The current iPhone SDK makes no assumptions about screen size, and Interface Builder lets you specify how things shift/squeeze as the screen size changes. That being said, there are third-party game libraries that encourage such assumptions that may take some tweaking. But not much. Moving to alternate screen sizes is going to be pretty easy, and Apple already has an app compatibility mechanism so apps can declare their compatibility.
What would you call the parents that fought against the HPV vaccination that had barely been tested yet has been made mandatory in places where the drug lords making it have the local officials in their back pocket?
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If they can research how to cure your cancer for a one time charge, or keep you alive for an extra 10-20 years on expensive treatments which do you think they will pick?
At least be consistent in your argument. The HPV vaccine is as close to a cure for cancer as you're likely to see in your lifetime, and comes with a one-time charge.
Vaccines are not always recommended for all people. Some people have egg allergies or specific allergies to some preservatives. Some people's immune systems are not in a state where a vaccine would do any good. Some have existing medical conditions that contraindicate vaccination. But that's a tiny, tiny fraction of the population. 99.9% of the population should be getting the standard vaccine suite, and those that don't have a medical reason to refuse it ARE being irresponsible parents and citizens.
How can creating an "open" ecosystem that is absolutely and completely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill in not asserting their right to sue a good thing? Microsoft benefits, because on Windows you encourage people to move to.NET by using the argument "and you can always port it to Linux using Mono!" but then who would be stupid enough to actually do it? Why wouldn't Microsoft's next CEO start trying to extract licensing fees from everyone, especially after.NET is established? Pure goodwill?
You're assuming that I am a target for online advertising. Because the ads are irrelevant to me, they're better off saving bandwidth and showing them to someone else.
So you never spend money? Nor talk to anyone else about any product, ever? The very fact that NetFlix, for example, was cited by many folks in this discussion proves their advertising works. You may tell a friend, "I'd NEVER getting movies delivered via NetFlix because of their HORRIBLE advertising practices, even if I did live anywhere they delivered!" and your friend may say "Movies delivered? NetFlix? Hm!" Building brand familiarity is as important as click-throughs.
Besides, your logic would dictate that because I press the mute button (or skip them all together!) during commercials, that I should now start having to pay for OTA transmissions.
Bad analogy. You *can* click the "close" button on pop-ups, just like you can mute or fast-forward. I'd also argue that online sites should allow you to "close" banner ads manually. That would be a better analogy, because then you'd still be exposed to the branding. I suspect you really have no idea how many times a day some brand is imprinting itself on you.
Actually, I see the opposite being true. Previously it was just you against the record labels. The record labels always won. They could charge $15 for a CD that cost them $1 to print and $5 to create, market, and manage. Then Apple came along. Apple is not in the music business, they're in the *iPod* business which relies on the music business. So they bundle a cheap music store with their iPods and it becomes the #1 way everyone in the US gets all their music. Now you have Apple negotiating on your behalf for lower prices, and it's Apple vs. the record labels-- a much more even match. So prices come down.
If Apple's dominance in music distribution is ever broken, expect prices to double or triple as you'll have no one with any power negotiating on your behalf anymore.
That will certainly help, but it's a tiny part of the real problem. The real problem is a coherent process where people can manage changes to such a system of interdependencies, track API contracts and assumptions, rules for modifications, etc. The most coherent treatment of this sort of approach I'm aware of is laid out by the SEI in Software Product Lines literature.
And I suspect that's the sort of thing that would satisfy both camps. It's just got a big initial cost and depends on adhering to relatively strict process controls.
Linux is the foundation of many small memory footprint embedded systems including, but not limited to, cell phones. The entire Motorola Razr series is Linux based, and perhaps you've heard of the G1? Saying it is difficult because the Linux kernel is bloated has to be the worst kind of bad information. It misses on every count in every way. Empirical evidence contradicts your claims at every turn...
Those, however, all use embedded Linux distros. They don't use a desktop distro and then pull phone-specific add-ons, which I think was the parent poster's point. MontaVista and Android were specifically built to run in embedded environments and benefit from that specialization. Which I think was Torvalds' point-- the Linux community has benefited quite a bit from MontaVista's contribution to the embedded space and to a lesser extent from Android's marketing. That might not have happened with a single distro.
Well, technically you don't want to shoot the ink at the right time, but at the right place. You're only using time and steady motion as a way of calculating the place. There are other ways of calculating/measuring position... but of course it'd have to be mighty accurate.
I believe SETI@Home's receivers became capable of detecting polarization signals about a year ago. There's still a lot of bandwidth and a lot of sky to search. Space, as they say, is big.
I had the opposite reaction. I put Windows 7 Beta on a VirtualBox partition on my Mac and tried using it for awhile, and I find using it awful. Compared to XP it feels like a mish-mash of web interfaces and compared to MacOS X it feels like a toy. I would still recommend XP over Windows 7 any day of the week, and recommend neither to any non-geek or non-business user.
