Android already has passed up iPhone. Multitasking. Scripting languages. Open application development. All things that Apple has chosen to withhold from the market and all things that will enable users to do more with their android phone. Oh, that and laying the foundation for establishing the standard for open handsets - literally and figuratively.
We make a bunch of windmills here in Indiana. Turns out the cost of transportation and installation is pretty high compared to the labor to make them. It's cheaper to make them closer to where they need to be installed.
It's a technical term that sets off the property rights wingnuts. These are the "it's my property and I can do whatever I want to it, even if it causes cancer for 10,000 years" people. Those people often are behind fixing "contaminated sites" but when they hear brownfield, they picture someone spilling 8oz of diesel in their strip mall parking lot and having to pay $15,000,000 to tear out the parking lot, remove 20ft of topsoil and then replace the parking lot... and pay lawyers.
A useful discussion will center around which set of environmental impacts can be most easily tolerated.
Not really. It's a good question - as we remove energy from the wind, it has to have some effect on other aspects of the environment. This is a question that would be valuable to get an answer to.
Oh, and get over the spelling mistakes. They happen all the time on/.
Actually, Android's "always in beta" has been a boon for users. The package management system is a boon for developers. I bought my phone nearly one year ago and periodically it tells me there is a system update. After the update things are usually much better. It shouldn't be a concern for enterprise developers familiar with developing for Linux - upgrades are handled very automatically, and distributing and installing software is easy. It really isn't much more different than writing for any stack - where most enterprise programs head south is when they take shortcuts and do silly things like assume since the corporate standard is 1024x768 to design the gui for 1024x768 only. If anything diversity of hardware will be a boon for Android, just like it was for PCs.
BTW - if your expectation of a new kind of platform (connected smartphone) is that there be no change in APIs, do us all a favor and retire now. The platform has a lifetime of less than two years (cell phone contracts force upgrades and change) - it's time to stop expecting it to work like Windows XP.
It's only open source until Google decides that they don't want someone else using the "Open Source" code and files a court injunction as was done last week
What? Last week's situation was caused by someone distributing proprietary software that did not have permission. Google could not have stopped Cyanogen had the mod not included Google's proprietary software. Google deserves no ire for their actions, and Cyanogen's response was 100% class. Android is coming of age quickly.
Investor glossary has it correct for commodities like corn syrup that are consumed rapidly and have regular repeat orders. Phones are not corn syrup.
Smart phones and computers are different as you are dealing with a product that has a life that exceeds three years. I own a software company. I'd fire you if you were a marketing analyst and told that Apple has the largest market share because it is the current best seller. Why? Ignoring the accumulated market share of competing technologies would result in a critical mistake in allocating money and people to iPhone development when Blackberry clearly has a strong lead and is holding in current sales.
Stop trying to be the smartest guy in the room and listen. You'll learn a lot more... there are some pretty amazing people on Slashdot.
False. Market share is most often read as % of units in use. Blackberry and Symbian devices have been on the market far longer and have much larger market shares than iPhone or Android and have twice the market share of iPhone in the case of Blackberry and over four times in the case of Symbian.
iPhones are popular, but they are limited by Apple's rather stupid and short sighted arrangement with single carriers. In the long run, iPhone is facing a "Wintel" like competitor in Android where hardware manufacturers focus on better hardware and leverage Android to lower software costs and increase application market size. There was a time when Apple outsold Wintel.
Actually, there are two reasons that Android will dominate in the future:
1. Business Apps. I can write and roll out whatever I want for my company's Android devices. No App Store approval. There is serious money to be made on doing corporate apps for android, and no big brother to tell you that you can't do that.
2. Evolution. The built in Android apps face competition from third party apps. For example, Google's Google Voice App (which you can no has on iPhone) suck compared to a third part app called GV. Guess what: Google's app will get a lot better way earlier than expected because of competition.
Mod parent up. Apple's advantage has never been the iPhone hardware - it's been software. Android reduces the software advantage in the same way that Win95 did when Apple finally lost the GUI PC war in the 90s. Comparing the Windows/MacOS 8 battle to iPhone vs. Androind is a bad comparison. Android is MUCH more capable than Windows was in it's early versions.
