There is that. There is also the notion that in a few short years most PC users won't be using PC's anymore. If Adobe (or anyone else for that matter) want to remain relevant to that group they're going to have to figure out exactly this cross platform issue before cell phones start driving external displays.
A CRT doesn't need support, it needs to not be sabotaged. His glasses don't need support, they need to not be sabotaged.
Not supporting both of them takes more effort than ignoring them.
Competent support of all that hardware would take less space in code than this comment window is high. Going to the trouble to restrict it was much more... *after* the meetings, licenses, and money exchanges had all taken place.
The cynic in me believes that someone with a debugger is probably a single (or two) flipped bit(s) away from a working setup.
I've seen this issue come up in a couple of places recently in my own line of work.
Bottom line is, the chinese are accustomed to cutting corners. And really, we are to blame. By insisting (culturally not specifically) on bottom dollar for components... the only way to win a contract is to cut corners on the output.
You cannot make the products we want at the prices we want in a sustainable (the real definition not the "green" one) way.
At hand is the issue of Sony deciding that failure rate of X is acceptable if component B costs less than C. In the end consumer Y is fucked but who cares there are 200 devices sold for every consumer that gets screwed.
Oh and the whole bullshit line about consoles costing more to manufacture than they're sold for... that's some fancy "accounting" which has never been true in any reality were real dollars used to pay bonuses are concerned.
Hate to repeat myself, but as you said... the screen/keyboard are too small for serious work... But the rest of the hardware is completely competent and in some ways better than a typical PC.
What this new crop of phones needs is a mechanism to drive an external display and keyboard.
I think this is fascinating news. But with all this functionality being delivered across so many platforms...
WHY do I still have a PC?
If someone figures out a way to get the device to output to a display and input from a keyboard/mouse. Even if there is another pc involved it would still be useful to many.
The FTC gets around to doing something about it when a Senator falls victim to it.
Since the state and federal computers are fairly tightly controlled, and most of their "computing" is done by interns, don't expect much to happen for a while. Unless a lot of people make a lot of noise.
I remember when I had a 5" portable C64 (in a 40 lb chassis) and back then it was considered a normal laptop. It wasn't wide screen either, but you damn kids these days (shakes fist) have no idea how good you've got it.
How big is too big probably depends on how you use it. In my line of work, XP on an atom processor with a 17 inch 1920x1200 display would be completely adequate. But because of screen size alone we are relegated to much more expensive hardware.
The courts ruled that the tax breaks did not apply to this facility. It's mostly just a case of posturing after an attempt to exploit a loophole that was opened for another project. Microsoft pays almost nothing to Washington state relative to their revenue, which is fine as Olympia has invited this kind of relationship. They employ a lot of people, and really are used to getting what they want from the state.
However, I don't think this action isn't even so much about the taxes on the site as much as letting our legislators know they're ready to leave wholesale as soon as it suits them.
I would only add that the weirdest part is there is a contingent of people caught under the wheel that will vociferously defend the right of the corporation/government to grind your bones to make their bread.
I suppose some people must have structure, even if it is wholly self destructive.
I'm not anti-corporation, but corruption has reversed the role of corporations as a tool of the people.
A: Public Radio/TV doesn't mean PBS or NPR. B: Half?... think 5-10% C: Upon reading your sig I'm going to cut this short because you don't appear to be concerned at all with facts.
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Where are my mod points.
Where do you think they got the panties?
There is that. There is also the notion that in a few short years most PC users won't be using PC's anymore. If Adobe (or anyone else for that matter) want to remain relevant to that group they're going to have to figure out exactly this cross platform issue before cell phones start driving external displays.
It will be interesting to see if they do any better.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/17/
If you ever needed a reminder that credulity and verbosity don't necessarily go together...
That was a ridiculous thing to post.
A CRT doesn't need support, it needs to not be sabotaged.
His glasses don't need support, they need to not be sabotaged.
Not supporting both of them takes more effort than ignoring them.
