Are you kidding? There are plenty of people in the education market who have an agenda, beyond simply teaching facts and figures and imparting knowledge.
Christ, I got 3 days detention for telling an English teach "okey dokey." WTF?
Oh, we didn't call them detentions, we called them some PC bullshit: after-sessions.
Fuck that. If my kid is allergic to peanuts or something, and the epi-pen is the only thing to save her life if some classmate hands her something rolled in crushed peanut without her knowing, I'm stapling the pen to her, and I'll break the skull (metaphorically, maybe physically depending on my state of mind at the time) of anyone who takes it away from her. Period.
You don't fuck with someone's life-saving medication.
(above rant age-adjusted - a 5 yo is less likely to be able to use an epi-pen than a 10 yo.)
Somehow I don't think even the "great steve" believes he can OWN and Control HTML5. I think he legitimately wants software on his platform that won't RUIN his platform. Sort of like Microsoft and the Java J/Direct.
Take Evernote. I use it on both Android (Moto Droid) and my iPod Touch. Because there's less buttons and the native autocorrect of the iPod, I find it easier to use on that, but the Droid app has more features and control (allow network access) that "fits" that platform better.
I'm sorry, developers *can* make apps that take advantage of each platform they're on, they just choose not to for expediency. Flash is a lowest common denominator - and it's a bad one at that.
yeah, but I'm pretty sure you didn't get away with lighting up a joint in the middle of the lunchroom under the watchful eye of a dozen or so teachers fearful of breaking the rules and losing their jobs.
People have been decrying the death of Apple and Nintendo for years. I don't get the PASSIONATE and outright HATRED? I don't.
I was one of those Mac haters circa 1997, and up until I got an iPod Touch last October, I was still moderately dispassionate about them. Now, I wouldn't give up my Mac Mini if you pointed a gun to my head. A reliable GUI on a wonderful Unix foundation? Everything Ubuntu pretends to be and fails at.
A: I wouldn't be on Slashdot wasting time. B: I'd probably get more done. Multitasking hasn't turned out to be all it's cracked up to be. I sure don't *FEEL* more productive.
Actually, to be completely honest, we are both travelling away from and toward Voyager (has anyone else been tempted to just call it V'ger?). Damn Doppler Effect.:-)
Last I checked, fibers were NOT useful for parallelism. They basically slave off of the thread that created them, and have to be cooperatively shared on that same thread of execution.
And they did a fucking awesome job at it, too. Compared to OS X 10.6.2, Ubuntu 9.10 is a childs toy.
I've been a die-hard Linux user on the server and in desktop VMs since the Ygdrassil days, and I'm ashamed that a laptop that never once crashed under XP in 18 months has done so five times in less than a month running Ubuntu.
Except NASs are limited to two or four disks, and costs a shitload for what basically amounts to a case and a custom-sourced motherboard.
I want a general-purpose computing device that lets me plug in expansion boards. Give me a lower-power CPU with a couple/three of PCI-x8 slots for serial expansion and let me plug in say, a couple four-port SATA cards or a 4port GigE controller.
What I'm kinda digging now are disks with smart controllers, like the ATAoE->SATA adapter I found. Something like that that supports clustering? Let me take 20 disks, a gig of memory apiece, and let them do load-balancing and shared-nothing clustering to store data. As a SOHO user that needs to get the most out of my storage, (reliability included), I want more intelligence in my NAS devices.
MIPS was discontinued at NT 4.0, and PowerPC was discontinued at NT 4.0 PPC RC1 or 2(ish). NT 4.0 was already around SP1 or 2 by then for every other platform.
The MIPS/Alpha/PowerPC failure of Windows was caused by 1 thing only:
The disgustingly cheap price of the Pentium Pro.
For $10,000 dollars you could have the same (two socket) performance as a $40,000 Netpower, or a $30,000 DEC Alpha.
Intel's volume and engineering skill is what made porting to anything except Intel a waste of time, except on some very special applications.
The fact that MIPS/Alpha/PowerPC where all 64bit CPU platforms back in 1996 should incense anyone who bought into the Itanium myth. Thank GOD we had AMD around to force Intel to move to x64.
$299 for Windows 7 Professional, to get the same features as the Windows XP Professional license I bought in 2002 for $199 (Retail-boxed prices both). Not even inflation can account for that.
It's at the point now where Windows is almost a 1:1 expense with the platform I'm running it on.