The iPhone is ahead because of the apps and the highly capable hardware.
LOL. First, you've obviously not seen what us Android phone owners have: we have plenty of Apps. They also do things you can't do with iPhone because Apple will not let you (Google doesn't care about competition with their apps and we can run daemons -- resulting in much more useful software).
You also are completely and utterlly clueless about the hardware that Android runs on. My almost year old fosil of a G1 has GPS, compass, accelerometer, can play more music formats, has a real keyboard, trackball, 2MP digital camera, touch screen (yes, it can do multitouch and is basically the EXACT same thing as an iPhone screen, except it folds out to reveal an actual real working keyboard), a user serviceable battery, expandable storage, bluetooth suport, and even came in a really cool cardboard box. The newer phones are faster, have more memory, better screens, etc... but the only place where iPhone is superior is internal flash memory... that was until I stuck 8MB worth of SD in (cost: $24) in my *removable storage* socket.
Oh, I'll spot you iTunes. I don't spend $391 per year on music $1 at a time.
The only reason iPhone is ahead of Android is it's been on the market for nearly 1.5 years longer Mr. Apple Loving Hipster Guy.
Richard Stallman does not seem to have anything better to do than launch personal attacks against me
Stallman's blog post was incredibly direct, and was very soft for a personal attack. In fact, RMS went out of the way to make clear that this was not personal:
With its board of directors dominated by Microsoft employees and ex-employees, plus apologist Miguel de Icaza, there is plenty of reason to be wary of the organization. But that doesn't prove its actions will be bad.
This is classic RMS: he's serving warning to the community and is calling out a pattern of behavior that is perplexing and someone dangerous if you value free software and later:
However good or bad the CodePlex Foundation's actions, we must not accept them as an excuse for Microsoft's acts of aggression against our community.
RMS is inconvenient. He's a curmudgeon. But he's also the kind of curmudgeon you want on your side. I'm glad he's on the side of freedom. As for de Icaza - he's done some great things and should be commended, but RMS is right to sound the warning. It's up to de Icaza and the CodePlex foundation to prove RMS wrong.
I saw the Seinfeld and Gates commercials. They redefined awful. The new commercials, though are groundbreaking and are defining a level of awful not even thought possible: NOTHING EVER MADE IS THIS BAD.
Whoever thought of having your friends over for a nice evening of Windows tutorials... should have their cappuccino and black turtleneck taken away for life. Oh, and the person who bought it? Well, at least they are getting some buzz and brand impressions from the backlash.
Doing record locking isn't really that tough - there are a ton of ways to implement locking. The easiest is to add a lock and locked by column to your tables and set it whenever the user edits and unset it when they save. If you really want to get slick you can implement a lock table and log user edits (lock set for invoice 12231245 by joe.smoker on 01/01/2010 at 12:32:31 released by system_cleanup_process on 01/01/2010 at 15:33:00).
The tough part is unlocking because web users have a strange way of walking away in the middle of edits. As a result, you'll have to have very strong session management so you can run a clean up process when a user times out that includes removing any locks the user may have active.
About the time you get done with implementing locking, managers will want a way to manually override locks or will ask if you can do field level locking. At which point you are up against the, well, with enough time and money you can accomplish anything problem.
I guess the lesson we learned from eliminating most toll roads and replacing them with the highway system is lost on you completely. Going back to toll roads is a take away. Taxing travel is a take away. If it uses fuel - be it gas or electric current, the model we have works.
Roads are useless if you can't afford to use them. Taxes on use of the highways are very different than taxing commercial traffic. People should be free to move around the country without fear or taxation.
This is stupid. The actual problem here isn't how to tax, it's that we spend way more than we take in taxes, and the people cannot afford to pay more in taxes as it is.
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Android already has passed up iPhone. Multitasking. Scripting languages. Open application development. All things that Apple has chosen to withhold from the market and all things that will enable users to do more with their android phone. Oh, that and laying the foundation for establishing the standard for open handsets - literally and figuratively.
