There's a ton of them and they make all kinds of 7" tablets. Some of them aren't bad and are what you're buying when you get re-branded tablets from various manufacturers. You might be able to convince them to sell you just one for a trial if they think you are an OEM company planning on selling them to consumers under your own brand. Or if you can get 50 people together to go in on them and share the shipping cost to qualify for a minimum trial order.
Seems like a major PITA to me but hey, they're unlocked out of the gate.
Check this one out for example. The good thing about doing this is, you're working directly with the manufacturer and have all the control over the software on the device that you desire.
I haven't seen much from Tizen beyond their initial press release. And, yes, I subscribe to their mailing list.
I keep an open connection on their IRC channel pretty much 24/7. There's lots of people (or bots) on there but not much activity. Hopefully that means they're busy, not dead.
"The only problem may be that the sauce may come out a little too easily on to their food."
That, and the trace amounts of the slippery stuff coming off the inside of the bottle and coming out with the sauce too. And twenty years later we find out it's more toxic than BPA.
When I was a very young lad about 10 years old, the Commodore Vic-20 came out. I got into computers right around then because of the joy and wonder I saw in making them do whatever I programmed them to do.
10 print "I was here" 20 goto 10 run
Who didn't do those things when they walked through Sears and saw the empty screens with cursors blinking at them just begging to be tagged?
I enjoyed programming so much, I went to college and got a degree. I always wanted to write my own video games. But here I am in my 40s. It was last year when I found myself in a similar situation as OP.
So I decided it was high time I do what I started out to do all those years ago.
I have installed the Android SDK & NDK. I have gone through the New Boston tutorials. I have picked up a free cross-platform game engine and started designing my own game.
The first thing I did, to avoid the difficulties of designing a game and focus on learning the tools and techniques, was to re-implement a simple game somebody else already designed a long time ago for me: Pong.
It took about 10 hours. You would not believe how stupidly exciting it is for me to be able to say to my friends: "Hey, check this out..." and show them pong followed by an "I made this."
It's rewarding as all hell. And now I'm knee deep in a real game design all of my own making. I don't care if I ever make a dime off of it. I'll release it on Android followed by iOS, then on Windows, Linux, and Macs. All because it's a moral imperative.
Maybe games weren't the thing that got you into programming when you were younger. But I'll tell you what: something made you love programming once. Remember it. And get back to it. Your day job is fine and good. Try to enjoy it but work to live instead of living to work. Make your own time to do what you love.
But it does. The 6 day creation is irrelevant. But Adam and Eve's sin is paramount. Genesis states that before Adam and Eve sinned, there was no sin in the world.
The basis for the whole Bible is: had they not sinned, they'd still be living in the garden of eden in peace and harmony with God and all the rest of the stuff in the Bible would be moot. Genesis 3 reads like a "because you did this, now all these bad things are going to happen" and it is commonly interpreted to mean there was no death or sin UNTIL Adam & Eve disobeyed. God said if you eat of the tree of knowledge "you will surely die" which is meant to be a warning that you open the world to death.The wages of sin are death. Because of their sin, death entered the world. Before they disobeyed God, there was no death. There was no sin.
So there was no need for any of the rest of the Bible. And certainly there was no need for Jesus to die on the cross and be resurrected to save the world from sin...because there would be no sin in the world.
Adam and Eve screwed everything up for the rest of us for the rest of time and Jesus had to come to fix it. THAT is the point of the Bible.
So, while the 6 day creation story is not necessary, the events in the garden of eden with Adam and Eve are necessary to the foundation of Christianity. If they never really existed and those stories are just metaphors, the whole thing falls apart.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Will this help make it so I can drive home in the evening without damn near going blind from the sun's reflection on every rear windshield of every car in front of me?
I can't believe that all these years later we've made cars that can park and even drive themselves but we can't make a windshield that won't nearly blind other drivers twice a day.
Or, for that matter, why don't we have some freaking intelligent sunshades on cars instead of that flappy thing from 1940 still hanging there with the only apparent purpose being "key storage movie prop."
