The trash we have now is much better than trash from the 80's and 90's.
The trash from the 80's and 90's just wasn't entertaining. The trash from our modern era is quite well made and entertaining, however, there's usually this weird miasma of evil coming from it that makes it unwatchable.
What strikes me as odd is when people complain how things used to be great and how it used to be so good back way back when...
Except when they start mentioning the old hits, the classics, they don't seem to understand that in the years that those games/movies/music/etc came out, there was a dozen crappy counter examples. TV has gotten much better, but that is the exception, not the rule.
they rejected it because it hooked into the OS in ways that App Store apps aren't supposed to as per the TOS and there were some security concerns.
That is why it got rejected. Not because they were going to do it in this version of the OS.
Peter Hajas now works for apple after putting together the MobileNotifier, that shockingly, looks like iOS5's notification. It's not like they weren't willing to play ball here, they wanted his resume.
Depending on what your line of business is, this may not be feasible. If you're a startup that's begging for capital, well, beggars can't be choosers.
OTOH, if you're just having a site hosted that has no real sensitivity to it, what does it matter? Put it in a cheap cloud hosting service and be done with it.
who the fuck uses SOAP in the 21st century when we've got JSON, YAML and other solutions that don't involve needlessly over namespaced and useless XML?
Flash doesn't require authors to know ActionScript.
Flash doesn't require authors to even use the Adobe Flash editor to create Flash objects either. This is true of Silverlight objects, but FlashCS$version was a little more friendly to artists than Visual Studio.
Do you honestly believe they're going to even wink and nod at Silverlight? It failed because everyone already knew Flash, and Flash didn't require you to know a real programming language.
Silverlight wasn't that attractive for me as a web developer. I had a hard enough time convincing our outsourced call centers to use Firefox 3 or 4, getting them to install Flash or any other plugin was going to be a giant fucking hassle. In your case though, it sounds like you didn't have that problem.
(I was sad too, Silverlight's Firefox plugin, unlike the Flash plugin, never pegged my CPU to shit ads at me. Netflix also used less CPU to render similar content that I could stream off of Youtube... and this is on the -mac-, so it's not even like they're biased against me.)
What strikes me as strange is that silverlight integration wasn't something they were talking about day one with Windows 8. if everything's an HTML document supported by JavaScript and styled with CSS, then why not have silverlight integration for more complex tasks?
Microsoft is even starting to fail at Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Usually technologies like silverlight(or activex in the past), would be the shiv up their sleeves to extinguish the flames. Instead, they're playing catchup to the likes of Apple, Google and HP(their own partner for Windows computers!).
The Average Joe articulates this desire in the form of "I wish Quickbooks could do XYZ" or "I wish that legacy app could run on this new OS" or something like that. They want to be able to do the things open source allows but they don't say "I wish this program was under a GPL license"
But we say that about a lot of things. I wish $item could do $task. The reality for most people is, they don't have the skill, and if they have the skill they often simply don't have the time to tinker with something to make it work. So they live with the shortcoming of their $item.
RMS' writings always seem extreme and hyper-dystopian at first. 10-20 years later, they always seem highly prophetic.
That story is a scant 30 years away and it still seems extreme and hyperdystopian.
when that was announced I had the same flashback you did. The difference, in my mind, is that iOS 5 is shipping in a few months, whereas Windows 8 isn't slated for at least a year.
Android thrives on the fact for OEMs, it's free as in beer. Not only is it free as it beer, so is it's support.
While that alone isn't enough to ensure success, the fact that it is slick ss hell.
Also, most people won't even bother breaking out their net books unless they've got internet access.
As long as Google can convince OEMs that Chrome OS is worth it, it will survive. It won't be number one by a long shot, but I think it'll make a really nice dent.
What i am concerned with is if Chrome OS is going to cannibalize Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich tablets
The tech isn't cheap, and it isn't easy to use on the carrier's POV. So they're handing it off to companies like Gogo. Gogo needs to pay the bills so they charge users for the service. I can be amused without internet for over 5 hours, and I resent having to pay for internet access.
I'm not the only one either. It doesn't matter if your'e a techie or not, being a tightwad crosses all sorts of boundaries.
if they can't solve getting access in flight cheap enough to the point where it's free, it might stop here with Gogo taking $10 from every schmuck who can't stop tweeting.
(Don't get me wrong, I love twitter, but not enough to spend ten bucks to tell my friends that I'm taking a shit in that cramped box they call a toilet.)
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"...because Android is open." -- John Gruber
Dear technogeek,
We want products that work first. Unfortunately this means locking down. We also outnumber you by a wide margin.
Sorry
-everyone else
Objective C isn't a requirement.
you can use c and c++ too.
If you're going to make the car brand analogy, please don't sully Kia's reputation like that.
I disagree.
The trash we have now is much better than trash from the 80's and 90's.
The trash from the 80's and 90's just wasn't entertaining. The trash from our modern era is quite well made and entertaining, however, there's usually this weird miasma of evil coming from it that makes it unwatchable.
What strikes me as odd is when people complain how things used to be great and how it used to be so good back way back when...
Except when they start mentioning the old hits, the classics, they don't seem to understand that in the years that those games/movies/music/etc came out, there was a dozen crappy counter examples. TV has gotten much better, but that is the exception, not the rule.
they rejected it because it hooked into the OS in ways that App Store apps aren't supposed to as per the TOS and there were some security concerns.
