Don't forget that this is the TJX breakin that this is talking about- Slashdot's munging the concepts together. TJX was purely about money by crooks from start to finish.
I can't say what it takes to make iOS apps at this time- mainly because I've not done it yet (though I do happen to have access to source code FOR a game selling on it...). I do know something of what it takes to make Android apps- just not anything that is selling in the Market (Ooops... Google Play...). It's NOT that difficult unless you're trying to make a mostly native code application to make a fairly solid beast for Android. And it's not that much more difficult once you understand how it works under the hood to make a native app.
iOS has several versions out in the wild, as best as I know. They each have differing hardware associated with them. Some things don't work on earlier versions, much the same as Android's story. But...since it's not Apple and iOS, many drub the Android side, claiming that they know something about Android development and that there's more problems with it than iOS. Yourself included there. Without knowing you from adam, I can't say with veracity that you're talking straight- all I know is what I've had the experience to develop and work with.
Hardware diversity shouldn't be a big problem if you're coding to the APIs in question. People keep running this up the flagpole on Android and Linux- never accounting for the hardware diversity for Windows, MacOS, or iOS (iOS doesn't have as much diversity- but it's still there...and NOBODY bitches about stuff having issues running on an iPhone 2 versus an iPhone 4GS...). In the case of this game, looking at the screenshot, I'd say I can't get why he's burning 20% of his efforts on Android...unless the code wasn't well ported from Objective-C to Java and from iOS to Android.
If you're outside their parameters or standards, they're going to flip you the bird like you accused Google of doing- unless you're big or you've got damned near everyone bitching at them. Much like Google's situation.
Heh... I remembered there being a reason I didn't try to go with them for my Internet access while I'm on the road on a contract (Several of them, including overall coverage...).
Throttled to EDGE. No way to get more cap (I'm on a 10G tier with Verizon on my USB device...) Iffy coverage outside of the area I was at.
Just wasn't worth me messing with it. I just added another data-only line on my Verizon plan. $10 per Gig data transferred pricing with a $20 discount for buying 10G up-front. Simple. No fuss. No muss. Only the issues with the network itself. No games on things like throttling you to 2.5G speeds when you hit an arbitrary limit (Well, at least for now, that is...)
In truth, it's almost WORTHLESS slower speeds (EDGE isn't anything much more than dialup without needing to "dialup"...)
Now if they'd cripple it to something like 250-450kbps where you can still actually USE it with their phones, coupled with real coverage actually being similar to AT&T or Verizon (Their coverage...there's a reason they're third/fourth in the country right now...), they'd have something to honestly compete with. Price alone isn't sufficient.
Ah, but unless you're ONLY going to be in an area covered by MetroPCS, they're not going to be as useful- there's a reason many don't hear about them...
The only drawbacks to T-Mobile is the craptastic availability of their voice and data coverage over the nation, along with some pretty craptacular caps on their data plans with no ability to buy a different tier- and their upload speed's craptastic as well. In short, while they've got great plans, price-wise, they suck at a few critical things. I'd LOVE to see the HSPA+ speeds (they're faintly better downstream than Verizon's LTE and where they DO have coverage, it's already there...) , the lower prices, etc.- but they just don't have it all where it really counts.
Uhm... They don't disclose this except in the fine print- which is a bit of a no-no in most jurisdictions. You can't advertise "unlimited" and then basically take it away in the fine print.
If they throttled you to to something better than EDGE (Of which AT&T and T-Mobile BOTH throttle you to dialup speeds at best...) it wouldn't be so bad. The way it is, though, it's basically lying. You really, really should QUIT spreading mis-information like not being able to attain it (like you did in an earlier post) or this rubbish, like in this post.
But the bandwidth itself is already limited to the carrying capacity of the channel... my whole point is that people are arguing for an unattainable standard from those providing the data plans, just because they can concoct an ambiguity in the language used in the advertising...
Heh... What is the theoretical bandwidth of the system?
Let's base this off of AT&T's press release from 2008, which is the average peak speed one would expect from them: 1.7 megabits. So let's presume this is all theoretical, absolute max- and that you can get this anytime you go pull from the spigot.
