.2) I would be very surprised if MS didn't come with a ".NET recompiler" that would produce HTML5/JavaScript output. 2) It's always been a back-and-forth struggle between Java and.NET in the business world for as long as they both have been around, however, in the past few years, it seems Java is (sadly, IMO) making a lot of headway. 2.1) Oracle seems to be trying to fix this. I hope they succeed. I have to program Java for a living, and it sucks. What I do for fun / my own projects is C and C#.
The other languages that you don't already know, tend to be more niche. Which gets to the best answer I could give - look at the places you want to go. What are THEY using? Honestly, by the time I had learned 2 or 3 C-style languages, I could pick up the next in a week or two. A good set of reference docs and/or auto-complete IDE would speed up effective use of the libraries in the language, past that point, and with the people I've talked to, this makes me a bit slow on the uptake. You should familiarize yourself with the languages of interest, and fully learn them as needed, unless you have some fun projects they seem good for.
But general users will probably be just fine with a (cell phone and/or a tablet) + dock, the latter for the cases they need to write a report or something, and would rather have a keyboard than touch screen, or want to play their games on a bigger screen.
The desktop won't go the way of the dodo, but it will become an endangered species, and the notebook will probably do so not long after. The one thing I can see revitalizing either market beyond a niche, is desktop/notebook docks, which you plug your phone or tablet into and gives them some extra power - the phone/tablet acting as a primary HDD, and the notebook/desktop acting as a backup, and extra CPU/memory. Even then, I'm not sure, with people so happily moving to online data storage and applications.
This being slashdot, it's safe to assume the GP knows that.
As for where they are, electronics using vacuum tubes are popular with audiophiles and people who like playing with old radio equipment, particularly ham radio operators with a bit of nuclear war paranoia...
OK, maybe a better way of putting it, is that most people want the choice to be made for them, and not to have to make it themselves. Commercials are one, but by far, not the only, way of handling that.
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But ripping off [from BSD and similar licenses], now that's groovy!
No, Windows Mobile or Blackberry would be in Android's position, because most of the phone manufacturers wouldn't want to give that up, or in many cases, couldn't.
Yeah, looking through that list, I now need to get ahold of Troika by Alistair Reynolds. I don't recognize many other than him on that list, but damn, he's probably the best currently active SciFi author (IMNSHO)
What, do you have some problem with girl electronics on girl electronics action?
You biggoted bastard!
Aside from the lack of apps, which is true, I'd have to say, I find my Toshiba Thrive much less clunky than an iPad. Yes it's larger, but it has a higher screen resolution, USB (which works with a hub) that can connect to a keyboard and mouse if I like, I believe it can do the same with bluetooth, DVI, audio, and storage can be expanded both with USB drives and a /SD([XH]C)?/ card.
I have access to an excellent email client, good web browsers, flash (actually, I'd uninstall it if I could, for security reasons), quite a few excellent games, good calendar apps... This is without resorting to apps that I have to pay for.
It has also been stable, and high performance.
True, and when the day comes that such is the ONLY case where browser version considerations are needed, I'll agree with you.
Until then, there are plenty of other cases where it is still relevant.
Doesn't mean there are times, where you have to account for imperfect rendering.
Outside of Blizzard and Goldfarmers, and maybe a handful of others, how many businesses make use of World of Warcraft.
Now... Compare that to Firefox.
Samsung Moment and Transform. They had good video, screen, good color, etc. However, there is no excuse, IMO, for a phone crashing, especially when it is on Android. Currently I have an HTC Windows Phone 7, which works great. I've used a friends HTC Evo, none of those issues, I have a Toshiba Honeycomb tablet, and not had the "sleep of death" issue, which is the only common issue for that device.
Plenty of good stuff out there.
And, by "lockup" do you mean crash/stall that forced you to restart? If so, and you don't find anything annoying about a "couple" of those, I'd say that says something bad about the user as well as the phone.
I have a HTC WP7 device as well (the Arrive). I like it better than my Samsung Androids. The static page orientation all over the UI, that often requires flipping my phone between horizontal and vertical annoys me.
Weird. I've had their DSL before, I've had issues with their billing, but the actual DSL service/support in my area was excellent.
I'd agree with your statement if it weren't for the "quasi". That spoiled it for me.
stop stalking me please. I'm creeped out now :-P
(and, yes, Columbus)
Warning: calling WoW "expensive" is a bit of an understatement. Worth it to me, but maybe not to others...
