Actually, the incorrect part was you writing "Incorrect. Many android apps have arm binaries." There's a difference between using native methods, and being an arm binary. Something that's an arm binary doesn't need dalvik to run (example - the linux os that dalvik runs atop of). Apps, even those using native methods, cannot run stand-alone on the arm cpu..
The very first part of the very first sentence you linked to:
The NDK is a toolset that allows you to implement parts of your app using native-code languages
There is simply, by definition, no such thing as an "arm binary android app." All apps require dalvik to start. They can't run on the bare metal or directly atop the host os.
Neither one of those posts calling you a pedo is mine. I have no knowledge of that one way or another, and frankly, I don't care. That's between you and the cops.
But the editors have my permission to verify the IP addresses of the anon posts you claim are me, and to publish their conclusions, just as I offered the last time you falsely accused me of sock-puppetry.
Oh, and thanks for confirming your transphobia (transtesitcle? Come on...). There's no secret that when I was outed on slashdot, I changed my account to reflect reality. Just like there's no secret that I was not able to use a computer for the last few years because I was going blind. So now that one eye is good enough to use a computer, and the other, thanks to retinal microsurgery, can see well enough to tell that a car is about to run me over, it was easier to just create a new account. (So much for being a cyclops. But even when I was almost blind in both eyes and things looked grim, it was just another of life's challenges, nothing to be ashamed of. And when I do ultimately go permanently blind, I'll cope. I always do.)
But if you read what you quoted carefully, I told others how to troll you back - using the same tactics you use.
Why? Because net-kooks like you are a reality of life, and if people don't know just how much of a nut-bar you've continuously been over the years, they might actually fall for your hosts file crapola. It, like you, are obsolete.
That works until people refuse to back down over what others think they should be embarrassed about. Just as open source has benefits, so does "open life," one benefit being that you simply can't be coerced by threats to do something or "they" will reveal some "terrible secret."
Case in point: Last fall a developer at a public meeting attended by over 100 of my neighbours outed me as a transsexual when I spoke out against their plans. Totally illegal, and backfired on them when I forced them to take out display ads in the two largest newspapers publicly apologizing to me for their comments. (I consider this one way of "paying it forward" for those who have gone before me and made my current life possible).
In times past, being gay or lesbian, being divorced, being poor, being non-white, being a single mom, not being a virgin (but only for women - men were praised by their peers for being whore-masters), having an abortion, coming from the wrong side of the tracks, being crippled, having to deal with a mental illness... these were all levers to shame people with. Simply doesn't work any more, and the more people are open about their lives, the easier it is for the next person to stand up to blackmailing bullies.
This won't eliminate the need for kids to physically attend school. It's not like parents will suddenly be able to leave their kids home alone with vr glasses and a net connection. One thing teachers DO do is assure that there's an adult present when the kid's learning.
Besides, most people don't want 3d. Look at the HDTV market. Given the choice between 3d HD and 4k TV in 2d, people are salivating over 4k. 3D? I don't know anyone with a 3d tv who has actually USED the 3d feature.
Otherwise known as "The HOSTS file troll." (Google for "hosts file troll apk") Stuck in the '90s, attacks anyone who makes fun of his "solution" by using multiple anonymous accounts. Real name Alexander Kowalski. Demonstrates traits of narcissism, transphobia, etc. Post something negative about his obsolete "HOSTS file solution" and watch the resulting crap-flood.
You wrote... the same old outdated crap as always...
Thanks for proving my point. BTW, I wasn't the anon poster you replied to elsewhere. I have neither the time nor the interest to post anon. Unlike you, who has no choice except to post anonymously. BTW, you might want to read the results of googling "hosts file troll apk". You have quite the reputation of being a net-kook.
Sorry, but the post you're responding to isn't mine. Paranoid much? But thanks for reminding me that you also have something against people who are handicapped. Real quality act you got going there, Kowalski.
Second, what is APK? Using abbreviations is great except when it is one you dreamed up yourself and no one else knows WTF you are talking about.
