Woot, this is "free market" at work, and you're not happy with the results? Is this slashdot, where "free market" gets prescribed for any and all ailments, or did I get redirected to some North Korean fake?
IIRC an IDE it is an app that provides a text editor, build/run automation and a debugger. All to be easily accessed from some menu/shortcuts system. How can any of these components, separated or integrated, impede the intellectual development of a programmer?
Unless, of course, the programming language that the IDE implements is a retarded one..... then blame it on the language, not the text editor.
You're correct on the corruption. It does that if you let it "build the Media Library". Which it will then write to the disk. There's an option somewhere to disable this behaviour. Anyway it's a good idea to have a backup of that disk. I would hate to have to transcode again high def video. Takes ages.
The Playstation 3, which predates the iPad by some 4 years, has a TV style remote that uses Bluetooth to communicate. If your main application is watching movies, I personally think that a TV style remote is better suited than a keyboard:-)
My main application would be 3. Many people would like to do 2 & 4 too. I would be against 1 as it would mandate Cinavia.
As far as 3 is concerned, I've tested various existing devices with m4v (h.264 video + AAC audio + captions + chapters) and the results are:
- WD TV Live will downmix to 2 channels when AAC is used; also it will not play the captions inside the m4v container (you'll need to demux them and save as a separate.srt file)
- Playstation 3 will play 5.1 AAC sound (it converts it to LPCM before sending to the receiver via HDMI) but no captions and has Cinavia DRM
- iPad will do everything right except it will downmix audio to 2 channels, however since you'd use it for portable applications with earbuds (i.e. watching movies in the plane) there's not much to complain
- Roku will do a subset of what WD TV Live does
What advantage any of this will have over a Chromebook + HDMI cable + bluetooth keyboard & mouse combination?
Well, it can be smaller, quieter, more energy efficient and use a "TV remote" for interface (instead of keyboard and mouse). As a bonus all the family members could use it. From the kids looking for cartoons to grandpa that couldn't be bothered to learn how to operate a computer.
They actually do. WD TV Live Streaming box lists FAT32, NTFS and HFS+ as supported filesystems. I used FAT32 and NTFS so far and they work fine. I guess WD paid some license fees.
- Accepts large (TerraByte) external storage media via USB and understands FATxx, NTFS, ext3fs and HFS+
- Understands and plays m4v files to at least the level supported on current iPads (i.e. H.264 video, AAC surround, captions and chapters)
- Can translate AAC 5.1 to LPCM 5.1 when using HDMI output and/or and has 5.1 analog outputs and converts AAC 5.1 to them
I am pre-ordering NOW. I mean really NOW. Amazon, please take my money... please....
As another poster already mentioned, you are confusing your problem domain with programming. Your argument is little different than someone saying programming requires a significant amount of accounting knowledge just because they work for Intuit.
You got it right, that's exactly what I was saying: if you want to use your advanced maths then find a domain that uses them in addition to using a programming language.
Coming back to the actually unnecessary complexity of "enterprise" software, here's how we got there:
- people with no knowledge of maths, programming and systems theory were put in charge to draft the specs (yes, I'm talking business analysts and managers of all sorts) from platform selection to the minute details of the UI
- developers were treated by said management like disposable cattle, with a "my way or the highway" attitude, to make sure that no real feedback could ever occur
In the end, we got the most extraordinary kludges on workarounds of hacks improvised late nights between coke cans and pizza boxes. At the limits of what mankind could ever do.
Why just the other day, I told a good friend that I wanted to return to graduate school to complete my Physics Doctorate, but had forgotten all my math. This because it is exceedingly uncommon for programmers to need to know much more than very basic arithmetic on the job. It is actually uncommon for me to use floating point on the job, or fractions. I cannot recall the last time I used a trigonometric function on the job.
Oh well. You must have been in "enterprise computing". Where about any "application" is nothing but some sort of front end to one or more databases.
But I have some good news for you. There are a few jobs in "scientific computing" where you would need all your math. Unfortunately they are rather scarce and don't pay that well either. But if you're after "intellectual challenge" they're pretty entertaining - they're definitely not "code monkey" style.
Why do we need to call this substance "eggs"? Anything wrong with calling it what it is? Same reason that "the industry" is pushing FDA to let them call "chocolate" about anything regardless of cocoa content?
What happened to good old knobs?
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The thing about real knobs is that they are all directly available at any time and they don't change their location and meaning. Like most virtual knobs in "touch" interfaces do (depending on screen/context). If you want to do that with a touch screen (i.e. have fixed position / meaning knobs), then you'll realize you could as well implement it with hardware knobs, as the touch screen is as useful an ashtray on a motorcycle.
In addition to all this, a traditional knob can be used with wet / gloved hands too.
If you think this is harmless stupidity, think again. IIRC there is at least one case of an HIV positive mother who refused to test her child. The child later died in an illness with symptoms like those of someone who has AIDS. The mother also died, naturally.
So your bet is that after 10-20 years of more technological advancement, everyone will be standardized on VP8? We don't use Indeo and MPEG-2 anymore because we found a better replacement for them, not because suddenly no one wants to license/support it anymore just because they can.
What is the percent of current iDevices that will give a fuck in 10 years that you can't even run the newest iOS version on them?
Yet they still sell in droves, which means nobody cares about which OS / videos / codecs would they support or not in 10 years. All that matters is what works well NOW. And VP8 ain't.
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Didn't google rescue us with open sauce free android? The invisible hand will soon come too and save us all!