Aye, but there's also something this doesn't cover - region. Many of these companies perform differently if you use their service in different cities.
Where I live, you can regularly expect AT&T DSL to give you about +10% of advertised speed, and we have Wide Open West, which is good (but not listed there). The Insight and Time Warner list there probably overestimate the quality of service here where I live. Actually, since Insight (at least here) uses the TimeWarner infrastructure, it doesn't surprise me at all that they show so similar.
However, if we conversely go to a friend in another city, her Time Warner acually does meet advertised peak speed, and does so fairly regularly, but equally regularly goes down to DSL speeds.
The charts that are listed on the TFA are useless except on a per-city basis.
Ha! I actually ran into something similar with a 80mm case fan that an old heatsink supported. The CPU fan power on the mobo wouldn't run it. So the CPU fan was plugged into a case fan plug on the mobo, and put a 50mm fan somewhere in the case, on the CPU fan plug.
You'd still have to buy the craptacular overpriced fan in your scenario, but nobody would know you weren't running it on the CPU cooler.
They certainly didn't on the i7 I built. It came with a heatsink, but I had to install it myself.
And you install an sold-separately heat sink the same way you install a heatsink that comes with the item. Yeah, I'm sure you meant to ask something else, but that's the way it reads.
Yeah. I had a couple Samsung androids.
Crash. Get stuck in airplane mode so you have to restart, etc.
I'll take Motorola over that garbage. Anyway, with Google in change, I suspect the annoying software stuff will go away with Motorola.
Given the only other decent Phone OS options get you iPwned, or Windows 7 (good ideas, easy development, complete lack of polish or apps), and, oh yeah, BlackBerry, I'm glad of it.
And for tablet, the options are one fewer for now.
I for one am GLAD google didn't stick to just search engines.
Of the android phone makers, Motorola is one of the two best. I'm glad Google went for them instead of Samsung... *shudder*
Hopefully that means there will be Motorola android phones on Sprint.
Still, as a manager, knowledge of the tools can be useful. He should remain in the managerial track, but learn the tools, possibly assist those under him. Though at the same time, would that be a waste of the managerial time, which could be better spent elsewhere.
Although related to your post, this is written as directed to the author of TFS.
1) With that, and regarding TFS, I would say, C# is nice with a delphi background, from a lot of what I heard. .NET isn't going the way of the dodo, but it will probably be relegated to a non-ui front, for the most part .NET in the business world for as long as they both have been around, however, in the past few years, it seems Java is (sadly, IMO) making a lot of headway.
1.1) Contrary to what a lot of Java fanbois are thinking,
1.2) I would be very surprised if MS didn't come with a ".NET recompiler" that would produce HTML5/JavaScript output.
2) It's always been a back-and-forth struggle between Java and
2.1) Oracle seems to be trying to fix this. I hope they succeed. I have to program Java for a living, and it sucks. What I do for fun / my own projects is C and C#.
The other languages that you don't already know, tend to be more niche. Which gets to the best answer I could give - look at the places you want to go. What are THEY using? Honestly, by the time I had learned 2 or 3 C-style languages, I could pick up the next in a week or two. A good set of reference docs and/or auto-complete IDE would speed up effective use of the libraries in the language, past that point, and with the people I've talked to, this makes me a bit slow on the uptake. You should familiarize yourself with the languages of interest, and fully learn them as needed, unless you have some fun projects they seem good for.
I'm more concerned with what is keeping them from simply controlling the world outright.
But general users will probably be just fine with a (cell phone and/or a tablet) + dock, the latter for the cases they need to write a report or something, and would rather have a keyboard than touch screen, or want to play their games on a bigger screen.
The desktop won't go the way of the dodo, but it will become an endangered species, and the notebook will probably do so not long after. The one thing I can see revitalizing either market beyond a niche, is desktop/notebook docks, which you plug your phone or tablet into and gives them some extra power - the phone/tablet acting as a primary HDD, and the notebook/desktop acting as a backup, and extra CPU/memory. Even then, I'm not sure, with people so happily moving to online data storage and applications.
This being slashdot, it's safe to assume the GP knows that.
As for where they are, electronics using vacuum tubes are popular with audiophiles and people who like playing with old radio equipment, particularly ham radio operators with a bit of nuclear war paranoia...
For the most part, because for any given task, there are rarely 1000s of options on those app stores?
OK, maybe a better way of putting it, is that most people want the choice to be made for them, and not to have to make it themselves. Commercials are one, but by far, not the only, way of handling that.