Exactly so. But the problem is that several good programmers don't have a ten minute conversation with people of average inteligence untill they enter the workforce.
People that are good in something often underestimate the dificulty of that thing. Saying that programming is easy (as in can be done by anybody) doesn't mean a person can't program, only that he didn't see most people trying it.
It's that (and code density is becomming less of an issue as processors start to simply compress their code)... It's also about general porpouse vs. specialized registers, and big cache vs. plenty of registers (a big performance vs. power tradeoff), and less coupled modules that can be powered (and clocked) off, and a miriad of details that people didn't care about at the 70's but ARM took into account.
Yes, I want. An interpret doesn't add that so much load that will make difference in a high end phone, and soon the low end phones will be more powerfull than the current high end ones.
But, of course, I'm not talking about Javascript working at the HTML DOM. I'm still to be convinced that this will work, but it is not Javascript that is to blame.
How did having a lower power machine help Nintendo in the last console generation?
By having the cheapest machine on offer, and still sell it for more than it costs to produce. It also helped by making the developers concentrate on the games, instead on graphics. But developing software licensing is a hell, so this last one didn't help as much as it could. (If something kills this generation of game consoles, it will be licensing.)
Will Microsoft and Sony bring 500-700 dollar machines to market this time?
If they do, they'll fail. That price was a problem for the last generation, people didn't get wealthier since then.
Will concentrating on the user interface pay off like it did last time for Nintendo?
That's the safest bet. Altough I doubt Nintendo did the right decisions this time. I may be wrong, it is possible to use the U controler to make great games that'll disrupt the market again, I just think they won't (and Id love to be proved wrong).
And while the big corps are doing that, there is an entire team of medium corps (ok, "medium" at chip manufacturing is still huge) competing to create the most open environment, and locking the fastest growing* market segment to themselves.
* And expected to start to eat the biggest market segment soon, because of Moore's law and the "good enough" status of the desktops and laptops. Also, they are already starting to reach the processing-intensive ninche, where power consuption is as important as on portables.
That may explain it. Another possibility that I tought since the Intel anouncement is that those chips may simply not be able to compete with ARM ones in a level playing field. Thus, the only possibility is to focus on a market where x86 is an advantaje, that is Win8.
Otherwise, I'd have to conclude that everybody got insane. Why would a manufacturer want to reduce the appeal of his chips? Low volumes mean highter prices, that lead to lower volumes, and highter prices (just like rocket fuel calculations)...
I just don't know why those companies don't create a good architecture for competing with ARM, or, in the case of Intel, why it doesn't just sell ARM chips (well it even tried, there must be a reason).
Adding a new launcher optimised for desktop use really doesn't seem like much of a stretch, from a technical standpoint.
Yep, adapting the desktop environment (home screen, launcher, or whatever you want to call it) is easy. What is hard is adapting the software (apps, whatever) interfaces, or changing the available software without creating way more confusion than the user will have by just using separated devices.
If it is a good idea, it will get done at some time. In fact, it will probably get done even if it is a bad idea. But nothing we have today is even near that.
Because an app can't operate in a sandbox unless it's sold through some draconian app store.
Ok, I can't make my mind if you are being ironic here, or confused by some marketing team... But the fact is that you can have your apps operating in a sandbox (complete, with access anouncements, permission controls, and everything that CianomodGen's sandbox has, even the things that are lacking at plain Android) withoud any app store. As you can have a draconian app store without any kind of sandbox.
Both are orthogonal concepts, one is not a requirement for the other.
Funny, I was just thinking that now is just about time for the phone OSs to include another abstraction layer between the app and the hardware, and start supporting scripted languages out of the box. That may be a killer feature.
Well, you probably really aren't the target customer.
Excell is just a great programming language for some kinds of work (except for that weak typing implied from strings thing).
Word is a bad document writting tool, and the fact that a document writting tool is in the center of the toolset of most companies is a WTF in itself. Just think about it, lots and lots of people work mainly into writting things into paper, and often low value and transient things. But our society is organized this way, and those document writting entities communicate by Word files, thus documment processing entities must use Word.