We make a bunch of windmills here in Indiana. Turns out the cost of transportation and installation is pretty high compared to the labor to make them. It's cheaper to make them closer to where they need to be installed.
It's a technical term that sets off the property rights wingnuts. These are the "it's my property and I can do whatever I want to it, even if it causes cancer for 10,000 years" people. Those people often are behind fixing "contaminated sites" but when they hear brownfield, they picture someone spilling 8oz of diesel in their strip mall parking lot and having to pay $15,000,000 to tear out the parking lot, remove 20ft of topsoil and then replace the parking lot... and pay lawyers.
A useful discussion will center around which set of environmental impacts can be most easily tolerated.
Not really. It's a good question - as we remove energy from the wind, it has to have some effect on other aspects of the environment. This is a question that would be valuable to get an answer to.
Oh, and get over the spelling mistakes. They happen all the time on /.
Actually, Android's "always in beta" has been a boon for users. The package management system is a boon for developers. I bought my phone nearly one year ago and periodically it tells me there is a system update. After the update things are usually much better. It shouldn't be a concern for enterprise developers familiar with developing for Linux - upgrades are handled very automatically, and distributing and installing software is easy. It really isn't much more different than writing for any stack - where most enterprise programs head south is when they take shortcuts and do silly things like assume since the corporate standard is 1024x768 to design the gui for 1024x768 only. If anything diversity of hardware will be a boon for Android, just like it was for PCs.
BTW - if your expectation of a new kind of platform (connected smartphone) is that there be no change in APIs, do us all a favor and retire now. The platform has a lifetime of less than two years (cell phone contracts force upgrades and change) - it's time to stop expecting it to work like Windows XP.
It's only open source until Google decides that they don't want someone else using the "Open Source" code and files a court injunction as was done last week
What? Last week's situation was caused by someone distributing proprietary software that did not have permission. Google could not have stopped Cyanogen had the mod not included Google's proprietary software. Google deserves no ire for their actions, and Cyanogen's response was 100% class. Android is coming of age quickly.
Investor glossary has it correct for commodities like corn syrup that are consumed rapidly and have regular repeat orders. Phones are not corn syrup.
Smart phones and computers are different as you are dealing with a product that has a life that exceeds three years. I own a software company. I'd fire you if you were a marketing analyst and told that Apple has the largest market share because it is the current best seller. Why? Ignoring the accumulated market share of competing technologies would result in a critical mistake in allocating money and people to iPhone development when Blackberry clearly has a strong lead and is holding in current sales.
Stop trying to be the smartest guy in the room and listen. You'll learn a lot more ... there are some pretty amazing people on Slashdot.
No. You are confusing marketshare/time with market share.
Just because you have the current best seller does not mean you have top market share.
I'm still trying to figure out how Gartner stays in business. Their crystal ball hasn't ever worked very well.
I would not put money on that (hint winmo and palm have been around for how many years)?
False. Market share is most often read as % of units in use. Blackberry and Symbian devices have been on the market far longer and have much larger market shares than iPhone or Android and have twice the market share of iPhone in the case of Blackberry and over four times in the case of Symbian.
iPhones are popular, but they are limited by Apple's rather stupid and short sighted arrangement with single carriers. In the long run, iPhone is facing a "Wintel" like competitor in Android where hardware manufacturers focus on better hardware and leverage Android to lower software costs and increase application market size. There was a time when Apple outsold Wintel.
Actually, there are two reasons that Android will dominate in the future:
1. Business Apps. I can write and roll out whatever I want for my company's Android devices. No App Store approval. There is serious money to be made on doing corporate apps for android, and no big brother to tell you that you can't do that.
2. Evolution. The built in Android apps face competition from third party apps. For example, Google's Google Voice App (which you can no has on iPhone) suck compared to a third part app called GV. Guess what: Google's app will get a lot better way earlier than expected because of competition.
