I think this staged rollout is a mistake. Social networks are fickle beasts. The problem is, if all of my friends are not able to sign up to Google+ (they can't), then I have little incentive to post things to it, when they are all on Facebook.
Fast forward to 3 months from now, when it is open to all - but it's too late because everyone who initially was interested has moved on and no one cares anymore.
Of couse it is a disaster. The store is US only for starters. Android developers have a hard enough time making money without purposefully isolating yourself to some 5% or 10% of the global Android market. I don't know why anyone would publish anything exclusively on the Amazon appstore. They better bet getting huge payoffs from Amazon to do s.
I have no idea what IB is... but I can tell you with 100% confidence IOS does not support application scaling anywhere near the same way Android does. iOS apps not optimized for the tablet, simply do pixel scaling. They don't even freaking fill up the iPad screen as a result. This is *NOT* how Android apps scale. Android apps actually re-flow their layout properly.
Your above post is totally misguided. IOS has no auto-scaling reflow capabilities whatsoever. This is a combination of the strange habit of many iPhone apps not using the standard iOS GUI toolkit, and iOS taking shortcuts.
As a result, for the vast majority of iPhone apps, running them on an iPad results in an ugly pixelated mess.
This is not true for Android tablets * at all *, because Android frameworks and applications are designed from the ground up to work on many resolutions, not just one "golden" resolution.
Android apps scale a lot better than their iOS counterparts, because they were designed for multiple resolutions from the ground up. Because of this, nearly all of the apps designed for phones and games work and look great on and Android tablet.
I have had my tablet for two months now, and except for a very small number of extremely specific exceptions, I have never once come across a situation and said "there is no tablet app for this, and the phone app doesn't work".
I don't know why none of these articles about android ever bring up this fact. It always seems like they harp on and on about the number of tablet specific apps, without ever asking the question, why should an app have to be tablet specific in the first place? Like, look at Angry Birds. That is not tablet specific, but it has looked great on tablets from day 1. Or Google Skymap. I can name lots of other examples.
All of those countries mentioned have centralized federal authorities regulating their companies. Trying to for some reason argue AGAINST federal regulation, and instead of state-level regulation, while simultaneously pointing at all these other counties ahead of the US, is total nonsense.
Not everything should be state regulated. For a heck of a lot of things, it introduces huge levels of complexity and expense, and lots of opportunity for idiotic state legislators to pass nonsense laws to gain political points.
.. with reality because you don't seem to know what you are talking about and think the Wii U is just a controller.
The Wii U is not a Wii with a new controller. It is a totally new gaming system with hardware that is supposed to be far in advance of the 360 or PS3. The statement that Zelda HD could not run on a 360 or PS3 is totally factual. And whether or not you think the Wii had toy graphics is irrelevant because Wii U is not a Wii.
It amazes me the amount of flack Nintendo is getting over this console based on little information or mis-information. The fact of the matter is that by Q3/Q4 of next year, Nintendo is going to be THE ONLY company sitting with an 8th generation console. Microsoft and Sony have both said that they have no immediate plans to upgrade their consoles, and given the amount of money they both spent on bolting on motion controls to what they already have, this is unsurprising. the Wii U could be HUGE for Nintendo, if only for the fact that they won't have any other 8th generation hardware to compete with for quite a long time.
The whole point of Google+ is that you don't have to make personal information public. You define specific circles of contacts and decide who sees what.
Facebook actually has this ability as well, but it is so buried and unfriendly most people don't even know it is there. For example, when I post to Facebook, sometimes I say my family can see it, sometimes my work collegues, sometimes everyone, sometimes all 3, sometimes none (private info only for me and my immediate family).
Google is taking this idea and making it user-friendly.
When you leave a company, you have to excersize your options. That is, you have to BUY the stock in the company. If you don't do that, the options are forefit.
This is pretty common knowledge, and EVERY company does this. After all, the whole point of options is to incentivize employees, not to make employees rich and have them quit.
