[ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
Richard, I think you already have V1 of these. http://gizmodo.com/5857759/meet-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-the-worlds-first-supercomputer-tablet -- Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
Chipp Walters wrote: Richard, I think you already have V1 of these. http://gizmodo.com/5857759/meet-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-the-worlds-first-supercomputer-tablet I do, and the only disappointment, if you can call it that, is that the TF101 already performs so well I'm likely to sit out the upgrade until the version after this next one. Don't get me started. The Transformer has been aptly named for me: with the keyboard dock it's completely transformed my device lineup, replacing both my tablet and my netbook. The cool Jules Verne enclosure motif is just icing on the cake. Other tablet vendors could learn a lot from Asus. You don't have to mimic the iPad to compete with it. The Transformer is the second-best selling tablet on the market today, and IMNSHO for good reason. With the quad-core NVidia Tegra 3 driving Ice Cream Sandwich, it only gets better -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
Chipp, IMHO that is not a tablet but a laptop. The line between laptop and tablet is so thin these days that I begun to use another criteria to distinguish between them than the presence of a physical keyboard. Most if not all tablets in the market can pair with keyboards so in the end it makes little sense to distinguish between an EEE PC PAD PRIME (horrible name) and a MacBook Air. Even in terms of processing power both things are merging. Heck a quad core processor inside a tablet!!! My own macbook pro has a dual core. I tend to classify machines these days in two categories: my machine and their machine. my machine is the hardware that once I buy, I can install whatever I want from whatever source I want. So both my macbook pro and my Google Nexus S are under this category. their machine is the hardware that I can't install whatever I want from whatever source I want and currently this mean iPhone and iPad and if the doomsday predictions come true, will soon include the mac. This machine you sent looks really good. I think we should pay attention to the resolution: 1280x800, that is larger than the iPad. LiveCode needs an easier way to handle the inifite amount of resolutions we face these days. Scripting resizeStack is a good exercise but we really should aim to some form of resolution independence here. Mobile apps tend to use more images as decoration than desktop apps, with all those different resolutions, you need to carry a lot of images of different sizes in your app or loose time resizing them at runtime. Asus Eee Prime Pad is just one among the different Android Tablets our there, each running a different resolution and screwing my resizes. =) On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Richard, I think you already have V1 of these. http://gizmodo.com/5857759/meet-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-the-worlds-first-supercomputer-tablet -- Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
On 09/11/2011 17:08, Andre Garzia wrote: Scripting resizeStack is a good exercise but we really should aim to some form of resolution independence here. Mobile apps tend to use more images as decoration than desktop apps, with all those different resolutions, you need to carry a lot of images of different sizes in your app or loose time resizing them at runtime. Asus Eee Prime Pad is just one among the different Android Tablets our there, each running a different resolution and screwing my resizes. So long as we don't have proper resolution independence, should we instead try for re-sizing at installation time (or, failing that, perhaps resize on first use). I know almost nothing about mobile - but I suspect that in most cases the resolution is 'fixed' for any particular installation of an app, so resizing either as the last step of installation or when the image is first displayed would avoid repeated time lost to resizing. You might need a meta-resize to determine for any particular screen resolution what size each of your images needs to be. Then, if mobile installation allows it, you could do a one-time resize of the images; if not then it might need to happen on first use. Would users prefer to see a message (New installation being completed) on first starting up an app (maybe combined with registration or other first-time actions)? Or would it be better to simply hide that cost during usage ? -- Alex. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ann] taskRunner (was Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet)
On 09.11.2011 at 19:38 Uhr + Alex Tweedly apparently wrote: taskRunner is, as I'm sure you can guess, named after Ken Ray's 'stackRunner', but unlike stackRunner it doesn't run whole stacks, it simply performs little tasks, and does so on behalf of another app rather than for a user directly. Brilliant! I wanted to make such a thing for a long time but have never found time... Robert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Chipp, I tend to classify machines these days in two categories: my machine and their machine. my machine is the hardware that once I buy, I can install whatever I want from whatever source I want. So both my macbook pro and my Google Nexus S are under this category. their machine is the hardware that I can't install whatever I want from whatever source I want and currently this mean iPhone and iPad and if the doomsday predictions come true, will soon include the mac. -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. Andre, I think doomsday has already come. At work, we configure laptops for our users. We often use opensource Live CDs to boot the machine for whatever reasons like looking at the partition table, or just to see how the latest Ubuntu or Debian or RedHat distro performs on the latest and greatest Apple has to offer. Well, we tried booting from every Linux we had a Live CD or DVD of, and NONE OF THEM would boot on the newest i7 MacBook Pro. We tried 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and could never go past an error that seemed to point to the hard-drive controller. I don't have the exact error at this moment, but it sure seemed like some kind of secure-boot mechanism was behind it all. So, we installed Windows in a VM and gave it to the user. I'm with you on what's mine concept Andre. If I buy it with MY money, I should have the right to install any OS that I please. ˜Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: I'm with you on what's mine concept Andre. If I buy it with MY money, I should have the right to install any OS that I please. Yes, I think it is a great concept! Now, if you want to try linux supported hardware, checkout System76 machines. This is a small vendor that sells Ubuntu 11.10 machines. I don't think they ship to Brazil but I am considering buying a laptop from them the next time I am in the U.S.A. I really don't like Windows and Macs are moving from my machine to their machine too fast for my taste. http://www.system76.com/laptops/ (my choice would be a customized version of Pangolin Performance machine) Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] World's first supercomputer tablet
Roger- Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 2:12:54 PM, you wrote: Andre, I think doomsday has already come. At work, we configure laptops for our users. We often use opensource Live CDs to boot the machine for whatever reasons like looking at the partition table, or just to see how the latest Ubuntu or Debian or RedHat distro performs on the latest and greatest Apple has to offer. Well, we tried booting from every Linux we had a Live CD or DVD of, and NONE OF THEM would boot on the newest i7 MacBook Pro. We tried 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and could never go past an error that seemed to point to the hard-drive controller. I don't have the exact error at this moment, but it sure seemed like some kind of secure-boot mechanism was behind it all. So, we installed Windows in a VM and gave it to the user. Sounds like UEFI. Apple has shipped logic boards with UEFI for years, but it's never been enabled before. http://boingboing.net/2011/09/21/anti-malware-hardware-has-the-potential-to-make-it-illegal-and-impossible-to-choose-to-run-linux.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/making-uefi-secure-boot-work-with-open-platforms -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
