Just a little more duct tape will fix it. No need for a clean state redesign. With enough kludging, ever increasing performance of local clients and Internet connections, we'll make it work and look just like a local app did ten years ago. Some day.
You are right. The iPad isn't for you. The iPad is for your Ma, Pa, Grandma and Grandpa. In other words, everyone else in the world that isn't a nerd/geek/tech-head.
If the kids want to piss away their parents money going to college and end up working at Taco Bell as a career, then I agree, they should have that freedom of choice. I mean, how else is the Idiocracy going to create itself?
Every time I do "web development", I feel like I'm duct taping popsicle sticks together to build a house and then throwing in a bit of mud to seal the holes. Even after 10+ years everything still feels like a really bad hack/kludge/bodge.
If I could have the screen of an iPad and put it in my pocket
a) Get a bigger pocket. b) Get a pocket that is bigger on the inside than on the outside (see Tardis). c) Get a brain and realize the idiocy of your statement.
I'll repeat this fact one more time: iPhone OS and core Mac OS X share over 80% of their source code (see WWDC'09 sessions). The major difference being the UI on top of the core OS. For the iPad, Apple is pulling even more bits from Mac OS X and putting them into iPhone OS 3.2.
Why no Mac OS X UI or multi-tasking? Desktop UI's make absolutely no sense on a small form factor multi-touch based mobile device. If you want to get a taste of what multi-tasking on a smartphone hardware spec device would be, install Windows 95 on a 600 MHz Pentium III with 128 MB of RAM and a 8 GB hard drive. Disable the swap file. Then install Firefox and a few other small productivity apps and run them at the same time.
Also the issue isn't public APIs (Apple's modus operandi is to keep those around for a while, deprecate them, and a few years later drop them). The issue is private APIs that the developers of those apps had to use since there is, unfortunately, no similar public API exposed. Those specifically are verboten per the agreement that you sign with Apple.
Frak me. We had this idea back in 2000 to do advertising directed by location of the customer. Back then the mobile technology didn't exist and would require people to enter in their address to be converted into longitude/latitude. Too bad we didn't document it and patent it back then. Frak me again.
Actually, when you think about it, having the display be a window into a larger desktop is perfect for the current attention deficit generation. It will keep their attention occupied, scrolling all over the place looking at and for stuff. When they forget something they saw half a second ago, they will scroll back around some more to find it. I can see this type of UI keeping them occupied for tens of minutes at a time.
You'd think the Ozzies, that are usually portrayed as a rough and tough bunch, are being such a bunch of limp wristed mamby pambies when it comes to all this online stuff. Would like to hear what the Ozzies think of their fascist government on this subject.
But you are a geek/nerd/tech-head. Your dad (probably) isn't. Your mom isn't. Your grandpa isn't. Your grandma isn't. The iPad IS NOT FOR YOU. Grok that yet? Let me repeat that: The iPad IS NOT FOR YOU. The iPad is for the rest of the world. It is NOT for geeks, nerds or tech-heads.
Actually, with Xcode and iPhone OS you do not have to jump through all the hoops this guy did. GCC in Xcode generates ARM6 or ARM7, Thumb or non-Thumb code - no futzing with compilers, tools or worrying about taking advantage of the hardware FPU. You can also mix Objective C, C, C++ code and libraries with very little effort - no Java to NDK-level and back calling BS. Stuff like this is easier, NOT harder, on iPhone OS.
They no doubt got a call from Washington D.C. going something like this: "WTF do you think you 'tards are doing? Don't you realize they have us by the balls? Do you have any idea how much of our debt they carry? The spare change from that could buy you clowns out twice! Have you no clue how much of the economy depends on being nice-nice with them? Now go back to kissing their backsides and spying on everyone on the nets."
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Just a little more duct tape will fix it. No need for a clean state redesign. With enough kludging, ever increasing performance of local clients and Internet connections, we'll make it work and look just like a local app did ten years ago. Some day.
- T. Roll
Sorry, I just can't resist...
> databases were irretrievably wiped
The expression to describe such an fortunate event would be "and nothing of value was [would be] lost".
You are right. The iPad isn't for you.
The iPad is for your Ma, Pa, Grandma and Grandpa.
In other words, everyone else in the world that isn't a nerd/geek/tech-head.
He's running Wordpress. At least he could have of installed something other than a version of the hideous default theme that it comes with.
If the kids want to piss away their parents money going to college and end up working at Taco Bell as a career, then I agree, they should have that freedom of choice. I mean, how else is the Idiocracy going to create itself?
