How many have just decided that Android tablets are DOA, and are developing for iOS instead?
*Waves hand*. It's a gamble, but I honestly hope for the sake of tinkering and openess that the IPad hype will slowly decline in favor of Android-based devices.
I read a lot of "People prefer the IPad", "People say NO to Android" but in my day-to-day experience, people just do not know what Android devices are capable of and how they really compare. When I show my XOOM to people who are telling me they're about to buy an IPad, they are usually surprised how the XOOM seem to work just as well. Most of the feedback I get goes around "I'd buy that but it doesn't have that app that I love on my IPhone". Absolutely true and on spot with TFA.
Use the Compatibility package (it now comes as an add-on in ADT) for backward-compatible Fragment(s) and rewrite your Activities using Fragments only. I did this before I adapted my application to tablets (3.0 / 3.1) and never ever wanted to look back. Yes, the tablet code is not really "3.0x" but it works beautifully and Fragments are so much better!
I understand "Fragmentation" is a cute and trendy word to use but TFA is actually right in saying that it's not the SDK that is the problem, but graphic resources and the fact that tablets are a much different beast than a simple phone, and the workflows (aka use cases, aka user stories) cannot be the same on a phone and a tablet. Applications designed for small devices miserably fail to be attractive on tablets because they aren't re-worked for them. However, most of the work in doing this is actually about re-thinking the interface and how it is going to be used. If you code your app correctly, there is no difficulty in re-using your components for one device size or another.
And back to fragmentation, the real headaches come from working around bugs in older version of Android that still need to be supported. That, my friend, is the real pain. And testing because you need to basically test each Android version.
Quite possibly the worst traffic control structure ever invented.
We have them in Canada and they cause more bullshit than they solve.
You mean, nobody told Canadians how to drive properly in roundabouts? At least they don't "fear" implementing them anyway, unlike southern neighbours. Montreal for instance could use a few hundreds of them. Traffic sucks BECAUSE of traffic lights everywhere and people stuck in the box.
You are quite possibly the only person smart enough to do this. Most people just panic and jerk the wheel without looking.
You must be new to rotaries...That's an added benefit of them. When you miss your exit, or you just don't know where to exit, have another spin.
I believe all the alleged benefits of roundabouts can be matched by properly timed lights
Oh, you are definitely new to rotaries. As many have explained here, rotaries have a lot of benefits when implemented and used properly, and in most cases are much better for overall traffic at junctions. You "believe" wrong. Check the intertubes, it's full of stats!
I suffer from recurring CH and I have found that the only thing that works for me is Zomig, but it is only used when a headache is coming, and can be used twice a day at most. People have reported some success with reducing the pain by using oxygen, but carrying an O2 bottle rarely a solution.
Marijuana doesn't actually do anything (I tried), it might even make the crisis worse because of its relaxing effect. And alcohol is a trigger for crisis so avoid it when you know you're in a period where you will get CHs (I hope you don't have the permanent kind, life is miserable with that).
Besides that, the only natural remedy I have found is endure it, and celebrate when it stops:(
And not sleeping as sleep usually is what triggers mine.
Yes, you can discover some features of your device. But it still doesn't solve the problem of the big differences between devices. Trying to accomodate low-ends smartphones takes way too much development time. But you somewhat have to, or as your OP said, you piss off users.
That's in my opinion the ONLY area where IPhone apps win. Devs know exactly on what it's going to run, there is 0 possibility for surprises. With Android, you need to be ready for anything...
It helps your government avoiding YOU spreading culture around, thus keeping people dumb and low so they can control them more easily. And keep their election campaign funds topped off with bribes from the RIAA and other "Copyright holders"?
I mean, a 12 year old girl singing the latest Lady Gaga song on her piano is very harmful to major companies, and could make you smile. Last thing your government want is you to be happy without them ordering you to be.
Or am I too much in conspiracy theories lately?
I think you're jumping way too high in calling your OP Arrogant or anything.
I am sorry, but the last batch of apps that were removed from the Market contained applications with names such as "Screaming Japanese Girls". If you install those kind of apps on your phone, no one else than yourself can be blamed if you get a malware with it. And in all honesty, the category of people who would download those could fit in the "moron" category - nothing to do with being tech-savvy or not.
