Yes, most developers do this, but especially game developers. Have you never worked in professional software development?
Right now I do in-house development for a government agency, and we test our apps on all 10 of the currently deployed SOE machine/monitor combinations.
Anyone who says you DON'T have to buy a bunch of phones doesn't know how development works.
Yes we know it will technically run. But considering screen size/resolution/layout/keyboard (or not)/etc differences you really need to test your app on each representative phone. While not EVERY phone is necessary, you'd need at least 4-5 to cover the combinations.
Every library I've used has a "debug" version (nice names, nice spacing, etc) and a "production/tiny" version (optimized for end user browser download/caching).
Most people use windows, and windows (until W7) did not handle DPI changes with any sense of normality. I've not seen Linux behave nicely either with random changes to DPI (very dependant on having the right fonts installed/etc instead of scaling it on the fly).
I think the issue is that we (Australia) won't license the patent and actually print the money for all the countries that use it. Do you reckon the US would go for THAT?
kyle is an asshole. This has been proven by anyone who's attempted to read hardocp for more than 12 months. I stopped reading 5-6 years ago after he flamed me over email for daring to comment on a story they had on the front page.
You are either mistaken or lying. I will assume mistaken.
Your provider may try to blame apple but the rest of the world is proof that it's not Apple's decision.
In Australia, with my Apple retail store bought unjailbroken 3.1.2 firmware running iphone, on the Three network, without any funky addons or modified carrier provisioning files, I do the following to tether: -Open Settings -Choose General->Network->Internet Tethering -Click the on/off button
Very tough! STRONGLY discouraged! Passing the buck!
You chose the dell with a 15.6" screen vs an apple with a 17" screen. Going to a 16" dell would add $300 (still 1" short) to the dell, or going to a 15" macbook would save you $300. So lets say add 300 to the dell (now up to $2000).
On top of that, and this is part of your point, apple macbook pros haven't been updated in over 9 months. Their pricing was set 9 months ago. When they (hopefully soon) release their new macbook pro 17's it will likely meet or beat dell's pricing on the same equipment (for that month). 6 months later, we're back to that problem...
I do agree that here in the AU we get screwed pretty hardcore by apple's "set and forget" pricing (great for us if $ is high, horrible if $ is low, for the single day a product is released).
-VDPAU is a decoding library. MPlayer (and many other media programs) supports VDPAU. -mplayer WITHOUT an external hardware accelerated decoding library will not be able to play 720p/1080p files on a netbook without severe stuttering (or possible complete failure).
Why woudln't it just contain any of the 23984238949823498329 other small microprocessor boards?
I own 3 arduino prototype boards, and have self-made several (buy the chip with pre-flashed bootloader, put the rest of the components on your production-ready pcb) but it's the EASIEST game out there, not the ONLY game out there.
I run ubuntu on every computer I own apart from my mac mini (OSX obviously), but that's basically been ubuntu's release strategy as well.
"Ubuntu X.YY: most things suck less than before, but we probably fucked up sound again" "Ubuntu X.YY+1: most things suck less than before even more, I think we fixed sound"
"Mythbuntu X.YY+1: we just removed the sound engine so that it will work"
How do you determine piracy? My wife and I have iPhones both tied to the same iTunes account, so if I buy an app on my phone you may not have her deviceID in order to verify...
Do more than.0001% of linux users need autoforwarding, or network transparency at all? Or should we focus on what the other 99.9999% want, which is high performance, low latency, non-crashing sound like the other two major OSs have.
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Yes, most developers do this, but especially game developers. Have you never worked in professional software development?
Right now I do in-house development for a government agency, and we test our apps on all 10 of the currently deployed SOE machine/monitor combinations.
Anyone not doing this is not doing proper QA.
Anyone who says you DON'T have to buy a bunch of phones doesn't know how development works.
Yes we know it will technically run. But considering screen size/resolution/layout/keyboard (or not)/etc differences you really need to test your app on each representative phone. While not EVERY phone is necessary, you'd need at least 4-5 to cover the combinations.
Every library I've used has a "debug" version (nice names, nice spacing, etc) and a "production/tiny" version (optimized for end user browser download/caching).
Most people use windows, and windows (until W7) did not handle DPI changes with any sense of normality. I've not seen Linux behave nicely either with random changes to DPI (very dependant on having the right fonts installed/etc instead of scaling it on the fly).