Woot, this is "free market" at work, and you're not happy with the results? Is this slashdot, where "free market" gets prescribed for any and all ailments, or did I get redirected to some North Korean fake?
Then let first the city planners fix the traffic issues if they want any new business going in there.
IIRC an IDE it is an app that provides a text editor, build/run automation and a debugger. All to be easily accessed from some menu/shortcuts system. How can any of these components, separated or integrated, impede the intellectual development of a programmer?
Unless, of course, the programming language that the IDE implements is a retarded one..... then blame it on the language, not the text editor.
You mean using a C compiler instead of a Java interpreter helps with speed and power consumption? Who could have thought?
Yet we've banned the goto statement, forcing everyone to describe graphs with if-then-else-throwexception control structures lol.
You're correct on the corruption. It does that if you let it "build the Media Library". Which it will then write to the disk. There's an option somewhere to disable this behaviour. Anyway it's a good idea to have a backup of that disk. I would hate to have to transcode again high def video. Takes ages.
The Playstation 3, which predates the iPad by some 4 years, has a TV style remote that uses Bluetooth to communicate. If your main application is watching movies, I personally think that a TV style remote is better suited than a keyboard :-)
My main application would be 3. Many people would like to do 2 & 4 too. I would be against 1 as it would mandate Cinavia.
.srt file)
- Playstation 3 will play 5.1 AAC sound (it converts it to LPCM before sending to the receiver via HDMI) but no captions and has Cinavia DRM
- iPad will do everything right except it will downmix audio to 2 channels, however since you'd use it for portable applications with earbuds (i.e. watching movies in the plane) there's not much to complain
- Roku will do a subset of what WD TV Live does
As far as 3 is concerned, I've tested various existing devices with m4v (h.264 video + AAC audio + captions + chapters) and the results are: - WD TV Live will downmix to 2 channels when AAC is used; also it will not play the captions inside the m4v container (you'll need to demux them and save as a separate
Well, it can be smaller, quieter, more energy efficient and use a "TV remote" for interface (instead of keyboard and mouse). As a bonus all the family members could use it. From the kids looking for cartoons to grandpa that couldn't be bothered to learn how to operate a computer.
They actually do. WD TV Live Streaming box lists FAT32, NTFS and HFS+ as supported filesystems. I used FAT32 and NTFS so far and they work fine. I guess WD paid some license fees.
If it:
- Accepts large (TerraByte) external storage media via USB and understands FATxx, NTFS, ext3fs and HFS+
- Understands and plays m4v files to at least the level supported on current iPads (i.e. H.264 video, AAC surround, captions and chapters)
- Can translate AAC 5.1 to LPCM 5.1 when using HDMI output and/or and has 5.1 analog outputs and converts AAC 5.1 to them
I am pre-ordering NOW. I mean really NOW. Amazon, please take my money... please....
Currently their wages aren't falling so they didn't see a need for it yet:
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk...
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You got it right, that's exactly what I was saying: if you want to use your advanced maths then find a domain that uses them in addition to using a programming language. Coming back to the actually unnecessary complexity of "enterprise" software, here's how we got there:
- people with no knowledge of maths, programming and systems theory were put in charge to draft the specs (yes, I'm talking business analysts and managers of all sorts) from platform selection to the minute details of the UI
- developers were treated by said management like disposable cattle, with a "my way or the highway" attitude, to make sure that no real feedback could ever occur
In the end, we got the most extraordinary kludges on workarounds of hacks improvised late nights between coke cans and pizza boxes. At the limits of what mankind could ever do.
Agreed. With C standing for Chinese.
Oh well. You must have been in "enterprise computing". Where about any "application" is nothing but some sort of front end to one or more databases.
But I have some good news for you. There are a few jobs in "scientific computing" where you would need all your math. Unfortunately they are rather scarce and don't pay that well either. But if you're after "intellectual challenge" they're pretty entertaining - they're definitely not "code monkey" style.
Oh c'mon. We all know the truth, regardless of it being relegated as an April fool's joke:
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html
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Why do we need to call this substance "eggs"? Anything wrong with calling it what it is? Same reason that "the industry" is pushing FDA to let them call "chocolate" about anything regardless of cocoa content?
The thing about real knobs is that they are all directly available at any time and they don't change their location and meaning. Like most virtual knobs in "touch" interfaces do (depending on screen/context).
If you want to do that with a touch screen (i.e. have fixed position / meaning knobs), then you'll realize you could as well implement it with hardware knobs, as the touch screen is as useful an ashtray on a motorcycle.
In addition to all this, a traditional knob can be used with wet / gloved hands too.
How does it perform at h.264 encoding? Compared with let's say Intel's Quick Sync on HD4600?
And then they deny Darwinism....
So, it's all a computer program, with blackjack, hookers and ponies? Now I got a pretty good idea of whom the programmer might be.
So your bet is that after 10-20 years of more technological advancement, everyone will be standardized on VP8? We don't use Indeo and MPEG-2 anymore because we found a better replacement for them, not because suddenly no one wants to license/support it anymore just because they can.
What is the percent of current iDevices that will give a fuck in 10 years that you can't even run the newest iOS version on them?
Yet they still sell in droves, which means nobody cares about which OS / videos / codecs would they support or not in 10 years. All that matters is what works well NOW. And VP8 ain't.
This would give some real weight to the allegation here:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4796055&cid=46257043
about vote "bombing". Plus the later allegation that it was google shills that modded down that post to -1.