People will leave XP for whatever the next MS milestone is.
Maybe. I've used the Windows 7 Beta quite a bit, and I like XP way, way better. Windows 7 feels like a mish-mash of web-like interfaces loosely bound together by some eye-candy.
I think gamers will move to Windows 7 in droves. Home users who get it on their machines will dislike it but won't switch away from it. Business users will be forced to let go of XP by prying it out of their clenched fists with a crowbar.
Here's a post where I looked it up. According to Nintendo, there are currently about 500 DS-specific games and 950 GBA games currently for sale. Even if you assume that 4 out of 5 games ever made for the DS are currently out of circulation, you still have 1/2 the number of games (4,460) that are currently available on Apple's App Store. The two systems combined have about 1/3 the selection.
But really what matters is the quality of the games. How many Rock-Paper-Scissors or Whack-a-Mole games do you really need? There are, however, a much smaller but significant number of pretty innovative games that use the accelerometer, multi-touch, and even location services in interesting ways.
Considering that the iPhone is not going away any time soon and the video capabilities will get substantially better with each generation, I think you have to admit that Apple is and will remain for awhile a major player in gaming.
It's not that hard to actually check, you know. The DS has about 500 games available for it, according to Nintendo. The GameBoy Advance has about 950 games.
The iPhone currently has 17,367 total native apps available for it, of which 4,460 are tagged as games and 4,806 as entertainment (many of those are tagged as both). It's really no contest. Apple is by far the largest marketplace for handheld gaming, beating the DS by an order of magnitude. And I'm not counting web games (most of which don't run on the iPhone since Apple seems to hate Flash for some reason.)
Like I said, though... a lot of those games are poor quality right now. But they're getting better fast, and downloads have doubled in the last month according to developers, so it's a growth market.
I know you're talking about computers, but there are now more games available for Apple's iPhone/iTouch than all the other handheld gaming devices combined. Yes, right now 90%+ of them are little better than your typical flash browser game, but they're improving in quality rapidly and Apple is realizing where their bread is buttered. The latest crop of Mac laptops pay a lot more attention to GPU issues and the next iPhone will likely make game performance a priority.
Of course, the iPhone is OpenGL ES, so it's not entirely relevant to this discussion yet, but if you're talking about scalability OpenGL has a lot of traction.
His conclusion, though, isn't exactly supported by the actual article:
It's important to remember that, even though the late-2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch doesn't keep up in either colour accuracy or viewing angle with laptops from IBM/Lenovo, its display is still quite good and still falls on the right side of the line of acceptable display quality for field use by a working photographer, at least in ambient light that discourages reflections.
The summary picked out the worst of the comments and highlighted them, obviously to cast Apple laptops in a bad light.
In this case the ISPs seem to be acting in the best interests of all involved and the only real argument is over semantics. If everybody in a town uses 100% of the electricity that they're capable of using the provider will throttle that as well (ie. you'll get brown-outs.) In this case, the problem is in PR, not technical.
But however correct the OP's statement, I agree with the reply made to it that the fact it comes apropos of nothing indicates it's a troll.
Only in as much as the original poster is a troll, then. The plugin system for GCC could have been discussed in a purely neutral manner if the article hadn't been submitted with the business about GCC being part of an operating system. GCC may be what compiled the operating system, or what developers use to develop for the operating system... but it's not part of an operating system. The fact that we're even discussing this implies the submitter's comments were trollish, IMHO.
If the article was supposed to be about the plugin system, maybe the submission should have led with that.
The article claims that GNU has produced an operating system, and that GCC is somehow the cornerstone of that "operating system". I don't think the word means what GNU thinks it means. And Stallman's insistence on calling Linux "GNU/Linux" is part and parcel of that misconception.
Well, firstly if it's going to pass "within X miles" of the Earth, then it's not in the same orbit, it's in one that's X miles different from the Earth. Secondly, the Earth has gravity (as do Mars and Venus) and will perturb the orbits enough to give them relative motion.
But yeah, if it's in an orbit around the sun that's almost the same as the Earth, the delta-V is going to be very low.
Isn't Objective-C about as widely used as Esperanto?
Last I checked, it was the primary development language of one of the most popular smartphones in the world. And MacOS X's market share isn't too shabby lately, either. So I'm not sure how many Esperanto speakers there are, but I suspect they're significantly outnumbered by Objective-C fluent folks. And, of course, people USING Objective-C-based software number in the tens of millions.
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The current iPhone SDK makes no assumptions about screen size, and Interface Builder lets you specify how things shift/squeeze as the screen size changes. That being said, there are third-party game libraries that encourage such assumptions that may take some tweaking. But not much. Moving to alternate screen sizes is going to be pretty easy, and Apple already has an app compatibility mechanism so apps can declare their compatibility.
