I agree with you are saying, but there is one small problem in your post: you're dealing with revenues. It's better, but no sufficient, to talk using net profits or losses. For example, in their latest report Sony post a revenue of $20 billion. Would you consider them part of the "Pack of Four"? As much as I like (parts of) them, I wouldn't.
Lazy devs are a issue in all ages. Even something as simple as changing the target device and maybe changing a couple of parameters of a project can make people moan. Plus resource intensive apps may still require some low level code. "Luckily" such apps seem to be very rare on the consumer mobile app market.
Let alone backwards software compatibility. Recompile and debug all those iOS and NDK based Android apps all over again doesn't sound something developers will like.
I'm assuming that my mistake was the word "scape", which should I should have written "escape".
As a foreigner I more than welcome people pointing out my English grammar mistakes, as one of the reasons I even bother posting on internet forums is to train my written English on a more causal environment(living and working in Japan is destroying both my English and even my native Russian skills). But please make it more visible next time. Thanks anyway.
Ubuntu may get a lot of trash talking from the computer savy comunity(and for valid reasons), but for the average Joe it's an excellent OS. For mundane tasks I actually find it easier to use then Mac and windows combined. If it was backed by big OEMs and had a good marketing strategy behind it it would be easily at least as popular as Android is on the phones(as suggested by Linus himself during that infamous "Fuck you Nvidia" video). And even though I'm recently converted to KDE Mint, I still hope Ubuntu becomes a mainstream OS someday. It's commercial success will indirectly contribute to the advance of other Linux distros as well with better driver support, more software and more interest in the OSS concepts as well.
Just a personal opinion, but cameras in general are able to scape the "swiss army knife" effect because they are content production devices. Same for most audio or graphical design or computer aided engineering hardware(medical devices could also count, but there are other factor which make them a completely different monster). That is including hardware targeted at people that are not very tech-savy, including lots of professionals. You buy it once (plus a few accessories if you wish), its optimized for what you want it to do and you get a quality that is beyond what any all in one general purpose device can give you. And on top of that there is the commercial money making potential using the content you created.
On the other hand there are content consumption devices like e-readers, game consoles, video streaming boxes, portable media players, etc, that may or may not be worth of the price for a variety of factors such as built quality or content availability, are built upon almost entirely on proprietary technologies. If you want to make good use of it you must keep feeding it money for more content. Keeping all these features integrated in one single device and as cheap as possible is important to make the costumer buy more of your content. When these devices have cameras or other sensors, there are nothing but tools to help you consume content.
The problem is that it doesn't really make a lot of sense to create a linux native client yet because most content creation tools are also windows/mac only(not counting wine/darling workarounds), specially considering the fact most of these game engines for indies depend a lot on user created content. Big "Pro" graphical design apps like Adobe CS or Maya have no signs of getting linux ports, less popular and cheaper Sai or Lightwave have no signs either and all FOSS apps have versions for all OSes. Sure for debugging that would be great, it might be still a bit too early for that. Lets take one step at a time.
Are those children programing? Doing graphical design or CAD? Making professional music or videos? Writing professional documents or academic papers? Playing or modding high-end games? No? Then their "proficiency" with the OS is meaningless.
I'm sorry but I couldn't see native code in any of these. Maybe for apps that use deals with small amount of text input, simple graphics, no peripheral hardware interfacing, have no intensive background processing and are running on very good cpus then that is okay. But for anything serious, just no.
Plus all these things are designed for webapps that run in a browser. Qt is for desktop apps. Comparing them is just stupid.
If you can read Japanese the definition is in this page.
Basically there is an anonymous board in Japan known as 2ch, which is the "father" of 2chan.net and "grandfather" of 4chan and all other *chan websites. Sometimes your IP is blocked for some reason and you can't post. So you used this Siberian Post Office as some sort of proxy and it posts for you.
but you got a freaking Bluetooth keyboard. That hardly says anything about kickstarter hardware products. There are literally hundreds of these, and a good portion of these are already compatible with the ipad. There is no risk, no innovation, nothing. Heck if you want my opinion I'd say you got scammed because you funded the reinvention of the wheel.
BTW, if you needed a keyboard you should have got a freaking laptop. If you really want a tablet and touch interfaces there are the ASUS Trasformer series which won't drain battery life with bluetooth, they actually nearly double it as they contain built in batteries.
Nokia loyalist taking revenge against Microsoft for destroying his company by showing how to pirate on the platform and thus reducing developer support eventually killing it?
The furthest south they can go is the southern end of Dagestan at roughly the same latitude as New York City.
Yes, but interesting enough, Kazakhstan's most southern point is about the same as Russia's. There is really no reason to use Kazakhstan other than "saving money" instead of building a new lauch center.
First because he said internet-reading educated russians in large cities. Educated people are a minority in most regions of the planet.
Second, corruption is rampart in Russia. Even if the people vote against Putin they can easily work around it. Last elections over there showed it:140% votes
As a guy who was born in Russia this corruption pisses the crap out of me.
