Dangit! I was all comfy on the couch reading this on my Xoom when you made me have to get up and fire up the laptop to test out your game.:). Awesome job, dude.
Without UN oversight each country will definitely start enforcing its own censorship on their own little corner of the Internet. With UN oversight they might actually not be able to do that, in exchange for being plugged into everyone else.
It's not universally agreed that democratic elections produce governments that more effectively enforce the will of their people.
It also isn't universally agreed whether the earth is more round than flat. Or whether we evolved or just appeared all at once 6000 years ago. Thanks for pointing this very important fact out.
The 7 gets 8 hours and the iPad gets 10. Reports have come up of the 7 getting 10 when on a continuous video loop. If it got 6 hours of less you would have an argument but as it stands you don't.
(Which is true; the QNX kernel of BB10 is far more efficient in an embedded environment than Android's Linux kernel is. This translates into increased battery life.)
Yeah that's why the Kindle Fire despite being very similar hardware to the Playbook and the Fire having a grossly overloaded interface gets better battery life than the Playbook. Where's the "efficiency" going? Calculating fractals in the background?
Samsung sells all the Android phones because they make the best Android phones. It isn't about "sucking the oxygen", it is about making a better product and people buying that product. And there isn't an "Android world" in the context of what matters here. This is the smartphone world where everybody competes against everybody no matter what OS you are using. Nokia competes against Apple competes against Samsung competes against Nokia and on and on. Using contrived rhetoric to push your anti-agenda is just you being a hater and ignoring reality. As for your Motorola and Nexus 7 blather, do you have any facts to back up your bullshit?
I downloaded the GP's cherry picked example and verified his claims. I then downloaded a random comparison app that does exactly what WaveSynth does and the comparison app did not exhibit the large amount of latency that WaveSynth did implying that the problem wasn't with Android but with how WaveSynth is coded. Have you considered you might be biased?
Exactly. I went to CompUSA and spied a 7 inch Android tablet running 4.0. Of a cheap tablet running ICS got my attention but I still assumed it would be trash. Boy was I surprised when I swiped the screen and it was perfectly smooth and obviously capacitive. I played around with it for a few and was floored by how much you could get for...99 dollars. I even took a picture and emailed it to my sister in law for her kids.
Have you considered the possibility that this guy's app is poorly coded? You only have to go down the first few reviews before you find ones complaining about the latency. The app right now is $2.53 so I downloaded it and tested it out. Sure enough there is a pronounced delay between touching the screen and hearing the sound. 1/5 of a second sounds about right on my Motorola Xoom. I got a refund within the 15 minutes and decided for reference to try out a random highly rated piano keyboard app. The latency on the piano app was significanly less than on WaveSynth. I don't know what your guys problem is but blaming his failings on Android when other developers seem to be able to handle the job is a bit weak.
"Intelligence" has two separate and distinct meanings in colloquial English. It can mean the ease and speed of comprehension, or it can mean the total amount of knowledge a person has.
I must have been living under a rock my entire life because I have never heard a single person confuse knowledge with intelligence.
I used to play a lot of games when I was younger and cut my teeth on titles like Doom, Quake, Half-Life, on up to Far Cry and Half-Life 2 where I kind of got away from the whole thing. Recently I made a Windows install and decided to see what state the industry was in these days. My God was I blown away by the lighting and effects in Crysis Warhead. But equally I came away puzzled that it just didn't seem like I could "see" anything. It all just looked the same to me. Enemies blended into the background and everything just seemed to be running together. I thought maybe I was getting old so its nice to see somebody else agrees with my sentiments.
I've been speaking to coworkers about app stores in general, most of them say if you paid anything for an app, you've paid too much...
Your coworkers' cynicism seems a little naive to me. True not every app is worth buying (those are the ones you, um, don't buy) but there are a few I've purchased and I'm very happy about. I've been playing Aralon on my Xoom lately and I love it. It's basically Morrowind on your tablet. In some ways better than Morrowind as it streamlines the NPC interaction and you have mounts. The game is huge with a ton of depth and it is worth the measly $6.99 asking price. I've bought some more that are also very good and I'm not going to give a rundown of each one but suffice it to say I'm a happy customer. I only had to return one app as it crashed on start-up and Google just refunded my money with no hassle since I was within the 15 minute period.
If the free version doesn't have enough functionality that a typical user would keep it around
Thats going to be pretty arbitrary and require lots of human effort...