It amazes me that people will never read through important documents like stock option agreements before signing them.
If all you want to do is learn to code and be a code monkey, then go to a trade school.
Getting a university degree is not supposed to be simply about getting a job. It is supposed to create a more well rounded individual. You can normally tell just through 5-10 minutes of conversation with someone at a dinner party who has gone to university and who has not.
If you don't care about that, and simply want to get a job and make money, then don't go to university, and build your resume with provable performance.
The whole point of the 10,000 year clock is that it can work and keep extremely accurate time for 10,000 years with no intervention, at all. It is 100% mechanical. The clock resets it's time daily by the rise and setting of the sun causing expansion and collapse of tungsten, which is projected into it's protective cave through a 100% sapphire lens.
It is quite an ingenious project if you actually RTFA. The whole point of it is if there is some kind of worldwide wipe-out, at least we will have some remnant of human existence for a few millennia, and maybe, just maybe, someone else will find it and know we were here.
Or #3... the product is cheap to make so they know the product will appeal to the mass market and want to make a metric shitton of money.
The reason most tech goes to the pros and prosumer first is simply because new tech. is usually expensive to produce, so only pros and prosumers can afford it. These early adopters then drive the prices down for everyone else.
If, on the other hand, the tech is cheap enough for the mass market in the first place, there is literally ZERO reason for a company to target the prosumer market. The consumer market is where the money is, simply because of the volume.
A more clear summary than the long-winded summary up top is this:
Company A makes a widget based on GPL code. Company B makes code that you can buy and run on the widget, changing it's function Company A is suing company B to stop them claiming copyright violation
There are multiple weird things about this case that I am very unclear on.
- Does company B's distributed code even contain any code from Company A? If it doesn't, and it is literally just code that gets injected into the router, then it is not a copyright violation in the first place. Not a GPL issue *at all*.
- If it *does* contain code from company A, based on their GPL code, then it's a GPL issue. However, none of Company A's arguments make any sense in that case.
- Finally, why does company A care about this in the least?
I do this often too, and it is not because I am a non-technical user. It is because I have found it much faster, because of the retarded things companies do.
Often, going to a companies home page does nothing more than present you with some stupid full-screen flash ad/presentation - or ask you to pick a language, or other stupid things they should be able to auto-detect. You then have to figure out how to navigate past this and get to the actual content you are looking for, which is strewn about in a myrid of flash menus. Doing this on a Tablet or phone is very painful.
Compare this to typing the company into Google. Not only is their site listed as the first result, instantly, but Google have done the nice job of breaking the site down into the *specific ccategories* already for you - so you can bypass all the flash ads and selection screen BS and get right to the meat of what you wanted to do in the first place.
It is not that well known, but IBM have been maintaining and improving a fork of OpenOffice for years now, under the Lotus brand. It's called Lotus Symphony. I've been using it for some time and find it very capable and polished, at least compared to the mess of a UI that I remember OpenOffice to be.
How does LibreOffice compare to Symphony? Anyone tried both?
Sure, except for the various browser exploits that allow you to jailbreak the OS specifically because all processes run as the root user.
That is the problem with living in a walled garden. Everyone assumes everything is prestine. Until someone digs a hole under the wall, and all hell breaks loose.
Compare this to an OS like Android, designed with this kind of thing in mind, where applications have specific permissions they must request, to the user, at install time in order to do anything.
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Er, HTC is not some fly by night operation. They have a 35 billion dollar market cap.
They can afford their own litigation if their own legal thought the patents had no merit.
I think this staged rollout is a mistake. Social networks are fickle beasts. The problem is, if all of my friends are not able to sign up to Google+ (they can't), then I have little incentive to post things to it, when they are all on Facebook.
Fast forward to 3 months from now, when it is open to all - but it's too late because everyone who initially was interested has moved on and no one cares anymore.
