Its just that using HTML to build "native" apps for iOS has been proven to be poor over and over again.
Apple just does not want ANY competitive technology to shine on iOS. They dropped Flash not due to "performance and battery" issues, but simply put that Flash would eat away at Apple's walled garden. Building HTML apps that can be easily ported to other platforms wasn't going to be something that worked better then native iOS apps built for the walled garden.
It comes down to whether you want to be cheap and dirty or invest some time and effort into taking advantage of the native platform. There is no reason for Facebook to be cheap and dirty, they can hire a corporation worth of developers for each platform if they wanted to.
But if you are staring out and want to target all platforms but do not have the technical know-how or man-power to be able to write native apps for each platform, then use HTML, just don't be surprised when it is only an "acceptable" solution.
Do we really see a future where people are going to walk around with some kind of headset and HUD?
I think this is a cool concept, but with a very limited appeal and market. I think society will quickly lash out against all the techno-yuppies donning their Bluetooth and HUD glasses trying to seem more important then they are and believing they need ubiquitous connectivity.
I just don't see a need for constant visual feedback of the world I am looking at, I think I will continue to use my brain for that reason.
I would imagine that the pending class action lawsuit of people injuring themselves while using these devices will render them as a quick footnote in the history of technology fads. You just know that when someone's visual attention is momentarily distracted by some Google Ad because the device detected you are near a McDonalds will cause people to walk into oncoming traffic or drive off the road (either to escape from or be drawn in to the Big-M).
Google is forgetting the fact that people are fundamentally stupid. Rich hipsters even more so. A device to replace thought and rationality is not a good idea, period.
First, there is a dramatic drop in the use of Desktop PC's and Laptops in favor of Tablets and Phones. Linux has lost out big time as the big tech companies transition into closed garden platforms. So yes, there is less interest in Linux on the Desktop because there is less interest in the Desktop.
Second, Linux for the Desktop has never been overly competitive and has always trailed. Its no surprising that there is not enough interest in keeping Linux "competitive" with products like OS X or Windows because after 20 years of failure its hard to get excited and stay motivated to contribute to a failing product.
I am not saying there is no room for Linux in the world, but the era of the idea that Linux will "eventually" become a true competitor to Windows is over. Linux lost on the desktop, period.
What needs to happen is for the Linux community to realize this and shift towards making Linux relevant again. Stop trying to "Beat Windows" and instead find new markets where Linux CAN be competitive in. For the most part I have found that the Open Source community is not shifting into the mobile device market fast enough. Sure Android is *nixy, but its not Linux and Google is pulling the strings pretty tightly (Android is NOT a community project, period). Linux has been shut out of a new generation of mobile devices.
The bottom line is there is a general lack of leadership in the Linux camp. Linus Torvalds is an idiot, period. He has delusions of grandeur and is still stuck in a reality where he is trying to "Beat Windows". The shame is that Linux is an OS that can pretty much run on ANYTHING, and would have been ideal if he started focusing on creating an excellent mobile/consumer electronics OS 5 years ago rather they trying to make an "awesome" kernel for the Desktop. While Linux might pepper a handful of TV devices, its still not a prominent player in a new generation of living room products, where again companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft are making a massive push.
Linux is proof that design by committee fails. Linux needs a leader to define the next 10 - 20 years of focus rather then dozens of hap-hazardously planned projects that go nowhere.
Linux is excellent, but it lacks excellence in its leadership.
Just checked and my primary email is still the one I signed up with, but my alternative is the Facebook one. Of course this is the first time I signed into Facebook in a year so I really could give a flying leap and would prefer if the notices go to an email I will never use.
Seriously though, if you are an "active" Facebook user, then you have switched back already or happily using the new one. There is no reason to complain about this at all..
Should I use "commonly agreed upon standard" vs "some idea I whipped up while drunk"?
Answer is obvious.
Seriously though, if carrying about 5+ pieces of equipment (mini computer, projector, keyboard, mouse, external data storage, power brick) seems better for you, then do it, but you will most likely come back to a standard laptop solution out of convenience sake.
