I'm sorry, but it's not nonsense. The article is spot on.
WebOS as a GUI design absolutely has its merits (the cards really are fantastic) - but then that's not what the article is claiming. The article's claim is that WebOS was immature and slow and that's absolutely the case.
Just booting the damn thing takes 77 seconds (versus 31s on a Galaxy Tab). Never mind the anemic performance of their WebKit implementation - which carries right on over to application performance since most applications are written against WebKit - which is why at best it's less than half as fast as an iPad 2 with similar performing hardware and still spends most of the time trailing the now-ancient iPad 1.
The 3.0.4 update fixed this somewhat, but not a ton. It's still slow and it still chugs, it just does so somewhat less often than with the shipping software. The poor thing can't even play YouTube videos above 480p most of the time.
Though you're not entirely off base; you are absolutely right about the applications also being a problem. The IM client is probably the best part and it only gets worse from there. The PDF reader is especially atrocious as you noted, and a big part of that is because they're rendering everything in WebKit, saving the result to an image file, and then displaying that to the end user.
Anyhow, no, WeOS is not a fine OS. It's yet another collection of interesting concepts that weren't executed on correctly and require a level of performance today's hardware can't provide. Relying on WebKit for so much of the OS - and thereby a combination of interpretation and JIT compiling - was a stupid idea. These are still fundamentally embedded systems, and with embedded systems the closer you can be to the metal the better off you're going to be. Of course in Palm/HP's case all of this was punctuated by particularly inane decisions like logging every last thing to MLC Flash memory that doesn't like small writes.
As a TouchPad owner I'm doing little at the moment besides waiting for someone to port Ice Cream Sandwich to it. It may not have the slick multitasking of WebOS, but at least Android has the performance to actually handle multitasking along with everything else a tablet should be able to do smoothly. WebOS is crap.
I'm sorry, but it's not nonsense. The article is spot on.
WebOS as a GUI design absolutely has its merits (the cards really are fantastic) - but then that's not what the article is claiming. The article's claim is that WebOS was immature and slow and that's absolutely the case.
Just booting the damn thing takes 77 seconds (versus 31s on a Galaxy Tab). Never mind the anemic performance of their WebKit implementation - which carries right on over to application performance since most applications are written against WebKit - which is why at best it's less than half as fast as an iPad 2 with similar performing hardware and still spends most of the time trailing the now-ancient iPad 1.
The 3.0.4 update fixed this somewhat, but not a ton. It's still slow and it still chugs, it just does so somewhat less often than with the shipping software. The poor thing can't even play YouTube videos above 480p most of the time.
Though you're not entirely off base; you are absolutely right about the applications also being a problem. The IM client is probably the best part and it only gets worse from there. The PDF reader is especially atrocious as you noted, and a big part of that is because they're rendering everything in WebKit, saving the result to an image file, and then displaying that to the end user.
Anyhow, no, WeOS is not a fine OS. It's yet another collection of interesting concepts that weren't executed on correctly a
YOU DONT ADD A FUCKING APOSTROPHE TO MAKE A WORD PLURAL YOU MORON. GO BACK TO SCHOOL.
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Are you kidding? Are you seriously comparing a music major to engineering? Please tell me you are joking. A 5-unit engineering class is more of a workload than your total 20 units buddy. You can't compare apples to oranges. Oh, and good luck with that whole job thing!
DUMBLEDORE IS ALIVE
DEAD PEOPLE:
* Burbage dies on pg. 12
* Hedwig dies on pg. 56
* Mad-Eye dies on pg. 78
* Scrimgeour dies on pg. 159
* Wormtail dies on pg. 471
* Dobby dies on pg. 476
* Snape dies on pg. 658
* Fred Weasley dies on pg. 637
* Harry gets fucked up by Voldemort on pg. 704
o Comes back to life on pg. 724
Nagini gets beheaded by Neville Longbottom on page 733.
* Tonks, Lupin, and Colin Creevy have their deaths confirmed on pg. 743
19 years after the events in the book:
* Ron has married Hermione, their two children are named Rose and Hugo
* Harry has married Ginny, their three children are named Lily, James,
and Albus Severus.
* Draco Malfoy has a son named Scorpius
The FINAL LINE OF THE BOOK is:
* "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
I currently pay $50 for 1250 minutes, unlimited text, unlimited internet, and sprint power vision with live tv. Oh, and I also have an uncrippled phone. "But but sprint service sucks!". No, it doesn't. I've had sprint for 8 years all over California and I've only had a handful of dropped calls in that time. It worked fine when I visited new york too. Stop the nonsense. The iPhone plans are terrible.
I have a Sanyo M1, which is a regular cell phone, not even a smart phone. I use Sprint with their power vision service. I just went to m.youtube.com and I can watch ANY video on there with no problem. Stop the Apple trolling crap.
Hey fuckhead -- considering nothing useful is made for linux, do you wonder why it only works on windows? You buy windows games, and you are mocking the fact that the copy protection only works on windows? Are you stupid? That would be great if the copy protection was OS independent, but the game only worked on windows. A lot of good that would do. Go die.
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I'm sorry, but it's not nonsense. The article is spot on.
WebOS as a GUI design absolutely has its merits (the cards really are fantastic) - but then that's not what the article is claiming. The article's claim is that WebOS was immature and slow and that's absolutely the case.
Just booting the damn thing takes 77 seconds (versus 31s on a Galaxy Tab). Never mind the anemic performance of their WebKit implementation - which carries right on over to application performance since most applications are written against WebKit - which is why at best it's less than half as fast as an iPad 2 with similar performing hardware and still spends most of the time trailing the now-ancient iPad 1.
