Like another poster mentioned above it could be that this behavior is different between Android 2.x and 3.0. But you're right: I think the reviewer in TFA would have don't better to wait until 3.0 is actually officially released before making these judgment calls.
You could be right. As long as Google says 3.0 is not ready I'm in no hurry to upgrade.
IMO Xoom was launched too soon. Manufacturers should have learned from the iPhone/Android battle that a huge head-start doesn't mean all that much in a new market. They should take their time and run with their own strengths, not Apple's.
The POV Tegra2 tablet proves that you can indeed make high performance tablets with plenty of features (camera, HDMI, USB, sd card) for a low price ($300). Sure, you make compromises like an inferior screen. However, I'm not going to give my 6 yo old son an $800 state of the art piece of technology to bang on in frustration while playing Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja. That's just not right. With the POV I simply don't care all that much. (but it survives just the same)
The default way that Flash presented itself on my Android 2.2 tablet (Point Of View Tegra 2) was by showing an empty block with an arrow in it where you would normally see the Flash content. If you then tap on it, it is activated.
I disabled that tap-enabled mode for the following reasons:
1) the Tegra2 dual core is plenty fast
2) I only visit fairly straightforward sites with Flash, like news-sites and such.
Personally I couldn't be happier. Flash on Android, even on 2.2 works as advertised as far as I'm concerned. Later I indeed would like to use it with Firefox 4 and add-block & flashblock plugins but for now it works fine for the things I expect from it.
> root privileges on the Git server that maintained the Linux kernel source code
This is a fake story. Linus surely would never give up that easily!
I have that same laptop from Dell. However, I solved the problem by booting off a Kubuntu 10.10 USB pen-drive and half an hour later the pre-installed Win7 OS was "upgraded" to something more useful.
HTH,
Matt
Well, let's be honest, if doing something in a particular way hurts you: stop doing it!
There is nothing in Java that says that you need to constantly throw out object and create new ones. These days these are object factories and what not out there that you can use to optimize these things.
Interesting theory. I've been working with Java since version 1.0 on devices as slow as an embedded 100Mhz device with 128MB RAM and I never remember GC taking seconds.
Just because I'm curious I tried to push our Java application (Data integration engine) to use both CPUs at 100% and dump the Garbage Collection stats to disk. Here's a typical sample:
133,091: [GC 30567K->10559K(60160K), 0,0052000 secs]
133,447: [GC 34943K->10347K(64832K), 0,0036360 secs]
133,873: [GC 39659K->10347K(63872K), 0,0028940 secs]
134,286: [GC 38699K->10531K(63104K), 0,0033140 secs]
134,674: [GC 37923K->10263K(61952K), 0,0019690 secs]
135,072: [GC 36759K->10351K(61184K), 0,0024490 secs]
135,462: [GC 36015K->10339K(60352K), 0,0022610 secs]
135,797: [GC 35171K->10739K(59840K), 0,0039780 secs]
136,134: [GC 34803K->10679K(59008K), 0,0033120 secs]
136,479: [GC 33975K->10567K(58048K), 0,0029140 secs]
136,801: [GC 33159K->10647K(57472K), 0,0026420 secs]
Note that this is without incremental garbage collection enabled. It might be possible for graphics intensive applications to notice the fraction of a second of delay but something tells me that this just might not be the case.
I have an HTC Magic phone that I just upgrade to Android 2.1-update1 (2.6.34 Cyanogenmod). Obviously this phone is years old and first generation. It sports a 528Mhz phone with limited GPU capabilities and limited memory (228Mb or thereabouts).
However, while playing games like Radiant, Labyrinth, X Construct or stuff like that I've never seen it hang because of collector pauses, stutter or anything like that. Home-screen animations are smooth and nice, even with a fish-tank in the background.
However, a phone like this will suffer when CPU usage spikes when an e-mail, text or twitter message is read in the background. I guess it would be easy to confuse one stutter for another in that respect with a device with limited CPU power.
This "burn commercial open source companies on the stake" mantra is getting a bit tiresome.
In the end, these companies are usually very involved in their respective communities and usually invest a lot of money in open source software development.
Just like you might have an annoying hot-shot developer in your community it might be worth the trouble or not. However, just mindlessly bashing all companies just because they might have interests that conflict is just a little over the top.
There's a very simple method to evaluate open source companies: how much code is being released under an open source license? From where I'm looking at it, that's what's important, everything else is BS.
Now obviously, if you see a benevolent company that invests and supports your favorite open source projects with money, man-power, forums, VCS and so on, why would you be critical of that deal just because the company might be making money? If it's mutually beneficial it's a good deal regardless.
Well, it works on my Android box and I had fun trying commands like "POKE 53281,0". It's pure nostalgia. Why would they even want to deny anyone that experience?
Mmmpf, it would be interesting to see if this one worked: http://www.kingsquare.nl/jsc64 A JavaScript C64 emulator. I mean, what's the point. The instance you try to block something, people are going to look for ways around it. If that's too much of a hassle, they go elsewhere. I don't get the logic behind it on behalf of Apple.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the parent poster. However,
You're absolutely right, I'm totally arrogant. Try answering over seven thousand posts on the Kettle forums. My apologies in any case.
As for typing ETL or Data Integration in Google: you should try it.
You also seemed to mis the point that I did in fact reach the student in question by spending my spare time speaking at the open source conference, for free. The presentation I gave there was in fact tailored to people that don't know any data integration tools. The point I was trying to make was that efforts where you reach 50 or even a few hundred people at a time don't even make a dent in the huge crowd that doesn't know or doesn't *want* to know about even the possibility of using a data integration tool to get a job done, let alone an open source data integration tool. Without multi-million dollar marketing campaigns I wouldn't know what to do about it.
It's unfortunate but experience tells us that unless you sweeten the deal with extras like documentation, configuration/monitoring/EE software, repositories and the like, very few companies would buy anything. That experience is contrary to what I once believed.
So you can complain that you can't get your hands on nice documentation, the dashboard designer or the console, all part of the enterprise edition. However, when you really compare it to closed source software it's still a lot cheaper. This analyst report shows the difference: http://www.pentaho.com/lower_bi_costs/ Heck, you can get all that for free for 30 days to test-drive things.
The lack of consultants *is* a problem. However, there's Pentaho related work to be found out there and with 2 Pentaho books out and a third coming out in September I'm sure the problem is short-lived.
Thanks for the thumbs up. Just a not thought: everything that is possible with the commercial (Enterprise Edition) version of Pentaho software is possible with the community edition. Please don't confuse use with certain other "Open Source" BI suites.
To stay on topic I would advice you to simply buy one of the Pentaho books before you get started!
5 years ago, poor man! 5 years ago things were pretty wild. I open sourced Kettle in December 2005 so back then we weren't even with Pentaho yet.
Now we have over 40 developers and a dozen translators, a QA team, doc writers, continuous integration servers, a JIRA system, a wiki, product managers, a sales team, etc.
Thousands upon thousands of bugs have been fixed in the mean time and thousands of features have been implemented. Since then we released 27 stable versions!
No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
