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Comment by Anvh posted on netbook usefull? at 16/05/2010 - 16:55
There are netbooks with 12" screens now (which I was planning to buy), the laptop of my grandpa standing next to me has a 13" screen and I've done some editing on that so I find it hard to believe that 1" would make much of a difference.
Comment by Anvh posted on netbook usefull? at 16/05/2010 - 16:52
thoughton wrote:
From what I understand it's not a complain but an observation from Shaky's part.Shaky wrote:
I believe it is self evident that software developers should have the right to use the best tools for the job, provided they don’t have negative knock-on effects; as I have already said I strongly believe the blanket performance problem asserted by Apple is utterly bogus, but that is something that can easily be verified by independent third parties as part of a formal investigation.
Further, you may not appreciate the huge difference between programming an app for which the revenue is likely to me very small in what is basically the C language as required by the Apple sdk, compared to a high level language like Actionscript that is tailored to controlling a graphical interface. There are quite simply several orders of magnitude difference in complexity, perhaps something along the lines of 1 line of Actionscript code required for every 100 lines of C.
I’d be interested to hear whether an actual software developer like MattMattic hypothetically would prefer to write an iPhone app/game in C or Actionscript. Even if he has never written a line of the latter, I’d wager he would much prefer to learn it from scratch and use Actionscript rather than C or C++ ,which is quite simply a pain in the proverbial for something like a game which is by far the largest app category.
Your complaint appears to be that Apple should let you program in Actionscript because it is easier than C? How can that possibly be valid?I believe it is self evident that software developers should have the right to use the best tools for the job, provided they don’t have negative knock-on effects; as I have already said I strongly believe the blanket performance problem asserted by Apple is utterly bogus, but that is something that can easily be verified by independent third parties as part of a formal investigation.
Further, you may not appreciate the huge difference between programming an app for which the revenue is likely to me very small in what is basically the C language as required by the Apple sdk, compared to a high level language like Actionscript that is tailored to controlling a graphical interface. There are quite simply several orders of magnitude difference in complexity, perhaps something along the lines of 1 line of Actionscript code required for every 100 lines of C.
I’d be interested to hear whether an actual software developer like MattMattic hypothetically would prefer to write an iPhone app/game in C or Actionscript. Even if he has never written a line of the latter, I’d wager he would much prefer to learn it from scratch and use Actionscript rather than C or C++ ,which is quite simply a pain in the proverbial for something like a game which is by far the largest app category.
Read this and you understand why it might be problematic for Apple if they complicate the development of application for their iPhone. link
I will simply quote a piece out of it if you don't want to read it all.
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If you want a platform to be successful, you need massive adoption, and that means you need developers to develop for it. The best way to kill a platform is to make it hard for developers to build on it. Most of the time, this happens because platform companies either don't know that they have a platform (they think it's an application) or they get greedy (they want all the revenue for themselves.)
[/quote]If you want a platform to be successful, you need massive adoption, and that means you need developers to develop for it. The best way to kill a platform is to make it hard for developers to build on it. Most of the time, this happens because platform companies either don't know that they have a platform (they think it's an application) or they get greedy (they want all the revenue for themselves.)
terje-l wrote:
Enough mobile telephone talk now, me thinks. Let's concentrate on photography, preferably Pentax
Adobe with photoshop, lightroom and DNG is however one of the bigger players concerning software for Digital photography. lets hope their actions just stay with words.Enough mobile telephone talk now, me thinks. Let's concentrate on photography, preferably Pentax
Comment by Anvh posted on Freedom of choice at 16/05/2010 - 16:42
Gwyn wrote:
A few pubs here sell Guinness, but not many. I haven't tried it in a pub here. Only from a tin. It was evil.
No idea where the draft Guinness served here is brewed.
Heineken now own Murphy's so you see that in pubs too, but mostly Murphy's red not their stout.
There is an Irish pub in Apeldoorn where my mom lives but never looked at the beers A few pubs here sell Guinness, but not many. I haven't tried it in a pub here. Only from a tin. It was evil.
No idea where the draft Guinness served here is brewed.
Heineken now own Murphy's so you see that in pubs too, but mostly Murphy's red not their stout.
Comment by Anvh posted on Another pointless thread at 16/05/2010 - 16:24
kiwao wrote:
Would Pentax clean the lens under guarantee. Should I even bother to ask?
Like George said it isn't a problem that you've a view specs in it, you wont see it on your photos.Would Pentax clean the lens under guarantee. Should I even bother to ask?
Pentax would only clean DA* lenses under guarantee because they said they are dust proof.
For fun you should look how Canon shooters call the Canon 100-300 lens, hover or dust trombone is what's called sometimes
Comment by Anvh posted on lens susceptibility to dust at 16/05/2010 - 16:15
MrCynical wrote:
Sigma's HSM foible is in making them focus accurately in the first place (see Sigma 50mm f1.4 for further reading!) As far as I can tell if you get a Sigma lens that accurately focuses to begin with, its HSM motor will not break like SDM are reported to.
From what I hear it's not actually the SDM that breaks most of the time but the mechanism behind it gets jammed because it's out of alignment, at least that's what I've read what was suppose to be an official message from Pentax on the forum.Sigma's HSM foible is in making them focus accurately in the first place (see Sigma 50mm f1.4 for further reading!) As far as I can tell if you get a Sigma lens that accurately focuses to begin with, its HSM motor will not break like SDM are reported to.
I'm thinking the KAF2 mount is simply faulted by his complexity and that the KAF3 mount will preform better.
Comment by Anvh posted on New Sigma 120-400 OS dated at 16/05/2010 - 16:08
Thank you Oggy will try to get them here
Yves Canada is too far away.
Btw when I did my internship in Hanover Germany there was octoberfest there and I did drank some nice beer then but my memory is a bit fuzzy so can't remember the brand
That was actually the only time I enjoyed a real beer or it might just be that the quantity made the difference
Yves Canada is too far away.
Btw when I did my internship in Hanover Germany there was octoberfest there and I did drank some nice beer then but my memory is a bit fuzzy so can't remember the brand
That was actually the only time I enjoyed a real beer or it might just be that the quantity made the difference
Comment by Anvh posted on Another pointless thread at 16/05/2010 - 01:17
Not so fast.
I'll make a list of UK beers and try to see what I can get here okay
so we got.
- Old Peculiar
sorry Ti we have Hoegaarden here it's even normally avaible and didn't like it
- Spitfire (or is that a joke? :wink
- Fuller's
Any more?
I'll make a list of UK beers and try to see what I can get here okay
so we got.
- Old Peculiar
sorry Ti we have Hoegaarden here it's even normally avaible and didn't like it
- Spitfire (or is that a joke? :wink
- Fuller's
Any more?
Comment by Anvh posted on Another pointless thread at 16/05/2010 - 00:35
George, you mean those plastic containers you put your film in?
There are new Atoms processors on the way for netbooks and one or two are even dual cores and Nvidia has the ION videocard for netbooks that support Cuda. No one knows precisely what the new "package" can do but they might be able to pull it off, editing photos I mean.
There are new Atoms processors on the way for netbooks and one or two are even dual cores and Nvidia has the ION videocard for netbooks that support Cuda. No one knows precisely what the new "package" can do but they might be able to pull it off, editing photos I mean.
Comment by Anvh posted on netbook usefull? at 16/05/2010 - 00:25
It's also worth just having a try to connect in a cafe while having a welcome beer or coffee - many will give you a free connection then
Don't know if it's so in every country.