iPads will slowly migrate into a niche of over-priced, over-hyped, prestige products - while a huge collection of product spreading over a very wide range of market niches will slowly take over the market. From ultra-cheap under-100$
yeah, pretty silly to compare those to an ipad. hardware / software-wise, those under $100 android tablets are dog poop. they run old versions of android, are under-powered as of last year, and have a third the battery life of a modern tablet. the android tablets that start to be actually comparable to the ipad actually cost *more*. and that's the problem.
apart from geeks that just want to have android to be different, the rest of the world see the ipad as the gold standard. they know it's good, they've heard good things about it. they know the company has a good rep. to get the them to consider something else, you have to do something drastic. that means have means being generations ahead hardware-wise or considerably cheaper (maybe $200 cheaper for a comparable $600 ipad). as of now the ipad 2 is the best hardware tablet out there, and considering their supply chains and manufacturer relationships, that's unlikely to change. so you must beat them on price, and so far no one has come close.
the business thinking of these companies drives me crazy. "i know, let's build something unproven that no one has heard about and charge for for it than the ipad!".
Android will only throw a app out of ram if it notices a issue, ios do so by default the moment one hit the home button. And while android leave things running, only one app can be running at any one time in ios (baring some recent exceptions like audio streaming).
maybe in the past, but "multi tasking" in iOS and android work pretty much the same on recent version. neither implement multitasking in the generic manner you see it on desktop OS. both allow special background "services" to run on behalf of applications. both give the impression of of persistently loaded applications by saving and restoring the applications state as it's sent to the back / brought forward.
Google, on the other hand, gets money when it delivers advertising to you.
replace "google" with magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and so on, and it doesn't sound so scary. the diff is that google can provide you with much more interesting services in exchange for your eyeballs then those other schemes.
It's unlikely that Chrome will over take Firefox any time soon. Firefox just has too much of a lead and hasn't allowed the browser to stagnate the way that MS did with IE. The problem is that it's just not as good a browser over all as the competition
if that has true, then chrome wouldn't have any significant market share. it has ~25%. 25% goes way outside of the bounds of the edge case geeks that are looking for a minimalist browser.
what google chrome has is a trusted, reliable, well known name. firefox does not. the average person asks: what's a firefox? is it a company? no? then what is it? mozilla? huh? it's a foundation? if a user has a choice between "google chrome" and "mozilla firefox", they'll choose the google one.
... or ruby, or python, or javascript, or objective C, or C++. oh, looks like we are covering a lot of ground with that statement.
the only places where OO languages are not dominate are situations where you can't afford to step back from the bare metal (OS internals, firmware, device drivers, etc). in other words, if the environment permits OO, then it dominates. that might say something about what developers prefer and what works best.
i use search for personal and work technical purpose throughout the day and i don't have any complaints. i occasionally end up on the sites that are just aggregating crap from other sites and adding ads, but that's the worst of it. i think in general most of us don't feel that search is "useless".
i also don't see any reason to think that this problem, if it actually became such a problem, is not solvable as you suggest. when you throw things out there like that, some explanation would be nice.
for those that don't have time to read it and take the quotes in context, here's the jist of it. she's complaining about the process of writing comments on report cards. she says it takes too long, and talks about how she was to sugar-coat her thoughts. for example, "socially awkward" ==> "works well independently". she then takes this idea to an extreme and creates a bullet list of what she'd really like to say... which is where the "dim-witted" and "rat-like" quotes are coming from (and it there are lots of other good ones in her blog). i think maybe she was trying to get her point across with humor, i'm not sure.
if we took 100 high schoolers are evaluated them, i am sure most of us would judge a large percentage of them awkward, or self-centered, lazy, air-headed, etc. that's just how high-schoolers come across. it's an awkward time in a human's life. if i met myself at 16, i am sure i'd think i was a jerk (and the 16 yo me would think the current me if a jerk also, probably). sure there are the exceptional high schoolers that managed to grow up early and are already well on their way to well adjusted adults, but that is not the norm.
which is this teacher's mistake. you can't expect high school kids to have it figured out, and if you can't handle that, then don't get involved with them.
about 1/2 of the comments were from current or former students. it was quite sad. there was one person who thought (knew) that some of the blog text was referring to her specifically. a lot of students were just hurt to find out that their instructor has these thoughts running through her head about them. she didn't mention names in ber blog thank god, but then again, that leaves every student wondering if they are the "dim-witted" one. say what you want about the value of honesty, but respect earns respect. she just lost any ability to teach any student that is aware of that blog.
