My guess is: all four top languages, JS, C#, PHP, and Ruby (most probably on Rails) are popular target for "$languagename For Dummies: Learn to Write Great $(languagename == 'C#' ? 'Windows Application' : 'Web Site')s in 24 Hours!" kind of books, and those books target audience often doesn't even have patience to read those pamphlets through, so they just come asking questions instead of googling and/or figuring out for themselves.
Of course, this intersects with the fact that JS/PHP/C# are indeed wide-spread.
P.S: Note that I don't speak about languages' qualities, but about their marketing, so to say.
Yeah, except it may be will happen in the future and the user is going to be frustrated and trying to find out how to please his electronic overlord^Wassistant in the present.
It's not just Siri's problem, it's that all systems that "understand natural language" in fact don't, and probably won't in observable future. They still rely on keywords and phrase structures - just like dumber command interfaces - except their vocabulary and acceptable phrases range is wider. Fixing fuck-ups like those will be just adding new keywords to the dictionary, probably creating other pitfalls in process.
In the end, interacting with such systems still involves learning and using some fixed commands, but without manual telling you exactly what is understood and how (demos serve as a sort of primer, though)
Real improvement would be not fixing some concrete misunderstandings, but giving the user an interface to correct and teach the system. Let's hope it's coming soon, doesn't matter from whom.
With fuck-ups like this or this it seems people WILL have to memorize a set of actions, except this set of actions is not printed out on a reference sheet, but found out by trial and error.
Except it does. It requires internet connection to work even for basic phone functions and sends about 10kB per second of your voice up to Apple's servers for actual processing and then gets the recognized results.
If simply existing in the same market would mean "competition", then desktop linux would skyrocket the innovation - after all, there are so many competing distros! Instead, it's mostly about Ubuntu, with Fedora and Debian getting a bit of attention now and then.
To compete, you need to attract the user with something others don't have - in desktop Ubuntu's case it's "being free and open, most newbie-friendly among Linuxes and caring for design" (with latter a bit controversial lately), but what can they bring to the mobile?
Only few will care for openness, as long as a) Angry Birds are available in the app store/market, b) changing mobile OS doesn't become as simple as changing desktop OS.
Design and noob friendliness is already there in competing platforms.
What can be there in mobile Ubuntu for Joe Average Consumer/Joe Average Developer?
Canonical will give the Linux smartphone world further fragmentation.
With Android and iOS going strong and new MS and Blackberry upcoming, will there be enough incentive for developers to support yet another new mobile platform? Well, unless supporting is made as easy as minor changes to build process and codebase.
It is easy for non-programmers because it quite closely maps real-world calculations on a sheet of paper to the computer screen - just fill in the initial values and write down formulas without worrying about operations ordering. VisiCalc and those who polished the concept after them did a pretty nice job.
> Other than being black, the two US-style power bricks are the same. You're just clutching at straws here.
Nope, there are still slight differences in shape. Also, what shape would you expect a power adapter to be, spheric? Clutching at straws is saying that Samsung (imprecisely) copied power adapter - what sense would it make? Confusing the customer? "I know this AC adapter, it surely must be iPad, I'm buying!"
Which is different, unless you count "a picture of the device as prominent element of front cover" as "totally copying" (and Apple's invention, to boot)
Of course no one ever thought about making a tablet as simple rounded rectangle with touchscreen plus webcam/few buttons! Especially not Samsung, no siree!
It's not about "simulating workflows", it's really a distributed parallel 2D programming language in a pretty graphical wrapper.
So, technically, it's part about part about proper thread synchronization avoiding deadlocks, race conditions and resource starvation, part about distributing workload between processes for optimal throughput and the puzzle part about laying out the algorithm in a limited program memory.
I hate when my brain's idling, so when I'm out of intersting problems at work, I really love to compensate with puzzles like this in spare time.
That said, it doesn't mean those are only games I play, "just log in and blow shit up" is a separate need.
Or may be German courts are pretty insulting to the intelligence of the German courts?
The immediate ban on sales shows either that or lack of integrity - because other court after detailed examination gives the result of "No infringements found in tablets (which were banned by Germany), one patent about gallery app behaviour stands, so smartphones are waiting for the patch to fix that"
Well, this article is about damage to the brand, so it's largely about the fanbase.