Oh wait, you mean their predatory OEM licensing prices? Right.:-)
Citation please? If badmouthing Apple was a restriction of the publishing agreement to get into the App Store, then he has fuckall to say about it. Violate your contract, get burned.
Without a citation, I have no idea of the facts or merits of your assertion - you could just be an hater-troll.
Graffiti, the original, is the one that they had to remove from all their devices because it infringed some dumb-ass single stroke handwriting patent. The replacement, Graffiti2, was a PITA, and was nowhere near as fast to use, which is why the Graffiti screens got dropped from all the Treo models - That and Palm wanted to compete with RIM and the Blackberry, which they did very well.
What Palm SHOULD have done was get a native EAS implementation on that horrid Garnet, and never gotten into the WiMo space. That, ultimately, I think is what did them in.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh that's good. I've tried all three phones (30day full-blown testdrives).
I started out loving the Pre back when it first came out on Sprint on June 6 of last year. Yup, I waited in line. I took it back after 30 days because the Sprint service sucked.
I got an iPod touch in October and that started my love of the all things Apple.
I waited diligently until the Pre Plus came out on Verizon in January. Oh how I missed it. It was nice, felt good in my hand, but it was slow. Slower than I remember. Sluggish compared to the iPod Touch. It went back. The kicker? The $10.95 Verizon wanted to charge me for VZ Navigator. Fuckers.
So I tried out an iPhone for a month, and compared it's service to my Palm Treo 700p on Verizon. The Verizon EDVO service smoked AT&T three ways til Sunday (where I live anyway), so the iPhone went back.
Now I have a Droid. I have the tethering I need, the service and coverage I need. But the phone sucks. It's like a high-school robotics project compared to the simple elegance of the Roomba when placed against the iPhone. It can't even compare to the smooth simplicity and usability of the Palm Pre (Especially the Exchange and calendaring support).
Jesus Christ, I can't even plug the damn thing into my laptop without the touch screen going all wonky on me - the Moto Droid is a leaky, noisy, EMI-ridden POS. It's the first cellphone I've ever had that causes my clock radio to scream in protest at the interference.
Except if you let it get to the point of bankruptcy, you take the risk of losing key employees that make the platform work well. If you want to do more than tear a company apart and salvage it's remains, it's always better to grab it up before it reaches bankruptcy.
Palm mis-step with their marketing just as badly as IBM did with OS/2 Warp. It was an interesting campaign, magical even, but if you didn't already understand what the Pre offers, you probably were confused enough to wonder how it was better than the iPhone.
1. I don't get the hate with the central App Store? If you have a need to install your own apps, Apple gives you opens (enterprise deployment) 2. Most of the iPhone's shortcomings in the US are directly caused by their attachment to AT&T, and are not shortcomings of the phone itself (tethering for one). 3. It has a cleaner, more consistent UI than any other platform ever created. 4. The iPhone feels like something I could give my grandma to use, and still has power left over for me, but the Android (moto droid specifically) feels like a toy.
I can't even plug it into my laptop (moto droid) to charge without the display freaking out and becoming unusable.
WebOS is free in that you can develop on plenty of platforms (not just Objective C), but it isn't Free in the sense of having an unrestricted App Store, which I think is a good thing. The Android market is loaded with spam and useless comments and reviews. It's almost a joke compared to the Apple App Store.
Nevermind you can't update *ALL* of your apps at once.
Here's a great feature, Market authors. Just update all my apps in one go, on press, and alert me when the security policy on an app changes from the one I originally authorized? How about that for a feature enhancement?
Aside from the multitasking on WebOS actually causing the device to be a bit more sluggish than a comparable iPhone launching apps, it actually *IS* probably the best device interface out there after the iPhone. It's a bit small, IMHO, they could have made it the size of the iphone and still added the sliding keyboard, and had a tremendous beautiful display.
I did notice that even with 12 cards running, worst case performance really wasn't much worse than best-case performance. Though 12 cards did eat up battery life.
The developers were coming. The interface is slicker than Android, more consistent, more polished, more responsive. I'd really like to take my Droid back and get a Pre Plus - but I was concerned about the long-term viability of Palm. I'd like the platform to be available for the two years I'd have to put on my contract.
The cost of entry to write software for the platform was far cheaper - and there is a roadmap to give direct hardware access to the GPU for games, just as Apple has done for the iPhone. On day 1 there were better looking games for the Pre than any Android has today after nearly a year and a half.
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Are you kidding? There are plenty of people in the education market who have an agenda, beyond simply teaching facts and figures and imparting knowledge.
