The coincidences surrounding it are amusing. Of course you have to be nerdy enough to appreciate them. (ahhh... nerdy smugness!)
If such things are ok for shows that we like, then geeks are no better than the unwashed masses we so love to denigrate...
We're already no better than the people we criticize. Actually we're worse. It was geeks that invented the terms 'flame war' and 'fan boy'. Go look up "FIBRIR".
You've picked a pretty useless argument against this story being here, but I'll give you credit for referring to something the Doctor says ad-nauseum.
when the first apps will be remotely removed from phones?
Actually this is a step away from this happening. Unless Google and Amazon agree to remotely remove all apps at the exact same time, this means the app in question wouldn't necessarily be gone forever. This is an advantage you Android lot have over Apple's App Store.
Why don't they call it "fragmentation" when Chrysler parts don't fit on my Mazda?
Cars aren't upgraded the way smartphones are.
Maybe it would be easier if there were only one hardware platform for all cell phones and one hardware platform for all computers and one hardware platform for all cars. One operating system. One phone carrier. Then, life would be easy for the few hundred programmers and designers that would have jobs.
Yeah, the handful of console developers out there have it real rough.
Why is a person a bad employee if they are willing to point out poor leadership in their company? Isn't that a positive contribution to the company, if the bosses can be replaced with better leadership?
Sure, but most of the time you're eyeball deep in whatever you're working on, so they're not going to change the players involved. At that point, the whiner is just polarizing the company and brining everybody down.
Okay normally I would agree 100%... but I've never seen a story on Slashdot that better qualifies as 'News for Nerds', and I was here for the Lone Gunmen fiasco.
...but since 1978 a number have been rediscovered as 16mm black-and-white films.
I'm so sick of black and white photography being referred to as not being in color. White contains all of the colors, they're just at the same intensity. They shouldn't be calling it 'colorizing' them, they're actually de-colorizing them! Gah! Use the right terminology!
"Lot of assumptions, illogical jump to conclusions, wishing headaches to submitter's favorite company's competitors and actually inflecting it on the readers."
Guess you should stop making software for Windows, Linux, and OSX then, since the hardware can provided different capabilities for systems using the same operating system!
Yeah, instead you can use the phrase 'lowest common denominator' over and over again.
No, that one game everyone talks about doesn't count; it's not a result of OS fragmentation, but a result of some devices not meeting minimum hardware requirements.
What do you think fragmentation is?
What I find funny about this argument is that the same group of people claiming fragmentation will never be an issue is also the same group of people that claims that PC games aren't as good as they could be (graphically) because they cater to the lowest common denominator.
That depends on the optimization and how that chipset actually handles throwing stuff on the screen. 'Optimize' may not just mean "format the data this certain way and it'll fly through the processors more quickly", it could also mean "use more polygons and lower-res textures because the chipset is better at moving verts around than filling texels". It doesn't matter that it's not low-level if it affects how the whole engine works.
There is this new thing called "conditional compilation" which allows one to include code that both optimizes for certain hardware and contains generic code that could work on all devices. I hear it's the new rage of how you make code work on multiple hardware and software platforms.
You mean like the rage of having your code get more and more complex every time a handset comes out?
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Security? But... but... everyone always told me macs were perfectly safe and never get viruses!
Viruses != trojans.
People were previously not able to buy enough Apple products online, in the Apple store, and Best Buy and Walmart. Finally a new way to consume more!
Now they can do it without using gas and 'consuming more' helps the economy. See what thoughtless hate buys you?
This is nothing more than celebrity gossip.
The coincidences surrounding it are amusing. Of course you have to be nerdy enough to appreciate them. (ahhh... nerdy smugness!)
If such things are ok for shows that we like, then geeks are no better than the unwashed masses we so love to denigrate...
We're already no better than the people we criticize. Actually we're worse. It was geeks that invented the terms 'flame war' and 'fan boy'. Go look up "FIBRIR".
You've picked a pretty useless argument against this story being here, but I'll give you credit for referring to something the Doctor says ad-nauseum.
when the first apps will be remotely removed from phones?
