yes upnp media but somewhat less flakey, the problem upnp has mostly is that the servers are somewhat flakey, and especially on the mac there is a lack of decent upnp clients.
Actually airplay streaming to the iOS device would be neat, since the ipad is a perfect streaming client. But it wont likely happen for whatever (Steve Jobs latest idiotic fad) reason. I am glad there are other solutions which do exactly that, but airplay is the typical half assed apple solution which is perfect 60% of the road and the rest of the 40% only will be added if they feel it with a sting in their wallet.
Actually Apple sells corporate licenses, which allows corporations to install their own software corporate wide. Ok costs a little bit but given the usual corporate software expenses it is neglectable. But I wont see the ipad going anywhere in the long run in corporations, rather Android will make it in the long run, if finally a decent tablet Android OS comes out.
Actually given the crap that it departements shove down the average business user it seems to me everything they are given they are happy with, because in many corporate environments the desktops are close to bei unusable due to the strong security enforcement and underconfigurations which make the machines snails instead of workhorses, they should be.
Problem here is less the price apple charges. The problem here is the components cost. The funny stuff is originally the slate price was more or less targetted around 1000 dollars this was a common consensous between the manufacturers. Then apple came with 500$ and really high quality parts. Face it the quality of the ipad is very high and now everyone has been working fevereshly to scale down, and what now is released is manufacturing junk, like the Folio 100 with cheap displays etc... Apple was quite a pricebreaker here, but as usual in Apples fashion I expect the pad to go up with the price seriously for every release until people stop buying, happened with everything apple so far.
I once had a Windows tablet. The problem really was, the form factor itself would have worked, but... It was a pain in the arse to use thanks to Windows, it was heavy, it had fans, in other words, it went from a useful want to have it idea straight to ebay... The only thing this thing was good at was crayon physics, not even reading was decent (which I bought it for) due to its 16:9 form factor. I was so glad Apple went to a letterbox/a4 like form factor for the ipad because it makes reading more decent. This is one thing all the Asian ipad wannabees dont get right, the form factor is always 16:9 or 16:10 might be good for movies but for 99% of the rest of the applications which are more book like it is absolutely dreadful especially since they do even opt for less vertical resolution.
I personally think the ipad is mostly a couch and toilet paper replacement. I own one, but 99% of the time it stays at home because for the quick mobile internet I have my mobile phone (have in mind prepaid data plans are cheap like mineral water where I live so getting a second plan here is a no brainer) But I personally still think that the iPad has hit the netbook market big time, after all basically all the stuff people do with a netbook (and that is mostly not doing any serious work) is done better with the iPad. I have yet to meet a person who has used his netbook seriously for work, most of them have used it as cheap web surf station or watched a movie.
The other pain was that they simply only mostly were convertible computers. Which means heavy, fans, battery uptimes in the notebook segment. One thing Apple definitely did right was to go entirely for a fanless ARM design with a shitload of battery uptime. Well Apple did 95% of the ipad right, which is quite amazing for a series one model. Problem with Apple always is, they usually do about 95% right and then it takes them almost a decade to fix the outstanding 5% while the others usually catch up and become better within a three years timeframe. Happened with the mac, which then was surpassed by the Amiga and Atari ST, happened with the iPhone which quickly was surpassed by Palm and Android and will happen to the iPad. (btw. I own an iPad myself, and love it)
For me the ipad has replaced the laptop for 80% of my casual stuff. It simply is more convenient to lie on the couch and do the internet stuff, or listen to music or watch a movie or read than with a notebook computer. For professional use, there still is the notebook computer and my desktop computer, but for private stuff, like gaming surfing etc.... it is ipad for almost 100%
Call me late to the game, I once bought Crazy Taxi in the gamecube version and could not find out why the game was so popular. It just was a drive from a to be as fast as possible without any variations. It might have been the time, I played it three years ago, but I still cannot understand the fuzz about it.
You cannot for now on Winmobile 7, Mozilla already stated they are not going to port fennec over due to the.Net restriction of Microsoft. I assume Opera on Winmobile 7 looks bleak as well. As for alternative browsers, there is an approved OperaMobile port for the iPhone. As for Android as open as Winmobile 6 was.
I will bother, because it is a fact that mobile ie in Windows mobile 7 is in the core an ie7 with some bugfixing backports from ie8, so slightly better than ie7 but worse than ie8 with probably a different error behavior in many issues between both versions. And I am not making this up, this is the official statement from Microsoft! Believe it or not but you can read that up in the blogs of Microsofts mobile division! Microsoft has done that in the past as well, mobile ie 6.5 was in fact an ie 5.5 engine with some ie6 backports, needless to say this browser was a desaster bugwise, different bugs than both ie 5.5 and ie6 with some carried over from ie6 and some from 5.5 and add to that a bunch of its own bugs.