The aformentioned tech-savvy people spent YEARS trying to explain to the general public that there is a danger in downloading random crap from anywhere to any device. Some people will never learn. "Moron" is a good term for the later IMHO.
You cannot cite companies, brands or such advertising-like terms on a News show, be it Facebook or your Mum's Ice Cream Boot.
And I think it's healthy for our societies to avoid this.
That's all that piece is about. You read it wrong. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and in the case of many, everything to do with freedom of thinking.
Camel is an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns in Java.
If you use a message-oriented architecture for your application(s) or systems in your company, it is a great API to easily use any kind of transport / filtering / interception mechanism and carry messages from one point to another with many possibilities. Camel supports Spring, which allows for very few code in an application and a LOT of possibilities in handling messages. And the cherry on top of the Camel cake is that "message" can be any object you want. So you can carry and massage any data coming in and spit it in various forms and ways to various destinations.
An example I can give is taken from RL experience: implementing a SMS router/proxy using Camel: a SMS comes in; a SMS count is sent (by Camel) to a customer DB to bill him later, while this SMS goes through a (Camel) filter that finds out which carrier it should go to. The SMS is then forwarded (by Camel) to its actual transport destination....etc.
The beauty of Camel is that, besides having a full-blown implementation of Enterprise Patterns, you can do other things than just handling messages. I actually wrote a Wikipedia Dictionnary parser with it...
Get a dictionnary entry from an URL ->Filter bad chars->XML-ise it -> Send into DB and record to log...
If your company is SOA oriented or your applications are workflow-based, Camel is a GREAT solution.
apple is evil, its true; but at least they ensure a reasonable experience on their tablet. it
This is just as wrong as the FA. How can you compare a 700$ tablet with a 100$ one? It's great that you allow yourself some Android bashing / Apple loving, but at least try to be a *little* fair.
I bough a XOOM (same price as the IPad) hoping it would not be too crappy. Well, guess what. It works like a CHARM, just as well as the IPad I tried before, maybe even better since it is way more flexible. And oh well, I knocked up an application on it in minutes without a 100$ SDK.
Your example is wrong and biased. If you buy a 100$ made-in-china-punkyards tablet, you get what you paid for. Let's see what you get from Apple for a 100$
Juggling with windows when you have to read specifications, code them, check the result, etc. while monitoring a server to see if your data goes through - I had enough of this. Most of developers at our company have 2 monitors but that`s only because we`re on laptops.
I still find 2 monitors a bare minimum at home. Mostly because I run VMs, emulators or read Slashdot and listen to music while I have zillion of Eclipse windows opened.
If one monitor is enough for you, then you`re not working hard enough!:-)
Or a cheating wife constantly texting her lover. Although one can responsibly deal with teenage kids without spying on their text messages, you can't do anything about a cheating wife.
There are many valid reasons to want to use such an app besides this. However, if it is not legal, then the argument stops there.
I usually work for large companies with QA/Staging processes. When someone suggest I poke the production servers, I REFUSE to even be given any password related to those. The argument being, we have 3 steps before an application goes live, if there is an issue, it's either a bug that hasn't been caught early enough or there's a support group who has the authorization to help in investigating.
If a developer must access production servers, something in the bug detection process failed and it's way too dangerous to have anyone probe them.
Also, in many organisations, the data is sensitive enough to not have the common human being even have a glance at it.
It's unfortunate how people can apparently avoid a Darwin Award thanks to technology. The gene pool is unfortunately and obviously affected by this issue. I fear for the future...
Indeed. But the trouble is the number of "false" positives; are you a paranoid customer? Then you would probably flag 90% of applications a as potential "threat". You're a power Android user who knows what those messages mean and you happen to read Slashdot? Same thing, reversed: you get scared by a simple app that requires "Internet Access" and "Location services" at the same time (a paranoid Slashdotter such as me will immediately think the app is going to send my location to the intertubes).
Tough problem...
That is very true, indeed. Too much details might confuse end users. I suppose Google engineers have put more thought into this than us. For the time being, I don't really see a better alternative that would be a one size fits all.
