Fucking President versus Aliens sounds like the best game ever. Brilliant move on the malware author's part to hide his warez in such a kick ass sounding game. If this was 1988 and I was down at the local arcade, and saw a game called President versus Aliens I would have put all my quarters into it by now.
Speaking of "fanbois" I don't believe anybody really claimed anything about Apple's phones yet. We won't let that ruin your day, though, so go ahead and troll on sister.
A hosts file certainly does not require "a lot of work" to maintain, and it quite effectively kills a LOT of advertising and tracking schemes. In fact, I never would have considered trying to use it for ddefending against viruses or malware. But computer without "locally administered DNS poisoning" is ill equipped to be on the Internet these days unless you like herbal Viagra ads.
For most people, all they do is turn the damn iPad on, tyoe in their wifi password, and they are off and away. If they are a relative power user, they will wish to use its built in email and calendaring apps. Setting up your account is pretty easy for the main free mail providers - you just type in your login and password, and it knows which servers to use. Was that imap.gmail.com or what? Who cares! It handles the details for you. Caldav calendars are similarly easy, as is Exchange integration.
Compare setting all that up on a Windows machine. It is a bit more of a pain in the ass if you know what you're doing, and if you are a newbie it is either really hard or impossible.
My 80 year old aunt hates computers but loves her iPad.
If you want a PS3 for gaming, go ahead and buy one. If you want to do "biomedical research" then use another technology like OenCL which is faster anyway these days.
Don't get snooty. Do you go down the pub or to hospital?
Local variations may offend you and the language authorities, but they are a law of language change and development. Battling them is about as useful as tilting at a windmill.
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If your programmers can't clean up after themselves you either have children or prima donnas. Your office manager person should not be too proud to bust out the vacuum cleaner once a week either.
He's not just an expert bullshitter but a total fucking moron as well. Reading his checklist makes me puke in my mouth a little bit.
I was an unfortunate user of FogzBugs at a shop I used to work at. They were all ex-Intel folks who had a woody for Windows, and it fit them to a T, because FogzBugs was too much work, and it was half finished.
Wo fucking gives a shit about daily builds. That's just retarded unless your program is very simple, changes little, or the programmers' changes are not likely to interact.
I ran the benchmark again, and got 2607 on the iPad's Safari 533.17.9 with this breakdown: 163 iterations on #1, 3 iterations on #2, and 605 on #3.
I don't have an iPhone (but the iPhone 4 has the same CPU as the iPad) but will run your benchmark on my wife's iPod Touch. It is older and slower though.
The iPod Touch (2nd gen) scored 723 points. It runs the same Safari version as the iPad (533.17.9) and got 46 iterations on #1, 1 iteration on #2, and 433 iterations on the Mandelbrot set.
Sorry, I already closed the window but the iPad dragged pretty badly on the first one, the second one went OK, and the Mandelbrot barely started the 2nd iteration by the time the test elapsed.
In the morning I will reboot this thing and try again without any other apps running, and post the detailed results.
Firstly, I am not anti-corporation. I am in favor of business.
What I am against is your kind of thinking, as it is what has enabled countless me-too games to gue the market these past decades. It is the same kind of thinking that makes shitty movies and shitty music.
For many developers, making a successful game on one's own time and budget, and keeping the dough, is becoming more reasonable. Sure, being a kept hen, pecking at the keyboard day in and day out, might be some people's idea of a career, but other people want to be self made, or at least give it a decent whirl before they decide to join a software sweatshop. Other people want to escape the drum-beat corporate software gulags that seem to pass for normal these days.
An indie developer studio can charge $5-15 per game and most of the cash goes to the people who made it. A traditional big studio game sells for $50 and maybe ten cents goes to the developers. The rest goes to a faceless corp that is manned by MBas who hate games anyway.
If the FCC gets ahold of control over the internet they will screw it up really, really badly. Look at the radio spectrum. Do you really want your packets limited to say, 3 hops?
The FCC works for the phone companies, who are the ones pushing against net neutrality. Asking them to defend it is like guarding your goats with a T-Rex.
I am friends with a longtime Meego née Moblin developer, and it is a huge pile of fail according to him.
He has access to a bunch of beta grade devices, some of which are pretty slick hardware wise, basically the same Intel tablets that will be coming out next year, and they are all ass compared to the iPad. Battery life is still awful for the Intel units. They may have 10 hour run times, which looks similar to the iPad, but the iPad does "10 hours of HD video" and the Intel tablets do 3. I get a solid 30 hours out of my iPad if I am just browsing the web or doing some reading, which these Intel tablets won't do even if they didn't have a screen.
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But we have something like 25% of the computers, and about 100% of the processor companies that make it into computers.
India and Russia and Germany and Britain and Japan and even China are all even more Windows bound than the USA anyway.
You should be groveling in the dirt, thanking God or Science for the existence of the USA.
It is not necessary to own a computer, and hasn't been for a long time. This flaw was brought to Apple's attention and remedied.
Fucking President versus Aliens sounds like the best game ever. Brilliant move on the malware author's part to hide his warez in such a kick ass sounding game. If this was 1988 and I was down at the local arcade, and saw a game called President versus Aliens I would have put all my quarters into it by now.
