The Evo and all the next-gen 4g smartphones are offering it, since they can record in hd. The iPad is already obsolete. No camera, limited storage, low-res output, no phone... what's the point, unless you want to relive your childhood pretending to be Captain Kirk on the bridge?
When talking abut the "video out", the fact that it can't do HD to a big-screen TV counts against it. Laptops in the same price range as the iPad output full HD 1920x1080, have 10xthe storage space (so it's actually practical to store content on them), etc. The iPad is a niche device, beaten by several smartphones (which are also a lot more portable).
Think for a second - it's not just the rendering of the video - it's also the internal bandwidth - and the cpu guts to move it, and the extra battery power to do the extra processing... it simply doesn't have the guts. Also, if you're downscaling, it's not as cpu-intensive, because you don't need to completely decode the data - you can figure out ahead of time which chunks you're going to throw away - for example, a block that contains info about one lone pixel changing along an edge - just skip over it, and any similar blocks. Or a block with a 3-pixel are that's changed between key frames. You're downscaling - just toss it. Remember, video isn't compressed the same way as data - it's lossy, and you're going to lose when you downscale anyway.
So you can easily save a good chunk of work, not just in the actual decoding, but also in memory allocation, etc.
There's no reason you can't run the 32-bit version of the browser - it'll actually be slightly faster to load and run (both the disk image and memory image are smaller since pointers are 4 bytes instead of 8, so you'll also be more likely to benefit from cache hits).
The facts straight from apple - it doesn't say it outputs 720p (the minimum HD spec is 1280x720). It clearly gives the MAXIMUM output resolution as 1024x768.
If you have a dock, the most you'll get is that 1024x768. 1990s, not HD. Connector to VGA Adapter; 1024x576p and 1024x480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 1024x576i and 1024x480i with Apple Composite AV Cable
These are NOT HD images. While it will "support" up to 1280x720p, it downscales it to 1024x576i. All your widescreen movies are downrezed to 1024x576i - barely better than an old-style vcr.
So, what is 1024x576? 589,824 pixels. That's not HD unless you're blind. 576 lines is barely above the old NTSC 480 lins.
The Lowest HD - on those cheap sets - is 1280x720 - 921,600 pixels, - and that's pretty crappy on a large screen - Full HD is 1920x1080, or 2,073,600 pixels. Once you see it, you never want to go back.
So no, the hardware can't do HD. Not enough guts. Too bad, so sad, Apple is wormy.
Not true, and easily disproven. Look at black and white printouts at 300 dpi and 600 dpi - there's a serious difference. It's only when you get beyond 1200 dpi that you can even start talking about a "retinal display." The eye is a lot more complex (and the processing that takes place in the optic nerve) than Jobs gives credit.
Don't be such an idiot fanboi. Down-scaling is one of the least cpu-intensive tasks you can do, and it saves you work further on ion the pipleline, since after you've downscaled, you're working with much less data (for example, moving it to the screen, layering it under interface elements, etc).
The iPad simply doesn't have the juice - why do you think it doesn't come with an hdmi-out to plug in a big-screen TV, like the Eris and other smartphones? It can't render full hd, unlike real smart devices. It's cripple-ware, same reason it can't run flash.
Flash isn't "slow and attrocious" on an iPad or iPhone - it's non-existent. So anything is better:-)
Flash is fast even on my Wii, and a Wii is majorly under-specced - 256meg of ram on a sub-gigahertz display. And yet it has no problem with flash downscaling a 1366x756 HD game to 720 (the Wii's native display size). Give it a try - http://alphagfx.com/ pick 17x17 (heck, it even loaded, downscaled and played one of the 1600x900 20-tile games).
If the Wii can do it (and let's face it, Wiis weren't made to run flash), maybe you should switch from crapuntu to another distro.
It works if you just want to write a game without worrying about platform differences. After years of hassles with different browsers and operating systems, I had forgotten how much LESS stupidity it was just coding it up in flash.
