I think the write-once properties of Java are still very useful in a handheld situation. Sure, in order to take advantage of native methods you are going to have to write some native DLLs to call from Java (example: is this button pushed in or not?). Are you saying that writing a few extra native modules to take advantage of the particularities of each handheld you are targetting is the same as trying to write a cross platform application for several handhelds, each with a different set of libraries?
I'm not sure how it's implemented in J2ME, but you could handle differences in hardware user interface by loading in classes that dynamically bind event handlers to the hardware. Its also possible that the J2ME provides a framework for this, analogous to Swing's Pluggable Look and Feel (PLAF).
As handhelds become more powerful and come equipped with more space, Java will become an increasingly attractive option. Part of the reason for this is that consumers really like interoperability. They like the fact that their friend can call them up and say, "Hey, you gotta try this cool new bread I found!" and they can go out and buy it and its 100% compatible with their toaster. Despite 1000s of kinds of breads and 1000s of brands of toaster, they all seem to work together fine. On a computing level, this requires a layer of abstraction. There may be some performance issues to sort out right now, but we are still in the beginning stages of handhelds.
(I know I'm nitpicking, but "Java applets" are subclasses of objects of the Applet class and only run on web browsers. They aren't the same as regular applications.)
This model doesn't favor businesses at all. If there's one thing a commerce-oriented website won't do, its put a lot of links to their competitors. Depending on your point of view, this is a great thing. Unfortunately, many businesses believe that advertising means getting in your face as much as possible, there's no such thing as bad press, etc.
Amazon.com is an example of this: I bought a pair of speakers from them a several months ago, and yet every time I go there, they helpfully inform me that they have these great new speakers on sale! Buy now! I suppose it works to recommend similar books and CDs, but when someone buys speakers, they usually stop being in the market for speakers after that.
Anyway, I don't know why no-one has thought of making an e-commerce-only search engine. I think there's a clear distinction between those two types of searching that warrants a separate engine. Sometimes you want to buy stuff, and sometimes you just want information. When you are doing one, the other just gets in the way, and disguising advertising as content like AOL/MSN/AltaVista do just discourages you from using their services. Obviously, web-based businesses have a long way to go before they actually realize, "Oh, Internet users don't like to be tricked! Maybe if we were straight-forward with consumers they'd be more trusting of us."
No no, you don't understand...
We only want to hear good things about Apple. All this fair and impartial discussion of all things Apple is making me feel bad.:(
Lots of them! Pick any four, and mix and match on your page for maximum effect.
Seriously, Flash can be used for good effect. There's nothing wrong with making pages that are beautiful, but the best way to do that is to choose a decent color palette instead of layering your page in graphics.
Too much text is just as annoying as too many graphics. Is there any reason why you need a summary of the forums, two sets of incomplete listings of articles, a list of news headlines, a list of quick tips, and two sets of links provided by Internet.com. It seems like the people at PHPBuilder.com were so enamoured with their ability to pull data from a database that they chose to stuff the front page with as much of it as would fit. One of the primary goals of an index page is to provide the user with an idea of how to navigate your site and how it is organized. Too many graphics is bad, but too many links is worse, its confusing!
Clarity should be your first goal in presenting your message. Sometimes I come across SourceForge projects that don't bother to tell you what the project is about. Your webpage is presumably about talking to visitors, not talking to yourself.
Bad graphics are worse than no graphics at all. It looks unprofessional if you do a hack job at it. Better to stick with basic text elements and a few colors
Simple. I'm a human. When I go back to Africa, not worrying about dying due to a tsetse fly would be nice, as would not worrying about my family & friends who live there.
What exactly is so special about animal life that humans deserve to die for it? Please, explain exactly why this is true. And while we are at it, why is destroying the ecosystem and polluting the air, water and soil a bad idea. I would say its because doing that would jeopardize the future of the human race, of which, as you recall, I am a member. You would not say that because, of course, human life is not as important as animal life. You might say that we should do it for the animals. But that would lead to me to suppose that you are even now arranging your own death due to the massive harm you cause the non-human animals of the planet by simply existing. Perhaps you advocate the mass extinction of the human race?
These are absurdities, but they are the logical extension of the position that animal life is superior to human life.
Say a composer decided that this note progression was unique: C, F#, E, D, C...
I wouldn't mind. No-one would use it because it doesn't sound good. If we were talking E-B-C#m-A, then we'd be in real trouble.
What would happen if I transposed the chords? Does that fall under the patent? What if I used a variation, like E-B-C#m-Asus4? I guess the courts will decide...