Christ, I got 3 days detention for telling an English teach "okey dokey." WTF?
Oh, we didn't call them detentions, we called them some PC bullshit: after-sessions.
Dying from a diabetic comma is probably a lot less painful than dying from a burst semi-colon.
Fuck that. If my kid is allergic to peanuts or something, and the epi-pen is the only thing to save her life if some classmate hands her something rolled in crushed peanut without her knowing, I'm stapling the pen to her, and I'll break the skull (metaphorically, maybe physically depending on my state of mind at the time) of anyone who takes it away from her. Period.
You don't fuck with someone's life-saving medication.
(above rant age-adjusted - a 5 yo is less likely to be able to use an epi-pen than a 10 yo.)
Somehow I don't think even the "great steve" believes he can OWN and Control HTML5. I think he legitimately wants software on his platform that won't RUIN his platform. Sort of like Microsoft and the Java J/Direct.
Take Evernote. I use it on both Android (Moto Droid) and my iPod Touch. Because there's less buttons and the native autocorrect of the iPod, I find it easier to use on that, but the Droid app has more features and control (allow network access) that "fits" that platform better.
I'm sorry, developers *can* make apps that take advantage of each platform they're on, they just choose not to for expediency. Flash is a lowest common denominator - and it's a bad one at that.
yeah, but I'm pretty sure you didn't get away with lighting up a joint in the middle of the lunchroom under the watchful eye of a dozen or so teachers fearful of breaking the rules and losing their jobs.
People have been decrying the death of Apple and Nintendo for years. I don't get the PASSIONATE and outright HATRED? I don't.
I was one of those Mac haters circa 1997, and up until I got an iPod Touch last October, I was still moderately dispassionate about them. Now, I wouldn't give up my Mac Mini if you pointed a gun to my head. A reliable GUI on a wonderful Unix foundation? Everything Ubuntu pretends to be and fails at.
A: I wouldn't be on Slashdot wasting time.
B: I'd probably get more done. Multitasking hasn't turned out to be all it's cracked up to be. I sure don't *FEEL* more productive.
Actually, to be completely honest, we are both travelling away from and toward Voyager (has anyone else been tempted to just call it V'ger?). Damn Doppler Effect. :-)
Slashdotted?
Last I checked, fibers were NOT useful for parallelism. They basically slave off of the thread that created them, and have to be cooperatively shared on that same thread of execution.
And they did a fucking awesome job at it, too. Compared to OS X 10.6.2, Ubuntu 9.10 is a childs toy.
I've been a die-hard Linux user on the server and in desktop VMs since the Ygdrassil days, and I'm ashamed that a laptop that never once crashed under XP in 18 months has done so five times in less than a month running Ubuntu.
Except NASs are limited to two or four disks, and costs a shitload for what basically amounts to a case and a custom-sourced motherboard.
I want a general-purpose computing device that lets me plug in expansion boards. Give me a lower-power CPU with a couple/three of PCI-x8 slots for serial expansion and let me plug in say, a couple four-port SATA cards or a 4port GigE controller.
What I'm kinda digging now are disks with smart controllers, like the ATAoE->SATA adapter I found. Something like that that supports clustering? Let me take 20 disks, a gig of memory apiece, and let them do load-balancing and shared-nothing clustering to store data. As a SOHO user that needs to get the most out of my storage, (reliability included), I want more intelligence in my NAS devices.
Windows 2000 ran on Alpha.
MIPS was discontinued at NT 4.0, and PowerPC was discontinued at NT 4.0 PPC RC1 or 2(ish). NT 4.0 was already around SP1 or 2 by then for every other platform.
The MIPS/Alpha/PowerPC failure of Windows was caused by 1 thing only:
The disgustingly cheap price of the Pentium Pro.
For $10,000 dollars you could have the same (two socket) performance as a $40,000 Netpower, or a $30,000 DEC Alpha.
Intel's volume and engineering skill is what made porting to anything except Intel a waste of time, except on some very special applications.
The fact that MIPS/Alpha/PowerPC where all 64bit CPU platforms back in 1996 should incense anyone who bought into the Itanium myth. Thank GOD we had AMD around to force Intel to move to x64.
$299 for Windows 7 Professional, to get the same features as the Windows XP Professional license I bought in 2002 for $199 (Retail-boxed prices both). Not even inflation can account for that.
:-)
It's at the point now where Windows is almost a 1:1 expense with the platform I'm running it on.
Oh wait, you mean their predatory OEM licensing prices? Right.