The problem with computers today is there are a LOT of options that offer MOST of the functionality of a typical desktop or laptop, but they are not a perfect replacement and you will have to accept some compromise. Abandoning a laptop for a tablet might make sense for a lot of people, but if you type frequently (and there is NO on screen keyboard that works well for long term typing) then you will be carrying around a tablet and external keyboard, which is stupid compared to carrying around a laptop. Now abandoning a laptop for 4 or 5 separate piece of equipment?
The same goes for abandoning some standard OS and going with some distro of the month option. The distro may do a lot of what the standard OS does, but not a perfect replacement and for many people the compromise is too great and they come back to the standard eventually.
First, you should have off-site backups of your critical data. Put it in the cloud or some off-site company server.
Second, your life is worth more then the value of any of the equipment or data you are trying to save. You can always walk away from a company that lost all its critical data, but risking your life to protect that data is stupid.
Lastly, your employees (and you and IT?) will most likely love it if all their equipment burned to the ground, chances are they are running ancient crap (like 99% of all companies that want to save a buck by NOT investing in the software and equipment their employees use every day), so if the company burns down then the insurance will pay for everyone to get all nice new shiny upgrades.
Life is the most valuable so if you see smoke, leave the equipment behind, help others and run away.
After having used Windows 8 and started developing apps for it using VS 2012 (11 beta) for several months now, I have to say Metro is about the laziest UI design that has come out of any OS developer in the history of operating systems.
What they have done is removed ALL borders, all color variations and rounded corners, along with any chrome and created blobs of white/grey boxes with text on it.
Its almost like Microsoft has given up on traditional desktop applications and want to encourage more "web-like" app designs exclusively for the Metro overlay.
I could almost be claimed to be a Windows fanboy, but Windows 8 is the first time since Windows ME that I am greatly disappointed in the direction Microsoft is taking for UI/UX. It is horrid on almost every level of UI and UX and I have been a UI/UX developer for 15+ years.
Windows 8 may be the biggest disaster they have ever created.
I think a 3rd grader better review all this data, because according to the current grade-school curriculum, water evaporates, condenses into clouds, rains, fills lakes, rivers, aquifers, etc, and then evaporates again in a seemingly recurring cycle.
With global warming, shouldn't the rate of evaporation increase causing more water to evaporate, increasing cloud cover and rain and filling up groundwater reservoirs?
Doesn't more cloud cover block the suns heat thus reducing Global warming?
I know everybody thinks the world is going to sh*t and we are living in Hell and the planet will be destroyed in a matter of decades, but I find it hard to believe that after a few billion years of water evaporating, condensing and raining that suddenly this basic concept of a global ecosystem some-how no longer applies.
If a 3rd grader can just step up figure this sh*t out for us cause obviously the "scientific" community doesn't have a f*cking clue
To all the naysayers, duh, Mac's have always been more expensive "then the rest", but then they are not marketed to people like you so get over it.
This is impressive, a lot of tech in a very small package and you can't even find that tech in ANY of the competition yet. While I know there is significantly better values out there if you just want a new computer, when you start building a Dell or HP laptop with any where close to the same tech in something no where near as well engineered as the new Macbook, you are paying close to $2000 anyways.
Someone said they can build 3 desktops for that money, then what? Have 3 unused boxes of crap lying around?
Same as always, Macs are never going to be the average joe's computer, I find it difficult to imagine the average joe requiring 2880 x 1800 displays anyways. This is squarely marketed to video editors, graphic designers, developers where the added screen real-estate will be welcomed. The fact that this thing isn't $3000+ because of the Retina display (which is not a commonly stocked component ANYWHERE), it is surprising they are selling it for so cheap.
So, don't worry you can't afford or don't want to buy this new MacBook Pro. Your comments are useless. This product is not marketed towards you and if you don't get it, then no worries. Wait for Dell's cloned version of this and while it might be cheaper, it won't be the same, but you will feel happy for 1-up'ing a Mac fanboy.
If you can't figure out a career for yourself then perhaps you are not the hot shit programmer you think you are; you assume ethical companies would even want your skills.
Maybe there is an job opening at the smug factory.
Seriously, any system that allows 1000's or millions of attempts to access the same account repeatedly with failing passwords is an inherently flawed system.