And you know this how? If there is no proof of any lack of ability on her part then this should have no barring on her employment. People often go home and complain about their clients, yet still do damn good job for them.
did you really think before you wrote that? try writing a public blog about a client calling them names. let me know how that works out.
if that doesn't make anything click for you, try this: you give your financial information to your accountant for yearly tax prep. the next day he posts on his blog how stupid you are with your money. he doesn't tell you directly. he doesn't offer any constructive advice; he just calls you a dummy. would you still use him? would you think he's doing his job well?
news flash... any job you have, any, you are going to screw yourself by publicly calling the people you work with dim-witted and rat-like. if it doesn't get you straight up fired, you will at least lose your ability to influence and cooperate with your colleagues.
in what universe / field of work? i've found that it *always* involves the cooperation of others, and being an asshole doesn't exactly make folks want to cooperate.
do you think calling a dimwitted student such is going to make them smarter? "dim" is not a measurement of someone's effort, but rather of their mental capacity.
i agree, if a "slow" student is holding the class back, get them out of there, into special ed. for example. same thing if their behavior is disrupting the class. but insulting them serves no purpose.
1. dishing out of public humiliation is not in a teacher's job description.it's not her choice or prerogative. 2. her comments were not constructive. 3. her comments were subjective ("rat-like", "dim", "i hate...")
if there's guilt, it seems that the files involved are essentially insignificant in the context of android. does that factor into damages? is guilt here all or nothing? is stealing 100 lines of stolen source code the same as 1 million? common sense would say no but of course the laws here aren't common sense.
1. are there any android devices to date that aren't rootable? yes maybe there are, but saying the device is rootable doesn't make it especially unique or suited for development.
2. what exactly does unlocked mean when the only droids produced are on verizon's non-standard CDMA network? you can't use a droid anywhere except verizon. and by the way, "droid" is a trademark of verizon wireless.
i have consumer grade competition in my area between at&t and comcast. interestingly, once you price things out you see that they are almost exactly the same price for the same service. coincidence? i think not.
Regardless of your political point of view shouldn't the Internet remain free from regulation?"
really, whoever wrote this does not get it at all.
of course ideally the internet would be free from all regulation. unfortunately we live in a world where corporations that control the internet act to maximize their profits in ways that will hurt the consumer. who's going to stop them? our (only) recourse is to make laws that bind these corporations.
Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console
sure, check out the titles below. in the good ol' USA violence IS family friendly.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas--"... mission includes murder, theft, and destruction on every imaginable level. Player recovers his health by visiting prostitutes then recovers funds by beating them to death and taking their money. Player can wreak as much havoc as he likes without progressing through the game's storyline."
God of War--"Player becomes a ruthless warrior, seeking revenge against the gods who tricked him into murdering his own family. Prisoners are burned alive and player can use 'finishing moves' to kill opponents, like tearing a victim in half."
NARC--"Player can choose between two narcotics agents attempting to take a dangerous drug off the streets and shut down the KRAK cartel while being subject to temptations including drugs and money. To enhance abilities, player takes drugs including pot, Quaaludes, ecstasy, LSD, and 'Liquid Soul'--which provides the ability to kick enemies' heads off."
OP: hard to make a cross-dist steam client you: just bundle libc
do you really think that simply bundling libc is the answer to making cross-dist multi-OS-version high-end games for linux? do you think it's that simple?
that's what folks in the industry call "hand waving". i tried to install some games from the ubunto "app store" or whatever it's called. one out of the 5 i tried worked. obviously there's some complexity involved in making a linux app cross-dist.
any java developer worth their weight in peanuts is well aware of garbage collection and how it's affected by the code they write. so, you're not a java developer, or you are a poor one.
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iPads will slowly migrate into a niche of over-priced, over-hyped, prestige products - while a huge collection of product spreading over a very wide range of market niches will slowly take over the market. From ultra-cheap under-100$
yeah, pretty silly to compare those to an ipad. hardware / software-wise, those under $100 android tablets are dog poop. they run old versions of android, are under-powered as of last year, and have a third the battery life of a modern tablet. the android tablets that start to be actually comparable to the ipad actually cost *more*. and that's the problem.
apart from geeks that just want to have android to be different, the rest of the world see the ipad as the gold standard. they know it's good, they've heard good things about it. they know the company has a good rep. to get the them to consider something else, you have to do something drastic. that means have means being generations ahead hardware-wise or considerably cheaper (maybe $200 cheaper for a comparable $600 ipad). as of now the ipad 2 is the best hardware tablet out there, and considering their supply chains and manufacturer relationships, that's unlikely to change. so you must beat them on price, and so far no one has come close.
the business thinking of these companies drives me crazy. "i know, let's build something unproven that no one has heard about and charge for for it than the ipad!".