Otherwise, all those printers that do more than 300 dpi are also a waste of money.
But you can tell the difference between a 300dpi printout and a 1200dpi. The rods and cones in your eyeball don't necessarily line up nice and neat with the pixels on the display, hence the need for a much higher resolution, and why Jobs is, once again, full of BS, same as refusing to allow flash because he wants to push the h264 codec, that he makes money off of.
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The iPad doesn't have the cpu guts to render HD video - it downscales it to 1024x576 - not even the 1366x768 of the crappy HDTVs, and way below 1920x1080.
Funny how even the cheapest netbooks can do it, and laptops at the $400 price point are now doing 1600x900 native.
Want to develop a cross-platform game? Forget HTML5 - flash is the way to go - it works NOW on PCs, laptops, even game consoles (go to http://alphagfx.com/ and try one of the 9x9, 12x12, or 17x17 games on a Wii - the 9x9 are native resolution, but the others downscale just fine).
The only other option even close is Java - and Java sucks for game development (and how many people want to run your java app anyway?) So you have a choice - develop once for everyone except Apple iStuff, and do it a second time for His Jobsiness, or spend the same amount of time developing twice as much for +90% of the market. The math is simple - Flash beats Apple.
So the newspaper produces and fax manufactureres will mandate that your cell phone also receives FAXES - so you can receive a fax copy of your local NEWSPAPER without having to have an iPad and 500 megabytes to download one issue of Wired.
GM is (still) dying.
So GM will lobby that your cell phone also includes a CAR!
And throw in the PoS otherwise known as ObamaCare! (after all, it's really a gift to the insurance industry).
Real estate is (still) dying.
So every cell phone should have A NEW HOME!
LANDINES ARE DYING!
EVERY CELL PHONE MUST BE CONNECTED TO A LAND LINE!!!
And obviously run BSD, because "everyone knows" BSD is dying.
More importantly - when is slashdot going to implement the '-1 Retarded' mod?
I can't help but think that Facebook users deserve this sort of thing, same as people still using IE6 are saying "I work for a big company that doesn't upgrade - steal my data, it's not like anyone will notice until after you've sold it, and our defense will be "gee, we're fully patched and using best industry security patches!".
No, the actual article isn't exactly fact-based.
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FTFA: "-which is why production cars almost always have zero camber." - is a lie.
Yhe only benefit to fuel economy you'll see is if you go around with your car overloaded. Installing load leveler air shocks fixes that problem a lot cheaper than buying asymmetric tires that will give you a fuel PENALTY under average driving (1-2 occupants) conditions.
One of the great things about oral histories is that we can create better quality memories than the "real thing." You might think about that for a few minutes.
Better to be remembered through the kind words of others than through a video of you wasting a way.
Don't let the ACs get to you - it takes a while if you're used to how things are done elsewhere.
Like the crappy "web 2.0" interface - avoid it by setting your preferences to "nested, browse at -1 (raw and uncut)".
Since you're now registered, keep a slashdot user journal. It comes in handy.
Also stick something in your signature. Impress us with your wit and wisdom (or not, if you're an Ubuntu user).
"Pressing enter just sends an extra blank character, which tells the browser to render it the next line down. Or at least that is how I've always understood "
You understood wrong. You're posting in html. See the "Allowed HTML" text under the Preview button?
Try putting a <p> tag between lines.
You can also bold and/or italicize, etc.
Doing so earns you 1 credit per post in slashgame credits. Only 42,000,666 posts to win a prize. (Or use the spaceballs cheat code 1-2-3-4-5).
No credit card required, so nobody can "steal" your credit card information - OR your banking info - it's all hidden. Think of your bank acting as an email payment escrow service. Flat fee per transaction.
Except you don't give them to them either in preparation or on the big day - that's taking away from THEIR opportunity to experience it THEIR way. And if you give it to them afterwards, there's always going to be comparisons. The whole idea is dumb.