What makes you think they are not already abusing it?
Did you totally tune out the whole extortion fiasco with newspaper and magazine publshers on the iPad?
You mis-read what i said. I said the US is 5% - 10% of the Android ecosystem.
Of couse it is a disaster. The store is US only for starters. Android developers have a hard enough time making money without purposefully isolating yourself to some 5% or 10% of the global Android market. I don't know why anyone would publish anything exclusively on the Amazon appstore. They better bet getting huge payoffs from Amazon to do s.
I have no idea what IB is... but I can tell you with 100% confidence IOS does not support application scaling anywhere near the same way Android does. iOS apps not optimized for the tablet, simply do pixel scaling. They don't even freaking fill up the iPad screen as a result. This is *NOT* how Android apps scale. Android apps actually re-flow their layout properly.
Your above post is totally misguided. IOS has no auto-scaling reflow capabilities whatsoever. This is a combination of the strange habit of many iPhone apps not using the standard iOS GUI toolkit, and iOS taking shortcuts.
As a result, for the vast majority of iPhone apps, running them on an iPad results in an ugly pixelated mess.
This is not true for Android tablets * at all *, because Android frameworks and applications are designed from the ground up to work on many resolutions, not just one "golden" resolution.
Android apps scale a lot better than their iOS counterparts, because they were designed for multiple resolutions from the ground up. Because of this, nearly all of the apps designed for phones and games work and look great on and Android tablet.
I have had my tablet for two months now, and except for a very small number of extremely specific exceptions, I have never once come across a situation and said "there is no tablet app for this, and the phone app doesn't work".
I don't know why none of these articles about android ever bring up this fact. It always seems like they harp on and on about the number of tablet specific apps, without ever asking the question, why should an app have to be tablet specific in the first place? Like, look at Angry Birds. That is not tablet specific, but it has looked great on tablets from day 1. Or Google Skymap. I can name lots of other examples.
All of those countries mentioned have centralized federal authorities regulating their companies. Trying to for some reason argue AGAINST federal regulation, and instead of state-level regulation, while simultaneously pointing at all these other counties ahead of the US, is total nonsense.
Not everything should be state regulated. For a heck of a lot of things, it introduces huge levels of complexity and expense, and lots of opportunity for idiotic state legislators to pass nonsense laws to gain political points.
The idea that 40% of people would steal if they could get away with it is totally ridiculous, unless you think that 40% of people have an IQ below 70.
Stealing without getting caught is EASY, so easy a child can do it (and they often do).
.. with reality because you don't seem to know what you are talking about and think the Wii U is just a controller.
The Wii U is not a Wii with a new controller. It is a totally new gaming system with hardware that is supposed to be far in advance of the 360 or PS3. The statement that Zelda HD could not run on a 360 or PS3 is totally factual. And whether or not you think the Wii had toy graphics is irrelevant because Wii U is not a Wii.
It amazes me the amount of flack Nintendo is getting over this console based on little information or mis-information. The fact of the matter is that by Q3/Q4 of next year, Nintendo is going to be THE ONLY company sitting with an 8th generation console. Microsoft and Sony have both said that they have no immediate plans to upgrade their consoles, and given the amount of money they both spent on bolting on motion controls to what they already have, this is unsurprising. the Wii U could be HUGE for Nintendo, if only for the fact that they won't have any other 8th generation hardware to compete with for quite a long time.
The whole point of Google+ is that you don't have to make personal information public. You define specific circles of contacts and decide who sees what.
Facebook actually has this ability as well, but it is so buried and unfriendly most people don't even know it is there. For example, when I post to Facebook, sometimes I say my family can see it, sometimes my work collegues, sometimes everyone, sometimes all 3, sometimes none (private info only for me and my immediate family).
Google is taking this idea and making it user-friendly.
This is better than most Canadians get.
