And as far as Java being slow, bloated, etc., maybe all that was true back in the 90's, but today it's perfectly fine for development on any modern machine, all of our in-house development tools are written in Java and work perfectly.
I still consider a Windows XP machine with Athlon 64/Pentium 4, 256M RAM, modern.
Trying to run Java applications on such machines, particularly due to the RAM makes me miserable due to all the swapping required. I honestly don't think that highly of Sun's Java runtimes because of the huge memory usage involved. There are lots of Java programs I enjoy running like Azureus, Freenet Project, Netbeans (when I can't use kdevelop) and few others.. But one reoccuring theme is that, my machines are not top of the line, they already have programs running that take up huge amounts of RAM (can't avoid it with giant graphics) -- Java doesn't help the situation.
The other issue is, I do not understand why Java UIs are less responsive. I tend to continuously notice when using any java program, the window being redrawn, buttons redrawn etc when I don't get this on native applications using MFC, GTK or QT. Something, is seriously wrong with Sun's JRE.
And J2me, the subset of Java that you find on the phones, is particularly lightweight and speedy
It's also a bastardized version of Java, where huge portions of Java were cut out to make the runtimes faster and lighter for mobile phones - I'm not impressed by that fact.
I won't say Java is bad on the mobile phone, but on the desktop, I still don't find it works well for me. Despite quite a few favorite applications of mine use it.
how does/would it handle music, music videos, podcasts, video podcasts, movies, photo libraries, playlists and audiobooks?
Handles them fine, but there isn't that much storage space since it's designed to be a business phone. That said, it does have a FM radio and a camera.
Additionally more functionality can be granted as any applications written for Symbian will run on it (in particular this is needed for podcasting support). Also supports the realtime TV/video/audio streaming stuff over the 3g networks.
I use bluetooth sync on my phone for contacts and calendars, but have no interest in wirelessly syncing an ipod. the benefit of wire syncing is not just speed, but you GAIN battery charge by doing it instead of taking a hit.
Uhm, I could just, you know.. Plug the phone it.
While I can synchronize the phone directly to the laptop, I have preferred to just synchronize the calendar, contacts, mail etc. in realtime with the server - rather than having to mess with those horrid sync applications.
maybe Apple could allow small amount of data to be synced wirelessly, but imo that would just get messy. the benefit of iTunes syncing is you plug in your ipod and EVERYTHING is automatically updated.
I didn't need to plug anything in to synchronize, using the mobile network/wifi (chooses the best option) to synchronize data in real time (and on the plan I had, no fees)...
I've played with a Nokia e90 which had Flash support. Pretty sure other Nokias support it too.
Wireless synchronization is a hype feature, not a real feature. It would be useful if it were automatic, but that would require having bluetooth on all the time, which (for battery life reasons) isn't practicable.
Funny you should say that... I can essentially synchronize contacts, mail and many other things automatically with the Nokia e90 too (online synchronisation, would synchronize with a server as would the laptop).
The UI is how you use something, and if it's bad, it becomes less usable.
Honestly, I don't think a interface that smudges to the point where you need to clean it continuously to continue using it, is a good idea.
I read the article and I was sure, to find a GIMP joke here - because the UI of Gimp is really a bad joke;) There was already a good GUI redesign - but because this guy was ignored by the GIMP developers (which are not really open-minded) he started "GIMPshop" - http://www.gimpshop.com/ - a picure can be found via Google Picture Search. But they want to stay with their window policy which is IMHO unusable for a image manipulation program
I tried to use GIMPshop, but I couldn't use the windows decently. Scaling the windows across multiple monitors required to maximize the window across each monitor. I couldn't set specific windows to stay ontop of other applications or below like I can normally under KDE with the original gimp. It was a utter mess and ended up slowing me down.
I'm tempted to say I believe him. I mean, if there's one man who should be able to tell when something is Vaporware it's him, he has maybe the most experience with that kind of spin in the IT biz.
Linux phones have been doing much better than he would like you to believe. Google's Android is just another Linux platform to add to the list.
The Tablet PC is a failure outside a niche market.
