Yes, wait a year for some vapourware product that will be 10x better. You could do that for everything you buy. Hell, I'm waiting for a flying car or a jetpack, but I'll have a car while I wait.
Or get something now which does what you want. Something proven and with software. After all, what use is a computer without software?
The iPad wouldn't have been a success if Apple had used a different OS to the iPhone. Keeping it similar meant loads of apps and a relatively easy recompile and tweaks to make an existing app take advantage of the iPad's extra facilities.
These processors run real time software, there isn't likely to be a big bulky OS in there. The speed of the CPU doesn't really make much difference as it won't be multitasking. As long as it can respond in time then that's all that matters.
Often the biggest problem with the software in ECUs is all the varying laws in each country. So the software is often a compromise, this is why "chipping" your car can improve performance.
Oh I think he is very clever. He has as much wealth as Bill Gates and others. That's not by accident.
MySQL is pitched as their entry level database offering. There are many MySQL experts who won't want to spend time learning another database engine. MySQL is a brand, there are alternative forks of it, MariaDB. But they don't have the brand name which is familar.
Java is used in lots of large web applications. There has always been people who wanted more performance or some commercial help. They will now be able to pay for that extra performance.
Many of these big companies are tax dodgers anyway.
For example, Bill Gates probably wouldn't have needed to set up a charity if Microsoft had paid its taxes. There would have been lots of money to be spend on medical research and international aid.
Until someone reverse engineers it how do we know that it isn't just a few webcam chips connected via USB? Much of the clever stuff may actually be done in software? either on an embedded circuit (good) or on the XBox 360 (bad). I doubt Microsoft would release a hardware controller and not allow upgrades to fine tune it at a later date.
If indeed the unit is just outputting motion data then it will be useful, but it will be a bit pointless if all you get is a few mono images. You could knock something up with a few webcams now that does it.
Quantel Paintbox beats them both, it was first launched in 1981!
Quantel sued two companies, one of them being Adobe but didn't win the Adobe case, largely due to the existance of Superpaint, who's author testified in the case.
Maybe because all the Android tablets seem to be 7 inch screens and 10 inches is much more readable and typing is easier. Quite important when you're configuring routers.
When you download the application via the App Store I think the files become locked to your device using DRM. Such that you can't then send the file to someone else for them to run.
I like it, someone posts specs for a cheap tablet then says it needs X, Y and Z to be better. Erm, it wouldn't be cheap then would it?
There's already a 7 inch tablet that is high quality, it's made by Samsung and the iPad is actually a better buy as it has a bigger screen. The samsung's price is too close to the iPad.
Slow adoption can be due to many factors. Firstly the hardware that people are using with XP is good enough. It surfs the web in high res and full colour. So what will a new computer do better? if you're not running games or powerful applications like 3D rendering or video editing then you don't need a hardware upgrade.
Since most people don't upgrade their OS by buying Windows in a box they will move to Win7 when their hardware dies.
Also, buy a full featured Windows and you can hand over a lot of money. Nobody wants a crippled version which they may later regret buying.
WP7 about 2-3 years behind the competition. It's only saving grace is it's different and the OS upgrades are supplied by Microsoft.
Courier was concept art, just an idea. The fact it was seen to be cool and got killed just shows how badly run Microsoft are. They're almost as bad as car companies who draw up amazing looking concept cars only to have them made ugly by consulting the great unwashed on what they want.
Forget the imminent Microsoft tablets, they're just PCs in a small form factor running an OS with a small veneer of touch usability. Instant on? nope, fast bootup? nope, long standby time? nope. They've been around since 2001 and there's been as many sold as Apple has sold iPads (which were only released this year).
iPad works because all of the applications it runs have been designed for a touch screen OS. There is no windows or icons to drag, no start menu, no filemanager, no double tapping the screen, no reset button and best of all, no silly plastic stylus to lose.
If you want a touch screen computer, at least buy one that an OS designed for touch screen. Even the former head of the tablet project at Microsoft couldn't get people on side for the project, it's why there's no touch screen version of Office.
HP and Microsoft shares fell following their tablet announcement, which shows how (un)impressive it was:
MeeGo is the merger of Maemo and Moblin, so there's lots of man hours already been put into the platform. Personally I don't like the tab based approach to the UI. The icons are unclear and the tab selectors are small, not much use for people with fat fingers who are running it on a smartphone.
The problem is current Nokia handsets with Symbian are probably just stop-gap until this project gets somewhere. I wouldn't want to put my money into buying an applications from the Ovi store if I knew that the phone's OS could be dead by the time the next handset came out.
Plenty of diesel cars already do 60-70MPG. With the advantage of having no ignition system to go wrong and lots of torque, horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels.
Sure, some people don't like diesels due to the noise they make. They are typically quieter when cruising as the RPM is often about 1000RPM lower than a petrol engine.
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Yes, wait a year for some vapourware product that will be 10x better. You could do that for everything you buy. Hell, I'm waiting for a flying car or a jetpack, but I'll have a car while I wait.
Or get something now which does what you want. Something proven and with software. After all, what use is a computer without software?
The iPad wouldn't have been a success if Apple had used a different OS to the iPhone. Keeping it similar meant loads of apps and a relatively easy recompile and tweaks to make an existing app take advantage of the iPad's extra facilities.
Okay, different type of screen swivel but Fujitsu Siemens have had one for ages:
http://gizmodo.com/150000/fujitsu-siemens-lifebook-tablet
Ask them to stop using Word documents for instructions.
Ask them to use PDF or HTML.
Typical Microsoft engineering by the sounds of it.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature".
Yet another reason to avoid WP7. I'm sure WP8 will fix it.
