No he wasnt read up about the incident where he sacked in the Bonus he was supposed to share with Woz for Wozs excellent work on improving the Atari arcade machines. He sacked it in and gave Woz only the contractual share while Woz having done all the grunt work. He never was a nice guy.
The in order design is less problematic regarding power consumption, they clearly wanted to go the ARM route (funny thing is that the latest ARMs went the out of order route). But beating ARM at their own game is close to impossible with the crappy intel instruction set. So they ended up with an ARM wannabee and using their marketforce to push it into the PC market with miserable results. Btw. you can run blu ray on ATOMs even with 10% processor usage, you just have to bundle it with an NVidia ION1 chipset and have the proper drivers, so go figure where you really should spend your money instead of throwing it into Intels throat.
Hehe I do most of my work with java nowadays and the funny thing is, machines have been fast enough for me the last 8 years, things which really drive my need for faster hardware is not the java IDEs and app servers, but things again like video encoding and games, but those tasks can be offloaded with better results to the GPU, so I rather update my GPU than to ugrade my computer nowadays.
Actually the best mobile chip out there probably is currently the NVidia Tegra2 chipset... Anything Intel has to offer in that area is miserable at best.
True the bottleneck in atomcs nowadays is the graphics and intel tries everything to lock nividia out... The funny thing is an old ION (Aka Atom + NVidia ION Northbridge) combination probably performs better than anything Intel will have to offer in the Atom arena for the upcoming years. NVidia has been delegated to PCI-E connectivity with the current ION2 generation and it shows unfortunately, and what Intel with their integrated garbage offers, well everyone knows how miserable Intels approachs to graphics are.
I assume steve knows more since Apple is part of the Mpeg consortium, I assume the mpeg consortium will shut out the only competitor they have. Their plan is to get everyone up to use h264 and in one point in time they will start to cash in heavily (see also the limited time for using it for free) Theora and Vp8 is the only real competitor they have. And with they it is the usual gang of heavyweight companies.
Well he used to act like one in public, that has gone, I still wonder if his illness had to do with it. Btw. he reminds me more and more like on the Godfather...
s/anti establishment/shoestring budget and you are correct:-) ARM nowadays is a big company but originally it was a sidedevelopment for the next BBC machine.
They can be excellent as fileservers/cloud stuff, given their performance per watt ratio, dont expect that a computing intensive task is run on them (they are barely 2-3x as fast as an atom in their recent incarnations, but at a fraction of the power an atom uses) but they are an excellent choice for io intensive cloud like tasks where you need a load of machines and have a vfs sitting on top of it.
I assume so, since there was nothing more to be seen of courier than a few concept animations (people always fall into the trap to think there is a product if they see pictures or animations), I assume the entire team has been moved over to WinMobile 7 where Microsoft currently has really pressure to deliver or otherwise being dead in a market they once dominated to some degree.
Actually no, almost no Microsoft Product was ahead of their competition only the XBOX 360 for one year and that one backfired big time (they released it despite knowing that it was broken, you can read that all up) Windows 95 was a blank copy of OSX, Windows 3.1 was way worse than OSX and the UI basically the same code as OSX 1.x had (they had the code rights so they could carry it over) Dos was worse than CPM etc... The main difference back then was, that they had the press behind themsleves, and most people did not know there were alternatives.
XBOX 360 well that was pure luck that they could pull another time a stunt of shoving an unfinished product onto the end users without being grilled for it.
Of course, an $80 NVidia card now doesn't beat the pants off the PS3 I've had for years for less than the cost of that card then.
That NVidia card also isn't a network A/V playback system with a firmware upgradeable Blu-ray player.
Those of us who bought original PS3s got plenty for our investment, OtherOS or not. Those who buy new PS3s will get plenty for their investment as well, OtherOS or not.
Neither compares to a simple graphics card.
The network AV system comes with your operating system (windows 7 that is), the cost now is PS3 300$, upgrading your old PC 80$, graphics about 5-6times as fast as on the aging PS3. UPnP comes with Windows for free (or for the cost of a UPnP Servcer software) Games 20% less usually also hitting the bargain bin earlier.
You might as well just replace your aging graphics card, way cheaper and the speed boost you will get is way better... Heck even an 80$ NVidia card beats the pants out of any PS3 nowadays.
The biggest problem is the entire dom aspect, of doing things, the dom needs subtree isolation, there have been various approaches like xul which tackled that problem, but not a single one became standard. Add to that that the dom is used nowadays as UI definitionc construct and your are in a hell of a mess.
Apple is screwing others over... nothing to see here move along.
Is it just me or has Apples attitude have gone down the gutters since Steve Jobs has returned from his sick leave. It is not like they did not pull evil stunts before, but it has become way worse.
Still no offical firmware yet, guess what in May 2.2 will be released. Also the HTC Hero had a bunch of leaked firmwares, but in between HTC decided to roll a relatively unchanged Hero Android 2.1 successor and then the official 2.1 rom again was updated. The leaked firmwares usually lack quality, mostly they are alpha quality and without sources the community only can go a certain way to stabilize them. Ok I revert my conclusion to Acer, their support track record still is open for judgement, but given that 2.1 is not there, it does look the same as HTCs... even worse since, Acers modifications to stock android are relatively mild.
