I think you misunderstood my point. The vast majority of those devices will be running some version of Android, and very few if any will be counted in global market share figures.
Therefore my assertion is that Apple has even less market share than is immediately apparent in big-name sales figures.
Given that smartphones and tablets are just the current generation of PDAs, Apple, Samsung et al should count themselves very lucky that Palm and Sharp didn't file thousands of stupid frivolous patents.
While I don't disagree with your post, and you made me more than a little nostalgic at the mention of Scream Tracker, I feel I should point out that CPUs in that era were running ONLY your code, and in a deterministic manner. It was comparatively easy to ensure your mixed sound made it to the DMA buffer before it emptied.
In this era of pre-emptive multi-tasking operating systems, unless you're running a realtime kernel there is no longer a guarantee that your multi-channel rendered audio will be ready in time before the DMA buffer starves. Multi-core CPUs have helped this a bit, so you can have a separate audio thread that stands a better chance of getting more CPU time if not its own core.
I have yet to see a program made in the last ten years run with as much real-time, stutter-free simultaneous sound and visuals as the likes of Scream Tracker on a 486.
Further, the A3d hardware spatial audio acceleration from Aureal (before they were bought out by Creative) was most impressive.
Well I do a bit, as should anyone else. Not that it absolves us of any responsibility, but we have a Police Complaints Authority that deals specifically with, well, complaints about police and often gets a result (officers stood down and/or new policies in place).
Of course there are still plenty of cases of serious police misconduct but they are very few compared with what they actually do, and the scum they have to deal with. As with anything, some people will whine no matter what - people complain of brutality for example when cops show up at out-of-control parties and stop drunken students cutting each other up with broken bottles.
I'm pretty sure it's a cultural thing. Here it is apparent that cops are for the most part good people who want to help. The odd scumbag on a power trip who makes it into the force is usually seen as such and dealt with. Perhaps that good:scum ratio is inverted in your country?
I suspect he means that if his graphics-drawing functions were sped up massively, it would have no noticeable benefit to him since they are already effectively instantaneous.
That's how I read it anyway.
Unless he has 3D functions that are CPU-bound. In which case, what you said.
Especially: I wish domain name parking sites didn't put up robots.txt files that cause the archive to immediately purge/hide the previous owners' content. I've lost access to a lot of content from dead sites that way. (It also keeps the owners from rescuing their old content if they don't have personal backups.)
This.
Today I have lost a lot of respect for the Internet Archive.
This is I guess a fitting way to celebrate Herman Rorscach's 129th birthday. And today's Google Doodle makes about as much sense as this password scheme.
This is a big problem for Windows and Mac users. Linux users who don't stick close to the bleeding edge aren't affected quite as much, since we get the vast majority of FOSS software from distro repos.
Want to download widgetSmasherX?
sudo yum/apt-get install widgetSmasherX Done.
Likewise for Android users, who just install via the F-Droid repo.
Bleeding-edge Linux users will most likely be fine, as they will be savvy enough to find their software elsewhere and compile if needs be.
Advertisers./. runs a business model in a similar manner to Google. Put up the content for no direct charge, and sell advertising space.
A business model I happen to like*, since I'd rather not pay a subscription fee for a website's bandwidth, hosting, etc.
* So long as the ads remain in their predictable spaces, and are not intrusive. As soon as obnoxious, flashing, "Download HERE!!!", ads start showing up I will start using adblock.
Why exactly should he go to the ridiculous lengths of explicitly blocking individual items when he can instead wholesale block what is clearly a hostile bot from a search engine nobody uses?
Look, Steve, I get that you want to push Bing as a viable search engine, but I think you'll find the only place anyone sees the name "Bing" associated with Internet searching is in movies and American dramas.
Just to help further illustrate the poor state your country is in, here is an article from today's newspaper, where a hitch-hiker was picked up by someone on the run from cops.
Note the last few sentences: Police gave the backpacker a more sedate ride to Paihia and showed him the sights in the area before delivering him to his accommodation. [The local police sergeant] said [the backpacker] would also be offered help from Victim Support if he needed it.
Of course the police aren't all rainbows and roses, but this sort of thing (the police helping I mean, not the car-jacking) happens all the time in civilised countries.
Again I'm not trying to boast in any way; simply pointing out that your experiences are not "normal" for a developed society and should never be considered acceptable. What are you going to do about it?
I guess it is luck that I wasn't born in the US, I'll grant you that.
I don't mean to brag at all, I genuinely feel sorry for you and your plight. I sincerely hope you manage to escape that cesspool some day and see how it's done in the rest of the world.
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There's a word that can be ascribed to the condition in such people: chemophobia
That *might* possibly maybe have been true 30 years ago, but it certainly isn't now.
I don't think that's true. But even if it were, you have only succeeded in presenting a fine example of an ad hominem logical fallacy.
Am I the only one who finds paying to receive cell phone calls totally abhorrent?
I think you misunderstood my point. The vast majority of those devices will be running some version of Android, and very few if any will be counted in global market share figures.
Therefore my assertion is that Apple has even less market share than is immediately apparent in big-name sales figures.