In 60 seconds, you will have pulled down 12.75 megabytes of data. In an hour, you will have pulled down 765 megabytes of data. In a day, you will have pulled down 18,360 megabytes of data. You cross the 3 gigabyte threshold at just short of four hours.
This is even possible with a smartphone and not a MiFi or USB dongle.
Tell us again that this is an "unattainable" standard...it doesn't match up the facts of the situation. Even if you apply the lower-end standard of 700kbps for the service, you're looking at 8 hours to threshold.
Heh... Gem of a play there. Only problem is you need to compress the shredded crap or it takes up volume... You want to ramp up the weight...a bunch. A couple of washers in addition to the shredded crap should do that nicely... >:-D
Premier Farnell? Not known globally? Boy, are you off in left field. (In the US? Canada? Premier Farnell's known as "Newark"...)
As for handling traffic...uh, I think only e-Bay or Amazon has the capacity to have shrugged off this sort of thing- and the distributors are the ones making the boards from here on out, and Amazon's not geared up for it and e-Bay's not either. I don't think there was a player on the planet that could've handled this right from end-to-end with the demand/load presented. Amazon might've handled the crowd crush- but they don't do electronics distribution and aren't set up to help do hardware support, etc. e-Bay's the same story and requires you be the "store" that does fulfillment. As it stands, Farnell should've been ready for the abuse they saw- they should be used to something similar to this because of who they are. "Surprised" and "shocked" is the best words to describe what went down here in their case.
Uh, the initial target audience is NOT children (and Children would be buying through different channels in many cases- i.e. Schools would be buying these devices...) and more specifically, they're using Farnell- which is a major international electronics distributor (In the US and Canada, you know them as "Newark"...) and takes a substantive amount of that pain away.
And...
- PayPal being accessible to children is technically against the law. - PayPal costs the vendor nearly as much as a credit card would. - It's easier for the person buying, but not for the vendor using PayPal- it's about as obnoxious.
They went with Premier Farnell as one of the suppliers. You can actually expect to have a presence of some sort in most of the "small countries" out of gate- and technically, you can't use PayPal legally from a country not on Farnell's list of distribution sources.
As for the US...Newark, Premier Farnell's division in the US is supposed to be supplying the devices to the States and Canada- the pre-order page has a fubar on it right at the moment where they're charging a $20 fee to get it from Farnell first. The deal was such that most places would be able get the thing fairly easily and they'd be able to make vastly more of the boards than planned, with a consequence of the Model A's now getting 256Mb of RAM now.
Don't forget...PayPal DOES charge vendors a fee for providing that service- which is similar to what many volume credit processors charge them. (PayPal can also play the role of a credit card clearinghouse for you- just so you know...)
Considering that the S4 eval board clocked at 100MHz faster than the Asus Prime did half-again better in a multithreaded computational benchmark thrown at it, I'd say that you're probably looking at the differences between an A9 and an A15- and you might have found a CPU that's considerably faster single-core than Tegra 3's single cores at clock. If so, there's an explanation for the move. The S4's cheaper. It consumes less power doing what it does at peak. And...if it's faster doing most of the things users do while doing the other two...win.
That and the S4's got a higher performance profile with a lower power consumption for actual ICS usage. It's as much about battery life and perceived performance as it is LTE support out of box.
No... You can get a Writ of Habeas Corpus at some threshold. People keep claiming that they can hold you indefinitely under contempt- which isn't wholly true as this violates the Fifth Amendment.
That's why I don't think that Perry or Dewhurst have any guts- or are even remotely the conservatives that they purport to be; or we'd have HAD that face off.
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Don't forget that this is the TJX breakin that this is talking about- Slashdot's munging the concepts together. TJX was purely about money by crooks from start to finish.
So saith the Anon Coward...