Does it work for Glonass too? The paper didn't mention anything about alternative positioning systems. Lots of modern chips come with support for at lest GPS+Glonass nowadays. If you're serious about terrorism you probably going to take down both systems.
Ubuntu, just like their slogan says, is the linux for human beings. And by human beings read average Joe.
The easier and more intuitive they make the OS for the av. Joe the higher is going to be the probability for them to be widely adopted and to be supported by OEMs, thus also increasing third party software development interest by everything between FOSS and closed developers. The interest of hardware makers in making drivers available for Ubuntu will also increase. And higher will be the probability of having open hardware instead the crap Microsoft and Apple are trying to push down in our throats. Plus 95%+ of the benefits Ubuntu get can be transfered to any other Linux distro, so everybody wins.
While from the point of view of an advanced user Ubuntu may be going to the dark side, its "corruption" will benefit the linux community indirectly in many ways.
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Seriously this system brings ZERO advantages to the Android gaming environment. It's not a Steam/PSN/XboxLive like service that brings online features and shopping interfaces tunned up for gamers. Bluetooth controllers are already usable with Android. There are even bluetooth controllers that can emulate touch screen gestures for button incompatible games. And every single decent phone/tablet already has HDMI outputs.
a REAL Steam client(or something similar, not necessarily by valve) for mobile games and platforms? Not the crap we have on iOS/Android right now. Someone must step up the gaming business on Android already. I though sony could do it with PSMobile program, but like always just wasted all that great potential. And browsing for games on the Google Play store is a nightmare. Live wallpapers and widgets are not gaming categories. Where is fighting/flight/SHMUP/simulator/platformer/RPG/strategy/etc sections?
but if the fans decide to build a full sized Death Star in the future count me in. I would love to get old and tell my grandchildren while looking at the sky: That is no moon. It's a space station.
Just because they are cheap, that doesn't mean they are indie. All the games in this article are made by self-publishing registered companies. Saying they're indie it's like saying Nintendo is indie just because it also a company that self-publishes. An indie developer is literally independent of everything. Just a few enthusiasts that make games on their free time and release on services like Steam, Xbox Indies, Playstation Mobile or even iOS Appstore and Google Play, or do like Zun(creator of the Touhou series) and release your own CDs. In order to publish for any Nintendo platform you must be an registered corporation with experience in game development. That is not indie.
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I agree with you are saying, but there is one small problem in your post: you're dealing with revenues. It's better, but no sufficient, to talk using net profits or losses. For example, in their latest report Sony post a revenue of $20 billion. Would you consider them part of the "Pack of Four"? As much as I like (parts of) them, I wouldn't.
Lazy devs are a issue in all ages. Even something as simple as changing the target device and maybe changing a couple of parameters of a project can make people moan. Plus resource intensive apps may still require some low level code. "Luckily" such apps seem to be very rare on the consumer mobile app market.
Let alone backwards software compatibility. Recompile and debug all those iOS and NDK based Android apps all over again doesn't sound something developers will like.
I'm assuming that my mistake was the word "scape", which should I should have written "escape".
As a foreigner I more than welcome people pointing out my English grammar mistakes, as one of the reasons I even bother posting on internet forums is to train my written English on a more causal environment(living and working in Japan is destroying both my English and even my native Russian skills). But please make it more visible next time. Thanks anyway.
Ubuntu may get a lot of trash talking from the computer savy comunity(and for valid reasons), but for the average Joe it's an excellent OS. For mundane tasks I actually find it easier to use then Mac and windows combined. If it was backed by big OEMs and had a good marketing strategy behind it it would be easily at least as popular as Android is on the phones(as suggested by Linus himself during that infamous "Fuck you Nvidia" video). And even though I'm recently converted to KDE Mint, I still hope Ubuntu becomes a mainstream OS someday. It's commercial success will indirectly contribute to the advance of other Linux distros as well with better driver support, more software and more interest in the OSS concepts as well.
Just a personal opinion, but cameras in general are able to scape the "swiss army knife" effect because they are content production devices. Same for most audio or graphical design or computer aided engineering hardware(medical devices could also count, but there are other factor which make them a completely different monster). That is including hardware targeted at people that are not very tech-savy, including lots of professionals. You buy it once (plus a few accessories if you wish), its optimized for what you want it to do and you get a quality that is beyond what any all in one general purpose device can give you. And on top of that there is the commercial money making potential using the content you created.
On the other hand there are content consumption devices like e-readers, game consoles, video streaming boxes, portable media players, etc, that may or may not be worth of the price for a variety of factors such as built quality or content availability, are built upon almost entirely on proprietary technologies. If you want to make good use of it you must keep feeding it money for more content. Keeping all these features integrated in one single device and as cheap as possible is important to make the costumer buy more of your content. When these devices have cameras or other sensors, there are nothing but tools to help you consume content.
