A classic rant that is largely nonsense but does have a smidgen of truth.
BSD's largest failing is that Linux was better at pushing people's buttons than BSD was. Linux has always felt dynamic, pragmatic and aggressive in pursuing new functionality whereas BSD is more laid back and feels like it is trying to preserve some archetypal Unix at the expense of progress. Over time that has meant that Linux has stolen an insurmountable lead.
I think its very hard for something as large as BSD (in its most common open source forms) to "die". Instead its user base diminishes to a gnarly stump and then it carries on in this state indefinitely, barely ticking over, supporting a minimal user base but still alive. Look at GNU Hurd as an example of a project which isn't dead either but is certainly moribund. I think if supporters of BSD or Hurd wish to bring their OS to a wider audience they need to look at what made Linux a success and try to emulate it. Or continue bumping along the bottom indefinitely.
One saving grace for BSD is its licence and what it means for commercial vendors. The Apples & Googles of this world see BSD as a means to develop open source code without being "infected" by the GPL. For example Android is virtually all BSD based in user land and it's not hard to envisage that even the kernel could be swapped if it came to it.
You ever watched a Disney DVD or video? Their entire business is based around making you watch ads for their own products.
And bloody annoying it is too. A customer has the good grace to purchase one of their DVDs or Blu Ray discs and how do they get rewarded? With 10 minutes of trailers which you have to fiddle about with a remote to bypass. Would it kill them to put up a brief banner that says, "you can watch trailers from the menu", or "trailers will follow the main presentation", or (on blu ray with its persistent store) only show trailers the first time the disc is loaded and only on demand thereafter. The latter would at least be tolerable even if it weren't ideal.
All I can surmise is Disney doesn't like happy paying customers who get to watch the disc they purchased with the minimum of inconvenience. Perhaps they'd prefer if users forgo giving them money and simply downloaded the trailerless versions instead.
Some factory in China is pumping out cheapo Android pads in a variety of styles and selling them wholesale for $80 each. Usually they're called aPads or Eken books and I've seen a number of announcements (e.g. Next are flogging a 10" variant for £180) which are obviously based on these. Indeed ebay is full of the generic 7" and 10" aPad / eken tablets. If you're determined you'll be able to buy a 7" one for $100. Although I don't expect they are anything to write home about, they are a herald of things to come.
There will a some perfectly usable tablets in the $200-299 range before long and I expect they will fulfill most of the things the iPad is bought for but a fraction of the price.
I'm working on a large project where the target browser is IE7. No consideration has gone into making it work on other browsers and as far as I can see there is no rationale for choosing IE7 either. It's nuts. Especially as the project is a rather large and requires good JS / DOM performance. Fortunately the project is built with GWT so in theory migrating to another browser is a matter of fixing stylesheets but this shortsightedness is just typical of large orgs. They don't realise a few years down the line what a millstone these limitations will be.
Who do you think would be busting into a run down McDonalds? Raffles the Gentleman Thief?
It's probably a gang of scumbags from the nearest housing estate. Chances are the cops would suspect who did it and presence of the dye on any of them would easily confirm it.
I read somewhere that it doesn't come of by simply washing with water and soap. I know, I know, [citation needed] etc, but I don't have a source right now.
Thieves are not generally known for their intelligence. Even if they were aware of the magic dye, they would have to arm themselves with a black light and literally scrub everything - themselves, their clothes, their shoes, their car, the trail of drips / prints, and anything they touched for the police to be no better off than if the dye system had not deployed. I bet you could be at it for hours and still leave traces. Even if you think you've washed the dye off, there might stuff left that can be swabbed and detected in a lab.
Hollywood strives for accuracy. The Social Network shows Zuckerberg as a precocious 9 year old. He sweeps his hands across the glass wall showing a flyover of facebook in 3D. When an adult asks if he knows what he was doing, he replies "Don't worry this site's password is only protected by fourth polynomial encryption, I'll break it in a few seconds!". With blur-like typing he sets off and the wall fills with a sea of random digits that appear to be crawling along a rotating DNA helix. All of a sudden the screen goes blank and is replaced by a big flashing ALARM sign and a wailing siren. "They must have traced my virus back to the mainframe" he says. "Run!". Then all the magnetic locks on the dinosaur enclosures are tripped and the rest of the movie seems them trying to escape the velociraptors. And that's exactly how it actually happened.