Face tracking + GPS = knowing the exact position of the sun and the exact angle its light should be coming from to enter your eyes. Now take that middle layer of glass in a windshield and make it possible to darken segments of it by use of electrical current or something and make a car that can auto-shade that part of the fucking glass so I can see where I'm going without having to hold my hand up like an idiot waving "HI!" to the sun.
I don't have anything worthwhile to say, I just thought GNOME should use codenames for each release and release 3 in partiluclar should be GNOME 3: Profit!
While it's refreshing for a CEO to be willing to admit mistaktes, after other recent boneheaded moves this comes across a lot more like: "Hi. My name is Reed Hastings. I have no idea what I'm doing."
gimmicky 3D (with requisite upcharge @ the box office) tacked on post production
DRM (Dear movie studios, please make it a PITA to watch purchased content on the device we want when we want!)
Copyright warnings/propaganda (I'm your customer. Could you please yell STOP THIEF! at me more? kthxbai!)
Lobbyists (Hey studio exec...you know what we customers would love?! If you purchased a 90yr copyright extension! Decimate the public domain please! That would be totally awesome!)
ad infinitum...
Please. They are no more interested in giving consumers what they want than Mexican drug cartels are interested in the US legalizing marijuana.
So, any plans to do more with myouterspace.com? It seemed like a cool idea when it first started but it just seems to have gone nowhere. What more can be done to get it more active and useful for creative types?
There is absolutely nothing in the OP to suggest any sort of humor. It received four insightful mods, and not a single funny mod, so it's pretty clear that most people who read it agree with me.
The righteous indignation is strong with this one. The way I figure it, upon confronting humor, you have three options: (a) laughing because you think it's funny; (b) not laughing because it's not funny to you; and, (42) taking it seriously, getting offended, lecturing the jokester and proving yourself humorless.
I applaud your choice, good sir! 42 is always the right answer.
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That's a very good point.
Well that particular company may not be a good one to go with. I just used them as an example.
There's a ton of them and they make all kinds of 7" tablets. Some of them aren't bad and are what you're buying when you get re-branded tablets from various manufacturers. You might be able to convince them to sell you just one for a trial if they think you are an OEM company planning on selling them to consumers under your own brand. Or if you can get 50 people together to go in on them and share the shipping cost to qualify for a minimum trial order.
Seems like a major PITA to me but hey, they're unlocked out of the gate.
Check this one out for example. The good thing about doing this is, you're working directly with the manufacturer and have all the control over the software on the device that you desire.
I keep an open connection on their IRC channel pretty much 24/7. There's lots of people (or bots) on there but not much activity. Hopefully that means they're busy, not dead.
Consequences, shmonsequences...as long as I'm rich.
That, and the trace amounts of the slippery stuff coming off the inside of the bottle and coming out with the sauce too. And twenty years later we find out it's more toxic than BPA.
But, hey! We got the last drop of ketchup!
Who didn't do those things when they walked through Sears and saw the empty screens with cursors blinking at them just begging to be tagged?
I enjoyed programming so much, I went to college and got a degree. I always wanted to write my own video games. But here I am in my 40s. It was last year when I found myself in a similar situation as OP.
So I decided it was high time I do what I started out to do all those years ago.
I have installed the Android SDK & NDK. I have gone through the New Boston tutorials. I have picked up a free cross-platform game engine and started designing my own game.
The first thing I did, to avoid the difficulties of designing a game and focus on learning the tools and techniques, was to re-implement a simple game somebody else already designed a long time ago for me: Pong.
It took about 10 hours. You would not believe how stupidly exciting it is for me to be able to say to my friends: "Hey, check this out..." and show them pong followed by an "I made this."
It's rewarding as all hell. And now I'm knee deep in a real game design all of my own making. I don't care if I ever make a dime off of it. I'll release it on Android followed by iOS, then on Windows, Linux, and Macs. All because it's a moral imperative.