It is absolutely true that for all the bragging from Eve players, the amount of combat avoidance is way higher in Eve than any other MMO. Basically, if you want a fair fight where you can actually feel like you're playing a game and not just wasting your time waiting for hours (aka 'gate camping') or fleeing (aka: 'flying in low sec') at the sight of another player, Eve is not that game.
it's a commonality among Eve players to consider themselves above the average "care bear", closer to the "elite" or "I IZ SO GOOD I AM 2 SEXY 4 MY SHIP" status. Hence the distinctive choice of "pussy" vs "casual player".
Ok, this time I'm gonna bite. Why would a "WoW" player not be able to play Eve? Do you really think Eve players are some sort of elite gamers and WoW players just dumb people? To me the actual difference is between wanting to spend time annoying people and get bored trying to do so vs enjoying a game for what it is: a game. If you'd really be an Eve player and honest, you'd probably consider the huge amount of your real-life time trying to gank/flipcan/camp people for a result usually less than spectacular.
its meant for people who want to play hardcore
Again, a false statement. It is well recognized among the Eve community that you can approach Eve in so many different ways that it's too long to list here. Including casual playing. And if you think a little deeper, they are not what CCP is "catering" for. The PLEX system is obviously a good way for CCP to make money with casual players who would have quit the game because of the involvement it takes to start earning enough ISK to have fun flying around and enjoy the many options of Eve. It's actually MEANT toward the non-hardcore.
They stand to make even less money if they try to be another WoW.
CCP doesn't have the capacity to support 11 million players. it also doesn't have the required quality to even envision such huge numbers. They already seem to be in a permanent state of emergency trying to support a world that can handle 45K players only. Just look at the first version of Eve Gate: a 3 pages web site that was filled with the most obvious bugs. A team of kids wouldn't have done worse and many players who are developers would probably have done WAY better. Add to this their total incapacity to rethink their UI without breaking everything, it's a testimony to the development agony that is CCP.
CCP is surviving on its niche, is all. They can't even ambition better. But this is all speculation and let's see how DUST stands if/when it'll get out to dismiss my point. I anticipate failure.
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How many have just decided that Android tablets are DOA, and are developing for iOS instead?
*Waves hand*. It's a gamble, but I honestly hope for the sake of tinkering and openess that the IPad hype will slowly decline in favor of Android-based devices.
I read a lot of "People prefer the IPad", "People say NO to Android" but in my day-to-day experience, people just do not know what Android devices are capable of and how they really compare. When I show my XOOM to people who are telling me they're about to buy an IPad, they are usually surprised how the XOOM seem to work just as well. Most of the feedback I get goes around "I'd buy that but it doesn't have that app that I love on my IPhone". Absolutely true and on spot with TFA.
Note: You can thank me after you've refactored :P
...and platform fragmentation, perhaps?
I understand "Fragmentation" is a cute and trendy word to use but TFA is actually right in saying that it's not the SDK that is the problem, but graphic resources and the fact that tablets are a much different beast than a simple phone, and the workflows (aka use cases, aka user stories) cannot be the same on a phone and a tablet. Applications designed for small devices miserably fail to be attractive on tablets because they aren't re-worked for them. However, most of the work in doing this is actually about re-thinking the interface and how it is going to be used. If you code your app correctly, there is no difficulty in re-using your components for one device size or another.
And back to fragmentation, the real headaches come from working around bugs in older version of Android that still need to be supported. That, my friend, is the real pain. And testing because you need to basically test each Android version.
Quite possibly the worst traffic control structure ever invented.
We have them in Canada and they cause more bullshit than they solve.
You mean, nobody told Canadians how to drive properly in roundabouts? At least they don't "fear" implementing them anyway, unlike southern neighbours. Montreal for instance could use a few hundreds of them. Traffic sucks BECAUSE of traffic lights everywhere and people stuck in the box.
You are quite possibly the only person smart enough to do this. Most people just panic and jerk the wheel without looking.
You must be new to rotaries...That's an added benefit of them. When you miss your exit, or you just don't know where to exit, have another spin.
I believe all the alleged benefits of roundabouts can be matched by properly timed lights
Oh, you are definitely new to rotaries. As many have explained here, rotaries have a lot of benefits when implemented and used properly, and in most cases are much better for overall traffic at junctions. You "believe" wrong. Check the intertubes, it's full of stats!
