I have never voted for anything in the Linux community (decisions are made for me I guess).
I have been given what is available (ffmpeg for instance), suck it up for the worst, and no choice in sight but making up ones for myself.
I have built my own utilities out of need.
I have never been told what and what not to do.
And at the company I work for that uses Linux/F/OSS, we pay for support occasionally.
Doesn't sound like democracy or communism, sounds more like capitalism.
that everyone thought he/she was a software developer.
Note, Y2K was also adding gasoline to a fire.
Funny, the dot-com bubble still lives on: we are still marketing (i.e. exploiting) the same ideas generated from those days (1997-2000). It's 2010, same ideas, just different hardware (multicore cpus, gigabit networks, 3G/WiFi access). Times has changed, but have stayed the same.
Also, Android's advantage is the JVM/DVM. Virtual machine, sandboxing, and such is cleaner to a developer to work with and can be used to keep users aware of where they are going/visiting/doing. It is the way to go for an app that really works in the cloud. Obj-C and the iPhone SDK are good for desktop-like mini-apps. As for networked/cloud apps, it has issues, which is another reason why the Apple appstore is locked down--they learned their lesson from Microsoft Windows: if you keep it open for developers and give full control of the hardware/filesystem, they're going to find holes and they will be exploited.
One can say each has its merits, Android more cloud network/centric and iPhone SDK more standalone/desktop-ish. Hence why games clearly work better on the iPhone (desktop-console games > network games currently). I tried WebOS and it's very promising more JS/Flash centric style, but it has a way to go as well. The Android team should look into JavaFx along with Flash for their OS enhancements...
I found a lot of graphics power and h/w usability with the iPhone SDK over the Android SDK, but I and other iphone app-devs rely on Apple's closed nature for security with webapps. I talk to devs and most don't even think about security--the SDK pretty much obscures that concept. Otherwise, it's easy to write an app that takes CC data, personal data, usage tracking, etc.. without knowing it's accessible. Also, when the iPhone crashes, it crashes hard whereas I can still hold a phone call on Android hardware if an app crashes (or force close it).... Of course, Apple is addressing security thru deployment via XCode settings (and the millions of menus/plists) instead of the VM and XML files (Android).
And lastly, ok, fanboy comment, but Eclipse tabs > XCode windows for editing. Really.
Look, HTC builds H/W, they stick anything Linux or WinMo underneath and then slap a modular UI ontop (SenseUI)-- the UI is very portable and can mimic a lot. It's a great design-concept IMHO.
It's also becoming the best UI out there and seriously threatening Apple's bread-n-butter: its heavily advertised, "innovative" UI design (for the ipXXX's).
For one, this is a great marketing ploy by Apple to put a stick in the ground that they practically invented the mobile device UI (which it's "mainstream" customers like as it's branding and makes them 'feel' good buying an Apple product). And two, as SenseUI evolves, its design and Android's dev model allow it to evolve much faster than the iPhone UI. And we all know 2 independent dev teams will likely converge/create similar features overtime (think Gnome vs. KDE), since the user cases are the same! Hence, one can conclude HTC/SenseUI can claim [similar] newer UI features since they can release faster. Basically, Apple can't keep up. Hence suing will slow HTC down so Apple can release UI features before HTC does and claim it's a Apple "innovation".
Let's face it, patents aren't for protection anymore, they're tools for marketing strategy and engineering time-to-market, i.e. in other words, market control.
Of course, all of the winning ideas will be accepted, thrown out to gov't contractors, which in turn will create solutions that drives their profit and create cost overruns and missed deadlines.
Big win for companies, not necessarily for the citizen.
Hence, depends on the wattage coming out of that tower--how many antennas, antenna shapes, etc...
If we're saying a tower's ERP is 50W+, you may want to rethinking buying, otherwise, inverse square law is you're friend. Also, your building is likely steel beam/mesh/rebarb-reinforced concrete, which absorbs/attenuates a lot of those cell frequencies since they are quite high in the spectrum. All you would need to worry about are windows. The FCC does have some info here.
On the positive side, you would have advertised 3G speeds and a solid connection that you could for-go having a broadband setup. And as mentioned, yes, phone next to head can be about 1-2W at a distance of 10mm for a perspective.
IMO, I think being a construction worker (in the hot sun, smog, noise, everyday), is more hazardous.
You obviously haven't seen a Ford Focus key ignition. I can pull that key out while it's in accessory mode. Key locks nowadays are cheap, and just as bad.
I wonder what will happen to Nexenta OS? I know the effort is currently low-key, but OpenSolaris, ZFS, Debian pkgs.... sounded like a best of both worlds.