I can't say what it takes to make iOS apps at this time- mainly because I've not done it yet (though I do happen to have access to source code FOR a game selling on it...). I do know something of what it takes to make Android apps- just not anything that is selling in the Market (Ooops... Google Play...). It's NOT that difficult unless you're trying to make a mostly native code application to make a fairly solid beast for Android. And it's not that much more difficult once you understand how it works under the hood to make a native app.
iOS has several versions out in the wild, as best as I know. They each have differing hardware associated with them. Some things don't work on earlier versions, much the same as Android's story. But...since it's not Apple and iOS, many drub the Android side, claiming that they know something about Android development and that there's more problems with it than iOS. Yourself included there. Without knowing you from adam, I can't say with veracity that you're talking straight- all I know is what I've had the experience to develop and work with.
Hardware diversity shouldn't be a big problem if you're coding to the APIs in question. People keep running this up the flagpole on Android and Linux- never accounting for the hardware diversity for Windows, MacOS, or iOS (iOS doesn't have as much diversity- but it's still there...and NOBODY bitches about stuff having issues running on an iPhone 2 versus an iPhone 4GS...). In the case of this game, looking at the screenshot, I'd say I can't get why he's burning 20% of his efforts on Android...unless the code wasn't well ported from Objective-C to Java and from iOS to Android.
You, sir, owe me a monitor and a keyboard...
Really? REALLY?!?
You've got to be kidding me, right?
Considering it took pretty much EVERYONE reading Apple the riot act over the scripting language thing... I'd say that this was an example that negates your take on Apple. They're NOT surprisingly easy to work with.
Considering that Microsoft had TIGHT restrictions until recently on Indie titles... I'd say this was an example that negates your take on Microsoft. They're NOT surprisingly easy to work with.
If you're outside their parameters or standards, they're going to flip you the bird like you accused Google of doing- unless you're big or you've got damned near everyone bitching at them. Much like Google's situation.
Heh... I remembered there being a reason I didn't try to go with them for my Internet access while I'm on the road on a contract (Several of them, including overall coverage...).
Throttled to EDGE.
No way to get more cap (I'm on a 10G tier with Verizon on my USB device...)
Iffy coverage outside of the area I was at.
Just wasn't worth me messing with it. I just added another data-only line on my Verizon plan. $10 per Gig data transferred pricing with a $20 discount for buying 10G up-front. Simple. No fuss. No muss. Only the issues with the network itself. No games on things like throttling you to 2.5G speeds when you hit an arbitrary limit (Well, at least for now, that is...)
In truth, it's almost WORTHLESS slower speeds (EDGE isn't anything much more than dialup without needing to "dialup"...)
Now if they'd cripple it to something like 250-450kbps where you can still actually USE it with their phones, coupled with real coverage actually being similar to AT&T or Verizon (Their coverage...there's a reason they're third/fourth in the country right now...), they'd have something to honestly compete with. Price alone isn't sufficient.
Ah, but unless you're ONLY going to be in an area covered by MetroPCS, they're not going to be as useful- there's a reason many don't hear about them...
The only drawbacks to T-Mobile is the craptastic availability of their voice and data coverage over the nation, along with some pretty craptacular caps on their data plans with no ability to buy a different tier- and their upload speed's craptastic as well. In short, while they've got great plans, price-wise, they suck at a few critical things. I'd LOVE to see the HSPA+ speeds (they're faintly better downstream than Verizon's LTE and where they DO have coverage, it's already there...) , the lower prices, etc.- but they just don't have it all where it really counts.
25?? Heh... You're not getting all you can. 35's the middle tier now on FiOS... >:-D
Just as apparently there's people that need some of the other aspects of this whole mess explained to them...
Uhm... They don't disclose this except in the fine print- which is a bit of a no-no in most jurisdictions. You can't advertise "unlimited" and then basically take it away in the fine print.
If they throttled you to to something better than EDGE (Of which AT&T and T-Mobile BOTH throttle you to dialup speeds at best...) it wouldn't be so bad. The way it is, though, it's basically lying. You really, really should QUIT spreading mis-information like not being able to attain it (like you did in an earlier post) or this rubbish, like in this post.
Heh... What is the theoretical bandwidth of the system?
Let's base this off of AT&T's press release from 2008, which is the average peak speed one would expect from them: 1.7 megabits.