Citation please? If badmouthing Apple was a restriction of the publishing agreement to get into the App Store, then he has fuckall to say about it. Violate your contract, get burned.
Without a citation, I have no idea of the facts or merits of your assertion - you could just be an hater-troll.
Graffiti, the original, is the one that they had to remove from all their devices because it infringed some dumb-ass single stroke handwriting patent. The replacement, Graffiti2, was a PITA, and was nowhere near as fast to use, which is why the Graffiti screens got dropped from all the Treo models - That and Palm wanted to compete with RIM and the Blackberry, which they did very well.
What Palm SHOULD have done was get a native EAS implementation on that horrid Garnet, and never gotten into the WiMo space. That, ultimately, I think is what did them in.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh that's good. I've tried all three phones (30day full-blown testdrives).
I started out loving the Pre back when it first came out on Sprint on June 6 of last year. Yup, I waited in line. I took it back after 30 days because the Sprint service sucked.
I got an iPod touch in October and that started my love of the all things Apple.
I waited diligently until the Pre Plus came out on Verizon in January. Oh how I missed it. It was nice, felt good in my hand, but it was slow. Slower than I remember. Sluggish compared to the iPod Touch. It went back. The kicker? The $10.95 Verizon wanted to charge me for VZ Navigator. Fuckers.
So I tried out an iPhone for a month, and compared it's service to my Palm Treo 700p on Verizon. The Verizon EDVO service smoked AT&T three ways til Sunday (where I live anyway), so the iPhone went back.
Now I have a Droid. I have the tethering I need, the service and coverage I need. But the phone sucks. It's like a high-school robotics project compared to the simple elegance of the Roomba when placed against the iPhone. It can't even compare to the smooth simplicity and usability of the Palm Pre (Especially the Exchange and calendaring support).
Jesus Christ, I can't even plug the damn thing into my laptop without the touch screen going all wonky on me - the Moto Droid is a leaky, noisy, EMI-ridden POS. It's the first cellphone I've ever had that causes my clock radio to scream in protest at the interference.
Actually, I think that honor goes to Handspring, a Palm-employee run spinoff that finally wedded a cellphone to a modern PDA (circa 2001).
Except if you let it get to the point of bankruptcy, you take the risk of losing key employees that make the platform work well. If you want to do more than tear a company apart and salvage it's remains, it's always better to grab it up before it reaches bankruptcy.
Palm mis-step with their marketing just as badly as IBM did with OS/2 Warp. It was an interesting campaign, magical even, but if you didn't already understand what the Pre offers, you probably were confused enough to wonder how it was better than the iPhone.
1. I don't get the hate with the central App Store? If you have a need to install your own apps, Apple gives you opens (enterprise deployment)
2. Most of the iPhone's shortcomings in the US are directly caused by their attachment to AT&T, and are not shortcomings of the phone itself (tethering for one).
3. It has a cleaner, more consistent UI than any other platform ever created.
4. The iPhone feels like something I could give my grandma to use, and still has power left over for me, but the Android (moto droid specifically) feels like a toy.
I can't even plug it into my laptop (moto droid) to charge without the display freaking out and becoming unusable.
WebOS is free in that you can develop on plenty of platforms (not just Objective C), but it isn't Free in the sense of having an unrestricted App Store, which I think is a good thing. The Android market is loaded with spam and useless comments and reviews. It's almost a joke compared to the Apple App Store.
Nevermind you can't update *ALL* of your apps at once.
Here's a great feature, Market authors. Just update all my apps in one go, on press, and alert me when the security policy on an app changes from the one I originally authorized? How about that for a feature enhancement?
Aside from the multitasking on WebOS actually causing the device to be a bit more sluggish than a comparable iPhone launching apps, it actually *IS* probably the best device interface out there after the iPhone. It's a bit small, IMHO, they could have made it the size of the iphone and still added the sliding keyboard, and had a tremendous beautiful display.
I did notice that even with 12 cards running, worst case performance really wasn't much worse than best-case performance. Though 12 cards did eat up battery life.
The developers were coming. The interface is slicker than Android, more consistent, more polished, more responsive. I'd really like to take my Droid back and get a Pre Plus - but I was concerned about the long-term viability of Palm. I'd like the platform to be available for the two years I'd have to put on my contract.
The cost of entry to write software for the platform was far cheaper - and there is a roadmap to give direct hardware access to the GPU for games, just as Apple has done for the iPhone. On day 1 there were better looking games for the Pre than any Android has today after nearly a year and a half.