You mention bluetooth. I have tried several voip apps (sip applications) even voice note takers to see if bluetooth recording works. You know how many worked so far? None. Others told me bluetooth recording works with grooveip but I haven't been able to test that as I'm in Canada. I wanted to try android's built in sip dialer but that's disabled in Nexus 7. So if you can name any app besides grooveip that works with bluetooth recording, I'd certainly like to hear it. And I tried my own and borrowed 3 other bluetooth headsets from friend's and the same with all of them.
On a side note, another really disappointing thing about bluetooth with android is audio sync. It's fine with movie's that play back via hardware acceleration but any other movie or games and it's way out of sync. This is supposedly true of most/all android devices and not just the nexus 7. I can re-encode movies(which is a pain) but if I want to play a game I need to swtich to my wired headset. I initially read that this is an issue with bluetooth itself, but my friend's playbook and ipad have perfect sync with bluetooth in games.
So I would deal with the battery issues you mention if I could just find one single app that actually works with bluetooth recording.
Even with revisions I kind of want this product to fail. I recently purchased a nexus 7 which is a fantastic tablet but the earlier prototype had an sd slot and hdmi port. I suspect as others do, these features were taken out not as a cost cutting measure, but to steer you towards the Q.
If users have a nexus 7 with hdmi out most would say good enough and be happy with that. The nexus Q has more ports for audiophiles but the vast majority will be happy simply using hdmi to the hd display and then to whatever audio system they have for that.
And with hdmi, I could browse the web on a large screen, run games, apps etc. With this it's just stream content from your play purchases (no local content) and oh you can have a friend come over and queue (queue get it? see how smart they are?) their content that they have from the play store.
So it's pluses are neat queuing functionality and additional audio ports
it's cons are: no local content. can't run games, apps to your tv. and it's 300 bucks.
Scratch that. I don't kind of want it to fail, I hope it bombs. Reason being if it's a success less and less tablets will have hdmi in the future.
Again the nexus 7 is an amazing tablet, I just wish I had the version that wasn't downgraded for the validity of this device.
The only motive where this makes sense to me is because of a dedicated platform using linux. Valve's a great company, but I don't think they'd port to linux just cause 'it's a good thing' to quote John Carmack on his motives for having linux versions of past games. Sadly, even id doesn't do that anymore. What other motive could there be? it's not like the linux market share is growing.
What might make more sense is port steam and these games to android and sell them on the market, but that goes against valve's vision of using steam or something other means of distribution.
I'm actually an android fan, but I don't get this device. What I have against it is I read that previously the nexus 7 was to have hdmi out, but why have that when you can buy a nexus q?! And why have an sdcard slot when you can get it all from the cloud?
Seriously, besides additional outputs and having friends over being able to queue up their media (but not any media on their actual device) why is this worth $300?!
I would have been completely happy with hdmi on the nexus 7 instead. If these two moves take off I think sdcard slots and onboard hdmi will start to become a thing of the past.
It doesn't happen as often, but back in the day id coded games cross-platform, and certainly beyond casual games.
And valve brought over their games to MAC (and they didn't use opengl on windows so they had to port that to opengl) and now they are releasing their games on linux.
So I would think a game dodges a lot of the issues of apps (widgets, ui layout etc) as a game is almost 'sandboxed' in it's own environment.
I cannot believe this made the front page. At first I'm thinking really? They already slashed them from 499 to 199 last year and then I saw the article and it's linking to an ebay sale. Are you fucking kidding me?! What happened to slashdot... I see it was posted by timothy. Please go away timothy .
They also lost the ability to set overscan on s-video out. I have a 9800 that I use for that and I game a little with it still. I needed to update the driver and lost that ability. yeah I know, who uses s-video still, well I do on one tv that I haven't replaced yet and I driver update shouldn't mean I lose features.
Point being, it's one of those things they won't go back and fix either.