No their server products make money, the database, their dev tools, heck even the xbox by now makes money. But I do not see Winmobile end of the line, it simply is a restart. Microsoft usually is very stubborn about pressing products into the market. If they followed the US business rules they would have given up Windows by version 2.0 and probably their dev tools by 1988.
Yes really hardly surprising, and I was hoping for it, not because I wish Microsoft evil, but after years of dreadful ies on the desktop at least in the emerging mobile sektor webkit and its html5 implementation has become more or less the current defacto standard, so people finally can settle for a decent webapp programming experience. And then wham 3 years late Microsoft comes with its newest version of the os and tries to shove IE7 down the web developers throats. I have yet to meet a single web developer who was excited about the browser in WinMobile 7. If Microsoft had gotten its way then we would have had ie6 all over again in the mobile sector, where a significant portion had a browser which had the latest standards in and stubborn Microsoft users wanted to see the latest whizbang features on their rotten browser without even thinking about installing an alternative. We have been there the last 10 years, and I really do not want history to repeat itself!
The problem with generics are not on vm level, it is more the problematic implementation on javas side. The JVM after all is just assembler with high level constructs for classes and data types to some degree, it can scale to any generic implementation you can think of.
Jepp the dreadful lisp syntax drove me away from clojure, how can anyone write a big system with such a mess of a syntax. There are functional languages which are actually readable, lispish languages are definitely not one of those.
Unless Sun/Oracle finally gets its act together and implements some language improvements, we will see another bunch of those languages. Properties have been requested for ages, closures have been discussed for how long. Dynamic reloading of classes for real hotswapping still is a pain in the arse. Java has done so many things right, but like many other sun technologies it falls short by 5% and then it takes ages to get it in out of the fear of breaking compatibility. I personally wonder if it would not be the time to introduce a java2.0 which tries to get rid of most problems by still maintaining the binary code compatibility. And even that can be covered by cross compilation. To me the Dalvik VM from a modern standpoint makes more sense on bytecode level than the registere based JVM.
It is rather questionable if JIT related patents can hold up in a courtcase, JIT compilation has been around since the 70s Smalltalk and Lisp have been using it for decades.
So if IE9 is so capable where is the webworkers where is the proper websocket support, where are the extended html forms input controls, where is webgl can you point me to the resources about Microsofts implementation.
Actually no it is not compatible, IE9 does some good stuff in the eye candy area but leaves out pretty much every other area which is vital for serious app development. Websockets Webworkers, Drag and Drop, Local storage, etc... literally any area which is not eye candy is left out by IE9 so much for compliance.
The tests only test a small subset of what is available from html5, mainly the canvas and a few other things. The more important stuff like the html5 forms stuff, the detached elements, specialized input controls, webworkers, worker threads etc... (you name it) are left out, the test is relatively favorable to ie9 because it tests only the subset of things ie9 supports, while all the others are way further in their implementations in the other areas, microsoft yet even has to deliver an implementation. It makes sense for the w3c to test the common ground, but other tests which test everything implemented for html5 give a totally different picture on the browser capabilities and there ie9 really lacks in almost every area except eye candy. This is especially bitter for web programmers because they cannot rely on vital stuff like websockets and again have to go for hack methods to get results html5 and literally any other browse can deliver out of the box.
Actually android does nothing which causes this problem it is the stupid manufacturers patching apis out and in. The Samsung Galaxy S is the prime example it omits literally every known linux filesystem and pushes its own custom samsung one add that that some symlinks are different compared to the rest of the world. Result, lags within the phone which go away as soon as you move to a community rom which uses ext3 instead and programs which run literally on any phone except Samsungs. But given my personal experience this is the exception not the rule, but I am not an android programmer so my personal user experience might be wrong here.
Well you have made a point, on iOS and on Android especially in the games section you have about a dozend decent games (depending on your taste) the rest is absolute distasteful shovelware. I guess this is because the revenue on shovelware on those platforms is still enough to cash in, thats what you get when you try to cover the casual games market. But at least you can find the gems, on the DS and Wii it is to some degree that bad that stores do not host anything anymore except for the shovelware kiddie stuff and you have to order online.