I know this might go over the edge of the creepy factor for some people but maybe if there was a way to track frequency of use of an app and show the percentage of time the app was uninstalled within a week or something. Those stats would be very useful in gauging an app's quality in addition to the star and download numbers we have now.
they could have just gone with Android but then they would have been just another handset maker without much unique
The only reason the market isn't flooded with wp7 handsets from every OEM is because it doesn't sell. The minute that had changed is the minute Samsung would have stepped up their efforts and stomped Nokia just like they are stomping all the other Android sellers. Meego was unique. iOS is unique. Windows Phone is a commodity and pretending otherwise is a figment of your imagination. Furthermore, this is related to the fantasy that somehow because Nokia isn't selling Android that they are in some kind of hallowed competitive position. Bull. They are selling smartphones so they are competing with everybody no matter what OS is on it. It just so happens they are getting killed and a lot of people have some kind of emotional attachment to the company s they try to put lipstick on the pig. I couldn't care less about Nokia so I'm not buying it.
You know, anybody can get the random +5 insightful every 20th post or so on the virtue of nothing more than random statistical chance. The problem is, these fucksticks get high enough karma after a while and end up with 15 mod points every 3 days and bring the rest of the site down. How about karma be awarded only if a percentage of your posts are above a certain moderated threshold? So if every other post hits +3 then you get a point of karma. If you have a long string of 1s then your karma starts to lower some etc. Mod me down if you agree!
I'm excited about 3D printing too. And I also think it will be revolutionary just maybe not in the way you're thinking. It's kind of like refining your own diesel fuel. Yes, it can be done but the practicalities of it are onerous enough that most people just go to the gas station. I seriously doubt that 3D printing in anything approaching the near term will be compelling from an economic perspective. Mass production is just too efficient. What 3D printing allows for is recreational custom manufacturing. There will be diehards (I might be one of them) that insist on 3D printing as much as possible damn the rationality of it just like people like me insist on Free operating systems but most people will just carry on. It will be interesting to see exactly where the line comes down on what is economically practical though. If you're lucky your wish could come true.
If you're making millions and millions of widgets that are simple enough to be printed on a Maker Bot, your R&D cost per unit is infinitesimal. Listen, I love the idea of making things at home but it isn't going to replace mass production even a little bit. What it will do is allow people to unleash their creativity. That's the real point so many other people are missing.
I'll bet manufacturers are shitting their pants over home printed things... but then, you can only print plastics at this point. When you can download and print a whole car, hell yes I'll pirate a car!
They're shitting their pants in the same way the MPAA shat their pants over the VCR and the RIAA shat their pants over the cassette recorder. As in a lot of foot stomping and posturing then going on to continue making tons of money. Even if you can print a car or a computer or a friggin nuclear reactor, believe that all of that can be made on an assembly line and shipped to your door for much less than it will cost you and still have a nice profit margin for the manufacturer. To me printing cars is boring. I'm looking forward to the level of creativity unleashed unlike anything seen in the material realm ever before. We've seen this in the realm of software, literature, music, and video since the production tools became commodotized. No, you can't shit out 10,000,000 CDs a week like Warner Brothers can but you can put your stuff on Youtube and entertain 3,432,454 people in a week. That doesn't stop the industry from making money but it does enrich a few peoples' lives just a little bit. That's analogous to how I expect the 3D printer revolution to play out at least in the mid-term.
I'm not saying it's all bad, but it definitely makes things interesting for companies that produce things that can be printed out on a 3D printer at home.
Even with 3D printers, large factories will still be able to produce just about anything for a fraction of what you can do it for in your house. As it is right now, the real cost for the companies will be in distribution and R&D. Outsource the R&D to China or India (or evolutionary algorithms based on some of the stuff I see in stores) and streamline your distribution with just in time principles, etc. and I don't think they'll have a whole lot to worry about. Maybe profit margins will be a little thinner but they aren't in any real danger yet. Jobs will be lost in the short term but that always happens when production is streamlined.
It is precisely because life isn't fair that mankind invented things like laws and taxes to even things up a bit.
That's an interesting assertion. Unfortunately it flies in the face of human nature and is therefore almost certainly wrong in the aggregate. I'm sure some modern laws and taxes are enacted in the interest of some person's perception of fairness but if you think they were invented for that purpose you need to read some history or at least bone up on evolutionary psychology. I'd venture to say that the earliest example of "law" is parental law. Animals set rules for their young and discipline them when those rules are broken. Why? Because if they didn't those young would be eaten and parents' genes would have less chance to propagate. It was originally a survival advantage to make and enforce laws. The concept of fairness seems more like a social rationalization to me than anything else. As far as taxes go, yes they are a tool that can enforce a certain amount of economic equality and everything that goes along with that but, again, I'd say that it still goes back to being a survival advantage. The tribe pays "taxes" to the leader and the leader doles out the wealth. Everybody stays healthy and the tribe is stronger as a result.
This explanation sucks but I'm pre-coffee so it is what it is.
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Dangit! I was all comfy on the couch reading this on my Xoom when you made me have to get up and fire up the laptop to test out your game. :). Awesome job, dude.
I think you missed a joke. Or at least I hope so.