Otherwise known as "The HOSTS file troll." (Google for "hosts file troll apk") Stuck in the '90s, attacks anyone who makes fun of his "solution" by using multiple anonymous accounts. Real name Alexander Kowalski. Demonstrates traits of narcissism, transphobia, etc. Post something negative about his obsolete "HOSTS file solution" and watch the resulting crap-flood.
Too Much Information (TMI) can be as big a problem as too little information.
With all that information, you can get a false sense of security that you know enough and get bitten.
With all that information, you tend to focus on what you see and not what you don't - you develop tunnel vision.
With all that information, resources that could have been devoted elsewhere are taken up sorting out the trash and the false positives.
Blank spots stay blank. Example - Android phones have had NFC since Gingerbread, so if two operatives want to exchange data (photos of a target, NSA documents, etc), they can do it in person just by using Android Beam or Bump-to-Exchange, without saying a word to each other, just standing in line to pay for a newspaper.
Sanctions that severe would also cause the immediate loss of a job - since you can't get there, and you can't call and tell them you have a problem
Public transit and a pay phone.
We already seize vehicles on the spot for other offences. And the punishment - losing your cell phone - certainly fits the crime - endangering others by texting while driving.
How do we identify the correct person to fine or educate?
See someone driving while holding a cellphone? Fine them, confiscate their phone and car for 30 days.
Then show videos of people going through phone and car withdrawal, losing it, and being ordered to anger management therapy. Gotta be better than some of the crap on TV nowadays.
Sure, every year the tallies went up - but so did the number of users. Hit them with $500 - $1000 fines for distracted driving, impound the vehicle for 30 days, 9 demerit points, and permanently confiscate the phone, and they'll be so much less likely to repeat. And their friends will get the message soon enough.
Fines and public education work better than a technical solution to stupidity. People understand when it hits their wallet directly and when their phones are confiscated.
What I don't understand is why Google, and maybe Apple, isn't pouncing on this. For the first time in 20+ years, Microsoft's grip on the enterprise desktop is vulnerable. A few companies are in a position to step in, but they don't seem interested.
... because the desktop is dying, and the real fight is between Google and Apple over mobile computing. Smartphones have brought ubiquitous computing to the masses. Tablets, far less - I don't see people doing their shopping while checking their shopping list on a tablet. And Microsoft is MIA in the phone market. And Microsoft Surface? People don't want to pay extra when a cheaper laptop does what they want for a desktop replacement - which is most likely content creation.
99% of Windows is exactly the same to the user for Windows 8 vs Windows XP. The only difference is, if you click the start button you get a screen of icons vs. a menu of icons.
After all this time, have you even tried Windows 8 or do you prefer to just comment on it without any prior knowledge?
Posting from a win8.1 laptop, so yes, I've tried Windows 8x. And the only good thing about it is that in 8.1, it's possible to set the the default to NOT show the Metro crap, which btw is a PITA to scroll because the bottom toolbar "gets in the way." Of course, instead of using a start menu, I just open the file browser, find the program I want, and run it. If it's something I'm going to run more often (eclipse, a shell, firefox or chrome, libreoffice) I create a shortcut.
The other laptop that shares my work table I just finished installing Fedora Core 20 on.
Computers are commodities, and have been for years. Which is why for the average user, ANY change is a "big deal."
Simple math. $5 of gas, split 2 ways, is $3 each. If the other person pays $5, which is $2 more than their half, leaving the other person to pay $1, the other person has $2 more in their pocket than if they had both paid $3 each.
Now if they were going that way anyway and it costs them $6 in gas whether they're taking a rider with them or not, then they're actually ahead $5, since the trip, which would have cost them $6 of gas, now only costs them $1.
They're running XP currently. Given that they're still running a turn-of-the-century OS in 2014, it's not likely they're running anything approaching the latest version of Office. Do you really want to claim that someone running a turn-of-the-century version of MS-Office on XP is going to find no real difference with Office 2013 on Win8?