Actually this is a step away from this happening. Unless Google and Amazon agree to remotely remove all apps at the exact same time, this means the app in question wouldn't necessarily be gone forever. This is an advantage you Android lot have over Apple's App Store.
in the android world, we call it "choice".
Until Apple releases a version of iOS that doesn't work on older phones, then the Android World calls it fragmentation.
Why don't they call it "fragmentation" when Chrysler parts don't fit on my Mazda?
Cars aren't upgraded the way smartphones are.
Maybe it would be easier if there were only one hardware platform for all cell phones and one hardware platform for all computers and one hardware platform for all cars. One operating system. One phone carrier. Then, life would be easy for the few hundred programmers and designers that would have jobs.
Yeah, the handful of console developers out there have it real rough.
What's the point? It's easy enough to share/sell an application on Google's Android App store...
Wouldn't you want your app being recommended by Amazon while you're looking for seemingly releated stuff?
Why is a person a bad employee if they are willing to point out poor leadership in their company? Isn't that a positive contribution to the company, if the bosses can be replaced with better leadership?
Sure, but most of the time you're eyeball deep in whatever you're working on, so they're not going to change the players involved. At that point, the whiner is just polarizing the company and brining everybody down.
That's because I'm surrounded by Morons who don't even know the capital of Elbonia!
Why isn't this in Idle?
Okay normally I would agree 100%... but I've never seen a story on Slashdot that better qualifies as 'News for Nerds', and I was here for the Lone Gunmen fiasco.
Pre-iPod music players were useful, too.
...but since 1978 a number have been rediscovered as 16mm black-and-white films.
I'm so sick of black and white photography being referred to as not being in color. White contains all of the colors, they're just at the same intensity. They shouldn't be calling it 'colorizing' them, they're actually de-colorizing them! Gah! Use the right terminology!
You wouldn't want a core dedicted to UI and telephone-related operations?
"Lot of assumptions, illogical jump to conclusions, wishing headaches to submitter's favorite company's competitors and actually inflecting it on the readers."
And Slashdot's making money from it.
...after 2 years they'll have the majority of the world convinced they invented net-booting....
... because the version they cooked up is actually useful.
Guess you should stop making software for Windows, Linux, and OSX then, since the hardware can provided different capabilities for systems using the same operating system!
Yeah, instead you can use the phrase 'lowest common denominator' over and over again.
"mobile" doesn't change any of the problems.
No, but 3D does. But I guess the people following gaming aren't the same people that follow 3D development on handheld devices.
No, that one game everyone talks about doesn't count; it's not a result of OS fragmentation, but a result of some devices not meeting minimum hardware requirements.
What do you think fragmentation is?
What I find funny about this argument is that the same group of people claiming fragmentation will never be an issue is also the same group of people that claims that PC games aren't as good as they could be (graphically) because they cater to the lowest common denominator.
That depends on the optimization and how that chipset actually handles throwing stuff on the screen. 'Optimize' may not just mean "format the data this certain way and it'll fly through the processors more quickly", it could also mean "use more polygons and lower-res textures because the chipset is better at moving verts around than filling texels". It doesn't matter that it's not low-level if it affects how the whole engine works.
There is this new thing called "conditional compilation" which allows one to include code that both optimizes for certain hardware and contains generic code that could work on all devices. I hear it's the new rage of how you make code work on multiple hardware and software platforms.
You mean like the rage of having your code get more and more complex every time a handset comes out?
Doesn't optimization for particular hardware exacerbate their issues with fragmentation?
Ssshhhh, fragmentation is a myth!
But you do wish for foolish things? Much cooler.
I've always thought there were two forms of "Sci-Fi". We have Sci-Fi, and then we have Sci-Fantasy.
That'd be a lot more meaningful if the term was used in circumstances other than "I didn't like that stupid movie".
No you don't. You wish people'd be more considerate.
The difference is a cell phone jammer won't stop a PSP/DS/Watch/iPod etc.
How is it NASA is qualified to judge the best and worst Sci-Fi movies of all time? Don't they have something more important to be working on?
Are you saying you have nothing important to work on, Mr. Angry Slashdot Nerd?