I can't find the post now, but I saw a post by an admin on the board that the GPU supports H.264 1080p30 HP encoding as well, but they aren't advertising it due to not exposing the interface or something, but they do have plans to do so in the future.
Considering that XBMC doesn't run on the iPhone, I assumed he was talking about video decoding. Given other posts in the thread, I'm not so sure anymore.
Actually, last time I went to the countryside, I had a strong enough signal to play my MPD playlist from home over my iPhone using MPoD. Of course, only the 128-kbps stream could keep up, so it was totally roughing it.
Still kickin it old school with qmail, bind, dovecot, apache, vsftp, roundcube, and few (hundred) custom scripts.
Still feverishly waiting for the Raspberry Pi so I can set up my MPD control/playback node with nas/esound/jack/pulseaudio/whichever ends up working well on that platform.
Yeah, I agree that there's other things that contribute more to the "feel" than the collection classes, but this is Slashdot and the collection classes not supporting strong typing is a much harder thing to argue against than API feel.
There are claims that each of these gives you the best of both worlds, but maybe that comes with experience, because as someone still picking up the language I've found that you generally get the worst of both worlds with both of them, as you have to learn the pitfalls of both sides, but don't get to take (much) advantage of the benefits of either. All in all, coming from C++ and C#, I am not a huge fan of Obj-C so far.
things like the dynamic typing being a big issue are long since history; Objective-C compilers will now give you a lot more compile time information and make these kind of runtime errors largely a thing of the past.
Ahahahahaha... that's rich. I mean, sure, it's true (as long as you don't try working with a collection, or any of the multitudes of #DEFINEs that the static analysis can't handle, or any of the API functions that only work on id even though they expect a particular type, or override any of the built-in functions that return id even when there's no need to do so), it's just funny.
As for it being nicer than C++, well, that's entirely... Subjective.
I have a very hard time classifying Objective-C as strongly-typed--no matter how much everyone says it is, it programs like any other weakly-typed language due in large part to the fact that all of its built-in collections are collections of ids, and a large portion (the majority? seems that way when I'm working with it, don't know actual #s) of the framework functions operate only on id. And its primary deployment (iOS) isn't garbage-collected.
Sales and marketing is mostly finding out what a person needs, why he needs that and how they can help the person with it.
You sir, are full of shit. I've spoken with enough salespeople, on both sides of the fence, to know you have abso-fucking-lutely no interest in how much somebody needs your product. You want to sell more, so that you get more money. Period. Everything else is just a justification, but the essence of sales is deception, and like any good grifter, you will never, ever, ever break character, to the point that you start believing the hype, and even living it--right up to the point that you think you might not make the sale.
Then, the gloves come off. I've had salespeople strongly imply that they were going to speak with my boss for not giving them sufficient consideration. I can't even count the number of salespeople that continued to try to keep me on the phone after I've made it clear that we already have something that solves our needs, and trying to convince a salesperson that you simply don't need their product at all? Hah! You might seem hard to convince to someone naive enough to believe your fake ultra-earnestness, but the truth is you know we don't need it, and you don't give a flying fuck.
I don't expect you to break character and accept this, but now that it's no longer my job to give every stupid asshole their "due consideration", I just want you to know that although I don't let it into my voice, I take great pleasure in politely saying, "No, thank you," and hanging up while you're still sputtering about how much I need a new tape library.
What's the canonical spelling of a given phoneme? Unless you use a transcription system, you'll run into two different people who think that the the other is using the "alternate" spelling. Although the magnitude of rules you need to agree on is much smaller, there's no general agreement on which system of phonetic spelling to use, whereas, alternate spellings of individual words aside, there is a general agreement on what the "correct" spelling of a word is.
So, if consistency is your primary goal, normal spelling is the way to go. With phonetic spelling, your chances of running into something with an alternate but still correct spelling is much higher.
Sure, we just need someone to define a universal and finite set of semantic elements that define every possible author's intent. Have fun with Only Revolutions, or if you're the type that thinks it's not a real book if you didn't read it in high school, E.E. Cummings.
Ideal and practical are, unfortunately, two very different things.
Ah, but a good programmer is a lazy person, and it's much easier to spell consistently if you spell correctly--there's a whole system of rules that acts as compression. Sure, there's outliers that you have to memorize, but without those rules you have to memorize everything.
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Breathing just one lungful will kill you.
Oh, get real.
1080p30 H.264 AVC High Profile Level 4.1
I can't find the post now, but I saw a post by an admin on the board that the GPU supports H.264 1080p30 HP encoding as well, but they aren't advertising it due to not exposing the interface or something, but they do have plans to do so in the future.
Considering that XBMC doesn't run on the iPhone, I assumed he was talking about video decoding. Given other posts in the thread, I'm not so sure anymore.