Android will only throw a app out of ram if it notices a issue, ios do so by default the moment one hit the home button. And while android leave things running, only one app can be running at any one time in ios (baring some recent exceptions like audio streaming).
maybe in the past, but "multi tasking" in iOS and android work pretty much the same on recent version. neither implement multitasking in the generic manner you see it on desktop OS. both allow special background "services" to run on behalf of applications. both give the impression of of persistently loaded applications by saving and restoring the applications state as it's sent to the back / brought forward.
Google, on the other hand, gets money when it delivers advertising to you.
replace "google" with magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and so on, and it doesn't sound so scary. the diff is that google can provide you with much more interesting services in exchange for your eyeballs then those other schemes.
and/or the NSA
speculation is fun!
It's unlikely that Chrome will over take Firefox any time soon. Firefox just has too much of a lead and hasn't allowed the browser to stagnate the way that MS did with IE. The problem is that it's just not as good a browser over all as the competition
if that has true, then chrome wouldn't have any significant market share. it has ~25%. 25% goes way outside of the bounds of the edge case geeks that are looking for a minimalist browser.
what google chrome has is a trusted, reliable, well known name. firefox does not. the average person asks: what's a firefox? is it a company? no? then what is it? mozilla? huh? it's a foundation? if a user has a choice between "google chrome" and "mozilla firefox", they'll choose the google one.
Not everything is written in Java. Or C#
... or ruby, or python, or javascript, or objective C, or C++. oh, looks like we are covering a lot of ground with that statement.
the only places where OO languages are not dominate are situations where you can't afford to step back from the bare metal (OS internals, firmware, device drivers, etc). in other words, if the environment permits OO, then it dominates. that might say something about what developers prefer and what works best.
Don't just look at the India of today, look at the India of 20, 30, 50 years from now. That's what America is competing with.
yeah well, don't just look at the america from 50 years from now, look at the somalia of 150 years from now. that's what india will be competing with.
speculation is fun.
It still remains to be seen whether Android will be able to contribute significantly to the company's revenue growth.
do android users perform searches from their phones? i think that should answer your question.
i use search for personal and work technical purpose throughout the day and i don't have any complaints. i occasionally end up on the sites that are just aggregating crap from other sites and adding ads, but that's the worst of it. i think in general most of us don't feel that search is "useless".
i also don't see any reason to think that this problem, if it actually became such a problem, is not solvable as you suggest. when you throw things out there like that, some explanation would be nice.
i just read through the entire blog, including comments. here's the cache link,
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sOtUI146FXAJ:natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say.html%3FshowComment%3D1297206567911+natalieshandbasket.blogspot.com+rat+dim&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
for those that don't have time to read it and take the quotes in context, here's the jist of it. she's complaining about the process of writing comments on report cards. she says it takes too long, and talks about how she was to sugar-coat her thoughts. for example, "socially awkward" ==> "works well independently". she then takes this idea to an extreme and creates a bullet list of what she'd really like to say ... which is where the "dim-witted" and "rat-like" quotes are coming from (and it there are lots of other good ones in her blog). i think maybe she was trying to get her point across with humor, i'm not sure.
if we took 100 high schoolers are evaluated them, i am sure most of us would judge a large percentage of them awkward, or self-centered, lazy, air-headed, etc. that's just how high-schoolers come across. it's an awkward time in a human's life. if i met myself at 16, i am sure i'd think i was a jerk (and the 16 yo me would think the current me if a jerk also, probably). sure there are the exceptional high schoolers that managed to grow up early and are already well on their way to well adjusted adults, but that is not the norm.
which is this teacher's mistake. you can't expect high school kids to have it figured out, and if you can't handle that, then don't get involved with them.
about 1/2 of the comments were from current or former students. it was quite sad. there was one person who thought (knew) that some of the blog text was referring to her specifically. a lot of students were just hurt to find out that their instructor has these thoughts running through her head about them. she didn't mention names in ber blog thank god, but then again, that leaves every student wondering if they are the "dim-witted" one. say what you want about the value of honesty, but respect earns respect. she just lost any ability to teach any student that is aware of that blog.