I think you hit a very critical point. For all I know, Google, ebay, walmart are using Bloom boxes based on existing fuel-cell technology that everyone else sells. Since in the video they show a supposed bloom box in a shroud of insulation--is it using those new special plates, or the typical higher priced plates we see from other manufactures from GE, etc... If the plates are so expensive to make and need lots of energy to make, it's logical for them to used blooms for themselves. e.g. just because GE has the latest breakthrough in MRI scanning, they still sell a lot of MRI tech from 1970.
Hence, what was in the MSM articles and what's being spewed by KPC could be, likely, vaporware.
Has there even been a time when devices were compatible!!???
Palm devices weren't completely 1-to-1 with Handspring devices. When Treo cellphones came out, compatibility was out the door.
Then Symbian had it's own thing and Nokia pushed out different S-versions.
Microsoft PPC, Windows Mobile, Windows CF? Hello?
Apple? I can't run apps on my iPod unless I paid the stupid 9.99 fee? And iTunes complains all the time from that... Look at the 2.1 to 3.0 SDK mess/update. Same deal!
Mameo? It's linux, it's been forked, etc...
Access?
OpenMoko?
Bada?
Brew?
J2ME? MIDP, CLDC, CDC..? What?
Yeah, if this guy thinks Android will make the mobile industry fragmented with devices, he must be smoking too much iPhone weeds. Seriously.
"Or, in fact, much programming which involves using an existing "framework". "
Ding ding. If you are using a existing framework, then getting 'experienced' folks (intelligent is subjective and misleading) will have the domain knowledge, hence design is a lower priority from requirements/user stories. And then an Agile process used as a guideline will work out fine as along as management does the due-diligence in planning and getting clear test/success cases from the dev teams.
Of course all that can easily fall apart if the stakeholders don't want to spend the time (a lot of their time that is)... And chances are they don't want to spend the time in planning meetings and scrums.
Sounds like the same conclusion Palm came to and look at WebOS, pretty good decision IMO.
Granted, you need to give create to the iPad--it will determine whether a fully open OS is what consumers want (frankly, from the linux desktop experiment, no).
Also, last I recall, linux is successful because of either vendors support/supply H/W drivers, and the community's re-engineering efforts--which frankly is a bit counter-productive.
a still scene, likely no sound too. It's 2 guys standing still at the beginning. Basically he sees no activity.
He has less knowledge of the situation/environment, and his reaction is controllable in the brain as it's his conscious decision to fire first...
The second person that shoots, sees:
a person moving, sounds, movement, the knowledge that a gun is firing at him. Basically he sees activity. As since his brain is typically set for an unconscious reaction (by anticipation), he'll response faster since he'll have more information about situation by default.
Since the 2nd person has more information of the two (he's sensing, the 1st person is not), he responds faster.
You know, that how Apple makes money--why wall street loves them for it.
Jobs is a smart business guy, if Linux was the #1 OS, imagine Linus charging $1.99 for every Linux kernel update and forcing the dev community to go thru him (sounds oddly familar?). Charge for it and PROFIT is Jobs' conclusion.
Who the F cares if it's a reboot, you're still gonna watch it....in the theater....likely under 3D. And pay double for it.
The studio's figured out, the majority of folks will see it (it's branding folks!), then complain about it on places like Rotten Tomatoes and forget about it as Transformers 3 comes to the screen the following month. Since critics are now the advertising system (bought out like technology or political "journalists" aka. bloggers), there's no stopping the studios. So:
They still make >$200M.
SM consumer products still rolls forward
The brand is strong enough for a few stupid storylines in order for a really decent story to come out around SpiderMan 7
Studio stays cash full via blueray and online downloads--the long tail in effect...
Reboots in the production pipeline are now the norm folks.... And yaw'll will still go and see it. Even if the fanboys boycott.... Lucas was right, create new fans with the same "stuff", the old fans will always be fans. That means the same characters, stories, etc...
With cyber-economic "wars" being waged between countries (or the haves vs. the have nots), corporate espionage, and multi-national corporation vs. governments, Whatever google's response to these actions from hackers will ultimately start the once touted fracturing of the Internet. Looking at the reason in this scenario, tiered and fragmented networks are coming and here to stay. That in the end, is sad.
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I have never voted for anything in the Linux community (decisions are made for me I guess).
I have been given what is available (ffmpeg for instance), suck it up for the worst, and no choice in sight but making up ones for myself.
I have built my own utilities out of need.
I have never been told what and what not to do.
And at the company I work for that uses Linux/F/OSS, we pay for support occasionally.
Doesn't sound like democracy or communism, sounds more like capitalism.
You can't test enough. It buys you time. Test is more important than the development, especially in hard real-time systems.
Unfortunately, Toyota doesn't have time (time is money) as well as its priority was cash over safety, period.
