If anything I would say they didn't open source enough of their products for it to be a success
while i am sure there are a few very minor exceptions, they open-sourced *all* of their software (corporate mandate) and a good portion of their hardware (in the form of chip designs). what more could they have done?
maybe they didn't know how to turn it into a wild success, but you have to give them kudos for trying. no company was a bigger contributor to open source. their heart was in the right place even if they stumbled in execution in a few places.
Garbage collection interacts very badly with swap. Once your Java program starts hitting the disk, it will stand still for minutes. Bigger memory sizes are solving this problem nowadays.
swap allows on OS to move UNUSED applications / etc off to disk, so they can be restored later to main memory when they need to run. if your system is trying to run an application that's located in swap, that's called thrashing and any application is going to perform like crap.
what do you expect when you start trying to run your app out of "memory" that's 100x slower than main memory?
The defaults are too small for almost anything.
and if the defaults were higher you'd complain that it unnecessarily grabbed more memory than it needs. that's why it's a parameter, because every application is different. do you really think they could have one setting that worked well for an enterprise application server, your IDE, and an applet on a web page?
As an icing of the cake, Sun's JVM also makes use of several different areas of memory, all requiring their own parameter
for the average app, you don't care about these details. if you have a high end enterprise server application you have the power to tweak things. any high-end application, regardless of the language / machine it runs in / on, is going to require memory tweaks.
The Java class library is huge
it's huge, but why do you care? it's not like it's a library you bundle with your app. maybe you should list what is there that you think isn't important?
yet lacks such newfangled things as OpenGL support.
there are many high-quality java bindings to opengl, and the fact that you think opengl is "new fangled" really hurts your credibility.
nook color doesn't have android market support right? that's a problem for most of the cheaper android tablets. i understand you can get it through hacking / rooting but that's not going to happen for most of the devices.
that nails the problem. a lot of folks like the ipad but are put off by the price. if it was replacing my phone or my laptop i wouldn't mind spending $700 for it, but a tablet doesn't replace anything. it's an extra gadget. it won't enable you to do without owning a phone or a laptop. for me and i think a lot of others, that means a tablet needs to be much cheaper.
send in the clones. the problem there is that they are all about the same price as an ipad (counting out the chinese knockoffs). consumers like myself ask why buy a clone when i can get the real thing for a little more? android tablets need to be significantly cheaper, like in the $250-$350 range.
The thing to remember about warez crackers, is they tend to be more skilled than the people who release the games. Trying to outsmart them is a fallacy
how did you come to that conclusion? do you think defeating the copy protection is more complex than writing the game itself?
What happens if Google launches a gaming platform for example.
folks seem to think that google is some magical entity that can dominate any sector they wish. remember that the only really widely successful (in terms of profit) thing google has done is search. other successful projects like gmail or android aren't money makers in themselves but are just a tie in to search. even android is just the realization that an every-increasing number of searches will be coming from smartphones, and a way to not be under control of the folks at microsoft and apple when it comes to smartphone searches.
We clearly didn't want a gaming phone then, but do we want it now?
clearly we do. take a look at the game section on the appstore. the caveat is that it has to be a decent phone as well. if it just runs android and can tap into an existing library of quality games, it at least has a good chance of being a success.
... "Sorry dear I didn't get that call about your mom being rushed to the hospital, but I was listening to Aerosmith and totally ran the battery dead, sorry". I mean it isn't the smartest idea to tie a device you need and use every. single. day. and have its functionality depend on whether or not you listened to music on lunch break.
or maybe this,
... "Sorry dear I didn't get that call about your mom being rushed to the hospital, but I was using Google navigator and totally ran the battery dead, sorry". I mean it isn't the smartest idea to tie a device you need and use every. single. day. and have its functionality depend on whether or not you needed your GPS on lunch break.
the popularity of smartphones is at least partly in that they are multifunction devices. i was very happy on the day i could stop carrying around a dedicated mp3 player. i was even happier when i could put my old dedicated GPS in the drawer. i think a lot of folks feel the same way.
Question: Why exactly would you WANT this?
the game market for iphone is huge, and the lack of games on android is the main differentiator between it and iOS devices nowadays. will this be any harder on your battery than current smartphone games? if you game on you iphone or android device battery life goes down the tubes. yet, somehow people are clambering for more and better games.
The dumbest thing the republicans could possibly do is run her in 2012.
and the second dumbest thing would be to run her as vice president. oh wait...
you'd think that for something as important as the presidency where there are billions of dollars of tax breaks and bailouts on the line for america's richest 0.01% they would have done a little homework on her.
this is just another reminder that those people you may think are so smart and have it together are just a bunch of dummies like you and me. never make the mistake of being in awe of someone because they are in an elevated position.