Without UN oversight each country will definitely start enforcing its own censorship on their own little corner of the Internet. With UN oversight they might actually not be able to do that, in exchange for being plugged into everyone else.
You are fantasizing.
It's not universally agreed that democratic elections produce governments that more effectively enforce the will of their people.
It also isn't universally agreed whether the earth is more round than flat. Or whether we evolved or just appeared all at once 6000 years ago. Thanks for pointing this very important fact out.
You mean like the screen is half the size?
Many people see this as a net positive.
And less battery life?
The 7 gets 8 hours and the iPad gets 10. Reports have come up of the 7 getting 10 when on a continuous video loop. If it got 6 hours of less you would have an argument but as it stands you don't.
And OH MY GOD a non-(easily)-replacable battery?
They all have that problem. And, oh, FTFY.
(Which is true; the QNX kernel of BB10 is far more efficient in an embedded environment than Android's Linux kernel is. This translates into increased battery life.)
Yeah that's why the Kindle Fire despite being very similar hardware to the Playbook and the Fire having a grossly overloaded interface gets better battery life than the Playbook. Where's the "efficiency" going? Calculating fractals in the background?
Samsung sells all the Android phones because they make the best Android phones. It isn't about "sucking the oxygen", it is about making a better product and people buying that product. And there isn't an "Android world" in the context of what matters here. This is the smartphone world where everybody competes against everybody no matter what OS you are using. Nokia competes against Apple competes against Samsung competes against Nokia and on and on. Using contrived rhetoric to push your anti-agenda is just you being a hater and ignoring reality. As for your Motorola and Nexus 7 blather, do you have any facts to back up your bullshit?
I downloaded the GP's cherry picked example and verified his claims. I then downloaded a random comparison app that does exactly what WaveSynth does and the comparison app did not exhibit the large amount of latency that WaveSynth did implying that the problem wasn't with Android but with how WaveSynth is coded. Have you considered you might be biased?
Which one? Article link?
Exactly. I went to CompUSA and spied a 7 inch Android tablet running 4.0. Of a cheap tablet running ICS got my attention but I still assumed it would be trash. Boy was I surprised when I swiped the screen and it was perfectly smooth and obviously capacitive. I played around with it for a few and was floored by how much you could get for...99 dollars. I even took a picture and emailed it to my sister in law for her kids.
Of course it's intentional. And the funny thing is it doesn't even work as evidenced by the "Windows" Phone 7 failure.
Have you considered the possibility that this guy's app is poorly coded? You only have to go down the first few reviews before you find ones complaining about the latency. The app right now is $2.53 so I downloaded it and tested it out. Sure enough there is a pronounced delay between touching the screen and hearing the sound. 1/5 of a second sounds about right on my Motorola Xoom. I got a refund within the 15 minutes and decided for reference to try out a random highly rated piano keyboard app. The latency on the piano app was significanly less than on WaveSynth. I don't know what your guys problem is but blaming his failings on Android when other developers seem to be able to handle the job is a bit weak.
"Intelligence" has two separate and distinct meanings in colloquial English. It can mean the ease and speed of comprehension, or it can mean the total amount of knowledge a person has.
I must have been living under a rock my entire life because I have never heard a single person confuse knowledge with intelligence.
No.
I used to play a lot of games when I was younger and cut my teeth on titles like Doom, Quake, Half-Life, on up to Far Cry and Half-Life 2 where I kind of got away from the whole thing. Recently I made a Windows install and decided to see what state the industry was in these days. My God was I blown away by the lighting and effects in Crysis Warhead. But equally I came away puzzled that it just didn't seem like I could "see" anything. It all just looked the same to me. Enemies blended into the background and everything just seemed to be running together. I thought maybe I was getting old so its nice to see somebody else agrees with my sentiments.
Oh the bitching and moaning that would ensue over the certified "haves" and "have nots". Sounds like a good opportunity for a third party though.
I've been speaking to coworkers about app stores in general, most of them say if you paid anything for an app, you've paid too much...
Your coworkers' cynicism seems a little naive to me. True not every app is worth buying (those are the ones you, um, don't buy) but there are a few I've purchased and I'm very happy about. I've been playing Aralon on my Xoom lately and I love it. It's basically Morrowind on your tablet. In some ways better than Morrowind as it streamlines the NPC interaction and you have mounts. The game is huge with a ton of depth and it is worth the measly $6.99 asking price. I've bought some more that are also very good and I'm not going to give a rundown of each one but suffice it to say I'm a happy customer. I only had to return one app as it crashed on start-up and Google just refunded my money with no hassle since I was within the 15 minute period.
If the free version doesn't have enough functionality that a typical user would keep it around
Thats going to be pretty arbitrary and require lots of human effort...
