For every person right now holding a Core 2 Duo or better machine, how many of them *want* their computers to crunch video? Or gaming? Or any number of otherwise PC related tasks?
The PC is a revolution, but, there's a limit to what people are willing to do with technology.
My car can be tuned to drift, rally race, drag race, and destruction derby. I want to go to work and back and occasionally out of town.
Android probably never will go down that route, and as a result, no matter how successful Android phones become in the market, Android apps will never be as successful as iPhone apps.
The only problem is convincing developers there's a market there, or that developing for generic devices with any number of different features is a good idea.
Android's going to flood the market, but, nothing's going to knock the wind out of Apple's sales.
BTW, Nokia's dead in the water and sinking fast. Even if they sell a large percentage of handsets, there aren't many people who are buying apps or particularly enthusiastic about their Nokia hardware. Even if it's a Symbian phone, it's largely seen as being a feature phone and I'd be willing to bet that less than %10 of people sync their Nokia devices with a computer, much less take full advantage of it as a smart device. In 2006, people were predicting the *death* of mobile app sales, funny enough.
Sure, machine-generated code might not be optimal, but the compiler doesn't fricking care, and there's nothing saying that *human*-generated code is automatically better anyway!
Compiler doesn't care, but the user who's screaming at their phone when it locks, crashes or catches fire certainly does.
Saw Douglas Crockford's talk about the history of programming languages and development a week or so ago, and I came to the conclusion that largely, yes, programmers need to be told how to do their jobs and with what tools otherwise you wind up with crap like Windows and x86.
This is the closest I can get to formulating what exactly the "liberal" opinion is on fair use and copyright.
Heaven forbid anyone protect content providers from pirates who seek to profit off of the works of others.
That being said though, ripping your CD and DVDs and occasionally letting one of your friends get a copy isn't a threat to the RIAA and MPAA. I wish they'd realize this and go after the guys who are selling bootlegs on the street and tracking down the guys who are bulk importing pirated copies of Avatar and selling them on the street for $5 a disc.
I'd be proud of myself, yes, but, I wouldn't brag to the press about how profitable OSH development is. They would, yes, laugh at me.
OSH represents a niche market. If you can get your product into the embedded or repackaged as a final product, you're talking about the same niche, but in high volume. That's something to brag to the press about.
I'm under the impression that that the current slate of Flash 10 based attacks may not *compromise* the Android browser, given the binary incompatibility between Windows and Android, however, I'm still imagining it's going to crash still.
If YOU made a million dollars in a year, wouldn't it be a pretty big deal?
Yeah, but if my business model left me making that same amount after 5 or 10 years, I wouldn't brag about it. Particularly if I had a product like Arduino, who makes some really sexy OSH development kits.
No it hasn't. They've never won more than 1% of the vote. In fact, their very rules state that anyone that does well enough to get their deposit back (5%) has to quit the party.
Grow the fuck up you fucking middle class privileged white motherfuckers. You're a geeky political gimmick.
I generally don't needlessly flame people like this but your entire political ideology has zero depth. I mean, the Free Soil and Populist parties atleast were focusing on a wide ranging platform based on some common political ideal like, "Don't piss off the farmers."
Last night while driving, I was flipping around the AM dial, and wound up on some rightwinger's talk show talking about how Obama is the antichrist and Kenyan born.
If there's anyone on Earth who has a right to have some sort of problem with talk radio and low signal to noise ratio blogs, it'd have to be the Hawaiian born Barack Obama.
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Hypervisors and other hardware lockdowns aren't the same as being put into martial law. what part of, "it's just a damned gadget?" don't you get?
Letting whatever code you want execute isn't a feature, it's a security risk and a bug.
Let's be frank.
For every person right now holding a Core 2 Duo or better machine, how many of them *want* their computers to crunch video? Or gaming? Or any number of otherwise PC related tasks?
The PC is a revolution, but, there's a limit to what people are willing to do with technology.
My car can be tuned to drift, rally race, drag race, and destruction derby. I want to go to work and back and occasionally out of town.
Except Steve never called Windows and x86 crapware, I did.
and unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I'm not Steve Jobs.
Given though, that x86 was developing faster than POWER was...
Stack smashing and buffer over/underruns aren't features, they're *bugs*
Android probably never will go down that route, and as a result, no matter how successful Android phones become in the market, Android apps will never be as successful as iPhone apps.
not true, Android Marketplace?