--- except that you can get that same magazine at waldenbooks, borders, amazon, and a host of other places. not the case w/ this app, which is the whole point of the article.
the most "free" market in the world is a great place if you are well off. otherwise, it's can be pretty crappy. if you don't know or believe that, pick up the CIA fact book and look at how the US ranks.
sure, and in a free market Big Bakery Inc. artificially lowers prices and drives Little Corner Bakery out of business. what stops them from doing that? government.
Still, if we get another G.W. Bush or Obama, I'd have to consider default in the next ten years a real possibility.
the reality is that an US politician that cuts spending to the required degree will be cast out of office. cutting spending inevitably means some go without, and it only takes a small number of "no more food for orphans" type of stories to hopeless weigh public opinion against them.
the US populace doesn't want the government to stop spending.
the only fact i can point to is that the debt decreased under carter and clinton and rose under reagan and the bushes. it grew massively under reagan in a time when the economy was booming when we should have been paying it down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
draw your own conclusions. i think we need to wait and see what happens with obama, and bear in mind that it's pretty difficult to cut spending in a recession.
clearly it was a bug, which is my my point. i'm not saying that in general linux can't power down a notebook LCD, i'm saying that it wouldn't power down mine. windows works fine. it's running on the same box now.
linux is superior because you can shut down the LCD power manually (from the command line)? comments like this are among the examples i use to point out how out of touch some linux users are are with the general computing populace. really, do you think that's important to even a tiny fraction of users?
I save money by not needing AV and paying for updates,
microsoft provides a free AV / malware suite called security essentials. updates to it come along with other OS updates. it's widely acknowledged to be the lightest weight least intrusive AV solution.
Fifteen years ago your statement was accurate, but the pendulem has swung the other way. Most distros just plain work, right out of the box, no muss, fuss, or tweaking (unless you just want to).
yes, unless you want to play a DVD. or you want your multimedia keys to work. or use the lightscribe features of your DVD ROM. or plug in my android phone. or use my SD card reader slot. or power off my laptop's LCD display when idle. oh, and the fact that i literally got 1/2 the battery life on linux compared to other options --- i had all of these issues with a newish run of the mill off the shelf HP laptop.
i try linux every 5 years or so and it's always the same story. most major things work, but there are always a host of things that don't. i usually manage to get about 1/2 of those working by spending my precious free time googling on the topic, and deal with the rest until i am finally fed up and switch to something else.
Why is everyone pushing android for tablets when even the original author [engadget.com] says it's not designed for that purpose.
that article refers to android 2.2. android 3.0 is specifically designed with tablets in mind and is targeted for early next year. most vendors are waiting for 3.0 before joining the tablet race.
Maemo & Meego are opensource and free, and they are designed to be used on tablets.
maybe because nobody knows what the heck maemo / meego / moblin are therefore wouldn't buy a tablet based on something they've never heard of. i'm just saying...
pit 1-3 terrorist with steak and butter knives against 30 angry passengers. i know where i'll put my bet. the terrorist might be able to would 1 passenger, and the 29 others would tear them apart.
1. you don't have a lighter or matches. let's assume you got that aboard anyway. 2. unless you have moonshine-level proof alcohol, it's quite hard to make it ignite. it's not like a bottle of gasoline. 3. alcohol burns cleanly, so the fumes aren't going to be (very) toxic 4. they have fire extinguishers all over the plane. 5. the stewards are trained to handle fires. 6. the interior of planes are furnished with fire-retardant materials 7. the bottle probably wouldn't break against the plastic walls of a plane 8. and so on
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If anything I would say they didn't open source enough of their products for it to be a success
while i am sure there are a few very minor exceptions, they open-sourced *all* of their software (corporate mandate) and a good portion of their hardware (in the form of chip designs). what more could they have done?
maybe they didn't know how to turn it into a wild success, but you have to give them kudos for trying. no company was a bigger contributor to open source. their heart was in the right place even if they stumbled in execution in a few places.
Garbage collection interacts very badly with swap. Once your Java program starts hitting the disk, it will stand still for minutes. Bigger memory sizes are solving this problem nowadays.
swap allows on OS to move UNUSED applications / etc off to disk, so they can be restored later to main memory when they need to run. if your system is trying to run an application that's located in swap, that's called thrashing and any application is going to perform like crap.
what do you expect when you start trying to run your app out of "memory" that's 100x slower than main memory?
