It's not just companies. Even FOSS projects are doing it. I ran GIMP 2.8 for a whole 20 minutes before I uninstalled and put 2.6 back.
It's like there's some sort of computer programmer virus that makes you make idiotic un-usability decisions going around (pretty sure Ubuntu was patient zero)
Technically, you don't have to die, just remove yourself from the gene pool. If you've got no kids and, through some act of stupidity, manage to reduce your gonads to the texture and consistency of lumpy oatmeal, you're still eligible.
Of course, at that point, I'd probably rather be dead, myself.
Honestly, the livescribe pen looks like a very poor, very expensive version of the paper+scanner combo I replaced with the Stylistic in the first place. Particularly the part where it apparently needs special paper. Definitely a non-starter.
Maybe I'll look at the Bluetiger thing if the playbook version ever manifests (not buying an iPad), but from the photo at the bottom, it looks like it's got the same sort of soft, spongy fat-tip as the other capacitive styluses I've used. Definitely no good for drawing.
I guess I'll keep trying to keep this heavy ass tablet PC alive and grumbling.
Maybe they didn't change away from it, since that would involve trashing already invested time and money, but there's certainly a non-zero number of developers who went another direction at the start of a new project because of it.
No one is going to make a screen good enough for art that small and cheap. I don't know of anything.
"Cheap" is honestly optional at this point. The big problem with the 10 inchers is that they're two damned heavy to hold in my left hand. But I was hoping someone might know of something, even if the screen wasn't "good enough." I'm hardly a pro, so I don't need a cintiq or something. If Leapfrog made one for little kids or something, that would be enough.
If not then only 1/2 joking and say something like a 7-9" sketch notebook with tear out pages and a good scanner attached to your home machine.
That's my current setup. Like I said, though, I suck at drawing so by the time it reaches the scanner, it's already a mess of smudges and erasures that there's no point to scanning it. At least with Sketchbook Pro I can cheat with Layers and the like.
Maybe one of those knock-off no-name Android tablets with the resistive screens would cut it, if I can find a drawing app...
Java's apparent decline seems to be because of the financial slump. Where the number of new enterprise projects using Java has reduced. Most of this work was deferred and is starting to pick up again (at least as far as I can see)
I'm sure Oracle's mongolian horde of lawyers factors in there somewhere, too.
* Resistive touchscreen w/stylus, or Wacom digitizer (which is the only thing that the slate meets) * 7-9" screen * Low-power CPU. * No need for a general purpose OS. Just an art program (a la Sketchbook) with Save/Load options. * Optional SD slot or USB transfer connectivity
Literally, just a digital sketchbook. No email, no app stores, no book readers. Just a purpose-built portable digital art tablet.
IIRC, that's the current Roman Catholic position. Or, at least, it was a few years ago when I was talking to a then-deacon, now-ordained friend of mine.
My thinking that a purpose-built device might not be as bloody expensive. If there was a 7" or 9" device with a resistive touchscreen (thanks to parents' sibling post for clarifying the difference for me) and a drawing interface, I wouldn't need to spend a $8-1200 for a windows tablet with a full OS and Sketchbook Pro, when I don't want to use it for anything else.
Why do you have a fetish for a "swappable" battery? I have an iPhone, and a mophie powerstation [mophie.com] which provides me about 2.6x the charge of a standard internal iPhone battery, and can also power any other device I own which uses a USB charger - instead of multiple swappable battery packs, I have a single external battery pack that can power multiple devices, and frankly, I prefer this to multiple batteries knocking around in my bag, with special charger adapters for each one, and having to keep track of which is charged and which isn't.
That's likely because you're the typical Apple customer, who replaces your devices at least every other iteration, regardless of whether the old one still works. Anyone who wants to keep what's already going would want a swappable battery for when the installed battery inevitably reaches the end of its usable lifespan.
OT: Since you mention it, are there any standalone digital gadgets that do this? I've been trying to find something like that for yonks, since my ancient Fujitsu windows tablet is starting to show its age.
Anything on iOS or Android is out, since I want something with a real stylus, which has something to do with the type of touchscreen, I think.
Somehow, being called ignorant by someone who actually uttered the phrase "logical proof of a creator is relatively easy" doesn't seem to sting the ego very sharply.
Logical proof of a creator is relatively easy, of course you have to look through the cloud of bullshit that has been thrown in your face over the last 20-30 years. The Philosophical arguments for a creator are just as valid now as when originally proposed. Arguments such as "The Uncaused Cause (Aristotle)" are well thought out, and Science has done nothing to solve that question. Of course most atheists will say "no-uh uh" and end the debate.
Why did you change the subject halfway through. You said "logical proof" was easy, and then started wanking on about "philosophical arguments." Arguments are not proof, and philosophy is not logic.