One "Library of Congresses per second" is about one extensive pr0n collection per hour. Hmmm... Not bad...
Depends on your definition of "failed".
If you call a network full of privacy invading corporations, advertising, marketing and crap a "success", then by my definition, it has failed.
My gas already breaks the wind.
replace HTTP/JavaScript/Flash/what-have-you
Every time I do "web development", I feel like I'm duct taping popsicle sticks together to build a house and then throwing in a bit of mud to seal the holes. Even after 10+ years everything still feels like a really bad hack/kludge/bodge.
What about all the e-mails, calendars, documents and what not else that people store with Google? Are they no less to be wary of?
Dear HighlyEducatedIdiot,
The actions "of a few people in the NY financial district" can be traced directly to the deregulation of their industry by a previous administration.
Regards,
SomeoneWithABrain
And Google. Their crack is always free - with someone else paying for it.
If I could have the screen of an iPad and put it in my pocket
a) Get a bigger pocket.
b) Get a pocket that is bigger on the inside than on the outside (see Tardis).
c) Get a brain and realize the idiocy of your statement.
Which will it be?
the iPhone OS is short-term
I'll repeat this fact one more time: iPhone OS and core Mac OS X share over 80% of their source code (see WWDC'09 sessions). The major difference being the UI on top of the core OS. For the iPad, Apple is pulling even more bits from Mac OS X and putting them into iPhone OS 3.2.
Why no Mac OS X UI or multi-tasking? Desktop UI's make absolutely no sense on a small form factor multi-touch based mobile device. If you want to get a taste of what multi-tasking on a smartphone hardware spec device would be, install Windows 95 on a 600 MHz Pentium III with 128 MB of RAM and a 8 GB hard drive. Disable the swap file. Then install Firefox and a few other small productivity apps and run them at the same time.
Also the issue isn't public APIs (Apple's modus operandi is to keep those around for a while, deprecate them, and a few years later drop them). The issue is private APIs that the developers of those apps had to use since there is, unfortunately, no similar public API exposed. Those specifically are verboten per the agreement that you sign with Apple.
What's there to stop spammers from stuffing their crap to Google?
Google's #1 problem, and which they have done nothing about it appears, is that over 99.99% of their search results are absolutely useless.
I would actually pay money to have that fixed.
It's not garbage, it's "art".
Google farts.
Google fanbois inhale deeply;
Proclaim "Google is Great!"
Frak me. We had this idea back in 2000 to do advertising directed by location of the customer. Back then the mobile technology didn't exist and would require people to enter in their address to be converted into longitude/latitude. Too bad we didn't document it and patent it back then. Frak me again.
Actually, when you think about it, having the display be a window into a larger desktop is perfect for the current attention deficit generation. It will keep their attention occupied, scrolling all over the place looking at and for stuff. When they forget something they saw half a second ago, they will scroll back around some more to find it. I can see this type of UI keeping them occupied for tens of minutes at a time.
...and how many years and versions of Java did it take to get to real portability?
You'd think the Ozzies, that are usually portrayed as a rough and tough bunch, are being such a bunch of limp wristed mamby pambies when it comes to all this online stuff. Would like to hear what the Ozzies think of their fascist government on this subject.
But you are a geek/nerd/tech-head.
Your dad (probably) isn't. Your mom isn't. Your grandpa isn't. Your grandma isn't.
The iPad IS NOT FOR YOU. Grok that yet?
Let me repeat that: The iPad IS NOT FOR YOU.
The iPad is for the rest of the world.
It is NOT for geeks, nerds or tech-heads.
Capish?
Actually, with Xcode and iPhone OS you do not have to jump through all the hoops this guy did. GCC in Xcode generates ARM6 or ARM7, Thumb or non-Thumb code - no futzing with compilers, tools or worrying about taking advantage of the hardware FPU. You can also mix Objective C, C, C++ code and libraries with very little effort - no Java to NDK-level and back calling BS. Stuff like this is easier, NOT harder, on iPhone OS.
No, no, no - Google and Yahoo Xeroxed Xerox!
They no doubt got a call from Washington D.C. going something like this: "WTF do you think you 'tards are doing? Don't you realize they have us by the balls? Do you have any idea how much of our debt they carry? The spare change from that could buy you clowns out twice! Have you no clue how much of the economy depends on being nice-nice with them? Now go back to kissing their backsides and spying on everyone on the nets."