The only reason I run windows on my computer at home and my kids computer is games.
I concur this is a major impediment to Linux adoption. The funny part is Linux can support most Windows games. We already know that Cedega / Transgaming offer commercial game support through on Wine derived products. Most OS X ports are actually just the Win32 codebase linked to an OS X version of Wine called Cider.
What I would hope is that either Transgaming or Cedega strikes up a deal with Valve so that people can officially install Steam and download & play their PC games over Linux. Valve could give a cut of the purchase profits or a flat fee to these companies to provide that support.
That's the kind of boost that remove a major hurdle to using Linux fulltime for many people.
Linux is also the only major OS that cannot advertise.
Yes it can. Novell, IBM, Red Hat et al have sunk millions of dollars into advertising. Unfortunately they're advertising to people who buy servers and such like, not deploying desktops. I expect these companies realise it's kind of futile and high risk to chase the consumer market when Microsoft have it sewn up.
Ubuntu 10.10 has great copy on its website extolling the benefits and showing that you can do pretty much anything on Ubuntu that you can on a Mac or Windows based PC. But...you only see that if you're already on the Ubuntu landing page. Linux also doesnt come pre-installed on the vast majority of new PC's either.
Therein lies the problem. People who have Windows or OS X are not going to be convinced to undergo the trauma of switching operating systems for one which can "do pretty much anything... that you can do on a Mac or Windows PC". So I switch dist and I'm almost but not quite where I was when I started, what was the point of that?
I believe it would be more productive to deemphasize the OS and promote things like Firefox, OpenOffice etc. that run on top of it. If an OS runs all the apps a user is used then they're far less likely to care what is running underneath the next time they switch.
Why does anyone think Linux will ever replace Windows as a desktop environment? Current focus is away from the desktop. KDE and Gnome aren't any better than Windows in that regard. If anything replaces Windows, it won't go by what we call it today. OS X, KDE, Gnome, even future Windows*, can all be discounted.
Linux could have replaced Windows on the desktop. The reason it didn't, even with various golden opportunities (e.g. the Vista launch debacle) can be chalked up to a historical lack of interest in making Linux usable to non computer literate people. Perhaps dist makers like Red Hat etc. didn't see the pay off for setting Linux against Windows and certainly the smaller efforts like Linspire were pretty insipid. It has taken the concerted effort of GNOME, Fedora and Ubuntu to get to a point where Linux could be considered usable by mere mortals. But even now it still doesn't hold a candle to either OS X or Windows, especially with regard to game & multimedia support.
I was actually amazed recently when I discovered that Open Office _wasn't_ written in Java because I'd always assumed that was why it seemed so slow at many things.
Much of the issue appears to be OpenOffice is dragging so many different runtimes into existence when it starts - Java, Python (for UNO), StarBasic, even bits of Mozilla for LDAP and addressbook functionality. So when OOo is running it may be running native C++ for much of the time with occasional leaps out into different runtimes. This bloats memory and performance is all over the place .
It's a mess and could do with streamlining. How it could be streamline I don't know. I think each runtime needs to be evaluated for its criticality. For example, if Java were considered "critical", why bother with Python when Jython could do the same job. Maybe LDAP can also be done through Java to lose Mozilla. Perhaps StarBasic can be killed completely or at least be optional / deprecated. And if Java were not critical, what happens for things like OOo Base which depends on it?
In summary it's a bit of a mess. I think in the interests of Open/LibreOffice's independence that if Java were critical that other options should seriously be considered as to how it is integrated. For example, perhaps a subset of Harmony or Dalvik would be a better fit. The latter would have its own issues of course (e.g. adding extra jars like JDBC drivers at runtime), but I expect runtime overheads would be a lot lower.
OOo is a wedge. It's free and in most cases it works. Those are great reasons for people to use the product over the expensive, bloated and Windows encumbered MS Office. MS Office is a great product and better in most regards than OpenOffice but the reality is its packed with functionality which many people will never use - integration to MS backends like Sharepoint and so forth and it costs a lot of money to adminster and keep up to date.
If people start using OpenOffice, not only do MS lose sales on the office suite but they risk sales next time Windows comes around for an upgrade. Businesses will start to question why they need Windows at all when their users can run the same browser, office suite and possibly email app on multiple operating systems. So it's no wonder MS are concerned.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is just one prong in a new offensive since the BSA are also in the headlines for lobbying the EU to ban open formats in procurements. I bet we start seeing fud fly thick and fast about the OpenOffice / LibreOffice branch too.
