Indeed. I am reminded of a supposed Microsoft related quote stating that hey would much rather that people pirate Windows and Office then use Linux and Openoffice.
Yea, i think the dumping behavior changed with Ios4 onwards. But Apple have from day one made sure that third party code can not get in the way of basic functions of the device.
Also, the interface itself is very static. Sure, there are some transitions and such but overall there are no bling like the active wallpapers and such. No applets to update, changes are done in pages (notice how a page of static icons comes into view only when the other is fully out of view rather then having a freely scrollable list like the android shelf). This means that one can potentially generate fully static images and cache those rather then generate the interface on the fly time and again. One example may be how launching an app first loads a static image of the basic ui layout, with a transition, that is then painted over with more active elements. Thanks to said transition, there is no real need to resent a loading screen or load bar. This then gives the impression that the app loaded "instantly".
And the os have already cleared the way, as whatever other app was in use when the home button was pushed have already been told to halt all operations (unless it has a very specific exception), and possibly save state (this has to be done by the app programmer iirc, as Ios will happily dump whatever your working on if the programmer do not take proper steps on a home button press).
So outside of some very specific task groups, and the app have to follow some strict guidelines to be approved into such groups, the Ios is a single tasking device (if one ignore the phone and message checking functions, and lets not forget that with messages and other updates everything goes via a apple run service, Apple code have always had an exception from the app rules). Android however expects apps to behave themselves. I do not even think they are told when one hit the home button, and only told to quit gracefully (save state and clean up) when Android see a need to free up ram for a new app launch.
I think Charlie Stross mentions coding a online payment system backend so the company could provide a middle man service between British shopping sites and banks in the early 90s. It was done in perl, it was spaghetti code all the way down, was really done as a proof of concept to demo during a tech show of some kind, and was still in use 5 years after he left the company to become a author of scifi.
I recall hearing a story about some office or other where each day the washroom waste bucket would overflow with paper towels. The people that worked there knew this, the people emptying the bucket and refilling the towel dispenser knew this, but none of them where tasked with making the decision to actually replace the bucket with a larger one.
Add to this the fear of being singled out as either overstepping authority, or the one to blame if something goes wrong, and you get a whole lot of drag as every decision has to climb the ladder and come back down again with a response.
So IT projects behave much like Parallel processing? As the number of people involved grows, more time (and energy/money) is spent coordinating them then is spent doing actual work on the project?
Btw, i am reminded of a story about the initial development of the Amiga computer. 1 guy spend 48 dedicated hours to write one of the core libs of the os. His only interaction with management during that time was to ask about a detail related to some interaction with another lib or such.
I think the issue is that most of the companies involved approach this as if they are selling oversized mobile phones. As such, they expect to be able to stuff a mobile network radio in there and then pitch it at the carriers for on contract subsidies. Note how if one compare a Samsung Galaxy player with a Samsung Galaxy phone one get a $200 price hike on the phone. Same internals overall except for that extra radio. No way the cost of the radio hardware and antenna add that much to the production costs of those phones.
Also, i suspect most of the ipad sales have been the bottom end wifi-only version. And this will be a even bigger case with the Android devices as they will have a SD slot in there as a value add attempt. This then allows the customer to take a product with less internal storage initially as they can later add a SD card (or even carry several next to the tablet).
i wonder how many times i have walked into a big chain store and found myself with more info by reading the box on the shelf then asking any of the people working at the place.
Just don't go with the pretentiousness equal to Apple naming their service and support area "genius bar" (and yep, it is styled like a bar with stools and all).
When it comes to the ios interface, Apple is very strict about what can go on behind the scenes.
Android will only throw a app out of ram if it notices a issue, ios do so by default the moment one hit the home button. And while android leave things running, only one app can be running at any one time in ios (baring some recent exceptions like audio streaming).
1. long distance where one is likely to run the batteries low and really notice the long recharge times.
2. lack of available and standardize recharge sockets next to parking spots at present, so that one can not set the car to charge while hanging out with friends.
first is unlikely to be fixed any time soon. I suspect we are more likely to change travel habits then fix the issue. The second however is more a indication of how quickly the car have become taken for granted rather then a luxury, and so how transport planning assumes that a significant percentage of the population will have cars.
