IRC log for #android on 20080618

00:01.06jastayeah, about to head home
00:01.28jastai might not have time to play tho, my gf is getting off early today :(
00:01.38Dougie187lol
00:01.38Dougie187ok
00:03.17Dougie187well i think i might hop on to bnet and play some
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00:19.47zhobbsI have a Parcelable[] p, all the members are MyObj, so I should be able to MyObj[] arr = (MyObj[]) p; right?
00:19.59zhobbsbut getting class cast exception
00:20.54romainguyyou can't do this in Java
00:21.21zhobbshm
00:21.44f00f-each object in the array
00:21.55zhobbsCause I go from MyObj[] to Parcelable, just can't get back unless I loop through huh?
00:22.08romainguyyes
00:22.14f00f-it's "one of those things"
00:22.19romainguyit makes sense
00:22.29romainguywhat if your Parcelable[] contained { A, B, C }
00:22.59romainguycasting to A[] would not work but there would be no way to detect it until you access the elements
00:23.10romainguyand you would get a ClassCastException on a myParcel[i]
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02:23.08_ProZaC_hi, is this channel about google andoid?
02:23.11_ProZaC_hi, is this channel about google android?
02:23.24zhobbs_ProZaC_: yeah
02:23.47_ProZaC_really?
02:25.14zhobbsyep
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02:58.14gamblerhas anyone tried to use sqlite with an ORM layer like Apache Cayenne?
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07:22.49sleepydroidgood morning
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12:37.00Dougie187Good Morning Everyone
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13:30.20michaelnovakjrhowdy
13:36.45Dougie187hows it going?
13:41.56Dougie187brb
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13:55.07zhobbs_http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/android-on-a-nokia-n95-captured-on-video/
13:57.24Zba_Phym3 :/
13:58.34Dougie187that has to be the worst video in the whole world.
13:58.42Dougie187it looks like he took it with a cell phone
13:58.47Dougie187or a web cam
14:03.52michaelnovakjrany news on an SDK?
14:05.46Dougie187lol
14:05.48Dougie187SDK?
14:05.56Dougie187i dont even know what that is anymore
14:06.26Dougie187(aka, no)
14:12.00michaelnovakjrhaha
14:12.34michaelnovakjri am working on another software project while waiting for the new sdk
14:14.04Dougie187oh yeah?
14:14.07Dougie187for android?
14:14.11michaelnovakjrnope
14:14.22Dougie187whats it for?
14:14.26michaelnovakjri have put android on hold while waiting for the new sdk
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15:59.49michaelnovakjryo dougie187
16:12.26jastahey
16:21.18michaelnovakjrhowdy jasta
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16:53.12michaelnovakjrhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2567
16:53.24michaelnovakjr^^ Fennec
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16:58.53michaelnovakjrvery quiet in here
16:59.14eidosneezes.
17:00.00michaelnovakjrhowdy
17:01.11yonkeltronmichaelnovakjr: interesting post
17:04.33michaelnovakjryea, i hate the iphone
17:07.46yonkeltronmichaelnovakjr: so do i....i dislike apple in general though
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17:08.29michaelnovakjrfor anyone who is interested, i am creating androidnerds.com to host android development projects.
17:08.31jastatrendy crap :P
17:08.45michaelnovakjrthere will be a choice of svn, git, and have Trac integration.
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17:09.16michaelnovakjrand a project email address @androidnerds.com
17:09.55yonkeltronmichaelnovakjr: fascinating...
17:10.02jastawhat's wrong w/ Google code? :)
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17:10.11yonkeltronis waiting on the integration of non-java languages
17:10.32jastayonkeltron: you will be waiting for quite a long time.  someone will have to do quite a lot of work to make that possible
17:10.39michaelnovakjrjasta, its not Trac :)
17:10.59muthugoogle code has poor project management integration
17:11.09michaelnovakjrTrac is excellent
17:11.10jastathat's actually true
17:11.18jastathough i have not used Trac before
17:11.30michaelnovakjryou should check it out
17:12.04michaelnovakjrit has great integration of your svn and tickets, milestones, roadmap, change history page, and a wiki
17:12.22muthumichaelnovakjr:  androidnerds, cool name
17:12.32michaelnovakjrgracias
17:12.44yonkeltronjasta: i've heard that the jruby folks are mulling it over...