2.2, 2.1, 1.6 and (possibly) 1.5. All those other roll-your-own versions represent a very small % of users, many of which are probably people messing around building Android OS from scratch and don't contain any significant changes.
Writing an Android app is relatively straightforward at a minimum pick a level of the API and code against it. The app's manifest file sets its minimum API level and also provides hints of what hardware it needs, what hardware is optional, what system resources are required etc. It's up to the marketplace / appslib software to ensure your app is only visible on devices that conforms with your app's requirements.
OpenOffice has plenty of flaws but at its heart it's a very functional office suite, it costs nothing and it runs on different platforms. Anyone be they an individual, a small business or a large enterprise really should consider using it before resorting to a commercial suite. I expect in most cases it offers the required functionality and there are distinct long and short term advantages to using it over the likes of MS Office.
The main one IMO is that it is cross platform. If your browser is cross platform, and your office suite is cross platform, then chances are your organisation can be cross platform with a small shove. This could result in huge savings on administration / IT and licensing in the long term.
There is the price, but then there is the horrible Ribbon interface. I have yet to meet someone IRL who *really* likes it.
I can't say I love the ribbon but I do think it is an improvement over the older toolbars. Problem is that many people are used to the older toolbars and as most people know gratuitous changes can be frustrating to existing users even if they are better for newer users.
That said, Open Office has a user interface only a mother could love. It's like the last ten years of progress in user interface design never happened for Open Office. It's not task centric enough, unintuitive, unforgiving, frustrating and in some parts borderline unusable.
I'd still recommend Open Office to anyone thinking of buying MS Office, but it needs a serious usability makeover.
Pretty good, but take note that all the examples where objects sitting on pretty flat colored backgrounds. I'd like to see what happens when you try to remove an object in a complex environment. Like removing a single person standing in a crowd.
There were some examples of that in the clip if you watched closely. The removal drain on a pebbly asphalt caused a weird swirly pattern to occur as the camera moved. I expect the same would be true for live attempts at the same. It probably works best on static things on solid backgrounds that nobody is likely to be walking over. I expect it will be used a lot in live broadcasting, especially sports events.
that means that all the fucktards that used to just scuff the hell out of the metal back are now dropping and breaking their back glass.
Perhaps the fucktards are the designers who create frequently dropped devices such as handheld phones out of not one but two pieces of glass. Or the fucktards who buy these devices and then promptly enclose them in rubber / plastic / leather sheathes thereby negating many of the reasons for buying the thing in the first place (e.g. thinness, design aesthetics).
Hotels offer free wifi since guests demand it. If red tape turns up which turns them into an ISP I don't see it necessarily stopping them from offering wifi. Instead some enterprising company will sell an ISP in a box, which will be a glorified NAS / router with extra logging/audit trail.
Apache Harmony is virtually feature complete, certainly as far as the bits that android uses. Do anyone thing IBM pulling developers from Harmony is going to hurt Google? At worst they'll hire a few more developers which I'm sure is a crippling overhead for a company their size.
Turns out you don't have enough space on a standard PS3 DVD to make a beautifully-rendered world full of gorgeous eye candy that is as open and expansive as FF players have come to expect. Result: one of the most boring, linear games I've ever played. In fact FF XIII is more like watching a several-days-long film than playing an interactive game.
The GTA series managed to cram a detailed city in a DVD so I don't believe that. Then you have Oblivion and Fallout 3 which do pretty much the same for RPGs. The reason Final Fantasy is so linear has less to do with available resources than the genre. Japanese RPGs are virtually by definition linear, expository, cutscene heavy, repetitive and turn based (for combat). Frankly I don't see why the series is held in such regard especially outside of Japan.
If someone is willing to pay $30 for a firmware update, then they probably do need someone to do it for them. I bet a lot of people on slashdot pay someone to change their oil/spark plugs/air filter. Same idea.
Not necessarily at all. The device will update itself, either when it's plugged into the internet for the first time or when you stick that new game in which has some minimum firmware restriction. It's literally a case of the box saying "You have to upgrade, click X to upgrade", followed by a wait while the box does its business. If people knew that they probably wouldn't be conned into paying $30 for the same.