These processors run real time software, there isn't likely to be a big bulky OS in there. The speed of the CPU doesn't really make much difference as it won't be multitasking. As long as it can respond in time then that's all that matters.
Often the biggest problem with the software in ECUs is all the varying laws in each country. So the software is often a compromise, this is why "chipping" your car can improve performance.
Oh I think he is very clever. He has as much wealth as Bill Gates and others. That's not by accident.
MySQL is pitched as their entry level database offering. There are many MySQL experts who won't want to spend time learning another database engine. MySQL is a brand, there are alternative forks of it, MariaDB. But they don't have the brand name which is familar.
Java is used in lots of large web applications. There has always been people who wanted more performance or some commercial help. They will now be able to pay for that extra performance.
Many of these big companies are tax dodgers anyway.
For example, Bill Gates probably wouldn't have needed to set up a charity if Microsoft had paid its taxes. There would have been lots of money to be spend on medical research and international aid.
http://microsofttaxdodge.com/tax-evasion/
Until someone reverse engineers it how do we know that it isn't just a few webcam chips connected via USB? Much of the clever stuff may actually be done in software? either on an embedded circuit (good) or on the XBox 360 (bad). I doubt Microsoft would release a hardware controller and not allow upgrades to fine tune it at a later date.
If indeed the unit is just outputting motion data then it will be useful, but it will be a bit pointless if all you get is a few mono images. You could knock something up with a few webcams now that does it.
EFI has been in Macs ever since they went Intel. Pretty common.
Of course, you don't get to play with it, but then why would you need to?
Well a life sentence isn't life long in many countries. You can walk in 15 years.
I somehow think this woman will be paying off his fine for the rest of her life. I wouldn't be surprised if her kids inherit it as well.
Quantel Paintbox beats them both, it was first launched in 1981!
Quantel sued two companies, one of them being Adobe but didn't win the Adobe case, largely due to the existance of Superpaint, who's author testified in the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpaint
Indeed. Plus Apple have never used it yet but Google have. So who are the bad guys?
Maybe because all the Android tablets seem to be 7 inch screens and 10 inches is much more readable and typing is easier. Quite important when you're configuring routers.
When you download the application via the App Store I think the files become locked to your device using DRM. Such that you can't then send the file to someone else for them to run.
Android applications are written in a Java style runtime. It's not native Linux code.
Android applications can call some native code, but it's a bit like JNI in Java.
One can expect the frame rate of the Android version will be lower than the iOS version for that reason, it's not 100% native code.
I like it, someone posts specs for a cheap tablet then says it needs X, Y and Z to be better. Erm, it wouldn't be cheap then would it?
There's already a 7 inch tablet that is high quality, it's made by Samsung and the iPad is actually a better buy as it has a bigger screen. The samsung's price is too close to the iPad.
Thing is there was ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and so it doesn't seems like anyone has learned from it.
What next?
Oracle suing people for writing a JDBC driver? after all, they're creating code with identical method names to their own drivers.
Since when have method names and packages been copyrightable?
Slow adoption can be due to many factors. Firstly the hardware that people are using with XP is good enough. It surfs the web in high res and full colour. So what will a new computer do better? if you're not running games or powerful applications like 3D rendering or video editing then you don't need a hardware upgrade.
Since most people don't upgrade their OS by buying Windows in a box they will move to Win7 when their hardware dies.
Also, buy a full featured Windows and you can hand over a lot of money. Nobody wants a crippled version which they may later regret buying.
But does it make any money? hardly anything compared to Office, Windows and SQL Server.
WP7 about 2-3 years behind the competition. It's only saving grace is it's different and the OS upgrades are supplied by Microsoft.
Courier was concept art, just an idea. The fact it was seen to be cool and got killed just shows how badly run Microsoft are. They're almost as bad as car companies who draw up amazing looking concept cars only to have them made ugly by consulting the great unwashed on what they want.
Forget the imminent Microsoft tablets, they're just PCs in a small form factor running an OS with a small veneer of touch usability. Instant on? nope, fast bootup? nope, long standby time? nope. They've been around since 2001 and there's been as many sold as Apple has sold iPads (which were only released this year).
iPad works because all of the applications it runs have been designed for a touch screen OS. There is no windows or icons to drag, no start menu, no filemanager, no double tapping the screen, no reset button and best of all, no silly plastic stylus to lose.
If you want a touch screen computer, at least buy one that an OS designed for touch screen. Even the former head of the tablet project at Microsoft couldn't get people on side for the project, it's why there's no touch screen version of Office.
HP and Microsoft shares fell following their tablet announcement, which shows how (un)impressive it was:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/186172/why_the_microsofthp_tablet_is_a_big_disappointment.html
There's only so many times you can rehash the same old rubbish.
MeeGo is the merger of Maemo and Moblin, so there's lots of man hours already been put into the platform. Personally I don't like the tab based approach to the UI. The icons are unclear and the tab selectors are small, not much use for people with fat fingers who are running it on a smartphone.
The problem is current Nokia handsets with Symbian are probably just stop-gap until this project gets somewhere. I wouldn't want to put my money into buying an applications from the Ovi store if I knew that the phone's OS could be dead by the time the next handset came out.
I think it's a case of Symbian being their code or feeling as if they have at least contributed a lot of it.
Jobs said they considered Linux for the iPhone but ultimately didn't want to use someone else's code.
Ballmer wouldn't use anything non-Windows.
Nokia want to use their own software.
Plenty of diesel cars already do 60-70MPG. With the advantage of having no ignition system to go wrong and lots of torque, horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels.
Sure, some people don't like diesels due to the noise they make. They are typically quieter when cruising as the RPM is often about 1000RPM lower than a petrol engine.
If they don't care about OSX then why do they release their database server for it?