I suffer from recurring CH and I have found that the only thing that works for me is Zomig, but it is only used when a headache is coming, and can be used twice a day at most. People have reported some success with reducing the pain by using oxygen, but carrying an O2 bottle rarely a solution. :(
And not sleeping as sleep usually is what triggers mine.
Marijuana doesn't actually do anything (I tried), it might even make the crisis worse because of its relaxing effect. And alcohol is a trigger for crisis so avoid it when you know you're in a period where you will get CHs (I hope you don't have the permanent kind, life is miserable with that).
Besides that, the only natural remedy I have found is endure it, and celebrate when it stops
Yes, you can discover some features of your device. But it still doesn't solve the problem of the big differences between devices. Trying to accomodate low-ends smartphones takes way too much development time. But you somewhat have to, or as your OP said, you piss off users.
That's in my opinion the ONLY area where IPhone apps win. Devs know exactly on what it's going to run, there is 0 possibility for surprises. With Android, you need to be ready for anything...
It helps your government avoiding YOU spreading culture around, thus keeping people dumb and low so they can control them more easily. And keep their election campaign funds topped off with bribes from the RIAA and other "Copyright holders"?
I mean, a 12 year old girl singing the latest Lady Gaga song on her piano is very harmful to major companies, and could make you smile. Last thing your government want is you to be happy without them ordering you to be.
Or am I too much in conspiracy theories lately?
I think you're jumping way too high in calling your OP Arrogant or anything.
I am sorry, but the last batch of apps that were removed from the Market contained applications with names such as "Screaming Japanese Girls". If you install those kind of apps on your phone, no one else than yourself can be blamed if you get a malware with it. And in all honesty, the category of people who would download those could fit in the "moron" category - nothing to do with being tech-savvy or not.
The aformentioned tech-savvy people spent YEARS trying to explain to the general public that there is a danger in downloading random crap from anywhere to any device. Some people will never learn. "Moron" is a good term for the later IMHO.
"No"??? You are misinformed. Go visit the world outside your town.
You cannot cite companies, brands or such advertising-like terms on a News show, be it Facebook or your Mum's Ice Cream Boot. And I think it's healthy for our societies to avoid this. That's all that piece is about. You read it wrong. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and in the case of many, everything to do with freedom of thinking.
Camel is an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns in Java.
If you use a message-oriented architecture for your application(s) or systems in your company, it is a great API to easily use any kind of transport / filtering / interception mechanism and carry messages from one point to another with many possibilities. Camel supports Spring, which allows for very few code in an application and a LOT of possibilities in handling messages. And the cherry on top of the Camel cake is that "message" can be any object you want. So you can carry and massage any data coming in and spit it in various forms and ways to various destinations.
An example I can give is taken from RL experience: implementing a SMS router/proxy using Camel: a SMS comes in; a SMS count is sent (by Camel) to a customer DB to bill him later, while this SMS goes through a (Camel) filter that finds out which carrier it should go to. The SMS is then forwarded (by Camel) to its actual transport destination....etc.
The beauty of Camel is that, besides having a full-blown implementation of Enterprise Patterns, you can do other things than just handling messages. I actually wrote a Wikipedia Dictionnary parser with it...
Get a dictionnary entry from an URL ->Filter bad chars->XML-ise it -> Send into DB and record to log...
If your company is SOA oriented or your applications are workflow-based, Camel is a GREAT solution.
Thanks for the info. I will surely look into those
apple is evil, its true; but at least they ensure a reasonable experience on their tablet. it
This is just as wrong as the FA. How can you compare a 700$ tablet with a 100$ one? It's great that you allow yourself some Android bashing / Apple loving, but at least try to be a *little* fair.
I bough a XOOM (same price as the IPad) hoping it would not be too crappy. Well, guess what. It works like a CHARM, just as well as the IPad I tried before, maybe even better since it is way more flexible. And oh well, I knocked up an application on it in minutes without a 100$ SDK.
