Eric; > I think your point about the desktop is well taken, and somewhat > problematic for people that like to do things with computers. I think that > mobile devices are very good for checking email, but that's as close to > work as you can get.
Disagree. Have an Android app. that displays VRML/X3D and STL files. For a while was an iPhone developer. Apple distributed my "free" desktop software until I stopped paying for the privilege of having them give it away. If it was iPhone, I could use the GPU to do 3D cylinder/triangle collisions for CAM work. Android does not (yet) support OpenCL, so my algorithms are sitting, waiting for my iPhone port. These algorithms run 10x faster on the GPU than the CPU on my desktop computer for large models. The programming paradigm shift will eventually hit all software, as desktop hardware is not being developed in any great sense any more. The future is in mobile hardware, even if tied to a desktop. I hope to eventually get my 0.99c app to do model slicing and CAM tool path generation, and reflective/refractive viewing of models. Do your publicity shots on the bus or train on the way to work. Do the tool path generation while walking down the street. (watch your feet though!) Sure, mobile devices are slower than desktops of the '90s, but, once you figure out how to program mobile devices, you fly. I'm not going to advertise nor push my Android app here, especially as some of the neat work is not yet released, but I would just say "do not dismiss the technology behind mobile" as it will *be* the desktop, and mobile, and everything fairly soon. Keep your eyes peeled on the mobile devices. Passively watch my app in the Google Play store, and see what it eventually does. (look for my name as author). Never say never. John Alexander Stewart. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
