Am I the only one who thinks people are overreacting? Seems like the whole Internet is on fire over a game, even HN is infected. Servers had a little trouble, but what I'm hearing it's stable now. So why not just wait or buy the game a few days later and be fine?
And if you're really convinced the online requirement is just glorified DRM and EA is evil anyway, don't buy the game. Problem solved! There are really more important things to worry about.
Just report and it surely will get fixed. No need to call it out as "embarrassing". Especially not as an Software Developer yourself, like you never had any stupid bugs in your code, right?
After thinking a little bit about it, I think this approach does make some sense and allows for more flexibility in the future. Keep in mind Lightning was likely designed to last well over a decade and will be used in many different devices.
Now since the adapter is a SoC and it's OS is booted from the device, what that means is, every device has essentially full control over how it wants to output HDMI, without having to change the adapter or the port. Right now this is accomplished using this quirky h.264 encode/decode workaround, but this is first-gen, and it doesn't have to stay that way. Future iDevices might load a different OS onto the SoC and output lossless 1080p using the exact same adapter! And without breaking older devices.
It frees Apple from having to define a fixed method of transmitting HDMI over Lightning now, that is then set in stone for the next 10 years, and has to be supported by every future device.
It also frees them from having unnecessary pins, which might become useless in the future, but have to carry over to every new device (a.k.a. 30-pin connector). And knowing Apple, probably THE top priority of Lightning was to have a slick, easy-to-plug-in-n-out, user-friendly connector, which Lightning admittedly does way better then any MicroUSB standard.
Because in essence, the only thing that is fixed about Lightning is the physical shape and pins, so they focused on getting that aspect right and future-proof. How the data is transmitted can be changed on a device level basis.
Wow, Microsoft definitely deserves some kind of award for this. Shipping a tablet, with own hardware design no less, with a 41GB OS is certainly an achievement not every company can accomplish. (sorry I'm just baffled how you can fill up 41GB)
Yeah but prison time, followed by secret service, not allowed to use computers, not allowed to take jobs... for what, compiling a list of email addresses that an public API was happily returning to him? Despite his questionable handling of the situation, I don't support that kind of draconian punishment.
Apple fans are the absolute worst. Not want to offend anyone here, but there's a certain type of delusional Apple fans, also known as members of the Apple Cult. The member strongly believes, that Apple products are perfect, flawless, and that every other competing product is inferior and can't comprehend why some people prefer other products. He/She will also always defend everything Apple does, spinning and twisting every news story to make Apple appear in a positive light and often directly contradict their previous stance, when Apple does something unexpected. These types also collect old Apple computers, like they're trophys, and pay for a cinema ticket to watch a Steve Jobs interview.
They glorify Apples quarterly earning report and don't seem to notice that it's actually them paying a $500 profit margin on an iPhone - or maybe they're just happy to do so.
I know, because I've met a few in real life, and the worst thing it's completely pointless to discuss anything related to Apples decisions with them - it's like talking against a wall. That's why they get called Sheeple, mindless worse ship of a corporation.
Disclaimer: I don't hate Apple, I'm happy we have 2 ecosystems, strictly talking about the fans here.
Was there ever an actual statement from Valve on this? All I see is a company called Xi3 showing of their computer, while making some vague remarks about having received an investment from Valve - whatever that means. Not to doubt it, but if this is really "the thing", I'd like to hear some actual conformation.
You need a power source though once in a while. If you're a college student who walks around the campus all day, working on small desks and park benches I'd get an Air. For everything else, like working around the house or office, definitely go with Pro.
Because 64 KB of RAM should be enough for everybody, right? Common, just because phones seem fast enough for everything right now, there's always the next killer app lurking around the corner waiting for a little increase in performance to happen. What about really good AR? You think that's gonna be cheap on the hardware? Or driving external monitors, using as phone as laptop replacement, with a full blown OS? HN of all places should understand this!
Is it still that way? I quit developing for BB 2 years ago, and at that time the tools were indeed horrible compared to what Android and iOS had to work with. But I know some friends still working in the BB field, and they told me the BB10 tools are supposed to be completely new and better.
oh damn I hope smartphones aren't reaching a peak already in general. Because to be honest every new generation now suffers from diminished returns, and for someone who likes to keeps his money together and still has an iPhone 4 for instance, there's really no good reason to buy a new phone yet. And after we've all been all profiting from the exploding market in the last years. But then again there's so much potentially crazy stuff coming, like good 3D displays and tactile feedback touchscreen. Should keep the boat afloat for a while.
heh also claiming while this app is good, Android's version is of course not. Because it's not Google-y, like Google's iOS apps. It's too sterile - Android must be made by some kind of subsidiary, that has nothing to do with the Google, that makes these iOS apps. Because in reality I hate Android and everything that surrounds it, but I have to admit the Google Maps app is quite good actually, so my Cognitive dissonance came up with this totally rational explanation.
Because the demand for HiDPI desktop displays isn't there yet. You would buy one, and so would I, but overall they wouldn't sell much, compared to the standard 1080p panels. We have to wait another year until Apple introduces Retina iMacs, tells everybody how awesome they are and why people absolutely need Retina displays.
Then suddenly there will be steep increase in the demand of HiDPI panels, and a few month later every manufaturer starts offering them. If I learned anything the last few years, it's that's how it works.
Is this some kind of job security on NASA's part? The unspoken goal of these mars missions has always been to find life, so why not make sure the rover has every possible piece of equipment to do so. Unless they want to send another one. They certainly have good arguments for the pitch now.
I think at every workplace, where PCs aren't the main thing workers interact with while working, but rather only assist them, tablets will eventually replace PCs (for example hospitals, schools, workshops or retail). But if the work consists of mainly interacting with a PC, tablets are by design inferior and won't replace the PC.
It's really bad practice. We all want to get stuff done, but don't complain when you end up in spagethi code hell. Some people are going to see that and think that's an ingenious use of comments, and then start to do the same in everything they write soon after. If you ever seen Preprocessor abuse in C++ you know what I mean.
Also every 3rd party app using MapKit is stuck with Apple's maps. Google would need to release a GoogleMapKit iOS-Library for 3rd Party apps. iOS limitations are really showing now, it
's so disappointing to see Apple making things worse (new Maps, new AppStore), without providing proper 3rd party access to core functions and better cross-app communication. Instead of getting baked-in Facebook-Sharing with iOS 6, they should've made that an API, something every service can plug into, like Android's Sharing System. It's a shame, the hardware is so awesome, but the software is going down the drain, it desperately needs to be opened up more. For the record, the iPhone is now the only modern device I know of, that you can't access Google StreetView. No app, not through Safari, you just can't. I think it should be clear that something is wrong, when such an advanced device, can't do something as simple as that.
What, how's programming like writing stories? Writing multithreaded database access is exactly like writing a story about a school of wizards, right. The only thing these have in common is that you use a keyboard to type them.
Like with many other professions, some people are just more cut out for it then others. Yeah I know we're all equal.. but the truth is we're not. Programming certainly seems like one of these professions.
Some insecure apps and services use the UDID as a way to identify users. For example you can get some profile data from OpenFeint with the UDID. There are probably a ton of other small things like this, but overall I wouldn't worry too much.
I think it might be great for kids, from what I've seen most teenager these days don't use computers a whole lot anymore and rely on their phone as primary internet device (for messaging, chatting, email and browsing). So they might stumble upon the possibility to make their own app and play around with it, creating a HelloWorld app and so on. That's how you get them hooked.