As for interoperability, last time I looked, Germany is in Europe, where open document formats are now mandated in many jurisdictions. Much easier to do with LibreOffice than MS-Office, just by using the default settings. So as far as "shitty interoperability" goes, score one for switching to Linux/ODF/LibreOffice.
And lest you forget, a couple of decades ago people had a hard time with Windows 95 just turning off their computers. "What? I have to click on Start to turn it off?" The Metro start menu is a problem for people who are used to a different paradigm - especially one that they've had drilled into them over the last couple of decades.
Apple could have avoided their near-death experience back in the 1995, and having to accept a bailout to the tune of $150 million by Microsoft in 1997, if they had licensed out the Mac OS to all comers. The incremental cost of boxing and shipping a CD or DVD are a lot smaller than the incremental costs of manufacturing, boxing, and shipping a phone, tablet, or computer - and with Apple, you still have the costs of developing that software anyway.
Apple is losing market share to Android in both tablets and phones. And their newest "killer innovative product" is a watch? And copying the NFC functionality that many Android phones already have?
This is what happens as an industry matures and its' products become simple commodities. Competing on price becomes more important, since there's less core functionality to differentiate the offerings - especially the electronics, which all comes from the same few factories no matter whether it says Apple or Android or Microsoft or Dell or HP or Acer or Motorola or Lenovo on the box.
Software differentiates the products - not hardware. For example, the same pc hardware can run Windows, Linux, or OSX (remember the hackintosh?) if Apple wanted to sell OSX to the masses. They could still command a "brand premium" for their own hardware as "the gold standard", same as Dell gets extra bucks for Alienware-branded hardware. None of this would have prevented them from producing the iPod, or the iPhone, or the iPad, so the bottom line would have been net positive, and gotten their brand in front of a lot more people a lot earlier in the game.
The low comment total has nothing to do with beta (though beta is a good reason to log in, since logged-in users can avoid it). Simply put, nobody really gives a damn about the cloud-de-jour any more. "Cloud" is no longer a hot buzz word - it's a buzz-kill, even among geeks and nerds.
(Yes, I'm trolling, but desktop experience for the average Joe really is a problem, no matter how many excuses we Linux folks make.)
Well, which would you think is harder - switching from an XP desktop to a Linux desktop, or switching from an XP desktop to a Metro desktop? Either way, there's a learning curve, so since switching is going to be a PITA either way, why not save some money?
All this extends the amount of time it takes to make a sale. "Which OS do you want to go with that? Do you know how to install it? No? We'll install it for you for another $149.00. Oh, and you can't activate your phone until we're done, so please come back in a few hours."
If mandatory offering of choice of OS on every device had been the requirement over the last decade, Microsoft Windows would be the #1 OS on smartphones and tablets today, since people go with what they're familiar with. Blackberry would possibly be a weak #2. Android running on linux would be like linux on the desktop - a very small niche. Chromebooks would also be required to be sold with the option to use IE atop Windows. Metro everywhere!!!! Agghhhhhhh, THE PAIN.
Except every search engine but Google seems to half-ass its apps.
Sounds like an opportunity knocking for an independent developer. Except that there are also already a ton of other search apps, including aggregators, so if Bing, DuckDuckGo, et al don't make proper search apps, they're losing an opportunity to control how their service and brand are being presented to users. The marketplace has, in effect, worked around the "damage".
There are plenty of corporate apps directed at consumers that just plain suck - they look like they were thrown together just to have an app, and they're not really useable. Converting your weekly sales flyer into an image and having it download onto a phone screen where, even zoomed in 3x it's illegible, is just crap.
There are ways out of this. The first is to find one or more partners who have the necessary skills to develop the prototype with him, in return for equity. Not willing to give up equity? Then too bad? Can't convince devs that your idea is not that great/unique/compelling (because we've ALL heard variants of this "my idea is SO great - all you have to do is code it and we'll be rich" bullsh*t)? Again, too bad.