True, but there are obvious reasons or this. Tablet technology is not so needed outside of artistic purposes and taking notes purposes.
What would make a Tablet Mac seen as a success or a failure would be whether it could get broad usage outside that niche, so not having OC isn't necessarily as important as you think it is.
Being that Macs are a niche market, tablet technology is a niche market -- I don't think it's that far fetched.
Personal anecdote, wikipedia link to some obscure software & a plausible sounding argument all in support of an outrageously silly conclusion
Heh, I never thought of it that way, but that's amusing now that you point that out.
"OS X will not be a popular platform for artists"
Oh, I'm sure there will be artists making use of this, just in my circle of friends, there is a great interest in using Tablet PCs for art - I never saw it as a failure because of that.
They also rely on the older version of oC (because it's pretty much the only application that lets them do art in realtime with each over the internet). I have doubts that Apple tablet PCs are going to cater to these people for the obvious reason that OS X doesn't have any software like that - you cannot run this software under Crossover/wine because the lack of pressure sensitivity detection, same issue under vmware and parallels.
That said, there is a possibility they may buy the hardware and run Windows on it.
Nothing like OpenCanvas?! You mean, Corel doesn't make Painter for the Mac anymore? Has Autodesk stopped selling Sketchbook Pro for OS X? If not, then you are speaking out of a dark orifice.
I wasn't aware they supported networking in the way oC does. Looking at their official sites, I don't see it either.
I imagine a lot of the reason is a combination of things.
Apple fanatics get a lot of media attention, which in turns hypes up the media. People seeing the media getting crazy over it influences them to believe the product is worth buying. Apple's advertising of something alluring a new (despite that being far from the case - but people believe it and end up repeating it).
I wouldn't say it's exactly that recipe, but I think that does play a good part in it.
That said, we all know, Apple doesn't make the best products and if other companies released the things Apple did.. Such as Nokia releasing the iPhone, it would never of been what some consider to be a 'hit'.
Can Apple turn the Tablet PC into a success when previous attempts have failed?
Tablet PC is a failure? The majority of my artist friends have a Tablet PC and in future wish to keep buying them as they're great for art related things.
I doubt OS X will be a popular platform for these particular set of people since it doesn't have anything like openCanvas (majority of my artist friends use the older version because it's networked).
The short answer is 'yes'. Any company that can make a mobile phone with no buttons, no picture messaging, slow Web access and no video capture into the most desirable phone on the planet can easily make tablets popular.
Technically Apple can just stamp their logo on toilet seats and it will sell well.
About half an hour later I went back to my desktop pc, to see an error message about a failed write, then all the files I wanted to move have been deleted from the desktop pc. Checking the media pc, the first file was there, but damaged.
I have tested this and couldn't replicate your issue. The file being moved was still intact.
Let's see it with what matters to me. Visual voice mail
... What kind of backwards mobile phone provider doesn't support sending your voice mail as MMS messages to your phone (and spoofing the original caller's telephone number as the sender)?
Now maybe what matters is that Apple sold 1.2 millions iPhones in Q3 in US only where Nokia sold 1.5 millions N95 world wide.
Symbian and the iPhone are successful because they don't try to fit an inappropriate interface to the devices.
I'm pretty sure Windows mobile is currently more successful than the iPhone is and in my opinion, the iPhone's current success is largely due to Apple's brand. If Nokia or any of the other big mobile phone companies created the exact same phone instead of Apple, there definitely wouldn't of been such a 'hit'.
Ruthing happens when someone's connection is flaking out, or your sim's connection to the asset server is flakey. Sometimes that means they're also naked (their clothing and attachments aren't loading properly -- just like their shape and skin).
Ruthing is the default model in Second life. I know when someone is ruthed and when a bot idles in a place for hours, spinning itself around scanning constantly the scene.
So... banning them because SL is flaking out on them -- while your right as an estate manager -- seems arbitrary and unfair.
These aren't people and it's quite obvious when the profile was just created on that day, no groups or anything and they're naked, spinning around slowly that they are the 'naked ruth bot' as people call them.