Exactly! One of the more interesting things is that the urge to "get it on video" is a guy thing because guys are less stimulated by other means - which explains why guys can spend hours looking at pr0n.
Not really. The whole idea sucks. Preserve your memories by spending time CREATING memories. This is about as useful as travel or wedding pics - nobody wants to see more than half a dozen at one sitting.
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The Evo and all the next-gen 4g smartphones are offering it, since they can record in hd. The iPad is already obsolete. No camera, limited storage, low-res output, no phone ... what's the point, unless you want to relive your childhood pretending to be Captain Kirk on the bridge?
You'll certainly notice the loss when you try to watch that 1024x576 picture on a 1920x1080 display, so the iPad fails as a portable media device.
When talking abut the "video out", the fact that it can't do HD to a big-screen TV counts against it. Laptops in the same price range as the iPad output full HD 1920x1080, have 10xthe storage space (so it's actually practical to store content on them), etc. The iPad is a niche device, beaten by several smartphones (which are also a lot more portable).
So you can easily save a good chunk of work, not just in the actual decoding, but also in memory allocation, etc.
There's no reason you can't run the 32-bit version of the browser - it'll actually be slightly faster to load and run (both the disk image and memory image are smaller since pointers are 4 bytes instead of 8, so you'll also be more likely to benefit from cache hits).
The facts straight from apple - it doesn't say it outputs 720p (the minimum HD spec is 1280x720). It clearly gives the MAXIMUM output resolution as 1024x768.
If you have a dock, the most you'll get is that 1024x768. 1990s, not HD. Connector to VGA Adapter; 1024x576p and 1024x480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 1024x576i and 1024x480i with Apple Composite AV Cable
These are NOT HD images. While it will "support" up to 1280x720p, it downscales it to 1024x576i. All your widescreen movies are downrezed to 1024x576i - barely better than an old-style vcr.
So, what is 1024x576? 589,824 pixels. That's not HD unless you're blind. 576 lines is barely above the old NTSC 480 lins.
The Lowest HD - on those cheap sets - is 1280x720 - 921,600 pixels, - and that's pretty crappy on a large screen - Full HD is 1920x1080, or 2,073,600 pixels. Once you see it, you never want to go back.
So no, the hardware can't do HD. Not enough guts. Too bad, so sad, Apple is wormy.
Not true, and easily disproven. Look at black and white printouts at 300 dpi and 600 dpi - there's a serious difference. It's only when you get beyond 1200 dpi that you can even start talking about a "retinal display." The eye is a lot more complex (and the processing that takes place in the optic nerve) than Jobs gives credit.
The iPad simply doesn't have the juice - why do you think it doesn't come with an hdmi-out to plug in a big-screen TV, like the Eris and other smartphones? It can't render full hd, unlike real smart devices. It's cripple-ware, same reason it can't run flash.
Flash isn't "slow and attrocious" on an iPad or iPhone - it's non-existent. So anything is better :-)
Flash is fast even on my Wii, and a Wii is majorly under-specced - 256meg of ram on a sub-gigahertz display. And yet it has no problem with flash downscaling a 1366x756 HD game to 720 (the Wii's native display size). Give it a try - http://alphagfx.com/ pick 17x17 (heck, it even loaded, downscaled and played one of the 1600x900 20-tile games).
If the Wii can do it (and let's face it, Wiis weren't made to run flash), maybe you should switch from crapuntu to another distro.
It works if you just want to write a game without worrying about platform differences. After years of hassles with different browsers and operating systems, I had forgotten how much LESS stupidity it was just coding it up in flash.
The problem isn't flash - it's your OS. Runs fine on 64-bit openSuse. Not one crash yet. Maybe you should get a real OS? :-)
Otherwise, all those printers that do more than 300 dpi are also a waste of money.
