Har har, and the self compile thing I agree with for kindergarten children but I was using a pokecon [see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_computer ] in grade school so self compile could easily matter in a few years. There's actually a pokecon emulator for DSi/3DS. With the whole Apple BS about interpreters and whatever I doubt you'll ever see one on iOS. Oh, and may I just mention the Digital Textbook standard in Japan - originally established more than 15 years ago - includes scripting functionality and in turn is still not available on iOS (or so I hear). Sharp realized this and released the Android based Galapagos tablet - which you can get many standards school textbooks on and performs that and other functionality so well India is using it as the basis of their digital textbook program.
All I can say is I'm glad I'm not raising my kids in America.
You are absolutely wrong and I'll tell you why: 1. The generic Gnome desktop is absolutely no more confusing, and arguably more intuitive than Windows. The same could be said for Unity or Gnome Shell vs OSX. 2. Software installation is significantly easier. 3. No annoying popups, no uncontrollable restarts for software updates, no constantly hunting for drivers, services like FUSE and CUPS make device and network connectivity far simpler than on Windows. 4. With distributions like Ubuntu, even the installation is simpler.
It's obvious you haven't used Linux in a while, or you haven't seen how clean and easy distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. have become. It's not just my kids using it by the way, my mother in law had constant malware problems and the computer was old - I said try Ubuntu on it and if she didn't like it buy a new computer. She's been using Ubuntu now for 2 years and she doesn't really even know the difference. I didn't teach her anything, and her calls for help have gone from one every few weeks to none. I'm sure many other people here have similar stories. Anyway the point is kids in kindergarten can use Linux, and I for one would argue it's more usable than at least Windows, and without the artificial limitations of OSX.
My kids use Linux. They are 3 and 5. I didn't teach them either, the watched me using it and very quickly got used to it. Kids aren't stupid, but parents/teachers who spend lots of money to give them technology that limits them are.
Yeah, iPads will teach the students about limitations - not being able to install software, living in a fully censored world, no options for self compilation, and without a keyboard students will learn that technology is slow and frustrating.
Wait, why didn't they give them something like the OLPC? That's cheaper, durable, has a keyboard, -CAN BE USED AS A TABLET by flipping the screen around and even has a stylus so you can write efficiently with it, has compilers built in by default, and is designed to be used by children for educational purposes. I guess Americans are just teaching their kids to be mindless consumers with as little real technical ability as possible. Seriously, they could have spent $200,000 on a myriad of things that would have better benefited those students, you know like hiring a few teachers that can actually teach instead of providing the bare minimum and hoping expensive bullshit technology will pick up the slack.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." They can pass the patents to Google and let Google take the heat and fight the fight and they can generally stay out of it - for them that's good. Besides, this will surely strengthen the Google-IBM relationship and I'm sure there were other terms and conditions set out on the transfer that will be beneficial to IBM.
It should further be noted that IBM has actually taken patents for things and allowed totally free use simply to prevent anyone from controlling some fundamental technology. As far as patents go they seem like the good guys.
They are AeroGel: http://www.aerogel.org/ - and it's expensive as hell so unless you want that oven to cost more than you could ever possibly save in energy costs you're out of luck. If you could cheaply mass produce it on the other hand there is a massive market waiting for you.
I agree with you on dynamic bitrates, but what I meant about dynamic streaming was being able to load and play the video from a particular portion and not having to cache the entire video to play it - just a portion. This basically doesn't exist in HTML5 video with any of the players I've used, but it's not like it couldn't. In fact some players may support it and I just don't know about it.
1. I was referring to video like that on YouTube - normal video. Not vector animation. 2. DRM like WMDRM. This is one of the cases where it's a good solution. It's already used by video rental services and you can watch the video in an actual video player at a very high resolution - whereas 1080p video drops frames and looks like crap in a Flash player.
Seriously, the HTML5 video tag works - just start using it. The problem here is of course dynamic streaming (and a few other things) but the thing is Flash can stream mp4 files just fine - internally it's the same stuff with just the flv container being different. Transcode your video into mp4, if Flash loads play it in Flash (or even better give the user an option), otherwise use an HTML5 fallback. If both of those cases fail direct your users to download a browser that doesn't suck or something.
Oh, and the whole process I just outlined is something you can do easily with a variety of libraries and modules, just search for it. Oh, and cut out the whole trying to stop people from downloading video by wrapping it in 8 different concentric SWF interface wrappers - if you don't want someone downloading your video then don't put it on your website in the first place.
I made a vague generalization, but the point I think I was trying to make was that stupid people are putting their kids at risk while if they had been put at risk themselves they may not be alive to have had children in the first place. Or something. Looking back now I really don't know what I was trying to say.
Re-read what you quoted. I have nothing against treating pirates as future customers - having someone with no money pirate your software and make money, then ask them to license the software is sort of a good idea (though it begs the question why they wouldn't offer a free version until then - I know Borland used to). But up and cornering them, threatening them, and bringing them to court is not only a dick move but it's also the worst possible way to foster customer loyalty.