My point is this: bots are here to stay, they can serve various reasonable purposes
They can, but these ones are just harassing.
so people like you should just deal with it and stop complaining.
You're the one who is offering suggestions with what appears to be barely any technological knowledge of Second life.
What you were saying sounded an awful like you didn't want bots around at all, and that's simply not reasonable in the long term.
Bots are useful in certain circumstances, such as one that is connected to the banlink system and automatically estate bans people rather than doing the parcel bans.
I'm sorry that you didn't find my advice of using a CAPTCHA useful, but other people who aren't as unimaginative and argumentative as you may, in fact, find the suggestion useful.
Your captcha system does not work with the way Second life is currently designed, period.
I'm also sorry that you can't figure out how to make sure people can only enter at designated points and can't just fly in, but it's not hard and it can be done.
Sure, we could fill up the sim with a bunch of scanners that do a bunch of push movements (but if we use airbreaks -- spacebar -- it has no effect on the avatar which the bots can quickly adapt to using) that kill the simulator's performance to the point where it may end up crashing. The fault is with the implementation on the servers right now and there is nothing that anyone but Linden lab (whom knows about it) can do about it.
By the way, you can even override a script doing llTeleportAgentHome() functions if you wanted to with a custom client. Just need to ignore the command to teleport from the server.
If you need it and can't figure it out yourself, pay someone to do it for you.
Believe it or not, I do have a technical understanding of how Second life works, what you said to me, is the equivalent of saying "If you can't figure out how to run Windows vista on your amiga 500, then you should pay someone to do it for you." to me.
Well, tough. Either bots wander in, or you have people register, or you use a CAPTCHA.
That will kill the simulator traffic, no. This was already tried with denying lack of payment info and the end result was unacceptable.
Of course, you can control where people are allowed in your sim and where they can teleport. RTFM...
1) There is no manual you dipshit.
2) You can only control teleports on normal second life clients (that haven't been modified) that actually obey the coordinate destination given by Second life's servers. Thus, when coming against a bot that is not based on the Second life client code and does not obey the teleport destination, it's useless.
In other words: You're inconveniencing the users and still haven't handled the bots.
I'm not sure what you want, but SL is trying to position itself as an open 3D platform analgous to the web.
on the web I can create a robots.txt that says:
User-agent: * Disallow:/
And that is a obvious way of telling bots that they are unwanted. No consent issues.
Unless and until there is some kind of robot exclusion standard for the SL platform, you will have to do one of the things I suggested above.
Or I can continue to keep banning them as everyone else is, adding them to banlink to prevent them from moving elsewhere until something that works better without inconveniencing users the way you want to, comes along.
It's just like a web site: if you have an open access policy, you can't complain if people come in.
It isn't a open access policy, it's not the mainland.
If you want only real people to enter, use a CAPTCHA: put a texture on some surface and/or a sound in the environment that says: "Please say the magic word 'apple star' or be kicked out."
Not that it helps since we often get people from many different nations (who can't speak English)... Germans, Korean, Japanese, Russians and languages I don't recognize (never had to kick one out since they used common sense). Sure, I could go about getting it translated into other languages. But knowing Second life, doesn't mean the texture will load within the next five minutes or the sound will either (provided the person even has sound enabled).
Nevermind the fact there isn't a way to dictate where a avatar arrives in a sim unless he used a map teleport (he/she can just fly from a adjacent sim or get teleported there or if they can just change several lines of code in the second life client to teleport anywhere (and since bots aren't even using the SL client...).
I'd appreciate it if they were to make "hard" clients for all of those (calendar and Reader in paticular) for the desktop.
The calendar, mail (IMAP) stuff works well for me in Kontact. Kontact also has a RSS reader but you can't synchronize the settings with your Google account.
Like, maybe those weren't bots, but, like, Valley Girls, you know.
The reason why they're known as the valley sims is because the simulators all end in "valley".. Like "Kitsune Valley", "Rabbit Valley", "Fox Valley" etc.
