It's pretty good for non-video. Depends on exactly what you try to force it to do, of course. But Strongbad is no problem. Dig around youtube and you can find Strongbad playing on the iPad under Frash, or Zero Punctuation playing under Android.
Down in the comments for the story, someone has posted this counterexample to youtube. In it, he uses Flash to watch the video complaining about how badly Flash video works on mobile phones on his mobile phone:
I disagree. HTML5 video can come along and take the whole market, and it won't affect Flash adoption. If you bullet-list what Flash does, you'll have a lot more than "video", and a lot of it is very very important.
Currently Apple users are not paying any price despite having a very popular mobile platform that every now and then has well-publicised vulnerabilities. Hmm.
Apple products are only free if your money is not worth anything.;-)
But without the camera orientation and motion information, how could we know if it's camera shake blur or subject motion blur?
Imagine, for instance, a large delivery van blurred across the frame from left to right while the image is blurred due to camera motion from right to left. What should be the correction to remove camera shake blur? And how would that be determined merely from the data in the photo?
I don't doubt that merely processing the photo could make it "better"... but I do doubt it would do as good a job of removing camera shake in the general case as the external rig does.
Admittedly, I have no idea how much information is gleaned from the different sources. But I'm guessing from the results that it is enough to visually correct the photo.
I bet the Android rootkit isn't the only rootkit on that CD... I for one wouldn't put anything I obtained at DefCon into any equipment I owned. Maybe not even into my shredder.
I use my Blendtec. Seriously. It blends everything, and I have never once had a problem with it being hacked. Just blended some DefCon stuff earlier tonight, too. I keep the blender right here next to my... --Huh. That's weird. It was here just a few minutes ago. What is that strange electrical sound coming from my closet? Probably just, uh, rats... I'll just check it out... WHAT the! Blendtec! Noo! That won't blend! Aaaaauuuugghhh!
But they are adding information to the system with the additional hardware attachment with all the gyroscopes and so-on. This information can be used to improve the photo, correcting some of the damage. So information wasn't "lost"'; it was just reacquired from a different source, as it were.
It looks like camera shake blur would be reduced, but target motion blur would remain intact.
Of course, if you do a 90-second exposure of the sun, it's likely going to be all-white no matter how much shake-correction occurs. But this solution wasn't meant to fix that problem.
It actually said that 20% would buy Android again. It didn't say anything about "would not buy".
You could be right that 80% would not buy Android again, but 80% sounds really high to me, so I'm going to guess you're wrong. I'm also guessing that Android buyers tend to be more "mercenary" buyers (compared to Apple enthusiasts), which would cause them to answer "not sure".
But we really need to know the survey question, and I wasn't finding it online.
"Their ships use some CRAP operating system that doesn't support HTML5 and doesn't even take advantage of Apple's advanced technologies like Cocoa! And you know what we found when we were invited on board? A GOOGLE LOGO--that's right. All their droids--their actual droids--are running Android! Make no mistake: I am certain this alien race is here to kill the iPhone! This 'we come in peace' mantra is BULLSHIT!"
If you're willing to go on the record and say that you will refuse any medical treatment you can't pay for up front, then I'll support you. I'll think you're crazy, but I'll support you.
So, will you say that right now?
Hit and run driver hits you and you don't have $120,000 to pay for intensive care? You just stay at home with the Advil.
Deal?
I pay for stuff out of pocket because I'm young and healthy and self-employed. Tetanus booster? Just went and bought it, no biggie.
But I also have medical insurance for any time I have to pay more than $4000 in medical bills. For when I get hit by a car or crash my bicycle or have a hiking fall or any one of a multitude of other things you might consider to be in the "unhealthy lifestyle" category.
People without insurance end up in the hospital bankrupt, and those costs get spread around to those of us who carry insurance! Ironic, no?
Wow, this article has bought out all kinds of stupid.
People don't want it to use all of their ram, when they have no apps open, do they??
Well, it boils down to a simple question: do you want this app to launch now, or do you want to wait for it to load off disk? That's really the crux of it.
But when they haven't started anything yet, it can be a little confusing.
We're lucky there's not a meter telling them that their CPU cache is full all the time, too, I suppose.
If Windows refused to use your RAM that you had installed, now that would be an issue. But fully using RAM? This, on its own, is not something to complain about.
Same with computers. If I'm to spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer, I want it to be fast, reliable, look good, allow me to do whatever I want and get the hell out of my way and let me focus on the task at hand.
The irony is that I prefer using a Linux box with fvwm for the exact same reasons. (Except I don't much care about it looking good, unless I'm trying to impress someone who is impressed by that sort of thing.)
The more expensive "professional" tool is only better if it does a better job with the task at hand. Or, to put it another way, a $400 drill is not the best mitre saw ever made.
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You're asking Zynga to give up something like 60% of their customer base, and devote a lot of time to engineering.
I really don't think they'd agree to do it. Do you?
It's pretty good for non-video. Depends on exactly what you try to force it to do, of course. But Strongbad is no problem. Dig around youtube and you can find Strongbad playing on the iPad under Frash, or Zero Punctuation playing under Android.
Down in the comments for the story, someone has posted this counterexample to youtube. In it, he uses Flash to watch the video complaining about how badly Flash video works on mobile phones on his mobile phone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9jfdltkUU
I disagree. HTML5 video can come along and take the whole market, and it won't affect Flash adoption. If you bullet-list what Flash does, you'll have a lot more than "video", and a lot of it is very very important.
How much video in Farmville?