Case in point: the BSA didn't actually sue us (yet?) but we're now actively avoiding any and all software associated with them. We purchased Adobe software (once), we will never be purchasing or using Adobe software or supporting or associating ourselves with Adobe in any way. Go read up on people who've been attacked by the BSA - many of them have done the exact same thing and are actively avoiding BSA associated software.
As much as I dislike Apple I actually like that idea. It would have been like the second coming of NeXT but this time with a big set of technologies and unmatched marketing power. I would have liked to see that.
From the link: "The Japanese government planned to introduce the Matsushita PC in its schools, but the United States government objected, claiming that the plan constituted market intervention and threatened Japan with sanctions (partly at the request of Microsoft)."
I've seen a BTRON machine and it was impressive, easily better than Windows of the era. It should be noted that BTRON was an open OS and was developed by a group of companies who had a mutually vested interest. It lives on however as iTRON, which is the OS in things like car control systems, washing machine fuzzy logic controllers, refrigerators, TV's, cell phones etc. Next time you pop open something and find a chip with "Renesas" printed on it you can probably assume it's got iTRON on it.
HotBot did this back when... you know back when people still knew about a search engine called HotBot. They had a ranking system where you could add a point to the sites that you felt most resembled what you were looking for.
That's a copyright issue. If the company ignored you you'd need to file a claim, but the thing is in China copyright claims are basically ignored unless it's a national-level PR issue. Sorry, that's just China.
I'm the guy who wrote the Ask Slashdot about the BSA about a month ago. This sounds very reminiscent of that. In my case I had no unlicensed software and the BSA gave up, but just being approached in this way really pissed me off. The BSA approached me because they thought I had money and assumed I was using unlicensed software - the were wrong on both counts but had they been right being cornered like that would in no way earn my favor for the software or companies they represent.
If they think this is a good way to reduce piracy, they may be correct. If this is a way to earn more than one sale of their software they're dead wrong. As soon as they win a case in China and force some company to pay (good luck assholes) I hope they see their software fall out of favor very quickly.
Oops, sorry for misunderstanding that and thank you for taking the time to clarify.
I'm thinking of something to make to try out Opa by the way. I looked through some samples and I must admit I like how it handles things like Canvas and "live" apps.
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Har har, and the self compile thing I agree with for kindergarten children but I was using a pokecon [see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_computer ] in grade school so self compile could easily matter in a few years. There's actually a pokecon emulator for DSi/3DS. With the whole Apple BS about interpreters and whatever I doubt you'll ever see one on iOS. Oh, and may I just mention the Digital Textbook standard in Japan - originally established more than 15 years ago - includes scripting functionality and in turn is still not available on iOS (or so I hear). Sharp realized this and released the Android based Galapagos tablet - which you can get many standards school textbooks on and performs that and other functionality so well India is using it as the basis of their digital textbook program.
All I can say is I'm glad I'm not raising my kids in America.
You are absolutely wrong and I'll tell you why:
1. The generic Gnome desktop is absolutely no more confusing, and arguably more intuitive than Windows. The same could be said for Unity or Gnome Shell vs OSX.
2. Software installation is significantly easier.
3. No annoying popups, no uncontrollable restarts for software updates, no constantly hunting for drivers, services like FUSE and CUPS make device and network connectivity far simpler than on Windows.
4. With distributions like Ubuntu, even the installation is simpler.
It's obvious you haven't used Linux in a while, or you haven't seen how clean and easy distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. have become. It's not just my kids using it by the way, my mother in law had constant malware problems and the computer was old - I said try Ubuntu on it and if she didn't like it buy a new computer. She's been using Ubuntu now for 2 years and she doesn't really even know the difference. I didn't teach her anything, and her calls for help have gone from one every few weeks to none. I'm sure many other people here have similar stories. Anyway the point is kids in kindergarten can use Linux, and I for one would argue it's more usable than at least Windows, and without the artificial limitations of OSX.
My kids use Linux. They are 3 and 5. I didn't teach them either, the watched me using it and very quickly got used to it. Kids aren't stupid, but parents/teachers who spend lots of money to give them technology that limits them are.
Yeah, iPads will teach the students about limitations - not being able to install software, living in a fully censored world, no options for self compilation, and without a keyboard students will learn that technology is slow and frustrating.
Wait, why didn't they give them something like the OLPC? That's cheaper, durable, has a keyboard, -CAN BE USED AS A TABLET by flipping the screen around and even has a stylus so you can write efficiently with it, has compilers built in by default, and is designed to be used by children for educational purposes. I guess Americans are just teaching their kids to be mindless consumers with as little real technical ability as possible. Seriously, they could have spent $200,000 on a myriad of things that would have better benefited those students, you know like hiring a few teachers that can actually teach instead of providing the bare minimum and hoping expensive bullshit technology will pick up the slack.
Your comment deserves a +1 Stallman.
ditto, I wish I had mod points. Nice zing there.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." They can pass the patents to Google and let Google take the heat and fight the fight and they can generally stay out of it - for them that's good. Besides, this will surely strengthen the Google-IBM relationship and I'm sure there were other terms and conditions set out on the transfer that will be beneficial to IBM.