And you know this how? If there is no proof of any lack of ability on her part then this should have no barring on her employment. People often go home and complain about their clients, yet still do damn good job for them.
did you really think before you wrote that? try writing a public blog about a client calling them names. let me know how that works out.
if that doesn't make anything click for you, try this: you give your financial information to your accountant for yearly tax prep. the next day he posts on his blog how stupid you are with your money. he doesn't tell you directly. he doesn't offer any constructive advice; he just calls you a dummy. would you still use him? would you think he's doing his job well?
means most teachers really need a place to vent
news flash ... any job you have, any, you are going to screw yourself by publicly calling the people you work with dim-witted and rat-like. if it doesn't get you straight up fired, you will at least lose your ability to influence and cooperate with your colleagues.
in what universe / field of work? i've found that it *always* involves the cooperation of others, and being an asshole doesn't exactly make folks want to cooperate.
do you think calling a dimwitted student such is going to make them smarter? "dim" is not a measurement of someone's effort, but rather of their mental capacity.
i agree, if a "slow" student is holding the class back, get them out of there, into special ed. for example. same thing if their behavior is disrupting the class. but insulting them serves no purpose.
1. dishing out of public humiliation is not in a teacher's job description.it's not her choice or prerogative. ...")
2. her comments were not constructive.
3. her comments were subjective ("rat-like", "dim", "i hate
Java been dead, Its not portable. Its fractured to many people have to many incompatible versions.
ever heard of android? pretty big boost for java i'd say.
if there's guilt, it seems that the files involved are essentially insignificant in the context of android. does that factor into damages? is guilt here all or nothing? is stealing 100 lines of stolen source code the same as 1 million? common sense would say no but of course the laws here aren't common sense.
1. are there any android devices to date that aren't rootable? yes maybe there are, but saying the device is rootable doesn't make it especially unique or suited for development.
2. what exactly does unlocked mean when the only droids produced are on verizon's non-standard CDMA network? you can't use a droid anywhere except verizon. and by the way, "droid" is a trademark of verizon wireless.
i have consumer grade competition in my area between at&t and comcast. interestingly, once you price things out you see that they are almost exactly the same price for the same service. coincidence? i think not.
Regardless of your political point of view shouldn't the Internet remain free from regulation?"
really, whoever wrote this does not get it at all.
of course ideally the internet would be free from all regulation. unfortunately we live in a world where corporations that control the internet act to maximize their profits in ways that will hurt the consumer. who's going to stop them? our (only) recourse is to make laws that bind these corporations.
Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console
sure, check out the titles below. in the good ol' USA violence IS family friendly.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas--"... mission includes murder, theft, and destruction on every imaginable level. Player recovers his health by visiting prostitutes then recovers funds by beating them to death and taking their money. Player can wreak as much havoc as he likes without progressing through the game's storyline."
God of War--"Player becomes a ruthless warrior, seeking revenge against the gods who tricked him into murdering his own family. Prisoners are burned alive and player can use 'finishing moves' to kill opponents, like tearing a victim in half."
NARC--"Player can choose between two narcotics agents attempting to take a dangerous drug off the streets and shut down the KRAK cartel while being subject to temptations including drugs and money. To enhance abilities, player takes drugs including pot, Quaaludes, ecstasy, LSD, and 'Liquid Soul'--which provides the ability to kick enemies' heads off."
and more!
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/gta4/news.html?sid=6140463
let me break it down for you ...
OP: hard to make a cross-dist steam client
you: just bundle libc
do you really think that simply bundling libc is the answer to making cross-dist multi-OS-version high-end games for linux? do you think it's that simple?
I fail to understand the problem?
that's what folks in the industry call "hand waving". i tried to install some games from the ubunto "app store" or whatever it's called. one out of the 5 i tried worked. obviously there's some complexity involved in making a linux app cross-dist.
and the fact that you think opengl is "new fangled" really hurts your credibility.
You really are an idiot, aren't you?
opengl release 1.0 - 1992.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#OpenGL_1.0
Just a guess, but perhaps to find the proper function contained in the library?
Dumbass.
ever tried search?
Java's garbage collection encourages sloppy programming -
any java developer worth their weight in peanuts is well aware of garbage collection and how it's affected by the code they write. so, you're not a java developer, or you are a poor one.