And for FF fans chocobos are a staple, even a bit of mascot, of all FF games since FFII. We've come to expect finding chocobos in every FF and now there are none.
It's like buying your favourite doughnuts just to find they left the sprinkles out:(
(3) is actually not even Samsung's shop, but a section in a bigger electronics store and decorations are all around that store.
<conspiracy>September 23rd: these conveniently framed pics appear on the net. September 24th: Apple opens a new store in Italy. Coincidence?</conspiracy>
I'm pretty sure first version of ZSNES were contemporary with P133.
But yeah, JS is not the language for writing game engines - although having bare game engine exposing bindings for implementing the actual game logic in JS is quite doable.
The only valid complaint about static typing is verbosity, which is eliminated with help of decent type inference. And in exchange you get much better performance and less chances to introduce bugs.
Try Scala, for example - it's one of the most concise, readable and pleasant to write languages I've ever seen.
Oh, and apropos de "ignores it's exception facilities in favour of weird behaviour, such that the sum of two variables".
Why the hell would you use exceptions for that?
Exceptions are meant for exactly what they called - something exceptional and unexpected. They are not replacement for "I am too lazy to check the easily verified conditions"
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My guess is: all four top languages, JS, C#, PHP, and Ruby (most probably on Rails) are popular target for "$languagename For Dummies: Learn to Write Great $(languagename == 'C#' ? 'Windows Application' : 'Web Site')s in 24 Hours!" kind of books, and those books target audience often doesn't even have patience to read those pamphlets through, so they just come asking questions instead of googling and/or figuring out for themselves.
Of course, this intersects with the fact that JS/PHP/C# are indeed wide-spread.
P.S: Note that I don't speak about languages' qualities, but about their marketing, so to say.
Yeah, except it may be will happen in the future and the user is going to be frustrated and trying to find out how to please his electronic overlord^Wassistant in the present.
It's not just Siri's problem, it's that all systems that "understand natural language" in fact don't, and probably won't in observable future. They still rely on keywords and phrase structures - just like dumber command interfaces - except their vocabulary and acceptable phrases range is wider. Fixing fuck-ups like those will be just adding new keywords to the dictionary, probably creating other pitfalls in process.
In the end, interacting with such systems still involves learning and using some fixed commands, but without manual telling you exactly what is understood and how (demos serve as a sort of primer, though)
Real improvement would be not fixing some concrete misunderstandings, but giving the user an interface to correct and teach the system. Let's hope it's coming soon, doesn't matter from whom.
With fuck-ups like this or this it seems people WILL have to memorize a set of actions, except this set of actions is not printed out on a reference sheet, but found out by trial and error.
Except it does. It requires internet connection to work even for basic phone functions and sends about 10kB per second of your voice up to Apple's servers for actual processing and then gets the recognized results.
Is it only "Will I need a raincoat/umbrella" or "Will I need galoches?", "Will I need warm sweater?" and "Will I need mittens?" work too?
If former, then it's the same old fixed command voice control, except the command set is bigger and more varied.
If simply existing in the same market would mean "competition", then desktop linux would skyrocket the innovation - after all, there are so many competing distros! Instead, it's mostly about Ubuntu, with Fedora and Debian getting a bit of attention now and then.
To compete, you need to attract the user with something others don't have - in desktop Ubuntu's case it's "being free and open, most newbie-friendly among Linuxes and caring for design" (with latter a bit controversial lately), but what can they bring to the mobile?
Only few will care for openness, as long as a) Angry Birds are available in the app store/market, b) changing mobile OS doesn't become as simple as changing desktop OS.
Design and noob friendliness is already there in competing platforms.
What can be there in mobile Ubuntu for Joe Average Consumer/Joe Average Developer?
Well, with MS going after manufacturers, not Google and asserting patents like
â Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;
â Enable display of a webpageâ(TM)s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;
â Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;
â Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and
â Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document.
I wouldn't be surprised if they started harassing Ubuntu phones producers if/when it becomes popular enough to threaten wp8.
Canonical will give the Linux smartphone world further fragmentation.
With Android and iOS going strong and new MS and Blackberry upcoming, will there be enough incentive for developers to support yet another new mobile platform? Well, unless supporting is made as easy as minor changes to build process and codebase.