What would you call the parents that fought against the HPV vaccination that had barely been tested yet has been made mandatory in places where the drug lords making it have the local officials in their back pocket?
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If they can research how to cure your cancer for a one time charge, or keep you alive for an extra 10-20 years on expensive treatments which do you think they will pick?
At least be consistent in your argument. The HPV vaccine is as close to a cure for cancer as you're likely to see in your lifetime, and comes with a one-time charge.
Vaccines are not always recommended for all people. Some people have egg allergies or specific allergies to some preservatives. Some people's immune systems are not in a state where a vaccine would do any good. Some have existing medical conditions that contraindicate vaccination. But that's a tiny, tiny fraction of the population. 99.9% of the population should be getting the standard vaccine suite, and those that don't have a medical reason to refuse it ARE being irresponsible parents and citizens.
I actually got this upgrader on my system from installing Google SketchUp on my Mac last month, so I don't think Google is limiting this to Earth.
How can creating an "open" ecosystem that is absolutely and completely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill in not asserting their right to sue a good thing? Microsoft benefits, because on Windows you encourage people to move to .NET by using the argument "and you can always port it to Linux using Mono!" but then who would be stupid enough to actually do it? Why wouldn't Microsoft's next CEO start trying to extract licensing fees from everyone, especially after .NET is established? Pure goodwill?
You're assuming that I am a target for online advertising. Because the ads are irrelevant to me, they're better off saving bandwidth and showing them to someone else.
So you never spend money? Nor talk to anyone else about any product, ever? The very fact that NetFlix, for example, was cited by many folks in this discussion proves their advertising works. You may tell a friend, "I'd NEVER getting movies delivered via NetFlix because of their HORRIBLE advertising practices, even if I did live anywhere they delivered!" and your friend may say "Movies delivered? NetFlix? Hm!" Building brand familiarity is as important as click-throughs.
Besides, your logic would dictate that because I press the mute button (or skip them all together!) during commercials, that I should now start having to pay for OTA transmissions.
Bad analogy. You *can* click the "close" button on pop-ups, just like you can mute or fast-forward. I'd also argue that online sites should allow you to "close" banner ads manually. That would be a better analogy, because then you'd still be exposed to the branding. I suspect you really have no idea how many times a day some brand is imprinting itself on you.
Then how do you pay for the content? Do you send the site owner checks directly?
Actually, I see the opposite being true. Previously it was just you against the record labels. The record labels always won. They could charge $15 for a CD that cost them $1 to print and $5 to create, market, and manage. Then Apple came along. Apple is not in the music business, they're in the *iPod* business which relies on the music business. So they bundle a cheap music store with their iPods and it becomes the #1 way everyone in the US gets all their music. Now you have Apple negotiating on your behalf for lower prices, and it's Apple vs. the record labels-- a much more even match. So prices come down.
If Apple's dominance in music distribution is ever broken, expect prices to double or triple as you'll have no one with any power negotiating on your behalf anymore.
That will certainly help, but it's a tiny part of the real problem. The real problem is a coherent process where people can manage changes to such a system of interdependencies, track API contracts and assumptions, rules for modifications, etc. The most coherent treatment of this sort of approach I'm aware of is laid out by the SEI in Software Product Lines literature.
And I suspect that's the sort of thing that would satisfy both camps. It's just got a big initial cost and depends on adhering to relatively strict process controls.
Linux is the foundation of many small memory footprint embedded systems including, but not limited to, cell phones. The entire Motorola Razr series is Linux based, and perhaps you've heard of the G1? Saying it is difficult because the Linux kernel is bloated has to be the worst kind of bad information. It misses on every count in every way. Empirical evidence contradicts your claims at every turn ...
Those, however, all use embedded Linux distros. They don't use a desktop distro and then pull phone-specific add-ons, which I think was the parent poster's point. MontaVista and Android were specifically built to run in embedded environments and benefit from that specialization. Which I think was Torvalds' point-- the Linux community has benefited quite a bit from MontaVista's contribution to the embedded space and to a lesser extent from Android's marketing. That might not have happened with a single distro.
Well, technically you don't want to shoot the ink at the right time, but at the right place. You're only using time and steady motion as a way of calculating the place. There are other ways of calculating/measuring position... but of course it'd have to be mighty accurate.
I believe SETI@Home's receivers became capable of detecting polarization signals about a year ago. There's still a lot of bandwidth and a lot of sky to search. Space, as they say, is big.
I had the opposite reaction. I put Windows 7 Beta on a VirtualBox partition on my Mac and tried using it for awhile, and I find using it awful. Compared to XP it feels like a mish-mash of web interfaces and compared to MacOS X it feels like a toy. I would still recommend XP over Windows 7 any day of the week, and recommend neither to any non-geek or non-business user.