I don't like systems that give you 3 attempts and then lock you out, that is unnecessary, but an secure system should expect that "human" entered password will take at least 10 + seconds between attempts and that no "human" would spend several hours/days trying to enter repeatedly failing passwords.
There is a current "myth" that I am required to change my passwords frequently and use stupid rules to construct a password. I think the systems need to change to understand the fundamental difference between human input and computer generated input and then deal with the attack accordingly.
I also read somewhere that using 4 REAL randomly associated words is far more secure then some password full of symbols, characters and digits.
I think password systems need to change, not the way people pick a password, I can't believe any system should exist that allows brute force hacking schemes.
Apple uses like 30%+ of Samsung components in their iOS devices. Samsung is getting rich off of that fact and using the stuff they learned making iOS device components in their own line of Android components. Apple has been enjoying the relative supply stability, quality and reliability of Samsung parts.
One of these companies need to grow a set of balls and do one of two things:
If Apple grows a pair first then dump using Samsung parts in retaliation for all the cloning of Apple products Samsung has done in the past. Apple needs to end that partnership and work with smaller component companies who would be incapable of building their own competitive copy-cat products.
If Samsung grows a pair fist then stop supplying Apple parts because Apple is being a bunch of petty retards and focus solely on Android devices and supplying to other vendors who are not greedy self-absorbed bastards.
Seriously, this is the dumbest and strangest pairing of companies that both hate each other but still enjoy the reach-arounds they have been giving each other for the last 5 years.
First, they boast at E3 that it is all about the games, and then announce Hulu and Netflix integration along with social networking features. Those are not games IMHO.
Second the Wii U tablet is absolutely retarded. Every picture I have seen looks huge in the hands of an "adult", how is some 5 year old going to hold on and use it for play? Nintendo has absolutely no concept of good industrial design. How Nintendo can release "that" monstrosity in the era of slick, ultra-thin tablets and phones is beyond me and screams of the fact that Nintendo obviously still assumes gamers are 5 - 13 years old. Nintendo remains the Fisher Price of gaming.
What is most underwhelming about Nintendo is that in spite of the huge windfall Nintendo received from Wii sales, they are now reporting financial losses and have obviously not invested that windfall into creating an innovative new product. They took a DS and turned it into a game controller and will offer a moderate update of the Wii and have to audacity to claim it a new generation of game console.
But the problem is that while showing some basic examples of "new" concepts, extending this into a fully functional IDE for "any" language and platform is going to take far more time and money to develop then what the Kickstarter project is going to provide. When was the last time you wrote code like 3 + 4 = that could provide immediate evaluation.
That shouldn't discourage the developer from proceeding, but I think his only goal would be to be bought up by Microsoft, Apple, Google, or some other prevalent software company with their own IDE to integrate those ideas rather the going it alone. I don't imagine Light Table ever competing with VS, X-Code or Eclipse, but any of those IDE's would certainly benefit from these concepts.
Bottom line is, this guy has provided a great resume in which any of those companies should consider for hire to work on their dev platforms. The future of mobile apps screams for easier and more rapid development.
So all the people seeing this as progress, realize that in 30+ years solar panels have not improved significantly enough to be able to generate the kind of power required to move 2 people, let alone 100 or 300.
This is a nice novelty, but does not harken a new era in solar power flight until there is some fundamental improvements in solar power technology.
Palm's problem was with their Palm Pilot and the trickle roll-out of upgrades they offered. I remember seeing "new generations" of Palm Pilots being released with nothing more then 4 more mb of RAM, all specs and even style of the handset was identical to those a year ago. While competitors like Microsoft offered color screens and support for music (way before iPod), Palm stuck with black and white screens and no multi-media support for several generations. When they finally offere color screens and music support, it was almost grudgingly done.
Then when the iPod came out Palm did little to offer enhanced music support. Their one change to create something better then the iPod, LifeDrive, was the final nail in the coffin of an incompetent company that could not innovate and compete to save their lives.
When they finally dumped their hardware group and went OS only, their efforts were lazy and inefficient. It is almost laughable to assume that PalmOS could have even stood up to iOS or Android. PalmOS was killed off while those OS'es were only in their infancy.