Which is more prestigious? A title that hundreds of people have, maybe even thousands, in a several county area, or a title that only one person in that area has (and only 435 in the entire country)? A title that comes about because a panel of five to seven people say you've accomplished the prerequisites (for Ph.D doctors, the committee), or one that takes the votes of tens of thousands of people to achieve?
Given what those who hold the title of "Representative" have done to the title, I'm pretty sure a great many of us would agree that rarity =/= prestige, and go with "Doctor"
I know it's an old phone. I just had such a horrible experience with it that I moved to HTC phones after it.:) My problem wasn't with it's age or power. It was with things like random shutdowns, hard locks, the infamous radio issue, etc...
If you live in Florida, then paste it up, shiny-side-out, on your windows. Looks weird, but saved me a few degrees on my (south-facing) computer room window.
If that's all it was, it would be mildly inconvenient. Since I have to mess with boot parameters to even make the system not hang during boot with the Nouveau garbage, all because Canonical listened to the Free Software whiners and defaulted to not-ready-for-prime-time instead of the shit that actually works
The FOSSie bitching is ideological. My complaint is practical. Canonical chose the wrong one to base design decisions on.
hey built a following by pimping the philosophy of freedom, only to abandon these ideals once the foundation was set. They have enouraged people to accept non-free video and wireless drivers
Really now? So it wasn't defaulting to the piece of shit Nouveau driver instead of the Nvidia blobs for the past few releases, making me have to jump through hoops before I decided to just use Xubuntu in Virtualbox on Windows instead of fucking with it anymore.
There's a lot of legitimate shit you can call Canonical on. Let's focus on the real ones instead of on the "free as in what we say it is" frothing.
Not remotely sure. Anyone who claims to be "sure" about anything our glorious leadership does is delusional.:P I know that I still can't get insurance because of a neurological PEC even if I wasn't overweight.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not just companies. Even FOSS projects are doing it.
I ran GIMP 2.8 for a whole 20 minutes before I uninstalled and put 2.6 back.
It's like there's some sort of computer programmer virus that makes you make idiotic un-usability decisions going around (pretty sure Ubuntu was patient zero)
Of course, it's never been shown that "innovating" a successful product has ever been one of those things.
Technically, you don't have to die, just remove yourself from the gene pool. If you've got no kids and, through some act of stupidity, manage to reduce your gonads to the texture and consistency of lumpy oatmeal, you're still eligible.
Of course, at that point, I'd probably rather be dead, myself.
Honestly, the livescribe pen looks like a very poor, very expensive version of the paper+scanner combo I replaced with the Stylistic in the first place. Particularly the part where it apparently needs special paper. Definitely a non-starter.
Maybe I'll look at the Bluetiger thing if the playbook version ever manifests (not buying an iPad), but from the photo at the bottom, it looks like it's got the same sort of soft, spongy fat-tip as the other capacitive styluses I've used. Definitely no good for drawing.
I guess I'll keep trying to keep this heavy ass tablet PC alive and grumbling.
Maybe they didn't change away from it, since that would involve trashing already invested time and money, but there's certainly a non-zero number of developers who went another direction at the start of a new project because of it.
No one is going to make a screen good enough for art that small and cheap. I don't know of anything.
"Cheap" is honestly optional at this point. The big problem with the 10 inchers is that they're two damned heavy to hold in my left hand. But I was hoping someone might know of something, even if the screen wasn't "good enough." I'm hardly a pro, so I don't need a cintiq or something. If Leapfrog made one for little kids or something, that would be enough.
If not then only 1/2 joking and say something like a 7-9" sketch notebook with tear out pages and a good scanner attached to your home machine.
That's my current setup. Like I said, though, I suck at drawing so by the time it reaches the scanner, it's already a mess of smudges and erasures that there's no point to scanning it. At least with Sketchbook Pro I can cheat with Layers and the like.
Maybe one of those knock-off no-name Android tablets with the resistive screens would cut it, if I can find a drawing app...
Perl: Slashdot/Slashcode.
Not sure if that's praise or damnation.
Java's apparent decline seems to be because of the financial slump. Where the number of new enterprise projects using Java has reduced. Most of this work was deferred and is starting to pick up again (at least as far as I can see)
I'm sure Oracle's mongolian horde of lawyers factors in there somewhere, too.
No, I mean something exactly opposite of that.
* Resistive touchscreen w/stylus, or Wacom digitizer (which is the only thing that the slate meets)
* 7-9" screen
* Low-power CPU.
* No need for a general purpose OS. Just an art program (a la Sketchbook) with Save/Load options.