Powerpoint is another WTF. It is a great tool, no doubt here, the WTF are presentations. In theory we need presentations to organise ourselves and get some things done, in practice those usefull presentations are rarely done with Powerpoint, because altought it is a great tool for creating presentations, it is a bad tool for spreading them. We usualy do those presentations in voice alone, or more recently in HTML. Powerpoint is normaly used for negative-value presentations, and that is another mindblowing thing, lots of the most sucessfull people in our society work mainly in negative-value presentations. But those presentations are a great part of what makes those people sucessfull, thus lots and lots of people have a huge incentive to remove value from society with Powerpoint.
Well, a good phone interface is not a good desktop (or even netbook) interface. Untill the phone's OS deals adequately with the different requirements, I can't see a dock station flying.
As I'm looking into replacing my laptop with something smaller, the Transformer was on my to buy list for a while. After I tought about it for a while, I just decided Android is a showstoper.
Well, I don't want that, but I don't know if people want it or not.
What I'm sure is that this won't happen on the next 3 years. It is at least too early to bet on it (unless you are making it happen, instead of just depending on it).
Soon enough all of the people in those less developped parts of the wrold will be using smartphones too. And everything indicates they'll be running Android.
Not a very imaginative article... But then, I wouldn't want to create great ideas for spreading MS's domination either. Really, if that was all MS could do, they'd be doomed from the beggining.
Why make a completely different chip just for anti-Linux DRM? It makes way more sense to make some generic chip you can program the DRM into.
Intel (and MS) can't really expect this thing to have volume enough to be cheap, as the market is praticaly completely taken by OSs that it won't support (iOS and Linux). That is, unless both do really belive Windows 8 will take the market over.
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Exactly so. But the problem is that several good programmers don't have a ten minute conversation with people of average inteligence untill they enter the workforce.
I don't even remember that END command of BASIC. Is it real?
People that are good in something often underestimate the dificulty of that thing. Saying that programming is easy (as in can be done by anybody) doesn't mean a person can't program, only that he didn't see most people trying it.
Oh, all the guys that were already selling WP7 phones? Well, Windows will sell a few phones anyway, why would they stay out of this market?
It's that (and code density is becomming less of an issue as processors start to simply compress their code)... It's also about general porpouse vs. specialized registers, and big cache vs. plenty of registers (a big performance vs. power tradeoff), and less coupled modules that can be powered (and clocked) off, and a miriad of details that people didn't care about at the 70's but ARM took into account.
Yes, I want. An interpret doesn't add that so much load that will make difference in a high end phone, and soon the low end phones will be more powerfull than the current high end ones.
But, of course, I'm not talking about Javascript working at the HTML DOM. I'm still to be convinced that this will work, but it is not Javascript that is to blame.
By having the cheapest machine on offer, and still sell it for more than it costs to produce. It also helped by making the developers concentrate on the games, instead on graphics. But developing software licensing is a hell, so this last one didn't help as much as it could. (If something kills this generation of game consoles, it will be licensing.)
If they do, they'll fail. That price was a problem for the last generation, people didn't get wealthier since then.
That's the safest bet. Altough I doubt Nintendo did the right decisions this time. I may be wrong, it is possible to use the U controler to make great games that'll disrupt the market again, I just think they won't (and Id love to be proved wrong).
And while the big corps are doing that, there is an entire team of medium corps (ok, "medium" at chip manufacturing is still huge) competing to create the most open environment, and locking the fastest growing* market segment to themselves.
* And expected to start to eat the biggest market segment soon, because of Moore's law and the "good enough" status of the desktops and laptops. Also, they are already starting to reach the processing-intensive ninche, where power consuption is as important as on portables.
That may explain it. Another possibility that I tought since the Intel anouncement is that those chips may simply not be able to compete with ARM ones in a level playing field. Thus, the only possibility is to focus on a market where x86 is an advantaje, that is Win8.
Otherwise, I'd have to conclude that everybody got insane. Why would a manufacturer want to reduce the appeal of his chips? Low volumes mean highter prices, that lead to lower volumes, and highter prices (just like rocket fuel calculations)...