I know this might go over the edge of the creepy factor for some people but maybe if there was a way to track frequency of use of an app and show the percentage of time the app was uninstalled within a week or something. Those stats would be very useful in gauging an app's quality in addition to the star and download numbers we have now.
they could have just gone with Android but then they would have been just another handset maker without much unique
The only reason the market isn't flooded with wp7 handsets from every OEM is because it doesn't sell. The minute that had changed is the minute Samsung would have stepped up their efforts and stomped Nokia just like they are stomping all the other Android sellers. Meego was unique. iOS is unique. Windows Phone is a commodity and pretending otherwise is a figment of your imagination. Furthermore, this is related to the fantasy that somehow because Nokia isn't selling Android that they are in some kind of hallowed competitive position. Bull. They are selling smartphones so they are competing with everybody no matter what OS is on it. It just so happens they are getting killed and a lot of people have some kind of emotional attachment to the company s they try to put lipstick on the pig. I couldn't care less about Nokia so I'm not buying it.
You know, anybody can get the random +5 insightful every 20th post or so on the virtue of nothing more than random statistical chance. The problem is, these fucksticks get high enough karma after a while and end up with 15 mod points every 3 days and bring the rest of the site down. How about karma be awarded only if a percentage of your posts are above a certain moderated threshold? So if every other post hits +3 then you get a point of karma. If you have a long string of 1s then your karma starts to lower some etc. Mod me down if you agree!
I'm excited about 3D printing too. And I also think it will be revolutionary just maybe not in the way you're thinking. It's kind of like refining your own diesel fuel. Yes, it can be done but the practicalities of it are onerous enough that most people just go to the gas station. I seriously doubt that 3D printing in anything approaching the near term will be compelling from an economic perspective. Mass production is just too efficient. What 3D printing allows for is recreational custom manufacturing. There will be diehards (I might be one of them) that insist on 3D printing as much as possible damn the rationality of it just like people like me insist on Free operating systems but most people will just carry on. It will be interesting to see exactly where the line comes down on what is economically practical though. If you're lucky your wish could come true.
If you're making millions and millions of widgets that are simple enough to be printed on a Maker Bot, your R&D cost per unit is infinitesimal. Listen, I love the idea of making things at home but it isn't going to replace mass production even a little bit. What it will do is allow people to unleash their creativity. That's the real point so many other people are missing.
I'll bet manufacturers are shitting their pants over home printed things... but then, you can only print plastics at this point. When you can download and print a whole car, hell yes I'll pirate a car!
They're shitting their pants in the same way the MPAA shat their pants over the VCR and the RIAA shat their pants over the cassette recorder. As in a lot of foot stomping and posturing then going on to continue making tons of money. Even if you can print a car or a computer or a friggin nuclear reactor, believe that all of that can be made on an assembly line and shipped to your door for much less than it will cost you and still have a nice profit margin for the manufacturer. To me printing cars is boring. I'm looking forward to the level of creativity unleashed unlike anything seen in the material realm ever before. We've seen this in the realm of software, literature, music, and video since the production tools became commodotized. No, you can't shit out 10,000,000 CDs a week like Warner Brothers can but you can put your stuff on Youtube and entertain 3,432,454 people in a week. That doesn't stop the industry from making money but it does enrich a few peoples' lives just a little bit. That's analogous to how I expect the 3D printer revolution to play out at least in the mid-term.
I'm not saying it's all bad, but it definitely makes things interesting for companies that produce things that can be printed out on a 3D printer at home.
Even with 3D printers, large factories will still be able to produce just about anything for a fraction of what you can do it for in your house. As it is right now, the real cost for the companies will be in distribution and R&D. Outsource the R&D to China or India (or evolutionary algorithms based on some of the stuff I see in stores) and streamline your distribution with just in time principles, etc. and I don't think they'll have a whole lot to worry about. Maybe profit margins will be a little thinner but they aren't in any real danger yet. Jobs will be lost in the short term but that always happens when production is streamlined.
It is precisely because life isn't fair that mankind invented things like laws and taxes to even things up a bit.
That's an interesting assertion. Unfortunately it flies in the face of human nature and is therefore almost certainly wrong in the aggregate. I'm sure some modern laws and taxes are enacted in the interest of some person's perception of fairness but if you think they were invented for that purpose you need to read some history or at least bone up on evolutionary psychology. I'd venture to say that the earliest example of "law" is parental law. Animals set rules for their young and discipline them when those rules are broken. Why? Because if they didn't those young would be eaten and parents' genes would have less chance to propagate. It was originally a survival advantage to make and enforce laws. The concept of fairness seems more like a social rationalization to me than anything else. As far as taxes go, yes they are a tool that can enforce a certain amount of economic equality and everything that goes along with that but, again, I'd say that it still goes back to being a survival advantage. The tribe pays "taxes" to the leader and the leader doles out the wealth. Everybody stays healthy and the tribe is stronger as a result.
This explanation sucks but I'm pre-coffee so it is what it is.