Your example is wrong and biased. If you buy a 100$ made-in-china-punkyards tablet, you get what you paid for. Let's see what you get from Apple for a 100$
Juggling with windows when you have to read specifications, code them, check the result, etc. while monitoring a server to see if your data goes through - I had enough of this. Most of developers at our company have 2 monitors but that`s only because we`re on laptops. I still find 2 monitors a bare minimum at home. Mostly because I run VMs, emulators or read Slashdot and listen to music while I have zillion of Eclipse windows opened. If one monitor is enough for you, then you`re not working hard enough! :-)
Or a cheating wife constantly texting her lover. Although one can responsibly deal with teenage kids without spying on their text messages, you can't do anything about a cheating wife. There are many valid reasons to want to use such an app besides this. However, if it is not legal, then the argument stops there.
Still waiting for someone to 'touchbase' with in order to 'streamline' this new Google feature and 'leverage' our financial costs using it.
I usually work for large companies with QA/Staging processes. When someone suggest I poke the production servers, I REFUSE to even be given any password related to those. The argument being, we have 3 steps before an application goes live, if there is an issue, it's either a bug that hasn't been caught early enough or there's a support group who has the authorization to help in investigating.
If a developer must access production servers, something in the bug detection process failed and it's way too dangerous to have anyone probe them. Also, in many organisations, the data is sensitive enough to not have the common human being even have a glance at it.
It's unfortunate how people can apparently avoid a Darwin Award thanks to technology. The gene pool is unfortunately and obviously affected by this issue. I fear for the future...
We need a class action against Slashdot for all of us clods who were rendered insensitive by this web site.
Indeed. But the trouble is the number of "false" positives; are you a paranoid customer? Then you would probably flag 90% of applications a as potential "threat". You're a power Android user who knows what those messages mean and you happen to read Slashdot? Same thing, reversed: you get scared by a simple app that requires "Internet Access" and "Location services" at the same time (a paranoid Slashdotter such as me will immediately think the app is going to send my location to the intertubes). Tough problem...
That is very true, indeed. Too much details might confuse end users. I suppose Google engineers have put more thought into this than us. For the time being, I don't really see a better alternative that would be a one size fits all.
It is absolutely true that for all the bragging from Eve players, the amount of combat avoidance is way higher in Eve than any other MMO. Basically, if you want a fair fight where you can actually feel like you're playing a game and not just wasting your time waiting for hours (aka 'gate camping') or fleeing (aka: 'flying in low sec') at the sight of another player, Eve is not that game.
it's a commonality among Eve players to consider themselves above the average "care bear", closer to the "elite" or "I IZ SO GOOD I AM 2 SEXY 4 MY SHIP" status. Hence the distinctive choice of "pussy" vs "casual player".
Its not meant for the WoW players.
Ok, this time I'm gonna bite. Why would a "WoW" player not be able to play Eve? Do you really think Eve players are some sort of elite gamers and WoW players just dumb people? To me the actual difference is between wanting to spend time annoying people and get bored trying to do so vs enjoying a game for what it is: a game. If you'd really be an Eve player and honest, you'd probably consider the huge amount of your real-life time trying to gank/flipcan/camp people for a result usually less than spectacular.
its meant for people who want to play hardcore
Again, a false statement. It is well recognized among the Eve community that you can approach Eve in so many different ways that it's too long to list here. Including casual playing. And if you think a little deeper, they are not what CCP is "catering" for. The PLEX system is obviously a good way for CCP to make money with casual players who would have quit the game because of the involvement it takes to start earning enough ISK to have fun flying around and enjoy the many options of Eve. It's actually MEANT toward the non-hardcore.
They stand to make even less money if they try to be another WoW.
CCP doesn't have the capacity to support 11 million players. it also doesn't have the required quality to even envision such huge numbers. They already seem to be in a permanent state of emergency trying to support a world that can handle 45K players only. Just look at the first version of Eve Gate: a 3 pages web site that was filled with the most obvious bugs. A team of kids wouldn't have done worse and many players who are developers would probably have done WAY better. Add to this their total incapacity to rethink their UI without breaking everything, it's a testimony to the development agony that is CCP.
CCP is surviving on its niche, is all. They can't even ambition better. But this is all speculation and let's see how DUST stands if/when it'll get out to dismiss my point. I anticipate failure.