The defaults are too small for almost anything.
and if the defaults were higher you'd complain that it unnecessarily grabbed more memory than it needs. that's why it's a parameter, because every application is different. do you really think they could have one setting that worked well for an enterprise application server, your IDE, and an applet on a web page?
As an icing of the cake, Sun's JVM also makes use of several different areas of memory, all requiring their own parameter
for the average app, you don't care about these details. if you have a high end enterprise server application you have the power to tweak things. any high-end application, regardless of the language / machine it runs in / on, is going to require memory tweaks.
The Java class library is huge
it's huge, but why do you care? it's not like it's a library you bundle with your app. maybe you should list what is there that you think isn't important?
yet lacks such newfangled things as OpenGL support.
there are many high-quality java bindings to opengl, and the fact that you think opengl is "new fangled" really hurts your credibility.
complicated
spoken like a true non-java engineer.
nook color doesn't have android market support right? that's a problem for most of the cheaper android tablets. i understand you can get it through hacking / rooting but that's not going to happen for most of the devices.
that nails the problem. a lot of folks like the ipad but are put off by the price. if it was replacing my phone or my laptop i wouldn't mind spending $700 for it, but a tablet doesn't replace anything. it's an extra gadget. it won't enable you to do without owning a phone or a laptop. for me and i think a lot of others, that means a tablet needs to be much cheaper.
send in the clones. the problem there is that they are all about the same price as an ipad (counting out the chinese knockoffs). consumers like myself ask why buy a clone when i can get the real thing for a little more? android tablets need to be significantly cheaper, like in the $250-$350 range.
The thing to remember about warez crackers, is they tend to be more skilled than the people who release the games. Trying to outsmart them is a fallacy
how did you come to that conclusion? do you think defeating the copy protection is more complex than writing the game itself?
What happens if Google launches a gaming platform for example.
folks seem to think that google is some magical entity that can dominate any sector they wish. remember that the only really widely successful (in terms of profit) thing google has done is search. other successful projects like gmail or android aren't money makers in themselves but are just a tie in to search. even android is just the realization that an every-increasing number of searches will be coming from smartphones, and a way to not be under control of the folks at microsoft and apple when it comes to smartphone searches.
We clearly didn't want a gaming phone then, but do we want it now?
clearly we do. take a look at the game section on the appstore. the caveat is that it has to be a decent phone as well. if it just runs android and can tap into an existing library of quality games, it at least has a good chance of being a success.
what if it was like this,
... "Sorry dear I didn't get that call about your mom being rushed to the hospital, but I was listening to Aerosmith and totally ran the battery dead, sorry". I mean it isn't the smartest idea to tie a device you need and use every. single. day. and have its functionality depend on whether or not you listened to music on lunch break.
or maybe this,
... "Sorry dear I didn't get that call about your mom being rushed to the hospital, but I was using Google navigator and totally ran the battery dead, sorry". I mean it isn't the smartest idea to tie a device you need and use every. single. day. and have its functionality depend on whether or not you needed your GPS on lunch break.
the popularity of smartphones is at least partly in that they are multifunction devices. i was very happy on the day i could stop carrying around a dedicated mp3 player. i was even happier when i could put my old dedicated GPS in the drawer. i think a lot of folks feel the same way.
Question: Why exactly would you WANT this?
the game market for iphone is huge, and the lack of games on android is the main differentiator between it and iOS devices nowadays. will this be any harder on your battery than current smartphone games? if you game on you iphone or android device battery life goes down the tubes. yet, somehow people are clambering for more and better games.
the environment is mono lake is so different (and hostile to life as we know it) that it might as well be ET.
The dumbest thing the republicans could possibly do is run her in 2012.
and the second dumbest thing would be to run her as vice president. oh wait ...
you'd think that for something as important as the presidency where there are billions of dollars of tax breaks and bailouts on the line for america's richest 0.01% they would have done a little homework on her.
this is just another reminder that those people you may think are so smart and have it together are just a bunch of dummies like you and me. never make the mistake of being in awe of someone because they are in an elevated position.
apps that are essentially fronts for a website, or that duplicate what can be accomplished through a website? definitely more than dozens. anyway.
--- except that you can get that same magazine at waldenbooks, borders, amazon, and a host of other places. not the case w/ this app, which is the whole point of the article.