Speaking of "fanbois" I don't believe anybody really claimed anything about Apple's phones yet. We won't let that ruin your day, though, so go ahead and troll on sister.
A hosts file certainly does not require "a lot of work" to maintain, and it quite effectively kills a LOT of advertising and tracking schemes. In fact, I never would have considered trying to use it for ddefending against viruses or malware. But computer without "locally administered DNS poisoning" is ill equipped to be on the Internet these days unless you like herbal Viagra ads.
This is a little bit off.
For most people, all they do is turn the damn iPad on, tyoe in their wifi password, and they are off and away. If they are a relative power user, they will wish to use its built in email and calendaring apps. Setting up your account is pretty easy for the main free mail providers - you just type in your login and password, and it knows which servers to use. Was that imap.gmail.com or what? Who cares! It handles the details for you. Caldav calendars are similarly easy, as is Exchange integration.
Compare setting all that up on a Windows machine. It is a bit more of a pain in the ass if you know what you're doing, and if you are a newbie it is either really hard or impossible.
My 80 year old aunt hates computers but loves her iPad.
Which means the battery life will suck. Wake up there trolly boy.
Why even bring it up then? It just seems silly.
If you want a PS3 for gaming, go ahead and buy one. If you want to do "biomedical research" then use another technology like OenCL which is faster anyway these days.
Because they know that, at the best, they will be half as nice as the iPad and therefore must come in under $250.
OP knows that, he was just trolling. YHBT and DFTT and all that.
Don't get snooty. Do you go down the pub or to hospital?
Local variations may offend you and the language authorities, but they are a law of language change and development. Battling them is about as useful as tilting at a windmill.
If your programmers can't clean up after themselves you either have children or prima donnas. Your office manager person should not be too proud to bust out the vacuum cleaner once a week either.
He's not just an expert bullshitter but a total fucking moron as well. Reading his checklist makes me puke in my mouth a little bit.
I was an unfortunate user of FogzBugs at a shop I used to work at. They were all ex-Intel folks who had a woody for Windows, and it fit them to a T, because FogzBugs was too much work, and it was half finished.
Wo fucking gives a shit about daily builds. That's just retarded unless your program is very simple, changes little, or the programmers' changes are not likely to interact.
I ran the benchmark again, and got 2607 on the iPad's Safari 533.17.9 with this breakdown: 163 iterations on #1, 3 iterations on #2, and 605 on #3.
I don't have an iPhone (but the iPhone 4 has the same CPU as the iPad) but will run your benchmark on my wife's iPod Touch. It is older and slower though.
The iPod Touch (2nd gen) scored 723 points. It runs the same Safari version as the iPad (533.17.9) and got 46 iterations on #1, 1 iteration on #2, and 433 iterations on the Mandelbrot set.
Neat stuff, keep up the good work.
Your post should be required reading for each and every person entering high school.
2520 on the iPad, Dave.
Sorry, I already closed the window but the iPad dragged pretty badly on the first one, the second one went OK, and the Mandelbrot barely started the 2nd iteration by the time the test elapsed.
In the morning I will reboot this thing and try again without any other apps running, and post the detailed results.
Firstly, I am not anti-corporation. I am in favor of business.
What I am against is your kind of thinking, as it is what has enabled countless me-too games to gue the market these past decades. It is the same kind of thinking that makes shitty movies and shitty music.
For many developers, making a successful game on one's own time and budget, and keeping the dough, is becoming more reasonable. Sure, being a kept hen, pecking at the keyboard day in and day out, might be some people's idea of a career, but other people want to be self made, or at least give it a decent whirl before they decide to join a software sweatshop. Other people want to escape the drum-beat corporate software gulags that seem to pass for normal these days.
An indie developer studio can charge $5-15 per game and most of the cash goes to the people who made it. A traditional big studio game sells for $50 and maybe ten cents goes to the developers. The rest goes to a faceless corp that is manned by MBas who hate games anyway.
Wrong. As soon as you give the FCC a mandate over the Internet that mandate will start expanding.
In would rather see 15 big companies duking it out than the FCC gain power over the Internet.
Sure there is - it has a poor user agent string.
If the FCC gets ahold of control over the internet they will screw it up really, really badly. Look at the radio spectrum. Do you really want your packets limited to say, 3 hops?
The FCC works for the phone companies, who are the ones pushing against net neutrality. Asking them to defend it is like guarding your goats with a T-Rex.
This is analogous to buying an HD FM radio and complaining that it can not receive shortwave signals.
There's no reason to appeal to the government. Just get a device that receives the media streams you want.
"And, by the way, this invention cannot be patented now :-)"
Oh like prior art has ever stopped a patent from being granted. Maybe in the old days, but certainly not since the 1980s or so.
Actually if you pay attention the kids all seem to be using AK-47s.
I am friends with a longtime Meego née Moblin developer, and it is a huge pile of fail according to him.
He has access to a bunch of beta grade devices, some of which are pretty slick hardware wise, basically the same Intel tablets that will be coming out next year, and they are all ass compared to the iPad. Battery life is still awful for the Intel units. They may have 10 hour run times, which looks similar to the iPad, but the iPad does "10 hours of HD video" and the Intel tablets do 3. I get a solid 30 hours out of my iPad if I am just browsing the web or doing some reading, which these Intel tablets won't do even if they didn't have a screen.