Can't agree here at all. AMD (formally ATI) had mediocre d3d drivers and were always notorious for having absolute craptacular opengl drivers. And that was over a decade ago and it's still the case as seen by recent opengl releases (brink and rage). And most of those users freaked out blaming the developer of the game when it's the driver's fault. And it's not modifying the drivers it's god damn fixing them!
I remember years ago Carmack said if he encountered a bug while testing on a nvidia machine he assumed he made the bug but when it was an ati machine he assumed it was them. And this assumption came after countless times of checking and ati's opengl driver was broken in some way or another.
Not that I know anything about writing drivers but how friggin hard is it to write a compliant driver?! Then optimize for speed. I still won't buy a an amd/ati card because of this. Who cares how good the hardware is if there is always bugs with each and ever game. All these developers can't write good code? I was actually starting to get tempted as their offerings were beating nvidia's at the time but then I saw what happened last year with brink and rage. AMD cards, no thanks.
I'm thinking on building a media box for my mom. Just to play videos and stuff from stuff I ripped from all her dvds.
If so, can anyone recommend a barebones no fuss box to install this on? She has no 1080 content but I guess it would be nice if it could handle it for the future.
So true. Not that I'm an MS fan, but we have an Access database with numerous clients deployed that was written for office 2000 and 2003. It had to make a couple of exception checks for 2000/2003 but that's it. We skipped 2007 and are getting office 2010 soon. Tried it recently on office 2010 and only two things needed to be changed, and now runs perfectly. And yes, this is probably one of those times where it should be a full-scale database etc, but point being, this uses numerous access forms, generates reports, deals with account logins, password resets etc. Pretty anything you can do in Access, is being done in this system, but yet only 2 things needed to be changed. Same thing with various vba excel tools.
I've read the same thing so many times that I cringe for a moment myself when running something on newer office versions and yet, 99% it runs or if not, with very little changes.
Hmm, I use vba all the time at work. Are there some circumstances where a database would be better? Yes. But excel is such a versatile tool that can automate so many tasks. Tons of employees do stuff manually in excel that can be automated via vba that is not big enough to warrant a full database. Most people don't even realize there is a development environment within the office suite. But it's attractive because everyone has it and there are no additional licensing costs.
Regarding what you said: "While I don't say this is impossible, I have been known to bet on the lottery. The fact is that, unless you wrote the spreadsheet yourself (and often even then), its very hard to be sure what it is actually doing with your data." Well first as the developer, I can test my vba by manually plugging formulas and arriving at the values without vba, as a comparison, ensuring I get the same results. And even though it's not built into vba, you can branch out and use regular expressions to ensure what is being inputted.
For someone down the line needing to 'know' (not use, because another user should be able to just use the sheet, but necessarily know the code arriving at those values) how it's arriving at what, would need to know vba obviously and then it's up to the past developer and how well written/documented it is. Same as anything else.
"Asus says the bootloader had to be locked to provide you with certain content services. And it's true that if you choose to employ the (release-date-TBD) Transformer Prime unlock tool you'll be frozen out of Google video rental through the Android market. Oh, and you'll void your warranty. "
Why does it need to freeze you out? Let's say something similar like netflix. Works on windows and last I checked my bootloader wasn't locked. why does it need to be locked simply cause it's a mobile device?
About it's a start. Linux has had a hard time getting any significant desktop market share, but this was fertile territory and someone should have taken this path years ago. If say someone like Mark Shuttleworth saw this potential and realized that this is somewhere a linux based os could shine, maybe we'd already have a true open source mobile OS that had significant market share.
Well, even with games it seems to depend on the engine/game. Most of valve games look absolutely amazing, especially l4d 1/2. TF2 looks great as well, portal, not so much.
But I imagine in a game that changes the focal point on the fly depending where I'm looking at with the mouse. Imagine looking at a enemy close to you and then shifting the mouse so your cross hair is on the enemy in the distance and the focal point changes (and add some blur to what you are not focusing on for good measure). I could picture that working fairly well. At least until they have some eye tracking hardware so they can 'see' what you are looking at.