First, as many others have pointed out, why does there need to be an Android magazine app, as opposed to a web page and RSS feed?
hi,
there are thousands of magazine / online magazine newspaper apps on both the android market and the apple app store. so why are those approved?
yes, those geniuses at "online android magazine #53" really pulled the wool over the eyes of apple and its thousands of highly paid PR reps.
republicans haven absolutely been worse on the national debt, in the past 30 years at least. we'll have to wait and see what obama does, not that anyone pays attention to that when it comes to voting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
but it is far better than ANY other system
that's an opinion only.
the most "free" market in the world is a great place if you are well off. otherwise, it's can be pretty crappy.
if you don't know or believe that, pick up the CIA fact book and look at how the US ranks.
i live in the US and i love my country, but we're not living in the 1950's anymore. many countries have surpassed us in quality of life rankings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index
we're #13, behind many socialist-leaning nations.
sure, and in a free market Big Bakery Inc. artificially lowers prices and drives Little Corner Bakery out of business. what stops them from doing that? government.
Still, if we get another G.W. Bush or Obama, I'd have to consider default in the next ten years a real possibility.
the reality is that an US politician that cuts spending to the required degree will be cast out of office. cutting spending inevitably means some go without, and it only takes a small number of "no more food for orphans" type of stories to hopeless weigh public opinion against them.
the US populace doesn't want the government to stop spending.
the only fact i can point to is that the debt decreased under carter and clinton and rose under reagan and the bushes. it grew massively under reagan in a time when the economy was booming when we should have been paying it down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
draw your own conclusions. i think we need to wait and see what happens with obama, and bear in mind that it's pretty difficult to cut spending in a recession.
and to the LCD,
clearly it was a bug, which is my my point. i'm not saying that in general linux can't power down a notebook LCD, i'm saying that it wouldn't power down mine. windows works fine. it's running on the same box now.
linux is superior because you can shut down the LCD power manually (from the command line)? comments like this are among the examples i use to point out how out of touch some linux users are are with the general computing populace. really, do you think that's important to even a tiny fraction of users?
well actually, i run the android sdk on linux (unbuntu), windows 7, and mac os so it's not FUD its called empirical evidence.
windows 7 required installing a driver. one or two clicks.
macos required nothing.
on linux, i had to edit configuration files. oh and also, i have to restart adb as root or it cannot detect the version / information of my device.
judge for yourself which is the better experience.
I save money by not needing AV and paying for updates,
microsoft provides a free AV / malware suite called security essentials. updates to it come along with other OS updates. it's widely acknowledged to be the lightest weight least intrusive AV solution.
Fifteen years ago your statement was accurate, but the pendulem has swung the other way. Most distros just plain work, right out of the box, no muss, fuss, or tweaking (unless you just want to).
yes, unless you want to play a DVD. or you want your multimedia keys to work. or use the lightscribe features of your DVD ROM. or plug in my android phone. or use my SD card reader slot. or power off my laptop's LCD display when idle. oh, and the fact that i literally got 1/2 the battery life on linux compared to other options --- i had all of these issues with a newish run of the mill off the shelf HP laptop.
i try linux every 5 years or so and it's always the same story. most major things work, but there are always a host of things that don't. i usually manage to get about 1/2 of those working by spending my precious free time googling on the topic, and deal with the rest until i am finally fed up and switch to something else.
Why is everyone pushing android for tablets when even the original author [engadget.com] says it's not designed for that purpose.
that article refers to android 2.2. android 3.0 is specifically designed with tablets in mind and is targeted for early next year. most vendors are waiting for 3.0 before joining the tablet race.
Maemo & Meego are opensource and free, and they are designed to be used on tablets.
maybe because nobody knows what the heck maemo / meego / moblin are therefore wouldn't buy a tablet based on something they've never heard of. i'm just saying ...
pit 1-3 terrorist with steak and butter knives against 30 angry passengers. i know where i'll put my bet. the terrorist might be able to would 1 passenger, and the 29 others would tear them apart.
1. you don't have a lighter or matches. let's assume you got that aboard anyway.
2. unless you have moonshine-level proof alcohol, it's quite hard to make it ignite. it's not like a bottle of gasoline.
3. alcohol burns cleanly, so the fumes aren't going to be (very) toxic
4. they have fire extinguishers all over the plane.
5. the stewards are trained to handle fires.
6. the interior of planes are furnished with fire-retardant materials
7. the bottle probably wouldn't break against the plastic walls of a plane
8. and so on
If the security serves ANY purpose, that is to make the people who are likely to actually blow a plane up look nervous about it.
more nervous than thinking about if they succeed? getting captured by TSA would seem like a relief.
ya ya martyr mentality aside, even the most dedicated terrorist fears death on some level. that's hard-wired into all animals.