The 3.0.4 update fixed this somewhat, but not a ton. It's still slow and it still chugs, it just does so somewhat less often than with the shipping software. The poor thing can't even play YouTube videos above 480p most of the time.
Though you're not entirely off base; you are absolutely right about the applications also being a problem. The IM client is probably the best part and it only gets worse from there. The PDF reader is especially atrocious as you noted, and a big part of that is because they're rendering everything in WebKit, saving the result to an image file, and then displaying that to the end user.
Anyhow, no, WeOS is not a fine OS. It's yet another collection of interesting concepts that weren't executed on correctly and require a level of performance today's hardware can't provide. Relying on WebKit for so much of the OS - and thereby a combination of interpretation and JIT compiling - was a stupid idea. These are still fundamentally embedded systems, and with embedded systems the closer you can be to the metal the better off you're going to be. Of course in Palm/HP's case all of this was punctuated by particularly inane decisions like logging every last thing to MLC Flash memory that doesn't like small writes.
As a TouchPad owner I'm doing little at the moment besides waiting for someone to port Ice Cream Sandwich to it. It may not have the slick multitasking of WebOS, but at least Android has the performance to actually handle multitasking along with everything else a tablet should be able to do smoothly. WebOS is crap.
I'm sorry, but it's not nonsense. The article is spot on.
WebOS as a GUI design absolutely has its merits (the cards really are fantastic) - but then that's not what the article is claiming. The article's claim is that WebOS was immature and slow and that's absolutely the case.
Just booting the damn thing takes 77 seconds (versus 31s on a Galaxy Tab). Never mind the anemic performance of their WebKit implementation - which carries right on over to application performance since most applications are written against WebKit - which is why at best it's less than half as fast as an iPad 2 with similar performing hardware and still spends most of the time trailing the now-ancient iPad 1.
The 3.0.4 update fixed this somewhat, but not a ton. It's still slow and it still chugs, it just does so somewhat less often than with the shipping software. The poor thing can't even play YouTube videos above 480p most of the time.
Though you're not entirely off base; you are absolutely right about the applications also being a problem. The IM client is probably the best part and it only gets worse from there. The PDF reader is especially atrocious as you noted, and a big part of that is because they're rendering everything in WebKit, saving the result to an image file, and then displaying that to the end user.
Anyhow, no, WeOS is not a fine OS. It's yet another collection of interesting concepts that weren't executed on correctly a
So what's wrong with it? I need specifics. I own one and it's the best phone I've ever used.
GPA is not averaged. Everyone in her class could work extremely hard and everyone would get an A. Everyone walks away with a 4.0.
ftttdfgederQWED
Let's be honest. The only reason you are dating her is that was all you could get. I'm sure she's not very attractive to anyone other than you.
That wasn't college. Colleges give a degree called "Computer Science".
I hope it's funnier than Penny Arcade. Oh wait, Penny Arcade isn't fucking funny at all, so that won't be very hard. Fuck you guys.
YOU DONT ADD A FUCKING APOSTROPHE TO MAKE A WORD PLURAL YOU MORON. GO BACK TO SCHOOL.
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Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads.
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about.
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You don't make a word plural with an apostrophe you fucking moron.
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Who said that, David Byrne?
They came and left while he was in there? Are you fucking retarded?
Maybe you should get in a field that requires some skill then. When a WYSIWYG program replaces you, that means you are doing something too easy.
Oh shut the fuck up you dick.
Are you kidding? Are you seriously comparing a music major to engineering? Please tell me you are joking. A 5-unit engineering class is more of a workload than your total 20 units buddy. You can't compare apples to oranges. Oh, and good luck with that whole job thing!
DUMBLEDORE IS ALIVE DEAD PEOPLE: * Burbage dies on pg. 12 * Hedwig dies on pg. 56 * Mad-Eye dies on pg. 78 * Scrimgeour dies on pg. 159 * Wormtail dies on pg. 471 * Dobby dies on pg. 476 * Snape dies on pg. 658 * Fred Weasley dies on pg. 637 * Harry gets fucked up by Voldemort on pg. 704 o Comes back to life on pg. 724 Nagini gets beheaded by Neville Longbottom on page 733. * Tonks, Lupin, and Colin Creevy have their deaths confirmed on pg. 743 19 years after the events in the book: * Ron has married Hermione, their two children are named Rose and Hugo * Harry has married Ginny, their three children are named Lily, James, and Albus Severus. * Draco Malfoy has a son named Scorpius The FINAL LINE OF THE BOOK is: * "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
You mean instead of calling your sudo-girlfriend?
I currently pay $50 for 1250 minutes, unlimited text, unlimited internet, and sprint power vision with live tv. Oh, and I also have an uncrippled phone. "But but sprint service sucks!". No, it doesn't. I've had sprint for 8 years all over California and I've only had a handful of dropped calls in that time. It worked fine when I visited new york too. Stop the nonsense. The iPhone plans are terrible.
I have a Sanyo M1, which is a regular cell phone, not even a smart phone. I use Sprint with their power vision service. I just went to m.youtube.com and I can watch ANY video on there with no problem. Stop the Apple trolling crap.
Wow it works on my phone. I have Sanyo M1 from Sprint with Power Vision. I just watched a couple videos. Why is the iPhone any better?
Windows has had "dvdplayer.exe" right there in your windows/system32 directory since Windows 98. It decodes movies without downloading a codec.
Who cares? Sprint is better you little faggot.
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/its.html. Dumbass.
Hey fuckhead -- considering nothing useful is made for linux, do you wonder why it only works on windows? You buy windows games, and you are mocking the fact that the copy protection only works on windows? Are you stupid? That would be great if the copy protection was OS independent, but the game only worked on windows. A lot of good that would do. Go die.
What about the fact that 8 hours of sleep is bad for you?