The real "way out of this" is to realize that, since he doesn't have the necessary skills, he either has to acquire them or give up. Not willing to take the years necessary to acquire them? Like the old saying goes, "The will to succeed isn't as important as the will to plan to succeed." Not having a plan that takes the obvious potential obstacles such as the ones you cited into account is a pretty good indicator that you're not the one to invest in. After all, ultimately, people invest in people, not products. The product won't complete itself. You can't hold an incomplete product accountable. You hold the people behind it accountable.
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The very first part of the very first sentence you linked to:
The NDK is a toolset that allows you to implement parts of your app using native-code languages
There is simply, by definition, no such thing as an "arm binary android app." All apps require dalvik to start. They can't run on the bare metal or directly atop the host os.
Plumbers and electricians would be next on my list of professions, which should not require certifications
Prepare to be shocked.
Neither one of those posts calling you a pedo is mine. I have no knowledge of that one way or another, and frankly, I don't care. That's between you and the cops.
But the editors have my permission to verify the IP addresses of the anon posts you claim are me, and to publish their conclusions, just as I offered the last time you falsely accused me of sock-puppetry.
Oh, and thanks for confirming your transphobia (transtesitcle? Come on ...). There's no secret that when I was outed on slashdot, I changed my account to reflect reality. Just like there's no secret that I was not able to use a computer for the last few years because I was going blind. So now that one eye is good enough to use a computer, and the other, thanks to retinal microsurgery, can see well enough to tell that a car is about to run me over, it was easier to just create a new account. (So much for being a cyclops. But even when I was almost blind in both eyes and things looked grim, it was just another of life's challenges, nothing to be ashamed of. And when I do ultimately go permanently blind, I'll cope. I always do.)
But if you read what you quoted carefully, I told others how to troll you back - using the same tactics you use.
Why? Because net-kooks like you are a reality of life, and if people don't know just how much of a nut-bar you've continuously been over the years, they might actually fall for your hosts file crapola. It, like you, are obsolete.
That works until people refuse to back down over what others think they should be embarrassed about. Just as open source has benefits, so does "open life," one benefit being that you simply can't be coerced by threats to do something or "they" will reveal some "terrible secret."
Case in point: Last fall a developer at a public meeting attended by over 100 of my neighbours outed me as a transsexual when I spoke out against their plans. Totally illegal, and backfired on them when I forced them to take out display ads in the two largest newspapers publicly apologizing to me for their comments. (I consider this one way of "paying it forward" for those who have gone before me and made my current life possible).
In times past, being gay or lesbian, being divorced, being poor, being non-white, being a single mom, not being a virgin (but only for women - men were praised by their peers for being whore-masters), having an abortion, coming from the wrong side of the tracks, being crippled, having to deal with a mental illness ... these were all levers to shame people with. Simply doesn't work any more, and the more people are open about their lives, the easier it is for the next person to stand up to blackmailing bullies.
This won't eliminate the need for kids to physically attend school. It's not like parents will suddenly be able to leave their kids home alone with vr glasses and a net connection. One thing teachers DO do is assure that there's an adult present when the kid's learning.
Besides, most people don't want 3d. Look at the HDTV market. Given the choice between 3d HD and 4k TV in 2d, people are salivating over 4k. 3D? I don't know anyone with a 3d tv who has actually USED the 3d feature.
I wrote:
Otherwise known as "The HOSTS file troll." (Google for "hosts file troll apk") Stuck in the '90s, attacks anyone who makes fun of his "solution" by using multiple anonymous accounts. Real name Alexander Kowalski. Demonstrates traits of narcissism, transphobia, etc. Post something negative about his obsolete "HOSTS file solution" and watch the resulting crap-flood.
You wrote ... the same old outdated crap as always ...
Thanks for proving my point. BTW, I wasn't the anon poster you replied to elsewhere. I have neither the time nor the interest to post anon. Unlike you, who has no choice except to post anonymously. BTW, you might want to read the results of googling "hosts file troll apk". You have quite the reputation of being a net-kook.