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Then do yourself a favor and move your media to a upnp server, airplay is an apple only upnp clone.
yes upnp media but somewhat less flakey, the problem upnp has mostly is that the servers are somewhat flakey, and especially on the mac there is a lack of decent upnp clients.
Actually airplay streaming to the iOS device would be neat, since the ipad is a perfect streaming client. But it wont likely happen for whatever (Steve Jobs latest idiotic fad) reason. I am glad there are other solutions which do exactly that, but airplay is the typical half assed apple solution which is perfect 60% of the road and the rest of the 40% only will be added if they feel it with a sting in their wallet.
Actually Apple sells corporate licenses, which allows corporations to install their own software corporate wide. Ok costs a little bit but given the usual corporate software expenses it is neglectable.
But I wont see the ipad going anywhere in the long run in corporations, rather Android will make it in the long run, if finally a decent tablet Android OS comes out.
Actually given the crap that it departements shove down the average business user it seems to me everything they are given they are happy with, because in many corporate environments the desktops are close to bei unusable due to the strong security enforcement and underconfigurations which make the machines snails instead of workhorses, they should be.
Problem here is less the price apple charges. The problem here is the components cost. The funny stuff is originally the slate price was more or less targetted around 1000 dollars this was a common consensous between the manufacturers. Then apple came with 500$ and really high quality parts. Face it the quality of the ipad is very high and now everyone has been working fevereshly to scale down, and what now is released is manufacturing junk, like the Folio 100 with cheap displays etc...
Apple was quite a pricebreaker here, but as usual in Apples fashion I expect the pad to go up with the price seriously for every release until people stop buying, happened with everything apple so far.
I once had a Windows tablet. The problem really was, the form factor itself would have worked, but...
It was a pain in the arse to use thanks to Windows, it was heavy, it had fans, in other words, it went from a useful want to have it idea straight to ebay... The only thing this thing was good at was crayon physics, not even reading was decent (which I bought it for) due to its 16:9 form factor. I was so glad Apple went to a letterbox/a4 like form factor for the ipad because it makes reading more decent. This is one thing all the Asian ipad wannabees dont get right, the form factor is always 16:9 or 16:10 might be good for movies but for 99% of the rest of the applications which are more book like it is absolutely dreadful especially since they do even opt for less vertical resolution.
I personally think the ipad is mostly a couch and toilet paper replacement. I own one, but 99% of the time it stays at home because for the quick mobile internet I have my mobile phone (have in mind prepaid data plans are cheap like mineral water where I live so getting a second plan here is a no brainer)
But I personally still think that the iPad has hit the netbook market big time, after all basically all the stuff people do with a netbook (and that is mostly not doing any serious work) is done better with the iPad. I have yet to meet a person who has used his netbook seriously for work, most of them have used it as cheap web surf station or watched a movie.
The other pain was that they simply only mostly were convertible computers. Which means heavy, fans, battery uptimes in the notebook segment. One thing Apple definitely did right was to go entirely for a fanless ARM design with a shitload of battery uptime. Well Apple did 95% of the ipad right, which is quite amazing for a series one model. Problem with Apple always is, they usually do about 95% right and then it takes them almost a decade to fix the outstanding 5% while the others usually catch up and become better within a three years timeframe.
Happened with the mac, which then was surpassed by the Amiga and Atari ST, happened with the iPhone which quickly was surpassed by Palm and Android and will happen to the iPad.
(btw. I own an iPad myself, and love it)
For me the ipad has replaced the laptop for 80% of my casual stuff. It simply is more convenient to lie on the couch and do the internet stuff, or listen to music or watch a movie or read than with a notebook computer. For professional use, there still is the notebook computer and my desktop computer, but for private stuff, like gaming surfing etc.... it is ipad for almost 100%
Call me late to the game, I once bought Crazy Taxi in the gamecube version and could not find out why the game was so popular. It just was a drive from a to be as fast as possible without any variations. It might have been the time, I played it three years ago, but I still cannot understand the fuzz about it.
You cannot for now on Winmobile 7, Mozilla already stated they are not going to port fennec over due to the .Net restriction of Microsoft. I assume Opera on Winmobile 7 looks bleak as well.
As for alternative browsers, there is an approved OperaMobile port for the iPhone.
As for Android as open as Winmobile 6 was.
I will bother, because it is a fact that mobile ie in Windows mobile 7 is in the core an ie7 with some bugfixing backports from ie8, so slightly better than ie7 but worse than ie8 with probably a different error behavior in many issues between both versions. And I am not making this up, this is the official statement from Microsoft!
Believe it or not but you can read that up in the blogs of Microsofts mobile division!