Iirc, physics is in the way. If one want to refuel a Tesla like one refuel a gasoline car one would be pushing some serious Watts. And unless one is operating at superconducting efficiency, that will result in a whole lot of heat.
I think it is more likely that we humans adapt our lifestyles, we have done so in the past plenty of times, then try to find a replacement for the gasoline car that can slot in neatly without notice. Perhaps something like high speed rail or similar for long distance travel, and renting a EV at the destination to get around the place.
Yes, it removes the freedom of just diving in the car and go. But then that only really came about with the car. Before then at best one could jump on a horse and ride out of there, and that was only really viable in places with a lot of open ground...
And for big media, news division, to get more people over to the most locked up platform so that they can push their "enhanced" reading experiences for a fee...
I wonder what would happen if one lined up the hardest critics of honeycomb in media and the media corp news apps on ipad...
Yep, the most likely place to run into problems are those programs that use a custom ui based on bitmaps in an an attempt to be noticed and remembered from a marketing perspective.
From what i understand, cocaine and other stimulants are frequent in wall street and similar financial focal points around the world. And there is a claim that the industrial revolution and such may have come about with the shift from beer to coffee as the social beverage of choice in europe.
Supposedly he wrote some code for excel. This showed up in a story from a programmer talking about how it was to work inside Microsoft (apparently Gates would verbally rip you a new one if he thought your stuff was poor workmanship, not unlike some claims about Jobs or for that matter the various mailing list quotes from Torvalds). It showed up because the programmer had found and fixed a old bug in the code, and when presenting the finding at a meeting, Gates present, he learned that the piece of code he fixed was Gates handiwork. Apparently other programmers had known about the bug but avoided fixing it to not tempt the wrath of Gates.
iirc, the Star ui could overlap windows, but did not do so when launching programs. This to avoid confusing the user about there the program ended up or something.
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indeed, as well as giving companies a incentive to use MS products as people are familiar with them already.
Ah yes, the old MS Office file formats issues...
Indeed. I am reminded of a supposed Microsoft related quote stating that hey would much rather that people pirate Windows and Office then use Linux and Openoffice.
Yea, i think the dumping behavior changed with Ios4 onwards. But Apple have from day one made sure that third party code can not get in the way of basic functions of the device.
Also, the interface itself is very static. Sure, there are some transitions and such but overall there are no bling like the active wallpapers and such. No applets to update, changes are done in pages (notice how a page of static icons comes into view only when the other is fully out of view rather then having a freely scrollable list like the android shelf). This means that one can potentially generate fully static images and cache those rather then generate the interface on the fly time and again. One example may be how launching an app first loads a static image of the basic ui layout, with a transition, that is then painted over with more active elements. Thanks to said transition, there is no real need to resent a loading screen or load bar. This then gives the impression that the app loaded "instantly".
And the os have already cleared the way, as whatever other app was in use when the home button was pushed have already been told to halt all operations (unless it has a very specific exception), and possibly save state (this has to be done by the app programmer iirc, as Ios will happily dump whatever your working on if the programmer do not take proper steps on a home button press).
So outside of some very specific task groups, and the app have to follow some strict guidelines to be approved into such groups, the Ios is a single tasking device (if one ignore the phone and message checking functions, and lets not forget that with messages and other updates everything goes via a apple run service, Apple code have always had an exception from the app rules). Android however expects apps to behave themselves. I do not even think they are told when one hit the home button, and only told to quit gracefully (save state and clean up) when Android see a need to free up ram for a new app launch.
I think Charlie Stross mentions coding a online payment system backend so the company could provide a middle man service between British shopping sites and banks in the early 90s. It was done in perl, it was spaghetti code all the way down, was really done as a proof of concept to demo during a tech show of some kind, and was still in use 5 years after he left the company to become a author of scifi.
- Blame filthy pirates for the loss: Facepalm
I recall hearing a story about some office or other where each day the washroom waste bucket would overflow with paper towels. The people that worked there knew this, the people emptying the bucket and refilling the towel dispenser knew this, but none of them where tasked with making the decision to actually replace the bucket with a larger one.
Add to this the fear of being singled out as either overstepping authority, or the one to blame if something goes wrong, and you get a whole lot of drag as every decision has to climb the ladder and come back down again with a response.
PHB never reads anything, they just come up with the big ideas and expect them to be implemented yesterday on a used shoestring budget.