...that the Mac fans that regularly read slashdot are not fit for a serious discussion
I didn't say that. I'm explaining why I think Mac users are not respected, and what the perception of Mac users is. Call it culture clash, if you want - Unix fans with their arcane command lines and Apple fans with visual elegance, and suddenly the two meet...
...Unix users deride polished, well-done GUIs
Yes, Unix users have their faults, but I was talking about why Apple users to lackrespect. Personally, I think OS X and Linux are both great in their own particular way.
I have noticed a lot more coverage of Apple stuff since OS X started gaining steam in the tech community, and I really appreciate it.
True. Apple has gained noticeably more respect since the release of OS X, unfortunately, I can't say the same about the Apple enthusiasts. They have a long way to go. Here's why: For the most part, the nerd contingent refered to in "News for nerds" believes in function before form. This is an engineering principle. I am a graphic designer, but I respect and understand the importance of this principle. Many Apple users are of the "Oooh, shiny!" variety, and some even go so far as to deride command line interfaces and less-than-perfect GUIs. It is commonly believed that such people have no place in a serious discussion of technology.
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"I want to believe!"
You admit that you have been fucked over by Microsoft, yet you are "grateful" that you can continue to get fucked over. OK...
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[Java] is missing the biggest OS vendor pushing its OS and development tools to the platform
Why is it important to go with the biggest OS vendor? The right tool/platform for the job, that's what I say. Personally, I'm very skeptical about.NET. It hasn't been proven yet, and there will always be those programmers who will swallow anything Microsoft puts out, with dubious cries of "Oh well, they're the biggest." What ever happened to judging things on their technical merits?
There's actually a lot of "prosumer" cards out there that support multi-channel recording that are made for the home musician. The one that most closely matches your needs is the Audiosport Quattro by M-Audio, but I think it has some issues, probably due to trying to push too much data down the USB pipe. A better bet is probably the Delta 44 by the same company - its not USB, but it has a breakout box, so you still have easy access to the jacks.
I just picked up an Emagic Audiowerk2 for $80 at Guitar Center's blowout sale. On the downside, the DirectX drivers suck and it only does 2 channels at 16bit/44.1kHz, but the ASIO drivers are great! I can get 7ms latency in Cubase under all but the highest loads with my celeron366 - this means effects can be applied to the inputs in real time, and the VST instruments are actually usable. The only real disadvantage is that I still need my noisy SB Live for games, but for $80, this is card is a steal.
Sounds like Yamaha's mLAN, which is based on IEEE 1394 (Firewire) and carries 100 audio signals, and 4096 MIDI channels, although I think its proprietary. The TechTV website has no mention of clock information being transferred through Gibson's protocol, or even MIDI. I will be very disappointed if they didn't put those into the spec.
If hardware manufacturers actually support this protocol, it will be a huge boon to the home studio hobbyist. Imagine, a 32-in/32-out soundcard for the price of an ethernet card! My money is on Yamaha. They already have hardware that supports their standard, including a couple of digitalmixers. If only Gibson and Yamaha would work together on this, we might have a slight hope of interoperable standards.
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I'm not sure how it's implemented in J2ME, but you could handle differences in hardware user interface by loading in classes that dynamically bind event handlers to the hardware. Its also possible that the J2ME provides a framework for this, analogous to Swing's Pluggable Look and Feel (PLAF).
As handhelds become more powerful and come equipped with more space, Java will become an increasingly attractive option. Part of the reason for this is that consumers really like interoperability. They like the fact that their friend can call them up and say, "Hey, you gotta try this cool new bread I found!" and they can go out and buy it and its 100% compatible with their toaster. Despite 1000s of kinds of breads and 1000s of brands of toaster, they all seem to work together fine. On a computing level, this requires a layer of abstraction. There may be some performance issues to sort out right now, but we are still in the beginning stages of handhelds.
(I know I'm nitpicking, but "Java applets" are subclasses of objects of the Applet class and only run on web browsers. They aren't the same as regular applications.)
Amazon.com is an example of this: I bought a pair of speakers from them a several months ago, and yet every time I go there, they helpfully inform me that they have these great new speakers on sale! Buy now! I suppose it works to recommend similar books and CDs, but when someone buys speakers, they usually stop being in the market for speakers after that.
Anyway, I don't know why no-one has thought of making an e-commerce-only search engine. I think there's a clear distinction between those two types of searching that warrants a separate engine. Sometimes you want to buy stuff, and sometimes you just want information. When you are doing one, the other just gets in the way, and disguising advertising as content like AOL/MSN/AltaVista do just discourages you from using their services. Obviously, web-based businesses have a long way to go before they actually realize, "Oh, Internet users don't like to be tricked! Maybe if we were straight-forward with consumers they'd be more trusting of us."