As I said again problem with all those hacked roms is they are buggy, the only ones working almost bugfree are the ones based on 1.5 (with the Modaco rom being the best of the bunch), every 2.1 rom so far had serious flaws, the reason for this is, they had to rely in leaks and other phones and mostly could not revert to sources for their hacking approaches. While I applaud the quality of what they are doing, an official relatively bugfree rom, with a released kernel (like it happened in 1.5) goes a great way to get custom roms out.
Actually, the truth is somewhere between your assumptions and N1. Android itself is hosted and designed by a foundation of manufacturers (the open handset alliance) and every manufacturer who wants to brand his phone as android (fill version number here) has to proved the baseline of libraries the version itself has declared. So no phone manufacturer can bring out a cheap stripped down version of a baseline os like it happened with WinCE and Symbian in the past. However this obligation does not expand into the territory of having to provide timely updates to the OS baseline within a certain period of time, and that is the biggest problems Android nowadays faces, because the manufacturers try to get away in the good old WinCE style by shoving out one new model per month and stopping support at the next model release. So if you buy a non Google phone you have a high chance of never getting your baseline updated or getting it updated to another old OS baseline version with a serious delay.
Actually I am using the Hero (on a hacked 2.1) here, and I am getting 48 hrs with moderate usage. There are several factors: a) Remove Task Killer if you installed it, that thing is a pointless battery drain b) Use HTCs switching widgets so you can turn off selectively WIFI, UTMS etc... depending on your usage (they are really switches you can put on your homescreen, so no harm done there) c) Give the phone at least a week to fine tune its battery d) Turn of auto sync and use the sync button manually saves again a lot of battery.
For me the biggest battery drain is the UTMS chipset, and polling apps. Polling apps are only a handful, various Skype enabled multiplatform im clients for instance are evil and Task killer, outside of that most apps behave as they should. The dolphin browser for some strange kind of reason also was a battery killer for me, I have reverted back to the really good default browser.
Also have in mind battery usage is a thing of your personal usage, if you use it as a surfing station constantly having to go to the power connector after several hours is normal, if you use it occasionally it should last you at least 24hrs.
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wont help... the applications still need intel
and steve sacked the bonus in which was for woz for his work, at least half of it...
in other terms I would call that thievery.
No he wasnt read up about the incident where he sacked in the Bonus he was supposed to share with Woz for Wozs excellent work on improving the Atari arcade machines.
He sacked it in and gave Woz only the contractual share while Woz having done all the grunt work.
He never was a nice guy.
The in order design is less problematic regarding power consumption, they clearly wanted to go the ARM route (funny thing is that the latest ARMs went the out of order route). But beating ARM at their own game is close to impossible with the crappy intel instruction set.
So they ended up with an ARM wannabee and using their marketforce to push it into the PC market with miserable results.
Btw. you can run blu ray on ATOMs even with 10% processor usage, you just have to bundle it with an NVidia ION1 chipset and have the proper drivers, so go figure where you really should spend your money instead of throwing it into Intels throat.
Hehe I do most of my work with java nowadays and the funny thing is, machines have been fast enough for me the last 8 years, things which really drive my need for faster hardware is not the java IDEs and app servers, but things again like video encoding and games, but those tasks can be offloaded with better results to the GPU, so I rather update my GPU than to ugrade my computer nowadays.
Ask the people who were whining for Windows on their netbooks, only to realize that having windows on that thing does not work out.
Actually the best mobile chip out there probably is currently the NVidia Tegra2 chipset...
Anything Intel has to offer in that area is miserable at best.
True the bottleneck in atomcs nowadays is the graphics and intel tries everything to lock nividia out...
The funny thing is an old ION (Aka Atom + NVidia ION Northbridge) combination probably performs better than anything Intel will have to offer in the Atom arena for the upcoming years. NVidia has been delegated to PCI-E connectivity with the current ION2 generation and it shows unfortunately, and what Intel with their integrated garbage offers, well everyone knows how miserable Intels approachs to graphics are.
I assume steve knows more since Apple is part of the Mpeg consortium, I assume the mpeg consortium will shut out the only competitor they have.
Their plan is to get everyone up to use h264 and in one point in time they will start to cash in heavily (see also the limited time for using it for free)
Theora and Vp8 is the only real competitor they have.
And with they it is the usual gang of heavyweight companies.
Well he used to act like one in public, that has gone, I still wonder if his illness had to do with it. ...
Btw. he reminds me more and more like on the Godfather
s/anti establishment/shoestring budget and you are correct :-)
ARM nowadays is a big company but originally it was a sidedevelopment for the next BBC machine.
They can be excellent as fileservers/cloud stuff, given their performance per watt ratio, dont expect that a computing intensive task is run on them (they are barely 2-3x as fast as an atom in their recent incarnations, but at a fraction of the power an atom uses)
but they are an excellent choice for io intensive cloud like tasks where you need a load of machines and have a vfs sitting on top of it.