Microsoft has done that in the past as well, mobile ie 6.5 was in fact an ie 5.5 engine with some ie6 backports, needless to say this browser was a desaster bugwise, different bugs than both ie 5.5 and ie6 with some carried over from ie6 and some from 5.5 and add to that a bunch of its own bugs.
No their server products make money, the database, their dev tools, heck even the xbox by now makes money. But I do not see Winmobile end of the line, it simply is a restart. Microsoft usually is very stubborn about pressing products into the market. If they followed the US business rules they would have given up Windows by version 2.0 and probably their dev tools by 1988.
Yes really hardly surprising, and I was hoping for it, not because I wish Microsoft evil, but after years of dreadful ies on the desktop at least in the emerging mobile sektor webkit and its html5 implementation has become more or less the current defacto standard, so people finally can settle for a decent webapp programming experience. And then wham 3 years late Microsoft comes with its newest version of the os and tries to shove IE7 down the web developers throats. I have yet to meet a single web developer who was excited about the browser in WinMobile 7.
If Microsoft had gotten its way then we would have had ie6 all over again in the mobile sector, where a significant portion had a browser which had the latest standards in and stubborn Microsoft users wanted to see the latest whizbang features on their rotten browser without even thinking about installing an alternative. We have been there the last 10 years, and I really do not want history to repeat itself!
The problem with generics are not on vm level, it is more the problematic implementation on javas side. The JVM after all is just assembler with high level constructs for classes and data types to some degree, it can scale to any generic implementation you can think of.
Jepp the dreadful lisp syntax drove me away from clojure, how can anyone write a big system with such a mess of a syntax. There are functional languages which are actually readable, lispish languages are definitely not one of those.
Unless Sun/Oracle finally gets its act together and implements some language improvements, we will see another bunch of those languages. Properties have been requested for ages, closures have been discussed for how long. Dynamic reloading of classes for real hotswapping still is a pain in the arse. Java has done so many things right, but like many other sun technologies it falls short by 5% and then it takes ages to get it in out of the fear of breaking compatibility. I personally wonder if it would not be the time to introduce a java2.0 which tries to get rid of most problems by still maintaining the binary code compatibility. And even that can be covered by cross compilation. To me the Dalvik VM from a modern standpoint makes more sense on bytecode level than the registere based JVM.
It is rather questionable if JIT related patents can hold up in a courtcase, JIT compilation has been around since the 70s Smalltalk and Lisp have been using it for decades.
So if IE9 is so capable where is the webworkers where is the proper websocket support, where are the extended html forms input controls, where is webgl can you point me to the resources about Microsofts implementation.
The abomination is Mozilla, remember who started the Mozilla project and why...
Actually no it is not compatible, IE9 does some good stuff in the eye candy area but leaves out pretty much every other area which is vital for serious app development. Websockets Webworkers, Drag and Drop, Local storage, etc... literally any area which is not eye candy is left out by IE9 so much for compliance.
The tests only test a small subset of what is available from html5, mainly the canvas and a few other things.
The more important stuff like the html5 forms stuff, the detached elements, specialized input controls, webworkers, worker threads etc... (you name it) are left out, the test is relatively favorable to ie9 because it tests only the subset of things ie9 supports, while all the others are way further in their implementations in the other areas, microsoft yet even has to deliver an implementation.
It makes sense for the w3c to test the common ground, but other tests which test everything implemented for html5 give a totally different picture on the browser capabilities and there ie9 really lacks in almost every area except eye candy. This is especially bitter for web programmers because they cannot rely on vital stuff like websockets and again have to go for hack methods to get results html5 and literally any other browse can deliver out of the box.
Actually android does nothing which causes this problem it is the stupid manufacturers patching apis out and in. The Samsung Galaxy S is the prime example it omits literally every known linux filesystem and pushes its own custom samsung one add that that some symlinks are different compared to the rest of the world. Result, lags within the phone which go away as soon as you move to a community rom which uses ext3 instead and programs which run literally on any phone except Samsungs.
But given my personal experience this is the exception not the rule, but I am not an android programmer so my personal user experience might be wrong here.
Well you have made a point, on iOS and on Android especially in the games section you have about a dozend decent games (depending on your taste) the rest is absolute distasteful shovelware.
I guess this is because the revenue on shovelware on those platforms is still enough to cash in, thats what you get when you try to cover the casual games market.
But at least you can find the gems, on the DS and Wii it is to some degree that bad that stores do not host anything anymore except for the shovelware kiddie stuff and you have to order online.