People will leave XP for whatever the next MS milestone is.
Maybe. I've used the Windows 7 Beta quite a bit, and I like XP way, way better. Windows 7 feels like a mish-mash of web-like interfaces loosely bound together by some eye-candy.
I think gamers will move to Windows 7 in droves. Home users who get it on their machines will dislike it but won't switch away from it. Business users will be forced to let go of XP by prying it out of their clenched fists with a crowbar.
Here's a post where I looked it up. According to Nintendo, there are currently about 500 DS-specific games and 950 GBA games currently for sale. Even if you assume that 4 out of 5 games ever made for the DS are currently out of circulation, you still have 1/2 the number of games (4,460) that are currently available on Apple's App Store. The two systems combined have about 1/3 the selection.
But really what matters is the quality of the games. How many Rock-Paper-Scissors or Whack-a-Mole games do you really need? There are, however, a much smaller but significant number of pretty innovative games that use the accelerometer, multi-touch, and even location services in interesting ways.
Considering that the iPhone is not going away any time soon and the video capabilities will get substantially better with each generation, I think you have to admit that Apple is and will remain for awhile a major player in gaming.
The iPhone has an order of magnitude more games available for it than the DS. Of course you're right about quality, but that's improving fast.
It's not that hard to actually check, you know. The DS has about 500 games available for it, according to Nintendo. The GameBoy Advance has about 950 games.
The iPhone currently has 17,367 total native apps available for it, of which 4,460 are tagged as games and 4,806 as entertainment (many of those are tagged as both). It's really no contest. Apple is by far the largest marketplace for handheld gaming, beating the DS by an order of magnitude. And I'm not counting web games (most of which don't run on the iPhone since Apple seems to hate Flash for some reason.)
Like I said, though... a lot of those games are poor quality right now. But they're getting better fast, and downloads have doubled in the last month according to developers, so it's a growth market.
I know you're talking about computers, but there are now more games available for Apple's iPhone/iTouch than all the other handheld gaming devices combined. Yes, right now 90%+ of them are little better than your typical flash browser game, but they're improving in quality rapidly and Apple is realizing where their bread is buttered. The latest crop of Mac laptops pay a lot more attention to GPU issues and the next iPhone will likely make game performance a priority.
Of course, the iPhone is OpenGL ES, so it's not entirely relevant to this discussion yet, but if you're talking about scalability OpenGL has a lot of traction.
His conclusion, though, isn't exactly supported by the actual article:
It's important to remember that, even though the late-2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch doesn't keep up in either colour accuracy or viewing angle with laptops from IBM/Lenovo, its display is still quite good and still falls on the right side of the line of acceptable display quality for field use by a working photographer, at least in ambient light that discourages reflections.
The summary picked out the worst of the comments and highlighted them, obviously to cast Apple laptops in a bad light.
In this case the ISPs seem to be acting in the best interests of all involved and the only real argument is over semantics. If everybody in a town uses 100% of the electricity that they're capable of using the provider will throttle that as well (ie. you'll get brown-outs.) In this case, the problem is in PR, not technical.
But however correct the OP's statement, I agree with the reply made to it that the fact it comes apropos of nothing indicates it's a troll.
Only in as much as the original poster is a troll, then. The plugin system for GCC could have been discussed in a purely neutral manner if the article hadn't been submitted with the business about GCC being part of an operating system. GCC may be what compiled the operating system, or what developers use to develop for the operating system... but it's not part of an operating system. The fact that we're even discussing this implies the submitter's comments were trollish, IMHO.
If the article was supposed to be about the plugin system, maybe the submission should have led with that.
The article claims that GNU has produced an operating system, and that GCC is somehow the cornerstone of that "operating system". I don't think the word means what GNU thinks it means. And Stallman's insistence on calling Linux "GNU/Linux" is part and parcel of that misconception.
Well, firstly if it's going to pass "within X miles" of the Earth, then it's not in the same orbit, it's in one that's X miles different from the Earth. Secondly, the Earth has gravity (as do Mars and Venus) and will perturb the orbits enough to give them relative motion.
But yeah, if it's in an orbit around the sun that's almost the same as the Earth, the delta-V is going to be very low.
So was the ray-traced version of the game more fun? Or am I missing the point of games?
Isn't Objective-C about as widely used as Esperanto?
Last I checked, it was the primary development language of one of the most popular smartphones in the world. And MacOS X's market share isn't too shabby lately, either. So I'm not sure how many Esperanto speakers there are, but I suspect they're significantly outnumbered by Objective-C fluent folks. And, of course, people USING Objective-C-based software number in the tens of millions.
Their "Chip+PIN" Implementation is crap, though.
Perhaps... but my guess is it's still better than swipe+sign in terms of reducing fraud.