Argh, I must have messed up some HTML:
Specs
High profile good enough for ya?
I am absolutely drooling over this thing.
Eh? As far as I know the Pi maxes out at 1080p30, which is the same as the 4S.
If they keep using it, it will be.
Well, that or you'll be one of the 99.9% of the people who just die.
It could also use a bloo bloo bloo mod, now go fuck yourself.
My gallantry is bigger.
Actually, last time I went to the countryside, I had a strong enough signal to play my MPD playlist from home over my iPhone using MPoD. Of course, only the 128-kbps stream could keep up, so it was totally roughing it.
Still kickin it old school with qmail, bind, dovecot, apache, vsftp, roundcube, and few (hundred) custom scripts.
Still feverishly waiting for the Raspberry Pi so I can set up my MPD control/playback node with nas/esound/jack/pulseaudio/whichever ends up working well on that platform.
Gstreamer would be niiiice, but, alas...
If only there were more upstanding citizens such as yourself around to keep us straight.
Yeah, I agree that there's other things that contribute more to the "feel" than the collection classes, but this is Slashdot and the collection classes not supporting strong typing is a much harder thing to argue against than API feel.
On that subject, ARC is definitely not garbage collection. As almost an opposite cousin to the technically-strongly-typed-but-feels-weakly-typed type system, ARC feels like garbage collection but is technically not. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6385212/how-does-the-new-automatic-reference-counting-mechanism-work
There are claims that each of these gives you the best of both worlds, but maybe that comes with experience, because as someone still picking up the language I've found that you generally get the worst of both worlds with both of them, as you have to learn the pitfalls of both sides, but don't get to take (much) advantage of the benefits of either. All in all, coming from C++ and C#, I am not a huge fan of Obj-C so far.
things like the dynamic typing being a big issue are long since history; Objective-C compilers will now give you a lot more compile time information and make these kind of runtime errors largely a thing of the past.
Ahahahahaha... that's rich. I mean, sure, it's true (as long as you don't try working with a collection, or any of the multitudes of #DEFINEs that the static analysis can't handle, or any of the API functions that only work on id even though they expect a particular type, or override any of the built-in functions that return id even when there's no need to do so), it's just funny.
As for it being nicer than C++, well, that's entirely ... Subjective.
I have a very hard time classifying Objective-C as strongly-typed--no matter how much everyone says it is, it programs like any other weakly-typed language due in large part to the fact that all of its built-in collections are collections of ids, and a large portion (the majority? seems that way when I'm working with it, don't know actual #s) of the framework functions operate only on id. And its primary deployment (iOS) isn't garbage-collected.
I can't wait to see 40 of these reposted as status updates on facebook.
Not the dishwasher.
Sales and marketing is mostly finding out what a person needs, why he needs that and how they can help the person with it.
You sir, are full of shit. I've spoken with enough salespeople, on both sides of the fence, to know you have abso-fucking-lutely no interest in how much somebody needs your product. You want to sell more, so that you get more money. Period. Everything else is just a justification, but the essence of sales is deception, and like any good grifter, you will never, ever, ever break character, to the point that you start believing the hype, and even living it--right up to the point that you think you might not make the sale.
Then, the gloves come off. I've had salespeople strongly imply that they were going to speak with my boss for not giving them sufficient consideration. I can't even count the number of salespeople that continued to try to keep me on the phone after I've made it clear that we already have something that solves our needs, and trying to convince a salesperson that you simply don't need their product at all? Hah! You might seem hard to convince to someone naive enough to believe your fake ultra-earnestness, but the truth is you know we don't need it, and you don't give a flying fuck.
I don't expect you to break character and accept this, but now that it's no longer my job to give every stupid asshole their "due consideration", I just want you to know that although I don't let it into my voice, I take great pleasure in politely saying, "No, thank you," and hanging up while you're still sputtering about how much I need a new tape library.
What's the canonical spelling of a given phoneme? Unless you use a transcription system, you'll run into two different people who think that the the other is using the "alternate" spelling. Although the magnitude of rules you need to agree on is much smaller, there's no general agreement on which system of phonetic spelling to use, whereas, alternate spellings of individual words aside, there is a general agreement on what the "correct" spelling of a word is.
So, if consistency is your primary goal, normal spelling is the way to go. With phonetic spelling, your chances of running into something with an alternate but still correct spelling is much higher.
Sure, we just need someone to define a universal and finite set of semantic elements that define every possible author's intent. Have fun with Only Revolutions, or if you're the type that thinks it's not a real book if you didn't read it in high school, E.E. Cummings.
Ideal and practical are, unfortunately, two very different things.
Ah, but a good programmer is a lazy person, and it's much easier to spell consistently if you spell correctly--there's a whole system of rules that acts as compression. Sure, there's outliers that you have to memorize, but without those rules you have to memorize everything.
You dying in a fire.