17:12.55Guest20107hops in and hugs trac
17:13.16jastayonkeltron: sure, but without a proper release with source, no serious porting effort can go anywhere.
17:13.21michaelnovakjri'll offer hosting services free for open source projects
17:13.45michaelnovakjrruby is a terrible language
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17:14.13jastayonkeltron: the Android platform is tightly dependant on Java code paths, so a porting effort of another language will require extensive bindings to access that functionality
17:14.25jastaand as i said, without a proper release, that project can't happen
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17:14.57romainguyjasta: you can always port one of the many interpreters written in Java
17:15.11romainguythere's also a bunch of compilers that output bytecode from other languages
17:15.46michaelnovakjrromainguy, i just don't see the need for something like that.
17:15.57romainguymichaelnovakjr: I'm not saying I agree
17:16.03michaelnovakjr:)
17:16.16romainguyI'm just saying that if you really really really don't want to use the Java programming language, there are alternatives that may work
17:16.20jastaromainguy: i would imagine that the best approach would be to create a dalvik compiler for other languages, and that in particular would be troublesome without better documentation and/or source code.
17:16.29romainguynow to me a language is just a tool, so I really don't care
17:16.49romainguyjasta: there's no need to if there's already a Java bytecode compiler for the said language
17:17.05romainguyJRuby, Jython and Groovy know how to output Java bytecode for instance
17:17.08romainguyyou can just dex that
17:17.17jastaoh, i was unaware that such a thing existed.
17:17.41romainguyhere is a nice list of interpreters/compilers for the JVM: http://www.is-research.de/info/vmlanguages/
17:18.19michaelnovakjri don't see something like JRuby being widely used..... those ruby creators are morons
17:18.38michaelnovakjrjava is not hard to use
17:18.41zhobbs_I think down the road we'll see C apps, probably mostly UI'less ones
17:18.46jastai agree with romain in general, that preference alone is an insufficient reason to need such a porting effort.
17:18.52michaelnovakjryes
17:19.00romainguyI mean, if Java was a terrible language I'd understand
17:19.08michaelnovakjrwhat gain would JRuby give you?
17:19.11romainguybut it's a good language, not perfect or not the best, but still a good language
17:19.15jastahowever, preference isn't always the reason that ports are desirable.  sometimes, for example, large existing code bases are simply not available in a certain language.
17:19.26zhobbs_I could see some useful C/C++ demons coming out
17:19.34romainguyjasta: if you need to port a "large" code base on a phone you're in trouble already :))
17:19.48jastaalso, the ability to micro-optimize is sometimes necessary, requiring moving back to a language that has a more subtle expressive power.
17:20.32michaelnovakjrthere's a lot of important stuff running on Java
17:21.27jastai personally see no immediate need for any of this, but i can appreciate that there are some folks who are not simply insane when wanting other options.
17:22.01michaelnovakjrno need at all, we should just work on a new sdk for now
17:22.03michaelnovakjr:)
17:22.29jastahehe
17:26.53jastaman, GWT is so neat :)
17:27.07michaelnovakjrtotally, i am using it at work
17:27.07zhobbs_jasta: you been using it for real? or just playing?
17:27.12jastafor real
17:27.19michaelnovakjrsetup external registration process for us using it
17:27.23zhobbs_cool, just was wondering if it breaks down at some point
17:27.39jastausing it for a project at work, basically just whipping up some simple interface to an internal process our customer service dept goes through
17:27.45michaelnovakjrzhobbs_ been running here for a few months
17:27.52michaelnovakjrin production
17:27.57jastazhobbs_: well, it certainly has limitations that are not obvious at first
17:28.18michaelnovakjryea, i actually modified the source for a few parts
17:28.19jastabut one of the coolest things it has is a native GWT-specific RPC interface that lets you implement server-side RPC services and invoke them intuitively from the client.
