I can confidently say that a lot of people are buying iOS devices as fashion accessories
Well, except that I see a lot of people out there on the trains holding their iPhones and trying to look totally in demand with their email and looking sheepish like "hey, this thing looked great at the time". While being increasingly surrounded by screens 4.5 inches and bigger, and real time 3D maps. Must be getting hard to feel really stylish under those conditions.
"Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest."
Has anyone at Google actually ever said it's not?
A lie by omission is still a lie.
And yes, many Googlers have made the claim that Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. Whereas any textbook on operating systems makes it plain that Linux is in fact an operating system. Or visit Wikipedia to understand this simple fact.
Google's stance with regard to Linux is self serving intellectual dishonesty all the way, pure and simple.
* Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
Making this statement is intellectually dishonest. Android uses the Linux Kernel in the same way that Debian uses the Linux kernel.
Debian calls it "Debian GNU/Linux", as you know. That is intellectually honest. You are intellectually dishonest as is evident by this blatant and self serving falacy you have posted. I might go on to say that you disgust me, but you already know that. It doesn't seem to bother you a bit.
Not to mention, provide an actual full screen mode for games. I don't know how many times I've drained a ball in pinball because I got a home screen instead of a flip.
* Locking the Nexus homescreen to portrait is idiotic. Really.
Not a problem since 4.1.2
Not correct. For some addle-brained reason, Google still locks the homescreen to portrait on the Nexus 4. Which I tend to use in landscape mode about 80% of the time. It's just stupid, and may I say it, embarrassing if that hipster chick over there happens to look at my screen when it's sideways.
Just swipe the app to the right in the list of all running apps and voila, app stopped.
So I look in settings under "apps" and "running". I see Google maps running (one app, one process started by the app). Now I press the "running apps" button and, my goodness, no Google Maps in the list of running apps, nothing to swipe. Ahem.
And relying on a bloated 3d stack just to draw a damn window isn't a bottleneck?
You're referring to OpenGL? I do not think what you know whereof you speak. OpenGL is actually quite tight. Yes, it has some cruft - primitive feedback is quaint and nearly completely useless for example - but such warts are small next to its extremely well designed and orthogonal fast path. Especially now with the clean partition into core and legacy profiles (with the latter well supported in all known OpenGL platforms). The only people who complain about OpenGL not being tight are game weanies who think that OpenGL exists only to run shooters. Even that issue was definitively solved with the core profile concept. And OpenGL ES (Android etc) is essentially just the core profile. So... executive summary is: you reveal yourself to be an idiot in terms of regurgitating random blather you heard somewhere on the internet.
No. X11 is a bottle neck. It thinks in 2D, it's full of redundant baggage which nobody uses and all those processes introduce latency. Even X11 developers recognize that it's an impediment in a modern desktop which is why some prominent ones have endorsed work on Wayland.
Might as well augment your random blather with a bit of actual knowledge.
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I can confidently say that a lot of people are buying iOS devices as fashion accessories
Well, except that I see a lot of people out there on the trains holding their iPhones and trying to look totally in demand with their email and looking sheepish like "hey, this thing looked great at the time". While being increasingly surrounded by screens 4.5 inches and bigger, and real time 3D maps. Must be getting hard to feel really stylish under those conditions.
incremental improvements and an overall nice phone, sure, but the ad I saw said it was gonna be the biggest revolution since the color TV.
It's aimed at iPhone 4s owners whose loyalty is swaying.
Actually, I meant to say that MTP looks good on a powerpoint slide.
"Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest."
Has anyone at Google actually ever said it's not?
A lie by omission is still a lie.
And yes, many Googlers have made the claim that Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. Whereas any textbook on operating systems makes it plain that Linux is in fact an operating system. Or visit Wikipedia to understand this simple fact.
Google's stance with regard to Linux is self serving intellectual dishonesty all the way, pure and simple.
"Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest."
Has anyone at Google actually ever said it's not?
A lie by omission is still a lie.
"Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest" Pedantic.
For you, maybe. For a kernel developer, not so much.
* Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
Making this statement is intellectually dishonest. Android uses the Linux Kernel in the same way that Debian uses the Linux kernel.