* Optional SD slot or USB transfer connectivity
Literally, just a digital sketchbook. No email, no app stores, no book readers. Just a purpose-built portable digital art tablet.
IIRC, that's the current Roman Catholic position. Or, at least, it was a few years ago when I was talking to a then-deacon, now-ordained friend of mine.
The biggest benefit of going to hell: Assholes like you will apparently all be in heaven.
Plus, the music is way better.
My thinking that a purpose-built device might not be as bloody expensive. If there was a 7" or 9" device with a resistive touchscreen (thanks to parents' sibling post for clarifying the difference for me) and a drawing interface, I wouldn't need to spend a $8-1200 for a windows tablet with a full OS and Sketchbook Pro, when I don't want to use it for anything else.
Why do you have a fetish for a "swappable" battery? I have an iPhone, and a mophie powerstation [mophie.com] which provides me about 2.6x the charge of a standard internal iPhone battery, and can also power any other device I own which uses a USB charger - instead of multiple swappable battery packs, I have a single external battery pack that can power multiple devices, and frankly, I prefer this to multiple batteries knocking around in my bag, with special charger adapters for each one, and having to keep track of which is charged and which isn't.
That's likely because you're the typical Apple customer, who replaces your devices at least every other iteration, regardless of whether the old one still works. Anyone who wants to keep what's already going would want a swappable battery for when the installed battery inevitably reaches the end of its usable lifespan.
notepad/sketchbook
OT: Since you mention it, are there any standalone digital gadgets that do this? I've been trying to find something like that for yonks, since my ancient Fujitsu windows tablet is starting to show its age.
Anything on iOS or Android is out, since I want something with a real stylus, which has something to do with the type of touchscreen, I think.
Somehow, being called ignorant by someone who actually uttered the phrase "logical proof of a creator is relatively easy" doesn't seem to sting the ego very sharply.
Funny, that.
Logical proof of a creator is relatively easy, of course you have to look through the cloud of bullshit that has been thrown in your face over the last 20-30 years. The Philosophical arguments for a creator are just as valid now as when originally proposed. Arguments such as "The Uncaused Cause (Aristotle)" are well thought out, and Science has done nothing to solve that question. Of course most atheists will say "no-uh uh" and end the debate.
Why did you change the subject halfway through. You said "logical proof" was easy, and then started wanking on about "philosophical arguments." Arguments are not proof, and philosophy is not logic.
If the delegates at the RNC learn about Ron Paul's message, they can choose to vote their conscience and nominate him.
If they're at the RNC, it's safe to assume that there's not a conscience to be found anywhere in the building! Ba-dum-tsch!
OTOH, what are the odds that someone at the RNC will have both a conscience AND miss their Thorazine dose on voting day?
Which is more prestigious? A title that hundreds of people have, maybe even thousands, in a several county area, or a title that only one person in that area has (and only 435 in the entire country)? A title that comes about because a panel of five to seven people say you've accomplished the prerequisites (for Ph.D doctors, the committee), or one that takes the votes of tens of thousands of people to achieve?
Given what those who hold the title of "Representative" have done to the title, I'm pretty sure a great many of us would agree that rarity =/= prestige, and go with "Doctor"
PDroid does most of that spoofing (though contact lists seem to just be spoofed as empty, not randomized)
I know it's an old phone. I just had such a horrible experience with it that I moved to HTC phones after it. :) My problem wasn't with it's age or power. It was with things like random shutdowns, hard locks, the infamous radio issue, etc...
Has Samsung pulled their head out of their ass yet? The last Samsung phone I had (M900 - Moment) was a total piece of shit.
If you live in Florida, then paste it up, shiny-side-out, on your windows. Looks weird, but saved me a few degrees on my (south-facing) computer room window.
If that's all it was, it would be mildly inconvenient. Since I have to mess with boot parameters to even make the system not hang during boot with the Nouveau garbage, all because Canonical listened to the Free Software whiners and defaulted to not-ready-for-prime-time instead of the shit that actually works
The FOSSie bitching is ideological. My complaint is practical. Canonical chose the wrong one to base design decisions on.
hey built a following by pimping the philosophy of freedom, only to abandon these ideals once the foundation was set. They have enouraged people to accept non-free video and wireless drivers
Really now? So it wasn't defaulting to the piece of shit Nouveau driver instead of the Nvidia blobs for the past few releases, making me have to jump through hoops before I decided to just use Xubuntu in Virtualbox on Windows instead of fucking with it anymore.
There's a lot of legitimate shit you can call Canonical on. Let's focus on the real ones instead of on the "free as in what we say it is" frothing.
Not remotely sure. Anyone who claims to be "sure" about anything our glorious leadership does is delusional. :P I know that I still can't get insurance because of a neurological PEC even if I wasn't overweight.