Works great, maybe google will copy this too.
What was it Steve Jobs said great artists do? Please, though, Google, don't steal Apple's refund policy.
Actually, a hybrid of the two approaches is needed, since I'd like to know before I buy what permissions the app is going to ask for.
Currently Apple users are not paying any price despite having a very popular mobile platform that every now and then has well-publicised vulnerabilities. Hmm.
Apple products are only free if your money is not worth anything. ;-)
But without the camera orientation and motion information, how could we know if it's camera shake blur or subject motion blur?
Imagine, for instance, a large delivery van blurred across the frame from left to right while the image is blurred due to camera motion from right to left. What should be the correction to remove camera shake blur? And how would that be determined merely from the data in the photo?
I don't doubt that merely processing the photo could make it "better"... but I do doubt it would do as good a job of removing camera shake in the general case as the external rig does.
Admittedly, I have no idea how much information is gleaned from the different sources. But I'm guessing from the results that it is enough to visually correct the photo.
I bet the Android rootkit isn't the only rootkit on that CD... I for one wouldn't put anything I obtained at DefCon into any equipment I owned. Maybe not even into my shredder.
I use my Blendtec. Seriously. It blends everything, and I have never once had a problem with it being hacked. Just blended some DefCon stuff earlier tonight, too. I keep the blender right here next to my... --Huh. That's weird. It was here just a few minutes ago. What is that strange electrical sound coming from my closet? Probably just, uh, rats... I'll just check it out... WHAT the! Blendtec! Noo! That won't blend! Aaaaauuuugghhh!
But they are adding information to the system with the additional hardware attachment with all the gyroscopes and so-on. This information can be used to improve the photo, correcting some of the damage. So information wasn't "lost"'; it was just reacquired from a different source, as it were.
It looks like camera shake blur would be reduced, but target motion blur would remain intact.
Of course, if you do a 90-second exposure of the sun, it's likely going to be all-white no matter how much shake-correction occurs. But this solution wasn't meant to fix that problem.
It's from the game Bruce Lee for the C64. That I recognized it has to be worth at least one geek point. ;-)
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Bruce_Lee
It actually said that 20% would buy Android again. It didn't say anything about "would not buy".
You could be right that 80% would not buy Android again, but 80% sounds really high to me, so I'm going to guess you're wrong. I'm also guessing that Android buyers tend to be more "mercenary" buyers (compared to Apple enthusiasts), which would cause them to answer "not sure".
But we really need to know the survey question, and I wasn't finding it online.
And where pray tell does he propose to get the necessary water for this project?
Same place they're getting the heat, I should imagine.
"Their ships use some CRAP operating system that doesn't support HTML5 and doesn't even take advantage of Apple's advanced technologies like Cocoa! And you know what we found when we were invited on board? A GOOGLE LOGO--that's right. All their droids--their actual droids--are running Android! Make no mistake: I am certain this alien race is here to kill the iPhone! This 'we come in peace' mantra is BULLSHIT!"
They're not under any obligation to take you back. I know several people whom the insurance companies do not want back.
If you're willing to go on the record and say that you will refuse any medical treatment you can't pay for up front, then I'll support you. I'll think you're crazy, but I'll support you.
So, will you say that right now?
Hit and run driver hits you and you don't have $120,000 to pay for intensive care? You just stay at home with the Advil.
Deal?
I pay for stuff out of pocket because I'm young and healthy and self-employed. Tetanus booster? Just went and bought it, no biggie.
But I also have medical insurance for any time I have to pay more than $4000 in medical bills. For when I get hit by a car or crash my bicycle or have a hiking fall or any one of a multitude of other things you might consider to be in the "unhealthy lifestyle" category.
People without insurance end up in the hospital bankrupt, and those costs get spread around to those of us who carry insurance! Ironic, no?
Wow, this article has bought out all kinds of stupid.
People don't want it to use all of their ram, when they have no apps open, do they??
Well, it boils down to a simple question: do you want this app to launch now, or do you want to wait for it to load off disk? That's really the crux of it.
But when they haven't started anything yet, it can be a little confusing.
We're lucky there's not a meter telling them that their CPU cache is full all the time, too, I suppose.
If Windows refused to use your RAM that you had installed, now that would be an issue. But fully using RAM? This, on its own, is not something to complain about.
Is that what that glowing thing in my palm has been trying to tell me the last 8 years?
"Code, Coder!"
Of course Apple has to lock out the "tinkerers". They'll just screw up the aesthetic.
I've often wondered why designers and usability geeks don't make more of a showing in open source projects.
Seconded.
Plus, there are plenty of BASIC interpreters, and even Logo interpreters.
Assembly will never be as fun as it once was, though.
Same with computers. If I'm to spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer, I want it to be fast, reliable, look good, allow me to do whatever I want and get the hell out of my way and let me focus on the task at hand.
The irony is that I prefer using a Linux box with fvwm for the exact same reasons. (Except I don't much care about it looking good, unless I'm trying to impress someone who is impressed by that sort of thing.)
The more expensive "professional" tool is only better if it does a better job with the task at hand. Or, to put it another way, a $400 drill is not the best mitre saw ever made.
I, too, thought the 2048 was the default. However, in lieu of any reason not to choose 4096, I choose (and use) 4096.
If you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about!
Maybe NOW people will stop saying that. Probably still wishful thinking on my part, I admit.
"Only thirty-nine, nine-ninety-nine, ninety-five."
Remember when that sounded like a lot of money for a flying car?