Maybe games weren't the thing that got you into programming when you were younger. But I'll tell you what: something made you love programming once. Remember it. And get back to it. Your day job is fine and good. Try to enjoy it but work to live instead of living to work. Make your own time to do what you love.
"Sounds like open sourcing it is off the table."
It's like Deja vu all over again.
But it does. The 6 day creation is irrelevant. But Adam and Eve's sin is paramount. Genesis states that before Adam and Eve sinned, there was no sin in the world.
The basis for the whole Bible is: had they not sinned, they'd still be living in the garden of eden in peace and harmony with God and all the rest of the stuff in the Bible would be moot. Genesis 3 reads like a "because you did this, now all these bad things are going to happen" and it is commonly interpreted to mean there was no death or sin UNTIL Adam & Eve disobeyed. God said if you eat of the tree of knowledge "you will surely die" which is meant to be a warning that you open the world to death.The wages of sin are death. Because of their sin, death entered the world. Before they disobeyed God, there was no death. There was no sin.
So there was no need for any of the rest of the Bible. And certainly there was no need for Jesus to die on the cross and be resurrected to save the world from sin...because there would be no sin in the world.
Adam and Eve screwed everything up for the rest of us for the rest of time and Jesus had to come to fix it. THAT is the point of the Bible.
So, while the 6 day creation story is not necessary, the events in the garden of eden with Adam and Eve are necessary to the foundation of Christianity. If they never really existed and those stories are just metaphors, the whole thing falls apart.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Too bad they're not our personal army.
I'm glad it can rear. I've been looking for someone to take care of my kids for me.
No, not a car analogy. Just cars.
Will this help make it so I can drive home in the evening without damn near going blind from the sun's reflection on every rear windshield of every car in front of me?
I can't believe that all these years later we've made cars that can park and even drive themselves but we can't make a windshield that won't nearly blind other drivers twice a day.
Or, for that matter, why don't we have some freaking intelligent sunshades on cars instead of that flappy thing from 1940 still hanging there with the only apparent purpose being "key storage movie prop."
Face tracking + GPS = knowing the exact position of the sun and the exact angle its light should be coming from to enter your eyes. Now take that middle layer of glass in a windshield and make it possible to darken segments of it by use of electrical current or something and make a car that can auto-shade that part of the fucking glass so I can see where I'm going without having to hold my hand up like an idiot waving "HI!" to the sun.
Somebody invent this so I can give you my money.
Steve Jobs was many things. A visionary, a leader, a celebrity, and a first class asshole among them.
I don't have anything worthwhile to say, I just thought GNOME should use codenames for each release and release 3 in partiluclar should be GNOME 3: Profit!
While it's refreshing for a CEO to be willing to admit mistaktes, after other recent boneheaded moves this comes across a lot more like: "Hi. My name is Reed Hastings. I have no idea what I'm doing."
Please. They are no more interested in giving consumers what they want than Mexican drug cartels are interested in the US legalizing marijuana.
So, any plans to do more with myouterspace.com? It seemed like a cool idea when it first started but it just seems to have gone nowhere. What more can be done to get it more active and useful for creative types?
LOL! How much time did you spend on that?! Nicely done!
THAT'S THE JOKE!
Hey, I always shoot for +5, Funny. But there's no accounting for taste!
The righteous indignation is strong with this one. The way I figure it, upon confronting humor, you have three options: (a) laughing because you think it's funny; (b) not laughing because it's not funny to you; and, (42) taking it seriously, getting offended, lecturing the jokester and proving yourself humorless.
I applaud your choice, good sir! 42 is always the right answer.
Now that's funny. And I know funny. I'm a clownfish.
I wonder what Chrome did that smelled like Win32/Zbot.
Made IE look stupid and fat.
"Oh, Woops! How did that happen?! So sorry about that Google. Totally a mistake. Totally. Our bad, really."
Meanwhile some clueless user just switched back to IE.
Well, yeah. That's a good point. DAMN YOU FACEBOOK!