So IT projects behave much like Parallel processing? As the number of people involved grows, more time (and energy/money) is spent coordinating them then is spent doing actual work on the project?
Btw, i am reminded of a story about the initial development of the Amiga computer. 1 guy spend 48 dedicated hours to write one of the core libs of the os. His only interaction with management during that time was to ask about a detail related to some interaction with another lib or such.
I think the issue is that most of the companies involved approach this as if they are selling oversized mobile phones. As such, they expect to be able to stuff a mobile network radio in there and then pitch it at the carriers for on contract subsidies. Note how if one compare a Samsung Galaxy player with a Samsung Galaxy phone one get a $200 price hike on the phone. Same internals overall except for that extra radio. No way the cost of the radio hardware and antenna add that much to the production costs of those phones.
Also, i suspect most of the ipad sales have been the bottom end wifi-only version. And this will be a even bigger case with the Android devices as they will have a SD slot in there as a value add attempt. This then allows the customer to take a product with less internal storage initially as they can later add a SD card (or even carry several next to the tablet).
there are customers, and there are consumers. The word shift alone should be a very good indication about how the corporations see the masses.
i wonder how many times i have walked into a big chain store and found myself with more info by reading the box on the shelf then asking any of the people working at the place.
Just don't go with the pretentiousness equal to Apple naming their service and support area "genius bar" (and yep, it is styled like a bar with stools and all).
When it comes to the ios interface, Apple is very strict about what can go on behind the scenes.
Android will only throw a app out of ram if it notices a issue, ios do so by default the moment one hit the home button. And while android leave things running, only one app can be running at any one time in ios (baring some recent exceptions like audio streaming).
Now consider the "cloud" push, and concepts like Google's ChromeOS.
The web browser is becoming the modern day equivalent of a X terminal in a sense.
How often do we hear about some politician or celebrity complaining about being quoted out of context?
Hell, it is one of the reasons why journalists get so much hate.
seems to me the recharge issue is two-fold.
1. long distance where one is likely to run the batteries low and really notice the long recharge times.
2. lack of available and standardize recharge sockets next to parking spots at present, so that one can not set the car to charge while hanging out with friends.
first is unlikely to be fixed any time soon. I suspect we are more likely to change travel habits then fix the issue. The second however is more a indication of how quickly the car have become taken for granted rather then a luxury, and so how transport planning assumes that a significant percentage of the population will have cars.
Iirc, physics is in the way. If one want to refuel a Tesla like one refuel a gasoline car one would be pushing some serious Watts. And unless one is operating at superconducting efficiency, that will result in a whole lot of heat.
I think it is more likely that we humans adapt our lifestyles, we have done so in the past plenty of times, then try to find a replacement for the gasoline car that can slot in neatly without notice. Perhaps something like high speed rail or similar for long distance travel, and renting a EV at the destination to get around the place.
Yes, it removes the freedom of just diving in the car and go. But then that only really came about with the car. Before then at best one could jump on a horse and ride out of there, and that was only really viable in places with a lot of open ground...
And for big media, news division, to get more people over to the most locked up platform so that they can push their "enhanced" reading experiences for a fee...
I wonder what would happen if one lined up the hardest critics of honeycomb in media and the media corp news apps on ipad...
Yep, the most likely place to run into problems are those programs that use a custom ui based on bitmaps in an an attempt to be noticed and remembered from a marketing perspective.
From what i understand, cocaine and other stimulants are frequent in wall street and similar financial focal points around the world. And there is a claim that the industrial revolution and such may have come about with the shift from beer to coffee as the social beverage of choice in europe.
Supposedly he wrote some code for excel. This showed up in a story from a programmer talking about how it was to work inside Microsoft (apparently Gates would verbally rip you a new one if he thought your stuff was poor workmanship, not unlike some claims about Jobs or for that matter the various mailing list quotes from Torvalds). It showed up because the programmer had found and fixed a old bug in the code, and when presenting the finding at a meeting, Gates present, he learned that the piece of code he fixed was Gates handiwork. Apparently other programmers had known about the bug but avoided fixing it to not tempt the wrath of Gates.
At least Gates could code...
iirc, the Star ui could overlap windows, but did not do so when launching programs. This to avoid confusing the user about there the program ended up or something.
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