Palm is simply an example of a company that created the "darling" product for a given generation and then got lazy and arrogant. In spite of disrupters in their industry (such as Windows CE and iPod), Palm remained steady on a course to oblivion by assuming their name alone will drive sales.
BTW, RIM is in EXACTLY the same condition as Palm was, having created the "IT" product of the late 90', early 00's and then resting on their laurels while the mobile market changed dramatically around them.
There is no mystery why Palm failed just as their is no mystery as to why Rim is failing. You can't maintain success without continued innovation; the moment you assume you have ample market penetration, the moment you assume your name alone will sell a new generation of product, the moment you dismiss disrupters ad "trifling" competitors and then strive to catch up to them, you are dead in this industry.
Seriously, George needs an intervention because in any other social circle being obsessed with something for 30+ years would warrant some form of mental deficiency diagnosis.
What is most disappointing about Star Wars is just how much new and innovative concepts that COULD have come out of Lucasarts/film were stifled because of an all encompassing desire to increase the Star Wars Franchise payload. They don't even do special effects for other movies anymore (well, Red Tails, meh), they are just automatons pushing out more Star Wars related drivel.
How greedy and self-obsessed can one company be to shove a single franchise down the throats of 3+ generations of kids? I can only lump Walt Disney and Nintendo in that category.
The Human Centipede exists and George Lucas is at the front. There can be no self-respecting employee at Lucasarts/films these days, only people that love the taste of his shit.
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Its just that using HTML to build "native" apps for iOS has been proven to be poor over and over again.
Apple just does not want ANY competitive technology to shine on iOS. They dropped Flash not due to "performance and battery" issues, but simply put that Flash would eat away at Apple's walled garden. Building HTML apps that can be easily ported to other platforms wasn't going to be something that worked better then native iOS apps built for the walled garden.
It comes down to whether you want to be cheap and dirty or invest some time and effort into taking advantage of the native platform. There is no reason for Facebook to be cheap and dirty, they can hire a corporation worth of developers for each platform if they wanted to.
But if you are staring out and want to target all platforms but do not have the technical know-how or man-power to be able to write native apps for each platform, then use HTML, just don't be surprised when it is only an "acceptable" solution.
Do we really see a future where people are going to walk around with some kind of headset and HUD?
I think this is a cool concept, but with a very limited appeal and market. I think society will quickly lash out against all the techno-yuppies donning their Bluetooth and HUD glasses trying to seem more important then they are and believing they need ubiquitous connectivity.
I just don't see a need for constant visual feedback of the world I am looking at, I think I will continue to use my brain for that reason.
I would imagine that the pending class action lawsuit of people injuring themselves while using these devices will render them as a quick footnote in the history of technology fads. You just know that when someone's visual attention is momentarily distracted by some Google Ad because the device detected you are near a McDonalds will cause people to walk into oncoming traffic or drive off the road (either to escape from or be drawn in to the Big-M).
Google is forgetting the fact that people are fundamentally stupid. Rich hipsters even more so. A device to replace thought and rationality is not a good idea, period.
First, there is a dramatic drop in the use of Desktop PC's and Laptops in favor of Tablets and Phones. Linux has lost out big time as the big tech companies transition into closed garden platforms. So yes, there is less interest in Linux on the Desktop because there is less interest in the Desktop.
Second, Linux for the Desktop has never been overly competitive and has always trailed. Its no surprising that there is not enough interest in keeping Linux "competitive" with products like OS X or Windows because after 20 years of failure its hard to get excited and stay motivated to contribute to a failing product.
I am not saying there is no room for Linux in the world, but the era of the idea that Linux will "eventually" become a true competitor to Windows is over. Linux lost on the desktop, period.
What needs to happen is for the Linux community to realize this and shift towards making Linux relevant again. Stop trying to "Beat Windows" and instead find new markets where Linux CAN be competitive in. For the most part I have found that the Open Source community is not shifting into the mobile device market fast enough. Sure Android is *nixy, but its not Linux and Google is pulling the strings pretty tightly (Android is NOT a community project, period). Linux has been shut out of a new generation of mobile devices.