When you leave a company, you have to excersize your options. That is, you have to BUY the stock in the company. If you don't do that, the options are forefit.
This is pretty common knowledge, and EVERY company does this. After all, the whole point of options is to incentivize employees, not to make employees rich and have them quit.
It amazes me that people will never read through important documents like stock option agreements before signing them.
If all you want to do is learn to code and be a code monkey, then go to a trade school.
Getting a university degree is not supposed to be simply about getting a job. It is supposed to create a more well rounded individual. You can normally tell just through 5-10 minutes of conversation with someone at a dinner party who has gone to university and who has not.
If you don't care about that, and simply want to get a job and make money, then don't go to university, and build your resume with provable performance.
The whole point of the 10,000 year clock is that it can work and keep extremely accurate time for 10,000 years with no intervention, at all. It is 100% mechanical. The clock resets it's time daily by the rise and setting of the sun causing expansion and collapse of tungsten, which is projected into it's protective cave through a 100% sapphire lens.
It is quite an ingenious project if you actually RTFA. The whole point of it is if there is some kind of worldwide wipe-out, at least we will have some remnant of human existence for a few millennia, and maybe, just maybe, someone else will find it and know we were here.
Or #3... the product is cheap to make so they know the product will appeal to the mass market and want to make a metric shitton of money.
The reason most tech goes to the pros and prosumer first is simply because new tech. is usually expensive to produce, so only pros and prosumers can afford it. These early adopters then drive the prices down for everyone else.
If, on the other hand, the tech is cheap enough for the mass market in the first place, there is literally ZERO reason for a company to target the prosumer market. The consumer market is where the money is, simply because of the volume.
A more clear summary than the long-winded summary up top is this:
Company A makes a widget based on GPL code.
Company B makes code that you can buy and run on the widget, changing it's function
Company A is suing company B to stop them claiming copyright violation
There are multiple weird things about this case that I am very unclear on.
- Does company B's distributed code even contain any code from Company A? If it doesn't, and it is literally just code that gets injected into the router, then it is not a copyright violation in the first place. Not a GPL issue *at all*.
- If it *does* contain code from company A, based on their GPL code, then it's a GPL issue. However, none of Company A's arguments make any sense in that case.
- Finally, why does company A care about this in the least?
Then why not pull out of some of the FAR MORE EXPENSIVE on-the-ground operations there, vs pulling out of a relatively cheap ariel action in Libya?
"Put up, or shut up"
Thanks Xiph.org. Someone has to fight the good fight.
Would the republicans actually vote against war in Libya? Why would they do that?
I do this often too, and it is not because I am a non-technical user. It is because I have found it much faster, because of the retarded things companies do.
Often, going to a companies home page does nothing more than present you with some stupid full-screen flash ad/presentation - or ask you to pick a language, or other stupid things they should be able to auto-detect. You then have to figure out how to navigate past this and get to the actual content you are looking for, which is strewn about in a myrid of flash menus. Doing this on a Tablet or phone is very painful.
Compare this to typing the company into Google. Not only is their site listed as the first result, instantly, but Google have done the nice job of breaking the site down into the *specific ccategories* already for you - so you can bypass all the flash ads and selection screen BS and get right to the meat of what you wanted to do in the first place.
It is not that well known, but IBM have been maintaining and improving a fork of OpenOffice for years now, under the Lotus brand. It's called Lotus Symphony. I've been using it for some time and find it very capable and polished, at least compared to the mess of a UI that I remember OpenOffice to be.
How does LibreOffice compare to Symphony? Anyone tried both?
There fixed that for you
Sure, except for the various browser exploits that allow you to jailbreak the OS specifically because all processes run as the root user.
That is the problem with living in a walled garden. Everyone assumes everything is prestine. Until someone digs a hole under the wall, and all hell breaks loose.
Compare this to an OS like Android, designed with this kind of thing in mind, where applications have specific permissions they must request, to the user, at install time in order to do anything.