17:28.25zhobbs_I was just wondering if browser compatibility issues for more complex apps or other limitations, etc
17:28.36jastathat makes it very easy to develop some stupid throw away app in record time
17:29.00zhobbs_cool, I'll have to check it out next time I need something like that
17:29.04jastait doesn't feel like it's a good fit for "any web app"
17:29.12zhobbs_that was the only thing I learned from the IO keynote
17:29.21jastabut there seems to be a certain class of apps, especially intranet type stuff, that can benefit tremendously from it
17:29.29zhobbs_I had never heard of it and I was impressed during the keynote
17:29.38michaelnovakjrits impressive
17:29.59jastaagain, i think the most compelling feature is the native RPC stuff.
17:30.11michaelnovakjrindeed
17:30.16zhobbs_jasta: and that's all client javascript to java backend?
17:30.17jastamakes communicating between client and server very rich and intuitive, much unlike the current way that AJAX works.
17:30.39jastazhobbs_: well, to the programmer it's all Java, but yes the client code is translated, where the server code remains as-is.
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17:31.01zhobbs_yeah, I'll check it out
17:31.10jastaany translated code has to be written carefully, most of the Java library is unavailable to you on the client side.
17:31.33zhobbs_I'll have to get java support on my server though..guess that's not a big deal
17:33.21jastanah, just toss in tomcat
17:33.39jastathe GWT dev environment bundles tomcat for debug/testing, and your server environment can deploy it very easily that way
17:33.51michaelnovakjrew tomact
17:33.54michaelnovakjrtomcat
17:33.58jastalike i said, i dont think its a good fit for any or possibly even most current web apps
17:34.09jastawell, it does not require tomcat.
17:34.14michaelnovakjrnope
17:34.26michaelnovakjri dropped it on a server that wasn't running tomcat
17:34.36jastabut there certainly is a class of applications that GWT can support very well
17:34.50jastamichaelnovakjr: well then you didn't have the RPC stuff in use ;)
17:34.57michaelnovakjrno
17:35.10zhobbs_can you do the ajax stuff without the rpc?
17:35.29jastazhobbs_: yeah, you just need to use some other, more traditional method for communication
17:35.35jastalike JSON, XML, whatever.
17:35.40zhobbs_oh ok
17:35.43michaelnovakjrthe json support is cool
17:35.58michaelnovakjrthe dom class was a big help as well
17:36.02zhobbs_I asumed rpc meant xml rpc
17:36.16michaelnovakjralthough for the version i was running i did modify the dom class
17:36.24jastazhobbs_: No, their RPC approach is something they support atop all the traditional methods
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17:36.58jastaParticular to GWT, that is able to serialize and communicate native Java objects, with function call semantics and proxy stubs.
17:37.21jastaso that from either side, client or server, it appears as though you are just invoking native Java calls to a class you've defined.
17:38.09jastagiven that GWT is open source, i suspect other platforms will create compatible clients as well
17:38.15jastaso that your HTTP service can be reused even outside of GWT
17:48.02michaelnovakjrzimbra is awesome
18:01.28jastahow well does it integrate with Outlook?
18:09.17jastaoh that's the professional version ;)
18:09.22jastai looked at buying that a while ago actually
18:09.25jastai hate Exchange so much :)
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18:28.39f00f-zimbra is bloated and takes over your entire system
18:28.45f00f-but it looks good :)
18:28.57f00f-it's free, too
18:29.26f00f-and i can't believe jasta just admitted he uses outlook
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18:32.05Dougie187sounds like a party in here
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18:33.24Dougie187well im glad i didnt miss that.
18:33.44f00f-... indeed
18:47.17jastaf00f-: of course i do, Outlook is a necessity in a lot of business environments.
18:48.03jastahowever, i use vmware to access it :)
18:48.30jastabut it's not hard to see why Outlook and Exchange are important, even if sucky and terrible.
18:49.43michaelnovakjri run my own zimbra server and it is fantastic
18:49.48michaelnovakjrthe web interface is nice
18:50.01michaelnovakjrand the server is really easy to setup
18:52.34michaelnovakjrjasta what do you do in Outlook that you can't in thunderbird
19:04.20jastacalendar integration (specifically, with groupware software)
19:04.46jastaalso, Thunderbird e-mail searches really suck, and Google Desktop for Linux is lame and irritating.