The bottom line is there is a general lack of leadership in the Linux camp. Linus Torvalds is an idiot, period. He has delusions of grandeur and is still stuck in a reality where he is trying to "Beat Windows". The shame is that Linux is an OS that can pretty much run on ANYTHING, and would have been ideal if he started focusing on creating an excellent mobile/consumer electronics OS 5 years ago rather they trying to make an "awesome" kernel for the Desktop. While Linux might pepper a handful of TV devices, its still not a prominent player in a new generation of living room products, where again companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft are making a massive push.
Linux is proof that design by committee fails. Linux needs a leader to define the next 10 - 20 years of focus rather then dozens of hap-hazardously planned projects that go nowhere.
Linux is excellent, but it lacks excellence in its leadership.
Just checked and my primary email is still the one I signed up with, but my alternative is the Facebook one. Of course this is the first time I signed into Facebook in a year so I really could give a flying leap and would prefer if the notices go to an email I will never use.
Seriously though, if you are an "active" Facebook user, then you have switched back already or happily using the new one. There is no reason to complain about this at all..
And you will do just fine.
Just start your lesson with, "And what do you think about that?" and let the students discover the answers for themselves.
The only math a psychology major needs to know is how to bill by the hour, 1 x $200 = $200, done.
I think its time for a new Internet, the bureaucrats have ruined this one.
At least by creating a new Internet it will take 10 - 20 years before the politicians clue up that it exists and start legislation against its usage.
The answer to this question is boiler plate:
Should I use "commonly agreed upon standard" vs "some idea I whipped up while drunk"?
Answer is obvious.
Seriously though, if carrying about 5+ pieces of equipment (mini computer, projector, keyboard, mouse, external data storage, power brick) seems better for you, then do it, but you will most likely come back to a standard laptop solution out of convenience sake.
The problem with computers today is there are a LOT of options that offer MOST of the functionality of a typical desktop or laptop, but they are not a perfect replacement and you will have to accept some compromise. Abandoning a laptop for a tablet might make sense for a lot of people, but if you type frequently (and there is NO on screen keyboard that works well for long term typing) then you will be carrying around a tablet and external keyboard, which is stupid compared to carrying around a laptop. Now abandoning a laptop for 4 or 5 separate piece of equipment?
The same goes for abandoning some standard OS and going with some distro of the month option. The distro may do a lot of what the standard OS does, but not a perfect replacement and for many people the compromise is too great and they come back to the standard eventually.
First, you should have off-site backups of your critical data. Put it in the cloud or some off-site company server.
Second, your life is worth more then the value of any of the equipment or data you are trying to save. You can always walk away from a company that lost all its critical data, but risking your life to protect that data is stupid.
Lastly, your employees (and you and IT?) will most likely love it if all their equipment burned to the ground, chances are they are running ancient crap (like 99% of all companies that want to save a buck by NOT investing in the software and equipment their employees use every day), so if the company burns down then the insurance will pay for everyone to get all nice new shiny upgrades.
Life is the most valuable so if you see smoke, leave the equipment behind, help others and run away.
After having used Windows 8 and started developing apps for it using VS 2012 (11 beta) for several months now, I have to say Metro is about the laziest UI design that has come out of any OS developer in the history of operating systems.
What they have done is removed ALL borders, all color variations and rounded corners, along with any chrome and created blobs of white/grey boxes with text on it.
Its almost like Microsoft has given up on traditional desktop applications and want to encourage more "web-like" app designs exclusively for the Metro overlay.
I could almost be claimed to be a Windows fanboy, but Windows 8 is the first time since Windows ME that I am greatly disappointed in the direction Microsoft is taking for UI/UX. It is horrid on almost every level of UI and UX and I have been a UI/UX developer for 15+ years.
Windows 8 may be the biggest disaster they have ever created.
I think a 3rd grader better review all this data, because according to the current grade-school curriculum, water evaporates, condenses into clouds, rains, fills lakes, rivers, aquifers, etc, and then evaporates again in a seemingly recurring cycle.
With global warming, shouldn't the rate of evaporation increase causing more water to evaporate, increasing cloud cover and rain and filling up groundwater reservoirs?