Well, filling in a bunch of formulas IS a form of dataflow programming.
It is easy for non-programmers because it quite closely maps real-world calculations on a sheet of paper to the computer screen - just fill in the initial values and write down formulas without worrying about operations ordering. VisiCalc and those who polished the concept after them did a pretty nice job.
On a side note, Visicalc authors' notes make for quite an interesting read.
Oh, nevermind, it's not ratified by anyone significant. You should hurry up with sending that doomsday laser up there, then.
Nope.
They'd just cover all bases with
2. Method described in claim 1, wherein the drink subsequently enters one of reciever's facial orifices.
3. Method described in claim 2, wherein the orifice is mouth.
> they copied the front style
Totally copied, indistinguishable, I say.
Also, Samsung never could have thought about such a design, of course. It's totally Apple's invention to have minimalistic cover design with only picture of product
> Other than being black, the two US-style power bricks are the same. You're just clutching at straws here.
Nope, there are still slight differences in shape. Also, what shape would you expect a power adapter to be, spheric? Clutching at straws is saying that Samsung (imprecisely) copied power adapter - what sense would it make? Confusing the customer? "I know this AC adapter, it surely must be iPad, I'm buying!"
> The box
Which is different, unless you count "a picture of the device as prominent element of front cover" as "totally copying" (and Apple's invention, to boot)
> connector
Which is standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI
> UI
Which is different again
> power brick
Which is slightly different and is god damn rounded rectangle again.
And design patent for the iPad doesn't hold ground against Tab 10.1 as dutch court decided after analysis.
Of course no one ever thought about making a tablet as simple rounded rectangle with touchscreen plus webcam/few buttons! Especially not Samsung, no siree!
It's not about "simulating workflows", it's really a distributed parallel 2D programming language in a pretty graphical wrapper.
So, technically, it's part about part about proper thread synchronization avoiding deadlocks, race conditions and resource starvation, part about distributing workload between processes for optimal throughput and the puzzle part about laying out the algorithm in a limited program memory.
I hate when my brain's idling, so when I'm out of intersting problems at work, I really love to compensate with puzzles like this in spare time.
That said, it doesn't mean those are only games I play, "just log in and blow shit up" is a separate need.
Easy, you just need to write PHP OS which would provide necessary IO abstractions, then you'd write
Just like you could write drivers in Java/C# (if you'd use JX|JNode/Singularity)
Still would need C++ for VM/bootstrapping tho.
Or may be German courts are pretty insulting to the intelligence of the German courts?
The immediate ban on sales shows either that or lack of integrity - because other court after detailed examination gives the result of "No infringements found in tablets (which were banned by Germany), one patent about gallery app behaviour stands, so smartphones are waiting for the patch to fix that"
Well, this article is about damage to the brand, so it's largely about the fanbase.
And for FF fans chocobos are a staple, even a bit of mascot, of all FF games since FFII. We've come to expect finding chocobos in every FF and now there are none.
It's like buying your favourite doughnuts just to find they left the sprinkles out :(
(3) is actually not even Samsung's shop, but a section in a bigger electronics store and decorations are all around that store.
<conspiracy>September 23rd: these conveniently framed pics appear on the net. September 24th: Apple opens a new store in Italy. Coincidence?</conspiracy>
literal copies of Apple product
... as in same rounded rectangle shape except with different hardware and software?
Yeah, that's pretty literal.
like so:
Update: SetteB.IT reports (via Google Translate) that the app wall is part of the Euronics store's design and not commissioned by Samsung.
Samsung's idea of a tablet pre-iPad
Here, I fixed that for you.
I'm pretty sure first version of ZSNES were contemporary with P133.
But yeah, JS is not the language for writing game engines - although having bare game engine exposing bindings for implementing the actual game logic in JS is quite doable.
The only valid complaint about static typing is verbosity, which is eliminated with help of decent type inference. And in exchange you get much better performance and less chances to introduce bugs.
Try Scala, for example - it's one of the most concise, readable and pleasant to write languages I've ever seen.
Oh, and apropos de "ignores it's exception facilities in favour of weird behaviour, such that the sum of two variables".
Why the hell would you use exceptions for that?
Exceptions are meant for exactly what they called - something exceptional and unexpected. They are not replacement for "I am too lazy to check the easily verified conditions"