The problem is that it doesn't really make a lot of sense to create a linux native client yet because most content creation tools are also windows/mac only(not counting wine/darling workarounds), specially considering the fact most of these game engines for indies depend a lot on user created content. Big "Pro" graphical design apps like Adobe CS or Maya have no signs of getting linux ports, less popular and cheaper Sai or Lightwave have no signs either and all FOSS apps have versions for all OSes. Sure for debugging that would be great, it might be still a bit too early for that. Lets take one step at a time.
Are those children programing? Doing graphical design or CAD? Making professional music or videos? Writing professional documents or academic papers? Playing or modding high-end games? No? Then their "proficiency" with the OS is meaningless.
I'm sorry but I couldn't see native code in any of these. Maybe for apps that use deals with small amount of text input, simple graphics, no peripheral hardware interfacing, have no intensive background processing and are running on very good cpus then that is okay. But for anything serious, just no.
Plus all these things are designed for webapps that run in a browser. Qt is for desktop apps. Comparing them is just stupid.
because I don't want to live in this planet anymore. We as a human race are losing the war against the evolving arachnids.
Well, the US Library of Congress genuinely think so
If you can read Japanese the definition is in this page.
Basically there is an anonymous board in Japan known as 2ch, which is the "father" of 2chan.net and "grandfather" of 4chan and all other *chan websites. Sometimes your IP is blocked for some reason and you can't post. So you used this Siberian Post Office as some sort of proxy and it posts for you.
but you got a freaking Bluetooth keyboard. That hardly says anything about kickstarter hardware products. There are literally hundreds of these, and a good portion of these are already compatible with the ipad. There is no risk, no innovation, nothing. Heck if you want my opinion I'd say you got scammed because you funded the reinvention of the wheel.
BTW, if you needed a keyboard you should have got a freaking laptop. If you really want a tablet and touch interfaces there are the ASUS Trasformer series which won't drain battery life with bluetooth, they actually nearly double it as they contain built in batteries.
I rather pray for Jesus Christ Second Impact.
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Nokia loyalist taking revenge against Microsoft for destroying his company by showing how to pirate on the platform and thus reducing developer support eventually killing it?
The furthest south they can go is the southern end of Dagestan at roughly the same latitude as New York City.
Yes, but interesting enough, Kazakhstan's most southern point is about the same as Russia's. There is really no reason to use Kazakhstan other than "saving money" instead of building a new lauch center.
First because he said internet-reading educated russians in large cities. Educated people are a minority in most regions of the planet.
Second, corruption is rampart in Russia. Even if the people vote against Putin they can easily work around it. Last elections over there showed it:140% votes
As a guy who was born in Russia this corruption pisses the crap out of me.
Does it work for Glonass too? The paper didn't mention anything about alternative positioning systems. Lots of modern chips come with support for at lest GPS+Glonass nowadays. If you're serious about terrorism you probably going to take down both systems.
Ubuntu, just like their slogan says, is the linux for human beings. And by human beings read average Joe.
The easier and more intuitive they make the OS for the av. Joe the higher is going to be the probability for them to be widely adopted and to be supported by OEMs, thus also increasing third party software development interest by everything between FOSS and closed developers. The interest of hardware makers in making drivers available for Ubuntu will also increase. And higher will be the probability of having open hardware instead the crap Microsoft and Apple are trying to push down in our throats. Plus 95%+ of the benefits Ubuntu get can be transfered to any other Linux distro, so everybody wins.
While from the point of view of an advanced user Ubuntu may be going to the dark side, its "corruption" will benefit the linux community indirectly in many ways.
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Seriously this system brings ZERO advantages to the Android gaming environment. It's not a Steam/PSN/XboxLive like service that brings online features and shopping interfaces tunned up for gamers. Bluetooth controllers are already usable with Android. There are even bluetooth controllers that can emulate touch screen gestures for button incompatible games. And every single decent phone/tablet already has HDMI outputs.
a REAL Steam client(or something similar, not necessarily by valve) for mobile games and platforms? Not the crap we have on iOS/Android right now. Someone must step up the gaming business on Android already. I though sony could do it with PSMobile program, but like always just wasted all that great potential. And browsing for games on the Google Play store is a nightmare. Live wallpapers and widgets are not gaming categories. Where is fighting/flight/SHMUP/simulator/platformer/RPG/strategy/etc sections?
but if the fans decide to build a full sized Death Star in the future count me in. I would love to get old and tell my grandchildren while looking at the sky: That is no moon. It's a space station.
That is not how the american patent numbering system works. The last 4 digits(2012) are the year the patent was filled.
Just because they are cheap, that doesn't mean they are indie. All the games in this article are made by self-publishing registered companies. Saying they're indie it's like saying Nintendo is indie just because it also a company that self-publishes. An indie developer is literally independent of everything. Just a few enthusiasts that make games on their free time and release on services like Steam, Xbox Indies, Playstation Mobile or even iOS Appstore and Google Play, or do like Zun(creator of the Touhou series) and release your own CDs. In order to publish for any Nintendo platform you must be an registered corporation with experience in game development. That is not indie.
Do you even need an Ouya. Just get an old Tegra 3 tablet and plug it in the TV.