Sorry, but the post you're responding to isn't mine. Paranoid much? But thanks for reminding me that you also have something against people who are handicapped. Real quality act you got going there, Kowalski.
Second, what is APK? Using abbreviations is great except when it is one you dreamed up yourself and no one else knows WTF you are talking about.
Otherwise known as "The HOSTS file troll." (Google for "hosts file troll apk") Stuck in the '90s, attacks anyone who makes fun of his "solution" by using multiple anonymous accounts. Real name Alexander Kowalski. Demonstrates traits of narcissism, transphobia, etc. Post something negative about his obsolete "HOSTS file solution" and watch the resulting crap-flood.
Too Much Information (TMI) can be as big a problem as too little information.
With all that information, you can get a false sense of security that you know enough and get bitten.
With all that information, you tend to focus on what you see and not what you don't - you develop tunnel vision.
With all that information, resources that could have been devoted elsewhere are taken up sorting out the trash and the false positives.
Blank spots stay blank. Example - Android phones have had NFC since Gingerbread, so if two operatives want to exchange data (photos of a target, NSA documents, etc), they can do it in person just by using Android Beam or Bump-to-Exchange, without saying a word to each other, just standing in line to pay for a newspaper.
Sanctions that severe would also cause the immediate loss of a job - since you can't get there, and you can't call and tell them you have a problem
Public transit and a pay phone.
We already seize vehicles on the spot for other offences. And the punishment - losing your cell phone - certainly fits the crime - endangering others by texting while driving.
... but it WAS worse. It broke easier when dropped. And EVERYONE drops their phone at one point or another.
When a visibly peeved Apple rep was asked for comment, they said "We found we couldn't drop it, so we dropped it. Now can you drop it?"
How do we identify the correct person to fine or educate?
See someone driving while holding a cellphone? Fine them, confiscate their phone and car for 30 days.
Then show videos of people going through phone and car withdrawal, losing it, and being ordered to anger management therapy. Gotta be better than some of the crap on TV nowadays.
Sure, every year the tallies went up - but so did the number of users. Hit them with $500 - $1000 fines for distracted driving, impound the vehicle for 30 days, 9 demerit points, and permanently confiscate the phone, and they'll be so much less likely to repeat. And their friends will get the message soon enough.
Fines and public education work better than a technical solution to stupidity. People understand when it hits their wallet directly and when their phones are confiscated.
Kodos, is that you?
What I don't understand is why Google, and maybe Apple, isn't pouncing on this. For the first time in 20+ years, Microsoft's grip on the enterprise desktop is vulnerable. A few companies are in a position to step in, but they don't seem interested.
99% of Windows is exactly the same to the user for Windows 8 vs Windows XP. The only difference is, if you click the start button you get a screen of icons vs. a menu of icons.
After all this time, have you even tried Windows 8 or do you prefer to just comment on it without any prior knowledge?
Posting from a win8.1 laptop, so yes, I've tried Windows 8x. And the only good thing about it is that in 8.1, it's possible to set the the default to NOT show the Metro crap, which btw is a PITA to scroll because the bottom toolbar "gets in the way." Of course, instead of using a start menu, I just open the file browser, find the program I want, and run it. If it's something I'm going to run more often (eclipse, a shell, firefox or chrome, libreoffice) I create a shortcut.
The other laptop that shares my work table I just finished installing Fedora Core 20 on.
Computers are commodities, and have been for years. Which is why for the average user, ANY change is a "big deal."
Now if they were going that way anyway and it costs them $6 in gas whether they're taking a rider with them or not, then they're actually ahead $5, since the trip, which would have cost them $6 of gas, now only costs them $1.
Carpooling 101.
As for interoperability, last time I looked, Germany is in Europe, where open document formats are now mandated in many jurisdictions. Much easier to do with LibreOffice than MS-Office, just by using the default settings. So as far as "shitty interoperability" goes, score one for switching to Linux/ODF/LibreOffice.
And lest you forget, a couple of decades ago people had a hard time with Windows 95 just turning off their computers. "What? I have to click on Start to turn it off?" The Metro start menu is a problem for people who are used to a different paradigm - especially one that they've had drilled into them over the last couple of decades.