Mod parent up. Apple's advantage has never been the iPhone hardware - it's been software. Android reduces the software advantage in the same way that Win95 did when Apple finally lost the GUI PC war in the 90s. Comparing the Windows/MacOS 8 battle to iPhone vs. Androind is a bad comparison. Android is MUCH more capable than Windows was in it's early versions.
The iPhone is ahead because of the apps and the highly capable hardware.
LOL. First, you've obviously not seen what us Android phone owners have: we have plenty of Apps. They also do things you can't do with iPhone because Apple will not let you (Google doesn't care about competition with their apps and we can run daemons -- resulting in much more useful software).
You also are completely and utterlly clueless about the hardware that Android runs on. My almost year old fosil of a G1 has GPS, compass, accelerometer, can play more music formats, has a real keyboard, trackball, 2MP digital camera, touch screen (yes, it can do multitouch and is basically the EXACT same thing as an iPhone screen, except it folds out to reveal an actual real working keyboard), a user serviceable battery, expandable storage, bluetooth suport, and even came in a really cool cardboard box. The newer phones are faster, have more memory, better screens, etc... but the only place where iPhone is superior is internal flash memory... that was until I stuck 8MB worth of SD in (cost: $24) in my *removable storage* socket.
Oh, I'll spot you iTunes. I don't spend $391 per year on music $1 at a time.
The only reason iPhone is ahead of Android is it's been on the market for nearly 1.5 years longer Mr. Apple Loving Hipster Guy.
Here is why de Icaza goes wrong:
Stallman's blog post was incredibly direct, and was very soft for a personal attack. In fact, RMS went out of the way to make clear that this was not personal:
This is classic RMS: he's serving warning to the community and is calling out a pattern of behavior that is perplexing and someone dangerous if you value free software and later:
RMS is inconvenient. He's a curmudgeon. But he's also the kind of curmudgeon you want on your side. I'm glad he's on the side of freedom. As for de Icaza - he's done some great things and should be commended, but RMS is right to sound the warning. It's up to de Icaza and the CodePlex foundation to prove RMS wrong.
amaroK. That ought to cover it.
Um... Apple has locked out other vendors. That is what this article is about.
I saw the Seinfeld and Gates commercials. They redefined awful. The new commercials, though are groundbreaking and are defining a level of awful not even thought possible: NOTHING EVER MADE IS THIS BAD.
Whoever thought of having your friends over for a nice evening of Windows tutorials... should have their cappuccino and black turtleneck taken away for life. Oh, and the person who bought it? Well, at least they are getting some buzz and brand impressions from the backlash.
Wow. That is possible the worst commercial in the history of advertising.
Doing record locking isn't really that tough - there are a ton of ways to implement locking. The easiest is to add a lock and locked by column to your tables and set it whenever the user edits and unset it when they save. If you really want to get slick you can implement a lock table and log user edits (lock set for invoice 12231245 by joe.smoker on 01/01/2010 at 12:32:31 released by system_cleanup_process on 01/01/2010 at 15:33:00).
The tough part is unlocking because web users have a strange way of walking away in the middle of edits. As a result, you'll have to have very strong session management so you can run a clean up process when a user times out that includes removing any locks the user may have active.
About the time you get done with implementing locking, managers will want a way to manually override locks or will ask if you can do field level locking. At which point you are up against the, well, with enough time and money you can accomplish anything problem.
Well... if you give a mouse popcorn...
Then shift the tax to electric. Just don't tax mileage.
I guess the lesson we learned from eliminating most toll roads and replacing them with the highway system is lost on you completely. Going back to toll roads is a take away. Taxing travel is a take away. If it uses fuel - be it gas or electric current, the model we have works.
Roads are useless if you can't afford to use them. Taxes on use of the highways are very different than taxing commercial traffic. People should be free to move around the country without fear or taxation.
This is stupid. The actual problem here isn't how to tax, it's that we spend way more than we take in taxes, and the people cannot afford to pay more in taxes as it is.
Why should I pay a tax based on how much I exercise my right to move around at will? Don't people get this simple fact:
Freedom is not freedom if you cannot afford to be free.