OSX on the other hand...
I think the issue is that we (Australia) won't license the patent and actually print the money for all the countries that use it. Do you reckon the US would go for THAT?
Societies have been enslaving those of other race or culture since the beginning of organized humanity.
Part of society is that it progresses.
Christians in the rest of the world are very different from the evangelical christians in the US.
Timestamp in mssql is a misnomer, it's not a timestamp at all. It's more of a binary format concurrency key.
This doesn't excuse the use of the name by MS, but once you realize that it makes the column useful again.
No one at HardOCP is a journalist, so that's not 100% true.
kyle is an asshole. This has been proven by anyone who's attempted to read hardocp for more than 12 months. I stopped reading 5-6 years ago after he flamed me over email for daring to comment on a story they had on the front page.
You are either mistaken or lying. I will assume mistaken.
Your provider may try to blame apple but the rest of the world is proof that it's not Apple's decision.
In Australia, with my Apple retail store bought unjailbroken 3.1.2 firmware running iphone, on the Three network, without any funky addons or modified carrier provisioning files, I do the following to tether:
-Open Settings
-Choose General->Network->Internet Tethering
-Click the on/off button
Very tough! STRONGLY discouraged! Passing the buck!
It does affect consoles that have never had a network connection and never will.
You chose the dell with a 15.6" screen vs an apple with a 17" screen. Going to a 16" dell would add $300 (still 1" short) to the dell, or going to a 15" macbook would save you $300. So lets say add 300 to the dell (now up to $2000).
On top of that, and this is part of your point, apple macbook pros haven't been updated in over 9 months. Their pricing was set 9 months ago. When they (hopefully soon) release their new macbook pro 17's it will likely meet or beat dell's pricing on the same equipment (for that month). 6 months later, we're back to that problem...
I do agree that here in the AU we get screwed pretty hardcore by apple's "set and forget" pricing (great for us if $ is high, horrible if $ is low, for the single day a product is released).
They're about $40 for the mini-pci-express addin card, and the problem is you will lose wireless (easily fixable with a usb dongle though...).
XBMC has support, other programs are coming online quickly.
VLC on an aspire one will play back 1080p video files without stuttering?
-VDPAU is a decoding library. MPlayer (and many other media programs) supports VDPAU.
-mplayer WITHOUT an external hardware accelerated decoding library will not be able to play 720p/1080p files on a netbook without severe stuttering (or possible complete failure).
Have you tested it?
-can't create a new document
-can't get to tabs on spreadsheets that you haven't visited while online
-can't (obviously) import a document
It's functional in an "I know i need this ONE document to edit while on the train home" type of way, but not in a "replaces office" way.
What about the poor kids who wind up with mumps, or whooping cough, or .... before they are fully immunized?
Those children are dying directly at the hands of parents who refuse to immunize.
Why woudln't it just contain any of the 23984238949823498329 other small microprocessor boards?
I own 3 arduino prototype boards, and have self-made several (buy the chip with pre-flashed bootloader, put the rest of the components on your production-ready pcb) but it's the EASIEST game out there, not the ONLY game out there.
I run ubuntu on every computer I own apart from my mac mini (OSX obviously), but that's basically been ubuntu's release strategy as well.
"Ubuntu X.YY: most things suck less than before, but we probably fucked up sound again"
"Ubuntu X.YY+1: most things suck less than before even more, I think we fixed sound"
"Mythbuntu X.YY+1: we just removed the sound engine so that it will work"
Does this have VDPAU support ready? Planned? On ANY horizon?
If so, hooray!
If not, worthless for everyone who chose nvidia over ATI for this killer feature.
That's because you've either paid, or contributed.
I've actually not found a better enterprise solution to team development than the newest version of TFS. Especially in corporate environments.
Perforce still beats it as a pure source control manager, but that's FAR from free software, and the whole package isn't as nicely integrated as TFS.
How do you determine piracy? My wife and I have iPhones both tied to the same iTunes account, so if I buy an app on my phone you may not have her deviceID in order to verify...
Do more than .0001% of linux users need autoforwarding, or network transparency at all? Or should we focus on what the other 99.9999% want, which is high performance, low latency, non-crashing sound like the other two major OSs have.