Competent support of all that hardware would take less space in code than this comment window is high. Going to the trouble to restrict it was much more... *after* the meetings, licenses, and money exchanges had all taken place.
The cynic in me believes that someone with a debugger is probably a single (or two) flipped bit(s) away from a working setup.
To tell me it's working, it sounds like pretty much the best thing out there.
When the CEO of your competition derides your product publicly, you know it's got to be good shit.
I've seen this issue come up in a couple of places recently in my own line of work.
Bottom line is, the chinese are accustomed to cutting corners. And really, we are to blame. By insisting (culturally not specifically) on bottom dollar for components... the only way to win a contract is to cut corners on the output.
You cannot make the products we want at the prices we want in a sustainable (the real definition not the "green" one) way.
At hand is the issue of Sony deciding that failure rate of X is acceptable if component B costs less than C.
In the end consumer Y is fucked but who cares there are 200 devices sold for every consumer that gets screwed.
Oh and the whole bullshit line about consoles costing more to manufacture than they're sold for... that's some fancy "accounting" which has never been true in any reality were real dollars used to pay bonuses are concerned.
Except that the latency is between the user and the client, not the client and the server.
Completely different.
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Hate to repeat myself, but as you said... the screen/keyboard are too small for serious work... But the rest of the hardware is completely competent and in some ways better than a typical PC.
What this new crop of phones needs is a mechanism to drive an external display and keyboard.
I think this is fascinating news. But with all this functionality being delivered across so many platforms...
WHY do I still have a PC?
If someone figures out a way to get the device to output to a display and input from a keyboard/mouse. Even if there is another pc involved it would still be useful to many.
The FTC gets around to doing something about it when a Senator falls victim to it.
Since the state and federal computers are fairly tightly controlled, and most of their "computing" is done by interns, don't expect much to happen for a while. Unless a lot of people make a lot of noise.
Cynical yes, but not exactly a rare circumstance.
What is this lousy glyph for "broken rickshaw" doing there?
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The atom Z series pretty much eliminates the chipset issue. But the entery level (read most used) 520 is half as fast as a 270.
I agree, there's a lot of ground to be made in this segment.
I remember when I had a 5" portable C64 (in a 40 lb chassis) and back then it was considered a normal laptop. It wasn't wide screen either, but you damn kids these days (shakes fist) have no idea how good you've got it.
How big is too big probably depends on how you use it. In my line of work, XP on an atom processor with a 17 inch 1920x1200 display would be completely adequate. But because of screen size alone we are relegated to much more expensive hardware.
"An uber-TV sounds a lot like an iMac without a lot of the openness or flexibility."
Let me introduce you to AppleTV.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/
A corporation is not a person. I think you are reading a whole lot of inaccurate data into what I wrote.
I have no idea how you even get forbiddance out of what I post.
The courts ruled that the tax breaks did not apply to this facility. It's mostly just a case of posturing after an attempt to exploit a loophole that was opened for another project. Microsoft pays almost nothing to Washington state relative to their revenue, which is fine as Olympia has invited this kind of relationship. They employ a lot of people, and really are used to getting what they want from the state.
However, I don't think this action isn't even so much about the taxes on the site as much as letting our legislators know they're ready to leave wholesale as soon as it suits them.
I would only add that the weirdest part is there is a contingent of people caught under the wheel that will vociferously defend the right of the corporation/government to grind your bones to make their bread.
I suppose some people must have structure, even if it is wholly self destructive.
I'm not anti-corporation, but corruption has reversed the role of corporations as a tool of the people.
I didn't pre-judge, you laid out a bunch of incorrect facts and hysterical low rent diatribe.
You don't care, if you did you would have got your facts straight before forwarding them on to someone else.
I don't need to know about your diabetic cat to know that.
They'll just play an animation of a book burning as they erase them remotely.
A: Public Radio/TV doesn't mean PBS or NPR.
B: Half?... think 5-10%
C: Upon reading your sig I'm going to cut this short because you don't appear to be concerned at all with facts.
I knew some fellows in a band that Pabst had sponsored for a while. They got dropped because they drank too much beer.