So let's presume this is all theoretical, absolute max- and that you can get this anytime you go pull from the spigot.
In 60 seconds, you will have pulled down 12.75 megabytes of data.
In an hour, you will have pulled down 765 megabytes of data.
In a day, you will have pulled down 18,360 megabytes of data. You cross the 3 gigabyte threshold at just short of four hours.
This is even possible with a smartphone and not a MiFi or USB dongle.
Tell us again that this is an "unattainable" standard...it doesn't match up the facts of the situation. Even if you apply the lower-end standard of 700kbps for the service, you're looking at 8 hours to threshold.
Heh... Gem of a play there. Only problem is you need to compress the shredded crap or it takes up volume... You want to ramp up the weight...a bunch. A couple of washers in addition to the shredded crap should do that nicely... >:-D
Premier Farnell? Not known globally? Boy, are you off in left field. (In the US? Canada? Premier Farnell's known as "Newark"...)
As for handling traffic...uh, I think only e-Bay or Amazon has the capacity to have shrugged off this sort of thing- and the distributors are the ones making the boards from here on out, and Amazon's not geared up for it and e-Bay's not either. I don't think there was a player on the planet that could've handled this right from end-to-end with the demand/load presented. Amazon might've handled the crowd crush- but they don't do electronics distribution and aren't set up to help do hardware support, etc. e-Bay's the same story and requires you be the "store" that does fulfillment. As it stands, Farnell should've been ready for the abuse they saw- they should be used to something similar to this because of who they are. "Surprised" and "shocked" is the best words to describe what went down here in their case.
Uh, the initial target audience is NOT children (and Children would be buying through different channels in many cases- i.e. Schools would be buying these devices...) and more specifically, they're using Farnell- which is a major international electronics distributor (In the US and Canada, you know them as "Newark"...) and takes a substantive amount of that pain away.
And...
- PayPal being accessible to children is technically against the law.
- PayPal costs the vendor nearly as much as a credit card would.
- It's easier for the person buying, but not for the vendor using PayPal- it's about as obnoxious.
They went with Premier Farnell as one of the suppliers. You can actually expect to have a presence of some sort in most of the "small countries" out of gate- and technically, you can't use PayPal legally from a country not on Farnell's list of distribution sources.
As for the US...Newark, Premier Farnell's division in the US is supposed to be supplying the devices to the States and Canada- the pre-order page has a fubar on it right at the moment where they're charging a $20 fee to get it from Farnell first. The deal was such that most places would be able get the thing fairly easily and they'd be able to make vastly more of the boards than planned, with a consequence of the Model A's now getting 256Mb of RAM now.
Don't forget...PayPal DOES charge vendors a fee for providing that service- which is similar to what many volume credit processors charge them. (PayPal can also play the role of a credit card clearinghouse for you- just so you know...)
Considering that the S4 eval board clocked at 100MHz faster than the Asus Prime did half-again better in a multithreaded computational benchmark thrown at it, I'd say that you're probably looking at the differences between an A9 and an A15- and you might have found a CPU that's considerably faster single-core than Tegra 3's single cores at clock. If so, there's an explanation for the move. The S4's cheaper. It consumes less power doing what it does at peak. And...if it's faster doing most of the things users do while doing the other two...win.
Long Term Evolution
Next time, though, Just F'n Google It.
That and the S4's got a higher performance profile with a lower power consumption for actual ICS usage. It's as much about battery life and perceived performance as it is LTE support out of box.
No... You can get a Writ of Habeas Corpus at some threshold. People keep claiming that they can hold you indefinitely under contempt- which isn't wholly true as this violates the Fifth Amendment.
They have to know it specifically enough to get a warrant. Just "he has child porn on the drive" is insufficient.
That's why I don't think that Perry or Dewhurst have any guts- or are even remotely the conservatives that they purport to be; or we'd have HAD that face off.
I'll bet that the Senators and Reps don't have to go through them...
Wishing that they'd do that... I could do with over 1/3rd of my pay being kept to myself... >:-D