It should further be noted that IBM has actually taken patents for things and allowed totally free use simply to prevent anyone from controlling some fundamental technology. As far as patents go they seem like the good guys.
They are AeroGel: http://www.aerogel.org/ - and it's expensive as hell so unless you want that oven to cost more than you could ever possibly save in energy costs you're out of luck. If you could cheaply mass produce it on the other hand there is a massive market waiting for you.
What do you know, it does! Well, I guess that solves that. Thanks for the tip.
I agree with you on dynamic bitrates, but what I meant about dynamic streaming was being able to load and play the video from a particular portion and not having to cache the entire video to play it - just a portion. This basically doesn't exist in HTML5 video with any of the players I've used, but it's not like it couldn't. In fact some players may support it and I just don't know about it.
1. I was referring to video like that on YouTube - normal video. Not vector animation.
2. DRM like WMDRM. This is one of the cases where it's a good solution. It's already used by video rental services and you can watch the video in an actual video player at a very high resolution - whereas 1080p video drops frames and looks like crap in a Flash player.
My Firefox loads gstreamer, so I have no speed issues. Try changing what player is loaded for HTML5 video or grab a player that's embeddable.
Seriously, the HTML5 video tag works - just start using it. The problem here is of course dynamic streaming (and a few other things) but the thing is Flash can stream mp4 files just fine - internally it's the same stuff with just the flv container being different. Transcode your video into mp4, if Flash loads play it in Flash (or even better give the user an option), otherwise use an HTML5 fallback. If both of those cases fail direct your users to download a browser that doesn't suck or something.
Oh, and the whole process I just outlined is something you can do easily with a variety of libraries and modules, just search for it. Oh, and cut out the whole trying to stop people from downloading video by wrapping it in 8 different concentric SWF interface wrappers - if you don't want someone downloading your video then don't put it on your website in the first place.
Remember that little kid that hit the other kids, but as soon as another kid hit back he'd start crying? Apple is now that kid.
I made a vague generalization, but the point I think I was trying to make was that stupid people are putting their kids at risk while if they had been put at risk themselves they may not be alive to have had children in the first place. Or something. Looking back now I really don't know what I was trying to say.
No, it just helped the stupid ones survive. Science has killed natural selection.
Re-read what you quoted. I have nothing against treating pirates as future customers - having someone with no money pirate your software and make money, then ask them to license the software is sort of a good idea (though it begs the question why they wouldn't offer a free version until then - I know Borland used to). But up and cornering them, threatening them, and bringing them to court is not only a dick move but it's also the worst possible way to foster customer loyalty.
Case in point: the BSA didn't actually sue us (yet?) but we're now actively avoiding any and all software associated with them. We purchased Adobe software (once), we will never be purchasing or using Adobe software or supporting or associating ourselves with Adobe in any way. Go read up on people who've been attacked by the BSA - many of them have done the exact same thing and are actively avoiding BSA associated software.
As much as I dislike Apple I actually like that idea. It would have been like the second coming of NeXT but this time with a big set of technologies and unmatched marketing power. I would have liked to see that.
You don't know how true that is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTRON
From the link: "The Japanese government planned to introduce the Matsushita PC in its schools, but the United States government objected, claiming that the plan constituted market intervention and threatened Japan with sanctions (partly at the request of Microsoft)."
I've seen a BTRON machine and it was impressive, easily better than Windows of the era. It should be noted that BTRON was an open OS and was developed by a group of companies who had a mutually vested interest. It lives on however as iTRON, which is the OS in things like car control systems, washing machine fuzzy logic controllers, refrigerators, TV's, cell phones etc. Next time you pop open something and find a chip with "Renesas" printed on it you can probably assume it's got iTRON on it.
HotBot did this back when... you know back when people still knew about a search engine called HotBot. They had a ranking system where you could add a point to the sites that you felt most resembled what you were looking for.
That's a copyright issue. If the company ignored you you'd need to file a claim, but the thing is in China copyright claims are basically ignored unless it's a national-level PR issue. Sorry, that's just China.
I'm the guy who wrote the Ask Slashdot about the BSA about a month ago. This sounds very reminiscent of that. In my case I had no unlicensed software and the BSA gave up, but just being approached in this way really pissed me off. The BSA approached me because they thought I had money and assumed I was using unlicensed software - the were wrong on both counts but had they been right being cornered like that would in no way earn my favor for the software or companies they represent.
If they think this is a good way to reduce piracy, they may be correct. If this is a way to earn more than one sale of their software they're dead wrong. As soon as they win a case in China and force some company to pay (good luck assholes) I hope they see their software fall out of favor very quickly.
Oops, sorry for misunderstanding that and thank you for taking the time to clarify.
I'm thinking of something to make to try out Opa by the way. I looked through some samples and I must admit I like how it handles things like Canvas and "live" apps.
*I understand you were talking about the language, just pointing out we're not free form the clutches of Java on this one.
Check the documentation, Opa runs on Java....