It is funny that the armchair quarterbacking comes from the organization that consistently has bugs concerning english to metric unit conversions.
that everyone thought he/she was a software developer.
Note, Y2K was also adding gasoline to a fire.
Funny, the dot-com bubble still lives on: we are still marketing (i.e. exploiting) the same ideas generated from those days (1997-2000). It's 2010, same ideas, just different hardware (multicore cpus, gigabit networks, 3G/WiFi access). Times has changed, but have stayed the same.
Apply spark lines for every federal department?
I'm sure if he did that, that the lines would all go "downward"--which is something we already know.
Remember Metcalf...
Also, Android's advantage is the JVM/DVM. Virtual machine, sandboxing, and such is cleaner to a developer to work with and can be used to keep users aware of where they are going/visiting/doing. It is the way to go for an app that really works in the cloud. Obj-C and the iPhone SDK are good for desktop-like mini-apps. As for networked/cloud apps, it has issues, which is another reason why the Apple appstore is locked down--they learned their lesson from Microsoft Windows: if you keep it open for developers and give full control of the hardware/filesystem, they're going to find holes and they will be exploited.
One can say each has its merits, Android more cloud network/centric and iPhone SDK more standalone/desktop-ish. Hence why games clearly work better on the iPhone (desktop-console games > network games currently). I tried WebOS and it's very promising more JS/Flash centric style, but it has a way to go as well. The Android team should look into JavaFx along with Flash for their OS enhancements...
I found a lot of graphics power and h/w usability with the iPhone SDK over the Android SDK, but I and other iphone app-devs rely on Apple's closed nature for security with webapps. I talk to devs and most don't even think about security--the SDK pretty much obscures that concept. Otherwise, it's easy to write an app that takes CC data, personal data, usage tracking, etc.. without knowing it's accessible. Also, when the iPhone crashes, it crashes hard whereas I can still hold a phone call on Android hardware if an app crashes (or force close it).... Of course, Apple is addressing security thru deployment via XCode settings (and the millions of menus/plists) instead of the VM and XML files (Android).
And lastly, ok, fanboy comment, but Eclipse tabs > XCode windows for editing. Really.
Let's face it, only the $400+ Roombas really clean well compared to a manual Dyson/Hoover vac in a typical house.
For half that price, you're better off with Rovio. And buy a nice 200 vac, and get some exercise, and really clean your place.
Look, HTC builds H/W, they stick anything Linux or WinMo underneath and then slap a modular UI ontop (SenseUI)-- the UI is very portable and can mimic a lot. It's a great design-concept IMHO.
It's also becoming the best UI out there and seriously threatening Apple's bread-n-butter: its heavily advertised, "innovative" UI design (for the ipXXX's).
For one, this is a great marketing ploy by Apple to put a stick in the ground that they practically invented the mobile device UI (which it's "mainstream" customers like as it's branding and makes them 'feel' good buying an Apple product). And two, as SenseUI evolves, its design and Android's dev model allow it to evolve much faster than the iPhone UI. And we all know 2 independent dev teams will likely converge/create similar features overtime (think Gnome vs. KDE), since the user cases are the same! Hence, one can conclude HTC/SenseUI can claim [similar] newer UI features since they can release faster. Basically, Apple can't keep up. Hence suing will slow HTC down so Apple can release UI features before HTC does and claim it's a Apple "innovation".
Let's face it, patents aren't for protection anymore, they're tools for marketing strategy and engineering time-to-market, i.e. in other words, market control.
Of course, all of the winning ideas will be accepted, thrown out to gov't contractors, which in turn will create solutions that drives their profit and create cost overruns and missed deadlines.
Big win for companies, not necessarily for the citizen.
Hence, depends on the wattage coming out of that tower--how many antennas, antenna shapes, etc...
If we're saying a tower's ERP is 50W+, you may want to rethinking buying, otherwise, inverse square law is you're friend. Also, your building is likely steel beam/mesh/rebarb-reinforced concrete, which absorbs/attenuates a lot of those cell frequencies since they are quite high in the spectrum. All you would need to worry about are windows. The FCC does have some info here.
On the positive side, you would have advertised 3G speeds and a solid connection that you could for-go having a broadband setup. And as mentioned, yes, phone next to head can be about 1-2W at a distance of 10mm for a perspective.
IMO, I think being a construction worker (in the hot sun, smog, noise, everyday), is more hazardous.
Note to self: entropy is your friend.
You obviously haven't seen a Ford Focus key ignition. I can pull that key out while it's in accessory mode. Key locks nowadays are cheap, and just as bad.
I wonder what will happen to Nexenta OS? I know the effort is currently low-key, but OpenSolaris, ZFS, Debian pkgs.... sounded like a best of both worlds.
"Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate!"
Then a Pirate Arg Be.
I think you hit a very critical point. For all I know, Google, ebay, walmart are using Bloom boxes based on existing fuel-cell technology that everyone else sells. Since in the video they show a supposed bloom box in a shroud of insulation--is it using those new special plates, or the typical higher priced plates we see from other manufactures from GE, etc... If the plates are so expensive to make and need lots of energy to make, it's logical for them to used blooms for themselves. e.g. just because GE has the latest breakthrough in MRI scanning, they still sell a lot of MRI tech from 1970. Hence, what was in the MSM articles and what's being spewed by KPC could be, likely, vaporware.
Palm devices weren't completely 1-to-1 with Handspring devices. When Treo cellphones came out, compatibility was out the door.
Then Symbian had it's own thing and Nokia pushed out different S-versions.
Microsoft PPC, Windows Mobile, Windows CF? Hello?
Apple? I can't run apps on my iPod unless I paid the stupid 9.99 fee? And iTunes complains all the time from that... Look at the 2.1 to 3.0 SDK mess/update. Same deal!
Mameo? It's linux, it's been forked, etc...
Access?
OpenMoko?
Bada?
Brew?
J2ME? MIDP, CLDC, CDC..? What?
Yeah, if this guy thinks Android will make the mobile industry fragmented with devices, he must be smoking too much iPhone weeds. Seriously.
For the 1st physical prototype, they display a waterfall.
Just have them fly 50feet up, and let them malfunction (as expected in the first few prototypes) and fall and call it a success! Now that was easy.
"Or, in fact, much programming which involves using an existing "framework". "
Ding ding. If you are using a existing framework, then getting 'experienced' folks (intelligent is subjective and misleading) will have the domain knowledge, hence design is a lower priority from requirements/user stories. And then an Agile process used as a guideline will work out fine as along as management does the due-diligence in planning and getting clear test/success cases from the dev teams.
Of course all that can easily fall apart if the stakeholders don't want to spend the time (a lot of their time that is)... And chances are they don't want to spend the time in planning meetings and scrums.
"I am not a partisan of either camp. I am only interested in results and do not have the time or inclination to advocate a particular point of view."
;)
Great, another swing voter
Sounds like the same conclusion Palm came to and look at WebOS, pretty good decision IMO.
Granted, you need to give create to the iPad--it will determine whether a fully open OS is what consumers want (frankly, from the linux desktop experiment, no).
Also, last I recall, linux is successful because of either vendors support/supply H/W drivers, and the community's re-engineering efforts--which frankly is a bit counter-productive.
a still scene, likely no sound too. It's 2 guys standing still at the beginning. Basically he sees no activity.
He has less knowledge of the situation/environment, and his reaction is controllable in the brain as it's his conscious decision to fire first...
The second person that shoots, sees:
a person moving, sounds, movement, the knowledge that a gun is firing at him. Basically he sees activity. As since his brain is typically set for an unconscious reaction (by anticipation), he'll response faster since he'll have more information about situation by default.
Since the 2nd person has more information of the two (he's sensing, the 1st person is not), he responds faster.
"end up holding it back by keeping it closed. "
You know, that how Apple makes money--why wall street loves them for it.
Jobs is a smart business guy, if Linux was the #1 OS, imagine Linus charging $1.99 for every Linux kernel update and forcing the dev community to go thru him (sounds oddly familar?). Charge for it and PROFIT is Jobs' conclusion.
Last I heard was lithium was a precious metal--and 50% of the world's sources were in one country (So Am).
Also, last I heard was precious meant expensive and rare...
eye-tracking linked with auto scrolling would be nice. as well as zooming (which would finally rid us of this multi-touch nonsense!)
Just that a. Apple doesn't really know how to do it right (they may have an idea, but will fail), and the hardware is still not there...
The studio's figured out, the majority of folks will see it (it's branding folks!), then complain about it on places like Rotten Tomatoes and forget about it as Transformers 3 comes to the screen the following month. Since critics are now the advertising system (bought out like technology or political "journalists" aka. bloggers), there's no stopping the studios. So:
Reboots in the production pipeline are now the norm folks.... And yaw'll will still go and see it. Even if the fanboys boycott.... Lucas was right, create new fans with the same "stuff", the old fans will always be fans. That means the same characters, stories, etc...
With cyber-economic "wars" being waged between countries (or the haves vs. the have nots), corporate espionage, and multi-national corporation vs. governments, Whatever google's response to these actions from hackers will ultimately start the once touted fracturing of the Internet. Looking at the reason in this scenario, tiered and fragmented networks are coming and here to stay. That in the end, is sad.