Now since doom3 source has been released will someone please port it to d3d so I can play it in 3d. Never thought I'd want a d3d port of an id game but...
Iphone had hardware acceleration since launch. Android finally got it with honeycomb but the app developer had to invoke it to use it. From what I've read ice cream sandwich has it enabled for all apps. Finally. Like just under the wire of 2012 finally whereas iphone had this in 2007. Yes Iphone is just one hardware platform which makes things easier but still. Android should have had this a long time ago.
So unless it has a monster cpu you're not getting a smooth as glass experience on ANY android phone/tablet that's gingerbread or earlier.
I thought I read RIM claimed that how their network is setup in such a way that the encryption is done on the device and they don't have a means of accessing the contents?
I thought the two main criteria for a patent are: It hasn't been done before (prior art) and it's non-trivial. Like as in holy crap! What you just made there is awesome!! Please patent how you did this so society at large benefits from this and it is never lost!!
I don't think a swipe to start using a touch interface qualifies...
It doesn't sound like your apps need it but there's not much mention of hardware acceleration, which I'm probably more excited about that than other new features. It's not about eye candy, but touch displays typically have menus and icons moving around so responsiveness matters.
I'm hoping it will be relatively easy for developers to take advantage of this for current apps.
Why isn't multi-user support not more important? Maybe not so much in phones, but definitely tablets. If I am at my bro's and my nephew wants to play angry birds on my tablet, I should be able to hand it to him with confidence that he can't see my emails etc. And maybe a limited user (guest) account that can't install/uninstall stuff etc. Why does it have to be like win98 again?!
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Of course only for a limited time, before they go back in the vault...
You mention bluetooth. I have tried several voip apps (sip applications) even voice note takers to see if bluetooth recording works. You know how many worked so far? None. Others told me bluetooth recording works with grooveip but I haven't been able to test that as I'm in Canada. I wanted to try android's built in sip dialer but that's disabled in Nexus 7. So if you can name any app besides grooveip that works with bluetooth recording, I'd certainly like to hear it. And I tried my own and borrowed 3 other bluetooth headsets from friend's and the same with all of them.
On a side note, another really disappointing thing about bluetooth with android is audio sync. It's fine with movie's that play back via hardware acceleration but any other movie or games and it's way out of sync. This is supposedly true of most/all android devices and not just the nexus 7. I can re-encode movies(which is a pain) but if I want to play a game I need to swtich to my wired headset. I initially read that this is an issue with bluetooth itself, but my friend's playbook and ipad have perfect sync with bluetooth in games.
So I would deal with the battery issues you mention if I could just find one single app that actually works with bluetooth recording.
Honestly asking, why is steam about to become irrelevant? I thought it was doing quite well.
Yeah but why say this now? I remember he made linux ports not because it was a viable market but rater because 'it's a good thing' to quote him.
Even with revisions I kind of want this product to fail. I recently purchased a nexus 7 which is a fantastic tablet but the earlier prototype had an sd slot and hdmi port. I suspect as others do, these features were taken out not as a cost cutting measure, but to steer you towards the Q.
If users have a nexus 7 with hdmi out most would say good enough and be happy with that. The nexus Q has more ports for audiophiles but the vast majority will be happy simply using hdmi to the hd display and then to whatever audio system they have for that.
And with hdmi, I could browse the web on a large screen, run games, apps etc. With this it's just stream content from your play purchases (no local content) and oh you can have a friend come over and queue (queue get it? see how smart they are?) their content that they have from the play store.
So it's pluses are neat queuing functionality and additional audio ports
it's cons are: no local content. can't run games, apps to your tv. and it's 300 bucks.
Scratch that. I don't kind of want it to fail, I hope it bombs. Reason being if it's a success less and less tablets will have hdmi in the future.
Again the nexus 7 is an amazing tablet, I just wish I had the version that wasn't downgraded for the validity of this device.