I assume so, since there was nothing more to be seen of courier than a few concept animations (people always fall into the trap to think there is a product if they see pictures or animations), I assume the entire team has been moved over to WinMobile 7 where Microsoft currently has really pressure to deliver or otherwise being dead in a market they once dominated to some degree.
Actually no, almost no Microsoft Product was ahead of their competition only the XBOX 360 for one year and that one backfired big time (they released it despite knowing that it was broken, you can read that all up)
Windows 95 was a blank copy of OSX, Windows 3.1 was way worse than OSX and the UI basically the same code as OSX 1.x had (they had the code rights so they could carry it over)
Dos was worse than CPM etc...
The main difference back then was, that they had the press behind themsleves, and most people did not know there were alternatives.
XBOX 360 well that was pure luck that they could pull another time a stunt of shoving an unfinished product onto the end users without being grilled for it.
Of course, an $80 NVidia card now doesn't beat the pants off the PS3 I've had for years for less than the cost of that card then.
That NVidia card also isn't a network A/V playback system with a firmware upgradeable Blu-ray player.
Those of us who bought original PS3s got plenty for our investment, OtherOS or not.
Those who buy new PS3s will get plenty for their investment as well, OtherOS or not.
Neither compares to a simple graphics card.
The network AV system comes with your operating system (windows 7 that is), the cost now is
PS3 300$, upgrading your old PC 80$, graphics about 5-6times as fast as on the aging PS3.
UPnP comes with Windows for free (or for the cost of a UPnP Servcer software)
Games 20% less usually also hitting the bargain bin earlier.
You might as well just replace your aging graphics card, way cheaper and the speed boost you will get is way better...
Heck even an 80$ NVidia card beats the pants out of any PS3 nowadays.
Actually the dev tools have become quite good, I especially like what Netbeans and Intellij have to offer in this area.
For the rest I agree mostly.
The biggest problem is the entire dom aspect, of doing things, the dom needs subtree isolation,
there have been various approaches like xul which tackled that problem, but not a single one became standard.
Add to that that the dom is used nowadays as UI definitionc construct and your are in a hell of a mess.
Apple is screwing others over... nothing to see here move along.
Is it just me or has Apples attitude have gone down the gutters since Steve Jobs has returned from his sick leave.
It is not like they did not pull evil stunts before, but it has become way worse.
Ballmer is the classical business guy he knows numbers but does absolutely have no sense of where the technology is heading.
Yes, earths problem is more that it needs 800x480p to run, so it wont run on 2.x phones with less resolution, like the Legend (aka Hero with 2.1).
Still no offical firmware yet, guess what in May 2.2 will be released. Also the HTC Hero had a bunch of leaked firmwares, but in between HTC decided to roll a relatively unchanged Hero Android 2.1 successor and then the official 2.1 rom again was updated.
The leaked firmwares usually lack quality, mostly they are alpha quality and without sources the community only can go a certain way to stabilize them.
Ok I revert my conclusion to Acer, their support track record still is open for judgement, but given that 2.1 is not there, it does look the same as HTCs... even worse since, Acers modifications to stock android are relatively mild.
As I said again problem with all those hacked roms is they are buggy, the only ones working almost bugfree are the ones based on 1.5 (with the Modaco rom being the best of the bunch), every 2.1 rom so far had serious flaws, the reason for this is, they had to rely in leaks and other phones and mostly could not revert to sources for their hacking approaches.
While I applaud the quality of what they are doing, an official relatively bugfree rom, with a released kernel (like it happened in 1.5) goes a great way to get custom roms out.
Actually, the truth is somewhere between your assumptions and N1. Android itself is hosted and designed by a foundation of manufacturers (the open handset alliance) and every manufacturer who wants to brand his phone as android (fill version number here) has to proved the baseline of libraries the version itself has declared. So no phone manufacturer can bring out a cheap stripped down version of a baseline os like it happened with WinCE and Symbian in the past. However this obligation does not expand into the territory of having to provide timely updates to the OS baseline within a certain period of time, and that is the biggest problems Android nowadays faces, because the manufacturers try to get away in the good old WinCE style by shoving out one new model per month and stopping support at the next model release.
So if you buy a non Google phone you have a high chance of never getting your baseline updated or getting it updated to another old OS baseline version with a serious delay.
Actually I am using the Hero (on a hacked 2.1) here, and I am getting 48 hrs with moderate usage. There are several factors:
a) Remove Task Killer if you installed it, that thing is a pointless battery drain
b) Use HTCs switching widgets so you can turn off selectively WIFI, UTMS etc... depending on your usage (they are really switches you can put on your homescreen, so no harm done there)
c) Give the phone at least a week to fine tune its battery
d) Turn of auto sync and use the sync button manually saves again a lot of battery.
For me the biggest battery drain is the UTMS chipset, and polling apps. Polling apps are only a handful, various Skype enabled multiplatform im clients for instance are evil and Task killer, outside of that most apps behave as they should.
The dolphin browser for some strange kind of reason also was a battery killer for me, I have reverted back to the really good default browser.
Also have in mind battery usage is a thing of your personal usage, if you use it as a surfing station constantly having to go to the power connector after several hours is normal, if you use it occasionally it should last you at least 24hrs.