Sure there is ignorance at work here but that doesn't excuse Best Buy's deception. I wouldn't be surprised if sales staff haven't got some scary sounding patter to go with it. It's a con, nothing more, nothing less. I wouldn't be surprised if they try the same crap when the 360's autumn firmware update turns up.
Google are really dithering when it comes to tablet support. On the one hand they have a real-world operating system called Android which works great in smart phones and would probably work great in tablets with some relatively modest changes. On the other they have this other thing called ChromeOS where "the browser is the OS" and everything else is some kind of a web app, although in reality they are also pushing "native" web apps so who knows.
I get the feeling from Google's silence / lack of direction that these two groups are engaged in some kind of unholy turf war for the hearts and minds of tablet devices. The consequence for consumers and manufacturers that no one else knows what the hell to do. Look at the tablets that have been released recently and they're running Android 2.2. Yet many devices don't qualify for certification so they ship with the market place application. Android is going to fragment if things don't sort themselves out soon.
If anyone from Google cares to know what I think, it is this. MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND. Personally I don't understand why ChromeOS even exists. The concept of web apps is fine, but what's wrong with a solution similar to Apple's where native / web apps coexist in the same user interface? In other words fold web apps into Android and dump this other thing.
Which is why you never refuse. You simply forget it. It is not illegal to forget something 50 chars long, it could easily happen.
Or after feigning duress you give up the shadow password. That's assuming you were smart enough to use a form of crypto that allows a shadow password and have enough from exposure to set up a hidden volume / operating system for that eventuality.
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A classic rant that is largely nonsense but does have a smidgen of truth. BSD's largest failing is that Linux was better at pushing people's buttons than BSD was. Linux has always felt dynamic, pragmatic and aggressive in pursuing new functionality whereas BSD is more laid back and feels like it is trying to preserve some archetypal Unix at the expense of progress. Over time that has meant that Linux has stolen an insurmountable lead. I think its very hard for something as large as BSD (in its most common open source forms) to "die". Instead its user base diminishes to a gnarly stump and then it carries on in this state indefinitely, barely ticking over, supporting a minimal user base but still alive. Look at GNU Hurd as an example of a project which isn't dead either but is certainly moribund. I think if supporters of BSD or Hurd wish to bring their OS to a wider audience they need to look at what made Linux a success and try to emulate it. Or continue bumping along the bottom indefinitely. One saving grace for BSD is its licence and what it means for commercial vendors. The Apples & Googles of this world see BSD as a means to develop open source code without being "infected" by the GPL. For example Android is virtually all BSD based in user land and it's not hard to envisage that even the kernel could be swapped if it came to it.
And bloody annoying it is too. A customer has the good grace to purchase one of their DVDs or Blu Ray discs and how do they get rewarded? With 10 minutes of trailers which you have to fiddle about with a remote to bypass. Would it kill them to put up a brief banner that says, "you can watch trailers from the menu", or "trailers will follow the main presentation", or (on blu ray with its persistent store) only show trailers the first time the disc is loaded and only on demand thereafter. The latter would at least be tolerable even if it weren't ideal.
All I can surmise is Disney doesn't like happy paying customers who get to watch the disc they purchased with the minimum of inconvenience. Perhaps they'd prefer if users forgo giving them money and simply downloaded the trailerless versions instead.
There will a some perfectly usable tablets in the $200-299 range before long and I expect they will fulfill most of the things the iPad is bought for but a fraction of the price.
I'm working on a large project where the target browser is IE7. No consideration has gone into making it work on other browsers and as far as I can see there is no rationale for choosing IE7 either. It's nuts. Especially as the project is a rather large and requires good JS / DOM performance. Fortunately the project is built with GWT so in theory migrating to another browser is a matter of fixing stylesheets but this shortsightedness is just typical of large orgs. They don't realise a few years down the line what a millstone these limitations will be.
Who do you think would be busting into a run down McDonalds? Raffles the Gentleman Thief?
It's probably a gang of scumbags from the nearest housing estate. Chances are the cops would suspect who did it and presence of the dye on any of them would easily confirm it.
Thieves are not generally known for their intelligence. Even if they were aware of the magic dye, they would have to arm themselves with a black light and literally scrub everything - themselves, their clothes, their shoes, their car, the trail of drips / prints, and anything they touched for the police to be no better off than if the dye system had not deployed. I bet you could be at it for hours and still leave traces. Even if you think you've washed the dye off, there might stuff left that can be swabbed and detected in a lab.