The only motive where this makes sense to me is because of a dedicated platform using linux. Valve's a great company, but I don't think they'd port to linux just cause 'it's a good thing' to quote John Carmack on his motives for having linux versions of past games. Sadly, even id doesn't do that anymore. What other motive could there be? it's not like the linux market share is growing.
What might make more sense is port steam and these games to android and sell them on the market, but that goes against valve's vision of using steam or something other means of distribution.
I'm actually an android fan, but I don't get this device. What I have against it is I read that previously the nexus 7 was to have hdmi out, but why have that when you can buy a nexus q?! And why have an sdcard slot when you can get it all from the cloud?
Seriously, besides additional outputs and having friends over being able to queue up their media (but not any media on their actual device) why is this worth $300?!
I would have been completely happy with hdmi on the nexus 7 instead. If these two moves take off I think sdcard slots and onboard hdmi will start to become a thing of the past.
It doesn't happen as often, but back in the day id coded games cross-platform, and certainly beyond casual games.
And valve brought over their games to MAC (and they didn't use opengl on windows so they had to port that to opengl) and now they are releasing their games on linux.
So I would think a game dodges a lot of the issues of apps (widgets, ui layout etc) as a game is almost 'sandboxed' in it's own environment.
I cannot believe this made the front page. At first I'm thinking really? They already slashed them from 499 to 199 last year and then I saw the article and it's linking to an ebay sale. Are you fucking kidding me?! What happened to slashdot... I see it was posted by timothy. Please go away timothy .
They also lost the ability to set overscan on s-video out. I have a 9800 that I use for that and I game a little with it still. I needed to update the driver and lost that ability. yeah I know, who uses s-video still, well I do on one tv that I haven't replaced yet and I driver update shouldn't mean I lose features.
Point being, it's one of those things they won't go back and fix either.
Can't agree here at all. AMD (formally ATI) had mediocre d3d drivers and were always notorious for having absolute craptacular opengl drivers. And that was over a decade ago and it's still the case as seen by recent opengl releases (brink and rage). And most of those users freaked out blaming the developer of the game when it's the driver's fault. And it's not modifying the drivers it's god damn fixing them!
I remember years ago Carmack said if he encountered a bug while testing on a nvidia machine he assumed he made the bug but when it was an ati machine he assumed it was them. And this assumption came after countless times of checking and ati's opengl driver was broken in some way or another.
Not that I know anything about writing drivers but how friggin hard is it to write a compliant driver?! Then optimize for speed. I still won't buy a an amd/ati card because of this. Who cares how good the hardware is if there is always bugs with each and ever game. All these developers can't write good code? I was actually starting to get tempted as their offerings were beating nvidia's at the time but then I saw what happened last year with brink and rage. AMD cards, no thanks.
I thought that, although I've never still bought an apple product and don't want to do so, I read you can only jailbreak the first version.
I'm thinking on building a media box for my mom. Just to play videos and stuff from stuff I ripped from all her dvds.
If so, can anyone recommend a barebones no fuss box to install this on? She has no 1080 content but I guess it would be nice if it could handle it for the future.
This topic brought to mind the Star Trek TNG episode 'force of nature' in which it was discovered that using warp drive tech was damaging sub-space.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature
So true. Not that I'm an MS fan, but we have an Access database with numerous clients deployed that was written for office 2000 and 2003. It had to make a couple of exception checks for 2000/2003 but that's it. We skipped 2007 and are getting office 2010 soon. Tried it recently on office 2010 and only two things needed to be changed, and now runs perfectly. And yes, this is probably one of those times where it should be a full-scale database etc, but point being, this uses numerous access forms, generates reports, deals with account logins, password resets etc. Pretty anything you can do in Access, is being done in this system, but yet only 2 things needed to be changed. Same thing with various vba excel tools.
I've read the same thing so many times that I cringe for a moment myself when running something on newer office versions and yet, 99% it runs or if not, with very little changes.