The only problem is convincing developers there's a market there, or that developing for generic devices with any number of different features is a good idea.
Android's going to flood the market, but, nothing's going to knock the wind out of Apple's sales.
BTW, Nokia's dead in the water and sinking fast. Even if they sell a large percentage of handsets, there aren't many people who are buying apps or particularly enthusiastic about their Nokia hardware. Even if it's a Symbian phone, it's largely seen as being a feature phone and I'd be willing to bet that less than %10 of people sync their Nokia devices with a computer, much less take full advantage of it as a smart device. In 2006, people were predicting the *death* of mobile app sales, funny enough.
I'd hate to tell you this, but no one cares about openness except a handful of geeks.
This is why when I flew last weekend I saw two groups of devices being handled by passengers flying. E-ink readers and iPads.
Not tablets, slates, netbooks. iPads and Kindles/nooks.
Revolution isn't about what YOU as a super nerd can do with devices it's about what everyone can do with a device.
Sure, machine-generated code might not be optimal, but the compiler doesn't fricking care, and there's nothing saying that *human*-generated code is automatically better anyway!
Compiler doesn't care, but the user who's screaming at their phone when it locks, crashes or catches fire certainly does.
Saw Douglas Crockford's talk about the history of programming languages and development a week or so ago, and I came to the conclusion that largely, yes, programmers need to be told how to do their jobs and with what tools otherwise you wind up with crap like Windows and x86.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs-1
But that wasn't the case here.
If he wanted to put in an honest effort to return property, he'd have driven to Cupertino or you know, given the phone to the barkeep(Or the cops!).
Instead, he asked a friend who asked around where he could shop this thing around.
Actually, it's Ctrl-X, Meta-c, Meta-Pudding.
God damn it emacs.
in Vi it's something like :can pudding open
Were you sent here by the Devil!?
the tab to open up my can of pudding broke off.
Time to break out the thermonuclear device...
This is the closest I can get to formulating what exactly the "liberal" opinion is on fair use and copyright.
Heaven forbid anyone protect content providers from pirates who seek to profit off of the works of others.
That being said though, ripping your CD and DVDs and occasionally letting one of your friends get a copy isn't a threat to the RIAA and MPAA. I wish they'd realize this and go after the guys who are selling bootlegs on the street and tracking down the guys who are bulk importing pirated copies of Avatar and selling them on the street for $5 a disc.
Proud isn't bragging.
I'd be proud of myself, yes, but, I wouldn't brag to the press about how profitable OSH development is. They would, yes, laugh at me.
OSH represents a niche market. If you can get your product into the embedded or repackaged as a final product, you're talking about the same niche, but in high volume. That's something to brag to the press about.
A great HuffPo Piece by none other than Lawrence Lessig, Mr. Creative Commons himself.
I'm under the impression that that the current slate of Flash 10 based attacks may not *compromise* the Android browser, given the binary incompatibility between Windows and Android, however, I'm still imagining it's going to crash still.
That's a pair of neat tricks called, "reporting" and"journalism."
If YOU made a million dollars in a year, wouldn't it be a pretty big deal?
Yeah, but if my business model left me making that same amount after 5 or 10 years, I wouldn't brag about it. Particularly if I had a product like Arduino, who makes some really sexy OSH development kits.
No it hasn't. They've never won more than 1% of the vote. In fact, their very rules state that anyone that does well enough to get their deposit back (5%) has to quit the party.
Get a clue, and check your facts, moron
It might be against their own rules to win, but yes, even they've pulled off a few wins.
Actually, if Google goes ahead with implementing Flash in their browser, that's actually pretty likely...
Here's some feedback.
Grow the fuck up you fucking middle class privileged white motherfuckers. You're a geeky political gimmick.
I generally don't needlessly flame people like this but your entire political ideology has zero depth. I mean, the Free Soil and Populist parties atleast were focusing on a wide ranging platform based on some common political ideal like, "Don't piss off the farmers."
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party has occasionally won too.
Reasoned?
Last night while driving, I was flipping around the AM dial, and wound up on some rightwinger's talk show talking about how Obama is the antichrist and Kenyan born.
If there's anyone on Earth who has a right to have some sort of problem with talk radio and low signal to noise ratio blogs, it'd have to be the Hawaiian born Barack Obama.