That is why it got rejected. Not because they were going to do it in this version of the OS.
Peter Hajas now works for apple after putting together the MobileNotifier, that shockingly, looks like iOS5's notification. It's not like they weren't willing to play ball here, they wanted his resume.
Host it yourself.
Depending on what your line of business is, this may not be feasible. If you're a startup that's begging for capital, well, beggars can't be choosers.
OTOH, if you're just having a site hosted that has no real sensitivity to it, what does it matter? Put it in a cheap cloud hosting service and be done with it.
MVP has me a bit boggled.
who the fuck uses SOAP in the 21st century when we've got JSON, YAML and other solutions that don't involve needlessly over namespaced and useless XML?
Flash doesn't require authors to know ActionScript.
Flash doesn't require authors to even use the Adobe Flash editor to create Flash objects either. This is true of Silverlight objects, but FlashCS$version was a little more friendly to artists than Visual Studio.
Captivate, and a whole slew of other tools could dump out swfs with out ever having to get your hands dirty with a standalone editor.
Plus, even using the stand alone editor, you didn't even need to know action script to generate usable SWFs.
Let's be real here.
Who else other than MS and Netflix, who's using silverlight?
Thought so.
Do you honestly believe they're going to even wink and nod at Silverlight? It failed because everyone already knew Flash, and Flash didn't require you to know a real programming language.
Silverlight wasn't that attractive for me as a web developer. I had a hard enough time convincing our outsourced call centers to use Firefox 3 or 4, getting them to install Flash or any other plugin was going to be a giant fucking hassle. In your case though, it sounds like you didn't have that problem.
(I was sad too, Silverlight's Firefox plugin, unlike the Flash plugin, never pegged my CPU to shit ads at me. Netflix also used less CPU to render similar content that I could stream off of Youtube... and this is on the -mac-, so it's not even like they're biased against me.)
What strikes me as strange is that silverlight integration wasn't something they were talking about day one with Windows 8. if everything's an HTML document supported by JavaScript and styled with CSS, then why not have silverlight integration for more complex tasks?
Microsoft is even starting to fail at Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Usually technologies like silverlight(or activex in the past), would be the shiv up their sleeves to extinguish the flames. Instead, they're playing catchup to the likes of Apple, Google and HP(their own partner for Windows computers!).
Feh.
I'd *LOVE* to see them enforce that.
No, seriously.
Let's get down to practicality here.
Yeah, DRM is going to creep into our lives. But is it going to be this dystopian horror that RMS describes? Probably not.
yes, because people are going to jail because they lend their computers to others.
Seriousy? no.
The Average Joe articulates this desire in the form of "I wish Quickbooks could do XYZ" or "I wish that legacy app could run on this new OS" or something like that. They want to be able to do the things open source allows but they don't say "I wish this program was under a GPL license"
But we say that about a lot of things. I wish $item could do $task. The reality for most people is, they don't have the skill, and if they have the skill they often simply don't have the time to tinker with something to make it work. So they live with the shortcoming of their $item.
RMS' writings always seem extreme and hyper-dystopian at first. 10-20 years later, they always seem highly prophetic.
That story is a scant 30 years away and it still seems extreme and hyperdystopian.
Daleks aren't computers, they're remorseless killing machines with a soft gooey biological center.
I was talking about GLaDOS.
Then again, they're just talking about doing diagnosis.
When Watson starts doing *testing*...
No, there's a twisted dignity in voluntary slavery.
You mean a giant computer is going to rely on science instead of back whacking and cracking? Gasp!
Also there is a disturbing idea of a giant unfeeling computer telling me to do science. Thank god she's not voiced by Ellen McLane.
2 and 9 are somewhat in the same universe too.
Ramuh in 9 tells the story of Josef from Final Fantasy 2.
Technically speaking, FFIV leaves it open that all FFs are in the same "universe" but on different planets...
when that was announced I had the same flashback you did. The difference, in my mind, is that iOS 5 is shipping in a few months, whereas Windows 8 isn't slated for at least a year.
I think you're wrong.
Android thrives on the fact for OEMs, it's free as in beer. Not only is it free as it beer, so is it's support.
While that alone isn't enough to ensure success, the fact that it is slick ss hell.
Also, most people won't even bother breaking out their net books unless they've got internet access.
As long as Google can convince OEMs that Chrome OS is worth it, it will survive. It won't be number one by a long shot, but I think it'll make a really nice dent.
What i am concerned with is if Chrome OS is going to cannibalize Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich tablets
...which causes a huge business problem.
The tech isn't cheap, and it isn't easy to use on the carrier's POV. So they're handing it off to companies like Gogo. Gogo needs to pay the bills so they charge users for the service. I can be amused without internet for over 5 hours, and I resent having to pay for internet access.
I'm not the only one either. It doesn't matter if your'e a techie or not, being a tightwad crosses all sorts of boundaries.
if they can't solve getting access in flight cheap enough to the point where it's free, it might stop here with Gogo taking $10 from every schmuck who can't stop tweeting.
(Don't get me wrong, I love twitter, but not enough to spend ten bucks to tell my friends that I'm taking a shit in that cramped box they call a toilet.)
I don't see what's funny about this either. Then again whenever I see the Windows logo I usually feel pity, not hilarity.
Actually, often enough, it didn't.
Same's true for Moodle too.