Hmm, I use vba all the time at work. Are there some circumstances where a database would be better? Yes. But excel is such a versatile tool that can automate so many tasks. Tons of employees do stuff manually in excel that can be automated via vba that is not big enough to warrant a full database. Most people don't even realize there is a development environment within the office suite. But it's attractive because everyone has it and there are no additional licensing costs.
Regarding what you said: "While I don't say this is impossible, I have been known to bet on the lottery. The fact is that, unless you wrote the spreadsheet yourself (and often even then), its very hard to be sure what it is actually doing with your data." Well first as the developer, I can test my vba by manually plugging formulas and arriving at the values without vba, as a comparison, ensuring I get the same results. And even though it's not built into vba, you can branch out and use regular expressions to ensure what is being inputted.
For someone down the line needing to 'know' (not use, because another user should be able to just use the sheet, but necessarily know the code arriving at those values) how it's arriving at what, would need to know vba obviously and then it's up to the past developer and how well written/documented it is. Same as anything else.
I'm curious, what does it need in ICS that is not in honeycomb? there are quite a few honeycomb tablets out there.
I didn't know what you were referring to and searched:
http://gizmodo.com/5872925/asus-relents-on-locked-transformer-prime-bootloader
"Asus says the bootloader had to be locked to provide you with certain content services. And it's true that if you choose to employ the (release-date-TBD) Transformer Prime unlock tool you'll be frozen out of Google video rental through the Android market. Oh, and you'll void your warranty. "
Why does it need to freeze you out? Let's say something similar like netflix. Works on windows and last I checked my bootloader wasn't locked. why does it need to be locked simply cause it's a mobile device?
About it's a start. Linux has had a hard time getting any significant desktop market share, but this was fertile territory and someone should have taken this path years ago. If say someone like Mark Shuttleworth saw this potential and realized that this is somewhere a linux based os could shine, maybe we'd already have a true open source mobile OS that had significant market share.
I would think being able to use a nickname would add a level of privacy.
Well, even with games it seems to depend on the engine/game. Most of valve games look absolutely amazing, especially l4d 1/2. TF2 looks great as well, portal, not so much.
But I imagine in a game that changes the focal point on the fly depending where I'm looking at with the mouse. Imagine looking at a enemy close to you and then shifting the mouse so your cross hair is on the enemy in the distance and the focal point changes (and add some blur to what you are not focusing on for good measure). I could picture that working fairly well. At least until they have some eye tracking hardware so they can 'see' what you are looking at.
Now since doom3 source has been released will someone please port it to d3d so I can play it in 3d. Never thought I'd want a d3d port of an id game but...
Iphone had hardware acceleration since launch. Android finally got it with honeycomb but the app developer had to invoke it to use it. From what I've read ice cream sandwich has it enabled for all apps. Finally. Like just under the wire of 2012 finally whereas iphone had this in 2007. Yes Iphone is just one hardware platform which makes things easier but still. Android should have had this a long time ago.
So unless it has a monster cpu you're not getting a smooth as glass experience on ANY android phone/tablet that's gingerbread or earlier.
I thought I read RIM claimed that how their network is setup in such a way that the encryption is done on the device and they don't have a means of accessing the contents?
I thought the two main criteria for a patent are: It hasn't been done before (prior art) and it's non-trivial. Like as in holy crap! What you just made there is awesome!! Please patent how you did this so society at large benefits from this and it is never lost!!
I don't think a swipe to start using a touch interface qualifies...
It doesn't sound like your apps need it but there's not much mention of hardware acceleration, which I'm probably more excited about that than other new features. It's not about eye candy, but touch displays typically have menus and icons moving around so responsiveness matters.
I'm hoping it will be relatively easy for developers to take advantage of this for current apps.
Why isn't multi-user support not more important? Maybe not so much in phones, but definitely tablets. If I am at my bro's and my nephew wants to play angry birds on my tablet, I should be able to hand it to him with confidence that he can't see my emails etc. And maybe a limited user (guest) account that can't install/uninstall stuff etc. Why does it have to be like win98 again?!