But you can tell the difference between a 300dpi printout and a 1200dpi. The rods and cones in your eyeball don't necessarily line up nice and neat with the pixels on the display, hence the need for a much higher resolution, and why Jobs is, once again, full of BS, same as refusing to allow flash because he wants to push the h264 codec, that he makes money off of.
Funny how even the cheapest netbooks can do it, and laptops at the $400 price point are now doing 1600x900 native.
Want to develop a cross-platform game? Forget HTML5 - flash is the way to go - it works NOW on PCs, laptops, even game consoles (go to http://alphagfx.com/ and try one of the 9x9, 12x12, or 17x17 games on a Wii - the 9x9 are native resolution, but the others downscale just fine).
The only other option even close is Java - and Java sucks for game development (and how many people want to run your java app anyway?) So you have a choice - develop once for everyone except Apple iStuff, and do it a second time for His Jobsiness, or spend the same amount of time developing twice as much for +90% of the market. The math is simple - Flash beats Apple.
Ever listen to a politician talk about how great he is? That's prior art.
AM radio is also dying.
Mandatory AM Radio is next step.
Newspapers are dying, and so are faxes.
So the newspaper produces and fax manufactureres will mandate that your cell phone also receives FAXES - so you can receive a fax copy of your local NEWSPAPER without having to have an iPad and 500 megabytes to download one issue of Wired.
GM is (still) dying.
So GM will lobby that your cell phone also includes a CAR!
And throw in the PoS otherwise known as ObamaCare! (after all, it's really a gift to the insurance industry).
Real estate is (still) dying.
So every cell phone should have A NEW HOME!
LANDINES ARE DYING!
EVERY CELL PHONE MUST BE CONNECTED TO A LAND LINE!!!
And obviously run BSD, because "everyone knows" BSD is dying.
I can't help but think that Facebook users deserve this sort of thing, same as people still using IE6 are saying "I work for a big company that doesn't upgrade - steal my data, it's not like anyone will notice until after you've sold it, and our defense will be "gee, we're fully patched and using best industry security patches!".
Yhe only benefit to fuel economy you'll see is if you go around with your car overloaded. Installing load leveler air shocks fixes that problem a lot cheaper than buying asymmetric tires that will give you a fuel PENALTY under average driving (1-2 occupants) conditions.
One of the great things about oral histories is that we can create better quality memories than the "real thing." You might think about that for a few minutes.
Better to be remembered through the kind words of others than through a video of you wasting a way.
Like the crappy "web 2.0" interface - avoid it by setting your preferences to "nested, browse at -1 (raw and uncut)".
Since you're now registered, keep a slashdot user journal. It comes in handy. Also stick something in your signature. Impress us with your wit and wisdom (or not, if you're an Ubuntu user).
You understood wrong. You're posting in html. See the "Allowed HTML" text under the Preview button?
Try putting a <p> tag between lines.
You can also bold and/or italicize, etc.
Doing so earns you 1 credit per post in slashgame credits. Only 42,000,666 posts to win a prize. (Or use the spaceballs cheat code 1-2-3-4-5).
Or you can "level up" by buying a subscription.
The US needs to adopt the Canadian solution - Interac email money transfer.
No credit card required, so nobody can "steal" your credit card information - OR your banking info - it's all hidden. Think of your bank acting as an email payment escrow service. Flat fee per transaction.
Except you don't give them to them either in preparation or on the big day - that's taking away from THEIR opportunity to experience it THEIR way. And if you give it to them afterwards, there's always going to be comparisons. The whole idea is dumb.
Exactly! One of the more interesting things is that the urge to "get it on video" is a guy thing because guys are less stimulated by other means - which explains why guys can spend hours looking at pr0n.
Not really. The whole idea sucks. Preserve your memories by spending time CREATING memories. This is about as useful as travel or wedding pics - nobody wants to see more than half a dozen at one sitting.
He's being held hostage at Apple HQ. His job is to post slashvertisements to help combat stuff like this.
SCO.