I just don't know why those companies don't create a good architecture for competing with ARM, or, in the case of Intel, why it doesn't just sell ARM chips (well it even tried, there must be a reason).
Yep, adapting the desktop environment (home screen, launcher, or whatever you want to call it) is easy. What is hard is adapting the software (apps, whatever) interfaces, or changing the available software without creating way more confusion than the user will have by just using separated devices.
If it is a good idea, it will get done at some time. In fact, it will probably get done even if it is a bad idea. But nothing we have today is even near that.
Except that "normal" here means what the control group did, after receiving the cocaine.
It looks more like a mind backup (or control) tech than a mand amplifying one.
Ok, I can't make my mind if you are being ironic here, or confused by some marketing team... But the fact is that you can have your apps operating in a sandbox (complete, with access anouncements, permission controls, and everything that CianomodGen's sandbox has, even the things that are lacking at plain Android) withoud any app store. As you can have a draconian app store without any kind of sandbox.
Both are orthogonal concepts, one is not a requirement for the other.
About 4/5 of the world population.
Yeah, smartphones are copying the iPhone since 2005 at least, and before that all the PDAs were guilty of copying it since the 90's.
But, yeah, it is a lame old idea, and it is great that Android doesn't use it.
Funny, I was just thinking that now is just about time for the phone OSs to include another abstraction layer between the app and the hardware, and start supporting scripted languages out of the box. That may be a killer feature.
Well, you probably really aren't the target customer.
Excell is just a great programming language for some kinds of work (except for that weak typing implied from strings thing).
Word is a bad document writting tool, and the fact that a document writting tool is in the center of the toolset of most companies is a WTF in itself. Just think about it, lots and lots of people work mainly into writting things into paper, and often low value and transient things. But our society is organized this way, and those document writting entities communicate by Word files, thus documment processing entities must use Word.
Powerpoint is another WTF. It is a great tool, no doubt here, the WTF are presentations. In theory we need presentations to organise ourselves and get some things done, in practice those usefull presentations are rarely done with Powerpoint, because altought it is a great tool for creating presentations, it is a bad tool for spreading them. We usualy do those presentations in voice alone, or more recently in HTML. Powerpoint is normaly used for negative-value presentations, and that is another mindblowing thing, lots of the most sucessfull people in our society work mainly in negative-value presentations. But those presentations are a great part of what makes those people sucessfull, thus lots and lots of people have a huge incentive to remove value from society with Powerpoint.
Well, a good phone interface is not a good desktop (or even netbook) interface. Untill the phone's OS deals adequately with the different requirements, I can't see a dock station flying.
As I'm looking into replacing my laptop with something smaller, the Transformer was on my to buy list for a while. After I tought about it for a while, I just decided Android is a showstoper.
Well, I don't want that, but I don't know if people want it or not.
What I'm sure is that this won't happen on the next 3 years. It is at least too early to bet on it (unless you are making it happen, instead of just depending on it).
That chip is clearly aimed at tablets. 99% of its market is owned by iOS and Linux.
Soon enough all of the people in those less developped parts of the wrold will be using smartphones too. And everything indicates they'll be running Android.
Nokia is done.
Not a very imaginative article... But then, I wouldn't want to create great ideas for spreading MS's domination either. Really, if that was all MS could do, they'd be doomed from the beggining.
By the way, what "high-profile startups" means?
That one must be more in-topic.
That's a non-sequitur.
"It works as designed" does not imply "It's not broken".
Less than what ceases to work by going in a NAT.
That's because nobody will go IPv6 only, they'll go IPv6 and get behind a IPv4 NAT. Well, at least the lucky ones will, others will have only the NAT.
Why make a completely different chip just for anti-Linux DRM? It makes way more sense to make some generic chip you can program the DRM into.
Intel (and MS) can't really expect this thing to have volume enough to be cheap, as the market is praticaly completely taken by OSs that it won't support (iOS and Linux). That is, unless both do really belive Windows 8 will take the market over.