No no, you don't understand... We only want to hear good things about Apple. All this fair and impartial discussion of all things Apple is making me feel bad. :(
Lots of them! Pick any four, and mix and match on your page for maximum effect.
Seriously, Flash can be used for good effect. There's nothing wrong with making pages that are beautiful, but the best way to do that is to choose a decent color palette instead of layering your page in graphics.
Too much text is just as annoying as too many graphics. Is there any reason why you need a summary of the forums, two sets of incomplete listings of articles, a list of news headlines, a list of quick tips, and two sets of links provided by Internet.com. It seems like the people at PHPBuilder.com were so enamoured with their ability to pull data from a database that they chose to stuff the front page with as much of it as would fit. One of the primary goals of an index page is to provide the user with an idea of how to navigate your site and how it is organized. Too many graphics is bad, but too many links is worse, its confusing!
Clarity should be your first goal in presenting your message. Sometimes I come across SourceForge projects that don't bother to tell you what the project is about. Your webpage is presumably about talking to visitors, not talking to yourself.
Bad graphics are worse than no graphics at all. It looks unprofessional if you do a hack job at it. Better to stick with basic text elements and a few colors
Simple. I'm a human. When I go back to Africa, not worrying about dying due to a tsetse fly would be nice, as would not worrying about my family & friends who live there.
What exactly is so special about animal life that humans deserve to die for it? Please, explain exactly why this is true. And while we are at it, why is destroying the ecosystem and polluting the air, water and soil a bad idea. I would say its because doing that would jeopardize the future of the human race, of which, as you recall, I am a member. You would not say that because, of course, human life is not as important as animal life. You might say that we should do it for the animals. But that would lead to me to suppose that you are even now arranging your own death due to the massive harm you cause the non-human animals of the planet by simply existing. Perhaps you advocate the mass extinction of the human race?
These are absurdities, but they are the logical extension of the position that animal life is superior to human life.
I wouldn't mind. No-one would use it because it doesn't sound good. If we were talking E-B-C#m-A, then we'd be in real trouble.
What would happen if I transposed the chords? Does that fall under the patent? What if I used a variation, like E-B-C#m-Asus4? I guess the courts will decide...
I didn't say that. I'm explaining why I think Mac users are not respected, and what the perception of Mac users is. Call it culture clash, if you want - Unix fans with their arcane command lines and Apple fans with visual elegance, and suddenly the two meet...
Yes, Unix users have their faults, but I was talking about why Apple users to lack respect. Personally, I think OS X and Linux are both great in their own particular way.
True. Apple has gained noticeably more respect since the release of OS X, unfortunately, I can't say the same about the Apple enthusiasts. They have a long way to go. Here's why: For the most part, the nerd contingent refered to in "News for nerds" believes in function before form. This is an engineering principle. I am a graphic designer, but I respect and understand the importance of this principle. Many Apple users are of the "Oooh, shiny!" variety, and some even go so far as to deride command line interfaces and less-than-perfect GUIs. It is commonly believed that such people have no place in a serious discussion of technology.
"I want to believe!"
.NET. It hasn't been proven yet, and there will always be those programmers who will swallow anything Microsoft puts out, with dubious cries of "Oh well, they're the biggest." What ever happened to judging things on their technical merits?
You admit that you have been fucked over by Microsoft, yet you are "grateful" that you can continue to get fucked over. OK...
Further down thread:
[Java] is missing the biggest OS vendor pushing its OS and development tools to the platform
Why is it important to go with the biggest OS vendor? The right tool/platform for the job, that's what I say. Personally, I'm very skeptical about
(NT)
There's actually a lot of "prosumer" cards out there that support multi-channel recording that are made for the home musician. The one that most closely matches your needs is the Audiosport Quattro by M-Audio, but I think it has some issues, probably due to trying to push too much data down the USB pipe. A better bet is probably the Delta 44 by the same company - its not USB, but it has a breakout box, so you still have easy access to the jacks. I just picked up an Emagic Audiowerk2 for $80 at Guitar Center's blowout sale. On the downside, the DirectX drivers suck and it only does 2 channels at 16bit/44.1kHz, but the ASIO drivers are great! I can get 7ms latency in Cubase under all but the highest loads with my celeron366 - this means effects can be applied to the inputs in real time, and the VST instruments are actually usable. The only real disadvantage is that I still need my noisy SB Live for games, but for $80, this is card is a steal.
If hardware manufacturers actually support this protocol, it will be a huge boon to the home studio hobbyist. Imagine, a 32-in/32-out soundcard for the price of an ethernet card! My money is on Yamaha. They already have hardware that supports their standard, including a couple of digital mixers. If only Gibson and Yamaha would work together on this, we might have a slight hope of interoperable standards.