Hollywood strives for accuracy. The Social Network shows Zuckerberg as a precocious 9 year old. He sweeps his hands across the glass wall showing a flyover of facebook in 3D. When an adult asks if he knows what he was doing, he replies "Don't worry this site's password is only protected by fourth polynomial encryption, I'll break it in a few seconds!". With blur-like typing he sets off and the wall fills with a sea of random digits that appear to be crawling along a rotating DNA helix. All of a sudden the screen goes blank and is replaced by a big flashing ALARM sign and a wailing siren. "They must have traced my virus back to the mainframe" he says. "Run!". Then all the magnetic locks on the dinosaur enclosures are tripped and the rest of the movie seems them trying to escape the velociraptors. And that's exactly how it actually happened.
I concur this is a major impediment to Linux adoption. The funny part is Linux can support most Windows games. We already know that Cedega / Transgaming offer commercial game support through on Wine derived products. Most OS X ports are actually just the Win32 codebase linked to an OS X version of Wine called Cider.
What I would hope is that either Transgaming or Cedega strikes up a deal with Valve so that people can officially install Steam and download & play their PC games over Linux. Valve could give a cut of the purchase profits or a flat fee to these companies to provide that support.
That's the kind of boost that remove a major hurdle to using Linux fulltime for many people.
Yes it can. Novell, IBM, Red Hat et al have sunk millions of dollars into advertising. Unfortunately they're advertising to people who buy servers and such like, not deploying desktops. I expect these companies realise it's kind of futile and high risk to chase the consumer market when Microsoft have it sewn up.
Ubuntu 10.10 has great copy on its website extolling the benefits and showing that you can do pretty much anything on Ubuntu that you can on a Mac or Windows based PC. But...you only see that if you're already on the Ubuntu landing page. Linux also doesnt come pre-installed on the vast majority of new PC's either.
Therein lies the problem. People who have Windows or OS X are not going to be convinced to undergo the trauma of switching operating systems for one which can "do pretty much anything ... that you can do on a Mac or Windows PC". So I switch dist and I'm almost but not quite where I was when I started, what was the point of that?
I believe it would be more productive to deemphasize the OS and promote things like Firefox, OpenOffice etc. that run on top of it. If an OS runs all the apps a user is used then they're far less likely to care what is running underneath the next time they switch.
Linux could have replaced Windows on the desktop. The reason it didn't, even with various golden opportunities (e.g. the Vista launch debacle) can be chalked up to a historical lack of interest in making Linux usable to non computer literate people. Perhaps dist makers like Red Hat etc. didn't see the pay off for setting Linux against Windows and certainly the smaller efforts like Linspire were pretty insipid. It has taken the concerted effort of GNOME, Fedora and Ubuntu to get to a point where Linux could be considered usable by mere mortals. But even now it still doesn't hold a candle to either OS X or Windows, especially with regard to game & multimedia support.
Much of the issue appears to be OpenOffice is dragging so many different runtimes into existence when it starts - Java, Python (for UNO), StarBasic, even bits of Mozilla for LDAP and addressbook functionality. So when OOo is running it may be running native C++ for much of the time with occasional leaps out into different runtimes. This bloats memory and performance is all over the place .
It's a mess and could do with streamlining. How it could be streamline I don't know. I think each runtime needs to be evaluated for its criticality. For example, if Java were considered "critical", why bother with Python when Jython could do the same job. Maybe LDAP can also be done through Java to lose Mozilla. Perhaps StarBasic can be killed completely or at least be optional / deprecated. And if Java were not critical, what happens for things like OOo Base which depends on it?
In summary it's a bit of a mess. I think in the interests of Open/LibreOffice's independence that if Java were critical that other options should seriously be considered as to how it is integrated. For example, perhaps a subset of Harmony or Dalvik would be a better fit. The latter would have its own issues of course (e.g. adding extra jars like JDBC drivers at runtime), but I expect runtime overheads would be a lot lower.
