I agree. Here's a crazy idea: App creators are limiting themselves. They don't think in the big picture. They play it save. All because previous App denials have made it terribly expensive to create something and then be shut down at the last step.
Where is the next Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Hypercard, Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio, browser extensible with plugins like Firefox, vmware, Bittorrent, Protools, Cubase, Live, Avid, FCP, Maya, Blender, Max, Aftereffects or Dreamweaver?
Well, quite a few of them have been actively banned by Apple.
I haven't seen any really complex new Apps for the iPad, where somebody invested heavily. Games don't count, they are very rarely killed by Apple. Ports don't count neither, there is less investment there.
Where are the big investments?
I've seen 5 so far: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garageband, and TheDaily. 4 from Apple and 1 from Murdoch, created with the personal guarantee by Murdoch's buddy Jobs that it will reach customers.
Could somebody comment? Are there app creators that indeed play it save? Are there others that are investing big time and have just not reached their 1.0 yet?
Well, a few people are working on Powerpoint replacements.
But the problem with the complex set you show is that those kinds of applications can take millions of dollars to get to a point where they can compete.
I have a great idea of how to take Excel down, for example. However, when I tallied up the hours it would take just to get to an MVP, it was far out of my range, and far out of three people unless we locked ourselves in a room for a year. To get to an MVP. To compete with something that many businesses get with Word.
You can't beat Excel from the bottom up, because LibreOffice already has that world. The key in that world, I believe, is to attack at the top. Big excel spreadsheets are a nightmare to handle. There's no good way to version control. VBA is easy to turn into spaghetti code. It's expensive to develop ways to see your business intelligence data, whether by packages such as Xcelcius or custom solutions taking a developer's time.
It's the wrong arena to compete on price, but you need a large subset of Excel's features to get to the point where you can tackle that fish.
Or, you can try to make a hit in the app world to prove you have the chops so you can get investment for your bigger ideas.
Great stuff. Without correct speaker positioning and well-matching HRTFs for each listener, I feel that this won't fly.
Btw: I'm thinking about creating a 3D audio game where the HRTF model is constantly refined for the player while he is playing. Does anybody know whether there has already been work done in this direction, either academically or in the indie game world?
Yes, Papa Sangre uses real-time binaural 3D sound, www.papasangre.com. I'm not aware of any other real-time binaural solutions. I'd like to know too if there's more. OpenAL and other out of box 3D sound engines are stereo, not binaural.
What do you mean by general purpose HRTF? Do you mean that the HRTF should match the player's head somehow? I haven't played Papa Sangre so I don't really know how well it works.
Sorry for the late responses. Yes, I'd imagine it should work better. In my case I don't tend to hear frontal direction in most binaural recordings. How would you create such a custom HRTF? Measuring somehow or should it be manually calibrated? Seems like a pretty interesting problem, I might do some experiments with this some day.
Exactly, many people cannot differentiate front/back and up/down with general purpose HRTF, something that is much better with a custom HRTF.
For basic experiments, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, hit record, then go for a walk. The result will blow you away :-)
To record your custom HRTF, get an anechoic chamber, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, then record impulse responses from all directions. Not quite as simple.
Don't you think the whole "lose face" part of the japanese culture is a run down model? With all the mistakes made in the Fukushima plant pre and post incident due to not wanting to lose face (or not controlling enough so that the other party doesn't lose face), it's hard to overlook all the bad things that this concept brings...
Or to ask differently: what do you think is good about the concept?
It does bring bad thing like you pointed out.
Sometimes people try too much to keep their faces.
However, it does bring good thing like they are a few or no looting in this disaster.
I do believe the concept has strong influence on that matter.
But this doesn't relate anything on why Japanse suck at English despite of all hard work on school.
It's a shame from where I see but it's ok cuz most people don't speak English.
Starting today, elementary schools has started to teach English to 5th(10 to 11 years old)graders.
So that's 2 more years to learn English which adds up 8 years all together.
We'll have to wait and see our score improve.
I doubt it.
The old nuclear plant was hit with both an earthquake and a tsunami over the design limits. It seems to have gone well, considering...
Disclaimer first: I'm absolutely no expert, by very far, on Japan or Japanese culture. I am writing this mostly to get answers from those who know better.
>>Don't you think the whole "lose face" part of the japanese culture is a run down model?
I don't know if I believe the face thing is the bad part.
I admire the hard work and dedication of the Japanese worker.
I'd guess (see disclaimer!) that the present problems rest with the higher levels of organisation in their society. A lack of accountability, from top to bottom.
Japan has, simplified, had a recession for close to two decades. I really don't want to know how a Western society would look in similar circumstances.
Right now it's at a balance (169/169 points). I'd be interesting to see how this changes over time. We need to do such a poll every 6 months, somebody mark their agenda.
Brings the incentive back: if Apple doesn't fix things, there is still a public record of the open bug.
Prevents people from wasting time writing up the same bug over+over.
Also increases the likelihood of getting fixed: if somebody else sees your open bug at openradar, they can file a second bug at Apple. Apple detects that they're duplicates, which "votes up" your bug.
I enabled it as well. App store doesn't hang, but is much slower: downloading an app normally starts after 1 second, with the fix enabled it takes 8s to even start.
LoginWindow sleep worked fine when logging off and pressing the sleep button. Didn't have time to properly test your case.
The big question for me is: How do people with iPhone and iPads enable this? The test in the article yields "not trusted" instead of revoked...
Funny that Apple has revoking turned on for App certs, but not for SSL. Guess they value their platform higher than user data...
The rolling shutter artifacts are present, yes, but it's in the range of a movie camera. Movie cameras also have some slight jelly in fast pans, something not many people are aware of.
"measured the mysterium (RED ONE) at 9ms, the X (EPIC) at 5ms, and film at 4ms. All of them substantially faster than other sensors which can be in the 20's."
"The mechanical shutter "wipes" across the film in a similar way to how a CMOS sensor is read. The trick to CMOS is getting the read-reset time similar to the mechanical shutter. EPIC does that. (...) there is skew in a film camera with a mechanical shutter, one of the many reasons film has "character"."
The concept is unclear to me. Is this basically about ad-hoc restaurants, where people cook for guests, and the guests can browse through hosts by looking at pictures of food they cooked? If yes, why don't you write that on the home page?
And why do you only show the food? I'd be interested to see pictures of the hosts.
Also, location would be supremely important. Where are these hosts located?
EDIT: Some more feedback: Photos should look way better. Encourage hosts to use DSLRs. Show some tips on food photography.
Make sure that browsing through the finished site shows just 1 pic per host, with all the other pics grouped together at the host page.
Apart from that, fantastic concept, wish you luck!
In other words, giving your book to somebody in good faith but the person then pirates it will cost you $300'000 (or at least it did in this case with Caridi and DVD screeners).
In other words, you better not share, unless you've got a lot of money laying around...
Where is the next Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Hypercard, Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio, browser extensible with plugins like Firefox, vmware, Bittorrent, Protools, Cubase, Live, Avid, FCP, Maya, Blender, Max, Aftereffects or Dreamweaver?
Well, quite a few of them have been actively banned by Apple.
I haven't seen any really complex new Apps for the iPad, where somebody invested heavily. Games don't count, they are very rarely killed by Apple. Ports don't count neither, there is less investment there.
Where are the big investments?
I've seen 5 so far: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garageband, and TheDaily. 4 from Apple and 1 from Murdoch, created with the personal guarantee by Murdoch's buddy Jobs that it will reach customers.
Could somebody comment? Are there app creators that indeed play it save? Are there others that are investing big time and have just not reached their 1.0 yet?