Apple could have avoided their near-death experience back in the 1995, and having to accept a bailout to the tune of $150 million by Microsoft in 1997, if they had licensed out the Mac OS to all comers. The incremental cost of boxing and shipping a CD or DVD are a lot smaller than the incremental costs of manufacturing, boxing, and shipping a phone, tablet, or computer - and with Apple, you still have the costs of developing that software anyway.
Apple is losing market share to Android in both tablets and phones. And their newest "killer innovative product" is a watch? And copying the NFC functionality that many Android phones already have?
This is what happens as an industry matures and its' products become simple commodities. Competing on price becomes more important, since there's less core functionality to differentiate the offerings - especially the electronics, which all comes from the same few factories no matter whether it says Apple or Android or Microsoft or Dell or HP or Acer or Motorola or Lenovo on the box.
Software differentiates the products - not hardware. For example, the same pc hardware can run Windows, Linux, or OSX (remember the hackintosh?) if Apple wanted to sell OSX to the masses. They could still command a "brand premium" for their own hardware as "the gold standard", same as Dell gets extra bucks for Alienware-branded hardware. None of this would have prevented them from producing the iPod, or the iPhone, or the iPad, so the bottom line would have been net positive, and gotten their brand in front of a lot more people a lot earlier in the game.
The low comment total has nothing to do with beta (though beta is a good reason to log in, since logged-in users can avoid it). Simply put, nobody really gives a damn about the cloud-de-jour any more. "Cloud" is no longer a hot buzz word - it's a buzz-kill, even among geeks and nerds.
(Yes, I'm trolling, but desktop experience for the average Joe really is a problem, no matter how many excuses we Linux folks make.)
Well, which would you think is harder - switching from an XP desktop to a Linux desktop, or switching from an XP desktop to a Metro desktop? Either way, there's a learning curve, so since switching is going to be a PITA either way, why not save some money?
All this extends the amount of time it takes to make a sale. "Which OS do you want to go with that? Do you know how to install it? No? We'll install it for you for another $149.00. Oh, and you can't activate your phone until we're done, so please come back in a few hours."
If mandatory offering of choice of OS on every device had been the requirement over the last decade, Microsoft Windows would be the #1 OS on smartphones and tablets today, since people go with what they're familiar with. Blackberry would possibly be a weak #2. Android running on linux would be like linux on the desktop - a very small niche. Chromebooks would also be required to be sold with the option to use IE atop Windows. Metro everywhere!!!! Agghhhhhhh, THE PAIN.
Except every search engine but Google seems to half-ass its apps.
Sounds like an opportunity knocking for an independent developer. Except that there are also already a ton of other search apps, including aggregators, so if Bing, DuckDuckGo, et al don't make proper search apps, they're losing an opportunity to control how their service and brand are being presented to users. The marketplace has, in effect, worked around the "damage".
There are plenty of corporate apps directed at consumers that just plain suck - they look like they were thrown together just to have an app, and they're not really useable. Converting your weekly sales flyer into an image and having it download onto a phone screen where, even zoomed in 3x it's illegible, is just crap.
There are ways out of this. The first is to find one or more partners who have the necessary skills to develop the prototype with him, in return for equity. Not willing to give up equity? Then too bad? Can't convince devs that your idea is not that great/unique/compelling (because we've ALL heard variants of this "my idea is SO great - all you have to do is code it and we'll be rich" bullsh*t)? Again, too bad.
The real "way out of this" is to realize that, since he doesn't have the necessary skills, he either has to acquire them or give up. Not willing to take the years necessary to acquire them? Like the old saying goes, "The will to succeed isn't as important as the will to plan to succeed." Not having a plan that takes the obvious potential obstacles such as the ones you cited into account is a pretty good indicator that you're not the one to invest in. After all, ultimately, people invest in people, not products. The product won't complete itself. You can't hold an incomplete product accountable. You hold the people behind it accountable.