Debian calls it "Debian GNU/Linux", as you know. That is intellectually honest. You are intellectually dishonest as is evident by this blatant and self serving falacy you have posted. I might go on to say that you disgust me, but you already know that. It doesn't seem to bother you a bit.
Keep in mind that Sundar Pichai is the Chromeos guy. This is reason to fear.
Also fear those Googlers who think it is OK to downmod critical comments. Down that slope lie the likes of Microsoft and Apple.
* Locking the Nexus homescreen to portrait is idiotic. Really.
Which Nexus? My Nexus 7 isn't locked in portrait. Not since 4.2.1
Nexus 4. By the way you don't strengthen your points at all by sounding like an ass.
Not to mention, provide an actual full screen mode for games. I don't know how many times I've drained a ball in pinball because I got a home screen instead of a flip.
* Locking the Nexus homescreen to portrait is idiotic. Really.
Not a problem since 4.1.2
Not correct. For some addle-brained reason, Google still locks the homescreen to portrait on the Nexus 4. Which I tend to use in landscape mode about 80% of the time. It's just stupid, and may I say it, embarrassing if that hipster chick over there happens to look at my screen when it's sideways.
Just swipe the app to the right in the list of all running apps and voila, app stopped.
So I look in settings under "apps" and "running". I see Google maps running (one app, one process started by the app). Now I press the "running apps" button and, my goodness, no Google Maps in the list of running apps, nothing to swipe. Ahem.
Keep in mind that Sundar Pichai is the Chromeos guy. This is reason to fear.
Maybe Sundar Pichai will be less of an arrogant idiot about certain things:
* Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
* Locking the Nexus homescreen to portrait is idiotic. Really.
* MTP looks great on paper, in practice it is dog slow and buggy. Back to the drawing board please.
* Maps crashes all the time. Surely you know that. Fix it.
* Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
* Support for unlocking and root access is still half hearted.
* Android is not a community project. Fix that.
Your subject line is complete and utter bullshit.
Never mind that after transformation and perspective divide, the other 90% of the pipeline is just 2D anyway.
And relying on a bloated 3d stack just to draw a damn window isn't a bottleneck?
You're referring to OpenGL? I do not think what you know whereof you speak. OpenGL is actually quite tight. Yes, it has some cruft - primitive feedback is quaint and nearly completely useless for example - but such warts are small next to its extremely well designed and orthogonal fast path. Especially now with the clean partition into core and legacy profiles (with the latter well supported in all known OpenGL platforms). The only people who complain about OpenGL not being tight are game weanies who think that OpenGL exists only to run shooters. Even that issue was definitively solved with the core profile concept. And OpenGL ES (Android etc) is essentially just the core profile. So... executive summary is: you reveal yourself to be an idiot in terms of regurgitating random blather you heard somewhere on the internet.
No. X11 is a bottle neck. It thinks in 2D, it's full of redundant baggage which nobody uses and all those processes introduce latency. Even X11 developers recognize that it's an impediment in a modern desktop which is why some prominent ones have endorsed work on Wayland.
Might as well augment your random blather with a bit of actual knowledge.
This is what I hear when I read your post:
Someone who is not clear on the concept of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And someone whose capslock key is stuck.
It's beyond lame, it's Google being evil.
It would be evil if Google went to any great lengths to actually prevent you.
Evil is evil, you're just niggling over degrees of evil.
It seems lame to me that Android almost tries to prevent you from having a full-fledged Unix system.
It's beyond lame, it's Google being evil.
The patent system defines the playing field. Apple is just playing in it like everyone else.
No, Apple is playing it like a thuggish bully. And paying the price in terms of alienating its former fanatic supporters.
I never believed it, I was simply pointing out that publicly, cook said this, and now he is going in the opposite direction.
The inescapable conclusion is that Tim Cook is an ass as well as a clown.
Secondary inescapable conclusion is that Apple spinmod thugs are out in force, and they do not like to admit reality.
Market value is a collective hallucination...
Wow, just like water. When those dihydroen oxide molecules get moving fast enough it just disappears. Water isn't real.
I don't blame Apple, though.
I do blame Apple, for losing the plot on innovation and descending to the level of sleazy thugs.