And to save someone from doing the sound effect, I'll do it myself.. WHOOOOOOSH
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Trying to run Java applications on such machines, particularly due to the RAM makes me miserable due to all the swapping required. I honestly don't think that highly of Sun's Java runtimes because of the huge memory usage involved. There are lots of Java programs I enjoy running like Azureus, Freenet Project, Netbeans (when I can't use kdevelop) and few others.. But one reoccuring theme is that, my machines are not top of the line, they already have programs running that take up huge amounts of RAM (can't avoid it with giant graphics) -- Java doesn't help the situation.
The other issue is, I do not understand why Java UIs are less responsive. I tend to continuously notice when using any java program, the window being redrawn, buttons redrawn etc when I don't get this on native applications using MFC, GTK or QT. Something, is seriously wrong with Sun's JRE.It's also a bastardized version of Java, where huge portions of Java were cut out to make the runtimes faster and lighter for mobile phones - I'm not impressed by that fact.
I won't say Java is bad on the mobile phone, but on the desktop, I still don't find it works well for me. Despite quite a few favorite applications of mine use it.
Additionally more functionality can be granted as any applications written for Symbian will run on it (in particular this is needed for podcasting support). Also supports the realtime TV/video/audio streaming stuff over the 3g networks.Uhm, I could just, you know.. Plug the phone it.
While I can synchronize the phone directly to the laptop, I have preferred to just synchronize the calendar, contacts, mail etc. in realtime with the server - rather than having to mess with those horrid sync applications.I didn't need to plug anything in to synchronize, using the mobile network/wifi (chooses the best option) to synchronize data in real time (and on the plan I had, no fees)...
WHOOOOOOSH
Shame I never got to keep the e90
Sorry, I don't agree GIMPshop's UI is superior.
There won't be outrage.
They also rely on the older version of oC (because it's pretty much the only application that lets them do art in realtime with each over the internet). I have doubts that Apple tablet PCs are going to cater to these people for the obvious reason that OS X doesn't have any software like that - you cannot run this software under Crossover/wine because the lack of pressure sensitivity detection, same issue under vmware and parallels.
That said, there is a possibility they may buy the hardware and run Windows on it.
Apple fanatics get a lot of media attention, which in turns hypes up the media. People seeing the media getting crazy over it influences them to believe the product is worth buying. Apple's advertising of something alluring a new (despite that being far from the case - but people believe it and end up repeating it).
I wouldn't say it's exactly that recipe, but I think that does play a good part in it.
That said, we all know, Apple doesn't make the best products and if other companies released the things Apple did.. Such as Nokia releasing the iPhone, it would never of been what some consider to be a 'hit'.
I doubt OS X will be a popular platform for these particular set of people since it doesn't have anything like openCanvas (majority of my artist friends use the older version because it's networked).Technically Apple can just stamp their logo on toilet seats and it will sell well.
Because it's badly implemented on OS X.
By the way, you can even override a script doing llTeleportAgentHome() functions if you wanted to with a custom client. Just need to ignore the command to teleport from the server.Believe it or not, I do have a technical understanding of how Second life works, what you said to me, is the equivalent of saying "If you can't figure out how to run Windows vista on your amiga 500, then you should pay someone to do it for you." to me.
2) You can only control teleports on normal second life clients (that haven't been modified) that actually obey the coordinate destination given by Second life's servers. Thus, when coming against a bot that is not based on the Second life client code and does not obey the teleport destination, it's useless.
In other words: You're inconveniencing the users and still haven't handled the bots.on the web I can create a robots.txt that says: And that is a obvious way of telling bots that they are unwanted. No consent issues.Or I can continue to keep banning them as everyone else is, adding them to banlink to prevent them from moving elsewhere until something that works better without inconveniencing users the way you want to, comes along.
Nevermind the fact there isn't a way to dictate where a avatar arrives in a sim unless he used a map teleport (he/she can just fly from a adjacent sim or get teleported there or if they can just change several lines of code in the second life client to teleport anywhere (and since bots aren't even using the SL client...).
And to save someone from doing the sound effect, I'll do it myself.. WHOOOOOOSH