If people start using OpenOffice, not only do MS lose sales on the office suite but they risk sales next time Windows comes around for an upgrade. Businesses will start to question why they need Windows at all when their users can run the same browser, office suite and possibly email app on multiple operating systems. So it's no wonder MS are concerned.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is just one prong in a new offensive since the BSA are also in the headlines for lobbying the EU to ban open formats in procurements. I bet we start seeing fud fly thick and fast about the OpenOffice / LibreOffice branch too.
What I find incredible is that it appears to be an opt-out system that the government collects the money on behalf of a religion. WTF?
Writing an Android app is relatively straightforward at a minimum pick a level of the API and code against it. The app's manifest file sets its minimum API level and also provides hints of what hardware it needs, what hardware is optional, what system resources are required etc. It's up to the marketplace / appslib software to ensure your app is only visible on devices that conforms with your app's requirements.
The main one IMO is that it is cross platform. If your browser is cross platform, and your office suite is cross platform, then chances are your organisation can be cross platform with a small shove. This could result in huge savings on administration / IT and licensing in the long term.
I can't say I love the ribbon but I do think it is an improvement over the older toolbars. Problem is that many people are used to the older toolbars and as most people know gratuitous changes can be frustrating to existing users even if they are better for newer users.
That said, Open Office has a user interface only a mother could love. It's like the last ten years of progress in user interface design never happened for Open Office. It's not task centric enough, unintuitive, unforgiving, frustrating and in some parts borderline unusable.
I'd still recommend Open Office to anyone thinking of buying MS Office, but it needs a serious usability makeover.
There were some examples of that in the clip if you watched closely. The removal drain on a pebbly asphalt caused a weird swirly pattern to occur as the camera moved. I expect the same would be true for live attempts at the same. It probably works best on static things on solid backgrounds that nobody is likely to be walking over. I expect it will be used a lot in live broadcasting, especially sports events.
Perhaps the fucktards are the designers who create frequently dropped devices such as handheld phones out of not one but two pieces of glass. Or the fucktards who buy these devices and then promptly enclose them in rubber / plastic / leather sheathes thereby negating many of the reasons for buying the thing in the first place (e.g. thinness, design aesthetics).
Hotels offer free wifi since guests demand it. If red tape turns up which turns them into an ISP I don't see it necessarily stopping them from offering wifi. Instead some enterprising company will sell an ISP in a box, which will be a glorified NAS / router with extra logging /audit trail.
Apache Harmony is virtually feature complete, certainly as far as the bits that android uses. Do anyone thing IBM pulling developers from Harmony is going to hurt Google? At worst they'll hire a few more developers which I'm sure is a crippling overhead for a company their size.
The GTA series managed to cram a detailed city in a DVD so I don't believe that. Then you have Oblivion and Fallout 3 which do pretty much the same for RPGs. The reason Final Fantasy is so linear has less to do with available resources than the genre. Japanese RPGs are virtually by definition linear, expository, cutscene heavy, repetitive and turn based (for combat). Frankly I don't see why the series is held in such regard especially outside of Japan.
AC, Sanity. Sanity, AC. I hope you two can become acquainted with each other.
Not necessarily at all. The device will update itself, either when it's plugged into the internet for the first time or when you stick that new game in which has some minimum firmware restriction. It's literally a case of the box saying "You have to upgrade, click X to upgrade", followed by a wait while the box does its business. If people knew that they probably wouldn't be conned into paying $30 for the same.
Sure there is ignorance at work here but that doesn't excuse Best Buy's deception. I wouldn't be surprised if sales staff haven't got some scary sounding patter to go with it. It's a con, nothing more, nothing less. I wouldn't be surprised if they try the same crap when the 360's autumn firmware update turns up.
I get the feeling from Google's silence / lack of direction that these two groups are engaged in some kind of unholy turf war for the hearts and minds of tablet devices. The consequence for consumers and manufacturers that no one else knows what the hell to do. Look at the tablets that have been released recently and they're running Android 2.2. Yet many devices don't qualify for certification so they ship with the market place application. Android is going to fragment if things don't sort themselves out soon.
If anyone from Google cares to know what I think, it is this. MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND. Personally I don't understand why ChromeOS even exists. The concept of web apps is fine, but what's wrong with a solution similar to Apple's where native / web apps coexist in the same user interface? In other words fold web apps into Android and dump this other thing.
Or after feigning duress you give up the shadow password. That's assuming you were smart enough to use a form of crypto that allows a shadow password and have enough from exposure to set up a hidden volume / operating system for that eventuality.