Doesn't more cloud cover block the suns heat thus reducing Global warming?
I know everybody thinks the world is going to sh*t and we are living in Hell and the planet will be destroyed in a matter of decades, but I find it hard to believe that after a few billion years of water evaporating, condensing and raining that suddenly this basic concept of a global ecosystem some-how no longer applies.
If a 3rd grader can just step up figure this sh*t out for us cause obviously the "scientific" community doesn't have a f*cking clue
To all the naysayers, duh, Mac's have always been more expensive "then the rest", but then they are not marketed to people like you so get over it.
This is impressive, a lot of tech in a very small package and you can't even find that tech in ANY of the competition yet. While I know there is significantly better values out there if you just want a new computer, when you start building a Dell or HP laptop with any where close to the same tech in something no where near as well engineered as the new Macbook, you are paying close to $2000 anyways.
Someone said they can build 3 desktops for that money, then what? Have 3 unused boxes of crap lying around?
Same as always, Macs are never going to be the average joe's computer, I find it difficult to imagine the average joe requiring 2880 x 1800 displays anyways. This is squarely marketed to video editors, graphic designers, developers where the added screen real-estate will be welcomed. The fact that this thing isn't $3000+ because of the Retina display (which is not a commonly stocked component ANYWHERE), it is surprising they are selling it for so cheap.
So, don't worry you can't afford or don't want to buy this new MacBook Pro. Your comments are useless. This product is not marketed towards you and if you don't get it, then no worries. Wait for Dell's cloned version of this and while it might be cheaper, it won't be the same, but you will feel happy for 1-up'ing a Mac fanboy.
Only PR.
You are talking about Microsoft, mission complete.
seriously.
If you can't figure out a career for yourself then perhaps you are not the hot shit programmer you think you are; you assume ethical companies would even want your skills.
Maybe there is an job opening at the smug factory.
Seriously, any system that allows 1000's or millions of attempts to access the same account repeatedly with failing passwords is an inherently flawed system.
I don't like systems that give you 3 attempts and then lock you out, that is unnecessary, but an secure system should expect that "human" entered password will take at least 10 + seconds between attempts and that no "human" would spend several hours/days trying to enter repeatedly failing passwords.
There is a current "myth" that I am required to change my passwords frequently and use stupid rules to construct a password. I think the systems need to change to understand the fundamental difference between human input and computer generated input and then deal with the attack accordingly.
I also read somewhere that using 4 REAL randomly associated words is far more secure then some password full of symbols, characters and digits.
I think password systems need to change, not the way people pick a password, I can't believe any system should exist that allows brute force hacking schemes.
Apple uses like 30%+ of Samsung components in their iOS devices. Samsung is getting rich off of that fact and using the stuff they learned making iOS device components in their own line of Android components. Apple has been enjoying the relative supply stability, quality and reliability of Samsung parts.
One of these companies need to grow a set of balls and do one of two things:
If Apple grows a pair first then dump using Samsung parts in retaliation for all the cloning of Apple products Samsung has done in the past. Apple needs to end that partnership and work with smaller component companies who would be incapable of building their own competitive copy-cat products.
If Samsung grows a pair fist then stop supplying Apple parts because Apple is being a bunch of petty retards and focus solely on Android devices and supplying to other vendors who are not greedy self-absorbed bastards.
Seriously, this is the dumbest and strangest pairing of companies that both hate each other but still enjoy the reach-arounds they have been giving each other for the last 5 years.
VS 2012 is the first VS version I will skip because it is an epic fail in UX and UI design on almost every significant level.
Lets all party like its 1989!!
First, they boast at E3 that it is all about the games, and then announce Hulu and Netflix integration along with social networking features. Those are not games IMHO.
Second the Wii U tablet is absolutely retarded. Every picture I have seen looks huge in the hands of an "adult", how is some 5 year old going to hold on and use it for play? Nintendo has absolutely no concept of good industrial design. How Nintendo can release "that" monstrosity in the era of slick, ultra-thin tablets and phones is beyond me and screams of the fact that Nintendo obviously still assumes gamers are 5 - 13 years old. Nintendo remains the Fisher Price of gaming.