Given that smartphones and tablets are just the current generation of PDAs, Apple, Samsung et al should count themselves very lucky that Palm and Sharp didn't file thousands of stupid frivolous patents.
Instead of just dozens, perhaps :)
Asia, yes I know it well. Where millions of people have cheap essentially no-name brand phones and tablets.
That Asia?
Call me paranoid, but these people who appear "inconvenient" to the establishment seem to keep running into accidents, don't they?
While I don't disagree with your post, and you made me more than a little nostalgic at the mention of Scream Tracker, I feel I should point out that CPUs in that era were running ONLY your code, and in a deterministic manner. It was comparatively easy to ensure your mixed sound made it to the DMA buffer before it emptied.
In this era of pre-emptive multi-tasking operating systems, unless you're running a realtime kernel there is no longer a guarantee that your multi-channel rendered audio will be ready in time before the DMA buffer starves. Multi-core CPUs have helped this a bit, so you can have a separate audio thread that stands a better chance of getting more CPU time if not its own core.
I have yet to see a program made in the last ten years run with as much real-time, stutter-free simultaneous sound and visuals as the likes of Scream Tracker on a 486.
Further, the A3d hardware spatial audio acceleration from Aureal (before they were bought out by Creative) was most impressive.
Well yes, but do the US military want them being pulled apart and studied by the enemy?
Well I do a bit, as should anyone else. Not that it absolves us of any responsibility, but we have a Police Complaints Authority that deals specifically with, well, complaints about police and often gets a result (officers stood down and/or new policies in place).
Of course there are still plenty of cases of serious police misconduct but they are very few compared with what they actually do, and the scum they have to deal with. As with anything, some people will whine no matter what - people complain of brutality for example when cops show up at out-of-control parties and stop drunken students cutting each other up with broken bottles.
I'm pretty sure it's a cultural thing. Here it is apparent that cops are for the most part good people who want to help. The odd scumbag on a power trip who makes it into the force is usually seen as such and dealt with. Perhaps that good:scum ratio is inverted in your country?
Again, you have my pity.
I suspect he means that if his graphics-drawing functions were sped up massively, it would have no noticeable benefit to him since they are already effectively instantaneous.
That's how I read it anyway.
Unless he has 3D functions that are CPU-bound. In which case, what you said.
Especially: I wish domain name parking sites didn't put up robots.txt files that cause the archive to immediately purge/hide the previous owners' content. I've lost access to a lot of content from dead sites that way. (It also keeps the owners from rescuing their old content if they don't have personal backups.)
This.
Today I have lost a lot of respect for the Internet Archive.
This is I guess a fitting way to celebrate Herman Rorscach's 129th birthday. And today's Google Doodle makes about as much sense as this password scheme.
This is a big problem for Windows and Mac users. Linux users who don't stick close to the bleeding edge aren't affected quite as much, since we get the vast majority of FOSS software from distro repos.
Want to download widgetSmasherX?
sudo yum/apt-get install widgetSmasherX
Done.
Likewise for Android users, who just install via the F-Droid repo.
Bleeding-edge Linux users will most likely be fine, as they will be savvy enough to find their software elsewhere and compile if needs be.
Advertisers. /. runs a business model in a similar manner to Google. Put up the content for no direct charge, and sell advertising space.
A business model I happen to like*, since I'd rather not pay a subscription fee for a website's bandwidth, hosting, etc.
* So long as the ads remain in their predictable spaces, and are not intrusive. As soon as obnoxious, flashing, "Download HERE!!!", ads start showing up I will start using adblock.
Why exactly should he go to the ridiculous lengths of explicitly blocking individual items when he can instead wholesale block what is clearly a hostile bot from a search engine nobody uses?
Interesting, since Yahoo in my locale uses Google. No Microsoft technology in sight.
Look, Steve, I get that you want to push Bing as a viable search engine, but I think you'll find the only place anyone sees the name "Bing" associated with Internet searching is in movies and American dramas.
Yeah. General Protection Fault.
Better yet, keep the SD cards and format them with good file systems like ext4.
Just to help further illustrate the poor state your country is in, here is an article from today's newspaper, where a hitch-hiker was picked up by someone on the run from cops.
Note the last few sentences:
Police gave the backpacker a more sedate ride to Paihia and showed him the sights in the area before delivering him to his accommodation.
[The local police sergeant] said [the backpacker] would also be offered help from Victim Support if he needed it.
Of course the police aren't all rainbows and roses, but this sort of thing (the police helping I mean, not the car-jacking) happens all the time in civilised countries.
Again I'm not trying to boast in any way; simply pointing out that your experiences are not "normal" for a developed society and should never be considered acceptable. What are you going to do about it?
I guess it is luck that I wasn't born in the US, I'll grant you that.
I don't mean to brag at all, I genuinely feel sorry for you and your plight. I sincerely hope you manage to escape that cesspool some day and see how it's done in the rest of the world.
That would be the US of A, one of the aforementioned backwards dirtball nations.
Well, in your locale perhaps. My first-hand experience in a developed country has been... well let's just say very different from yours.
Judging from your sig and cynicism, I'm going to assume you're in the United States of America, one of the aforementioned backwards dirtball nations.