What is most underwhelming about Nintendo is that in spite of the huge windfall Nintendo received from Wii sales, they are now reporting financial losses and have obviously not invested that windfall into creating an innovative new product. They took a DS and turned it into a game controller and will offer a moderate update of the Wii and have to audacity to claim it a new generation of game console.
But the problem is that while showing some basic examples of "new" concepts, extending this into a fully functional IDE for "any" language and platform is going to take far more time and money to develop then what the Kickstarter project is going to provide. When was the last time you wrote code like 3 + 4 = that could provide immediate evaluation.
That shouldn't discourage the developer from proceeding, but I think his only goal would be to be bought up by Microsoft, Apple, Google, or some other prevalent software company with their own IDE to integrate those ideas rather the going it alone. I don't imagine Light Table ever competing with VS, X-Code or Eclipse, but any of those IDE's would certainly benefit from these concepts.
Bottom line is, this guy has provided a great resume in which any of those companies should consider for hire to work on their dev platforms. The future of mobile apps screams for easier and more rapid development.
So all the people seeing this as progress, realize that in 30+ years solar panels have not improved significantly enough to be able to generate the kind of power required to move 2 people, let alone 100 or 300.
This is a nice novelty, but does not harken a new era in solar power flight until there is some fundamental improvements in solar power technology.
Palm's problem was with their Palm Pilot and the trickle roll-out of upgrades they offered. I remember seeing "new generations" of Palm Pilots being released with nothing more then 4 more mb of RAM, all specs and even style of the handset was identical to those a year ago. While competitors like Microsoft offered color screens and support for music (way before iPod), Palm stuck with black and white screens and no multi-media support for several generations. When they finally offere color screens and music support, it was almost grudgingly done.
Then when the iPod came out Palm did little to offer enhanced music support. Their one change to create something better then the iPod, LifeDrive, was the final nail in the coffin of an incompetent company that could not innovate and compete to save their lives.
When they finally dumped their hardware group and went OS only, their efforts were lazy and inefficient. It is almost laughable to assume that PalmOS could have even stood up to iOS or Android. PalmOS was killed off while those OS'es were only in their infancy.
Palm is simply an example of a company that created the "darling" product for a given generation and then got lazy and arrogant. In spite of disrupters in their industry (such as Windows CE and iPod), Palm remained steady on a course to oblivion by assuming their name alone will drive sales.
BTW, RIM is in EXACTLY the same condition as Palm was, having created the "IT" product of the late 90', early 00's and then resting on their laurels while the mobile market changed dramatically around them.
There is no mystery why Palm failed just as their is no mystery as to why Rim is failing. You can't maintain success without continued innovation; the moment you assume you have ample market penetration, the moment you assume your name alone will sell a new generation of product, the moment you dismiss disrupters ad "trifling" competitors and then strive to catch up to them, you are dead in this industry.
Seriously, George needs an intervention because in any other social circle being obsessed with something for 30+ years would warrant some form of mental deficiency diagnosis.
What is most disappointing about Star Wars is just how much new and innovative concepts that COULD have come out of Lucasarts/film were stifled because of an all encompassing desire to increase the Star Wars Franchise payload. They don't even do special effects for other movies anymore (well, Red Tails, meh), they are just automatons pushing out more Star Wars related drivel.
How greedy and self-obsessed can one company be to shove a single franchise down the throats of 3+ generations of kids? I can only lump Walt Disney and Nintendo in that category.
The Human Centipede exists and George Lucas is at the front. There can be no self-respecting employee at Lucasarts/films these days, only people that love the taste of his shit.
Its about time that FireFox 13 gets the features of Chrome 21. Also congrats to Microsoft for finally hitting double digits with IE 10.
Any browser not in double digit version numbers is not trying hard enough, I am talking to you Safari 5, pfft!
because we all know that Hydrogen and Aviation is a successful match.
First of all, Transformer sequels suck.
Also something that transforms from a PC to a toaster/Fridge hybrid is laughed at in certain social circles.
Seriously, this thing is getting more press coverage then when it was in use. Also, does this mean the Earth's core is going to stop spinning?