19:05.31zhobbs_kmail ftw
19:05.33Dougie187cant you use sunbird for the calender?
19:05.57Dougie187lol can you can use gmail with imap for searching
19:06.06michaelnovakjroutlook mail searches suck
19:06.26jastayeah, but Google Desktop is great :)
19:06.34jastaanyway, i'm looking through the GWT blog...
19:06.48jastaand i'm noticing that they post a lot, spotlighting projects or interesting things that the community is doing
19:07.03jastathat seems like a good format to copy for Android.
19:07.42michaelnovakjrsure, once there is an android
19:08.05jastatrue enough, it's really like Android doesn't exist anymore :)
19:08.09zhobbs_yeah, they didn't even update teh blog with the IO videos
19:08.20zhobbs_and the advocates disapeared
19:08.28michaelnovakjrand this channel proves it too
19:08.39jastathe forums also are very quiet and not especially helpfulto anyone
19:08.43michaelnovakjrno one here discusses technical android stuff any more
19:08.50Dougie187lol
19:08.56Dougie187none of the google people are around except romainguy
19:09.03Dougie187i havent seen dan in like 2 weeks
19:09.06Dougie187and jason since before that
19:09.50zhobbs_there's only 50 active projects
19:10.11michaelnovakjri can say i am certainly not active at the moment
19:15.03Dougie187i tried out invoker jasta
19:15.05zhobbs_round 1 was so much better, it was my only job then...now I have to work all day and then android at night
19:15.23muthuzhobbs_: wonder how you manage it
19:15.37zhobbs_zhobbs_: you didn't have a day job?
19:15.45michaelnovakjrhmmm, that sounds like my android round 1
19:15.46Dougie187i have to play games all day and cook and play games all night.
19:15.49Dougie187its very tiring.
19:15.56michaelnovakjrwork all day then go home to work on android
19:16.17zhobbs_michaelnovakjr: wears you down
19:16.27zhobbs_I'm sure that's how it was for most people though
19:17.34zhobbs_muthu: you still in SF?
19:18.07muthuyeah
19:18.23Dougie187till june 30th right?
19:18.53zhobbs_muthu: better get back and see the family
19:19.03Dougie187lol, he doesnt care about his family
19:19.06muthucan't wait
19:19.08Dougie187all he cares about is buying a house in SF
19:19.15muthunow i really want to go back
19:19.21Dougie187lol
19:19.31muthuand be with the family
19:19.49michaelnovakjrhaha, muthu why are you in SF so long?
19:20.07zhobbs_family will understand...as long as you make $275k
19:20.11Dougie187he wanted to be gay for a month.
19:20.16muthuhaha
19:20.24Dougie187no better place the SF to do that.
19:20.29muthui must agree, it's too long
19:20.30Dougie187then*
19:20.40michaelnovakjrmuthu, but why there so long?
19:20.47muthumostly because of the airline screwup
19:21.05muthuthese were the dates available, when i booked
19:21.06Dougie187?
19:21.12Dougie187lol
19:21.15Dougie187a month apart?
19:21.23muthuzhobbs_: oh yeah, 275 will set it right ;)
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19:21.37muthuDougie187: yeah, india is screwed up in  a lot of ways
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19:21.46Dougie187tell me about it.
19:21.49muthuand the airlines are one of them
19:21.59Dougie187what are the other ways?
19:22.19zhobbs_muthu: you going to move to the states?
19:22.29muthuzhobbs_: its all open
19:22.49muthuit depends
19:23.11muthui can't come back and work for a company
19:23.38muthulove startups
19:24.50michaelnovakjrmuthu so what have you been doing all month? io was only a few days?
19:24.55zhobbs_I'll be trying very hard to work for myself as soon as possible...don't have any motivation to earn money for others
19:24.56michaelnovakjrhanging with the sailors?
19:25.27muthuhehe
19:25.32muthuthere's p2 work michaelnovakjr
19:26.11michaelnovakjrdamn, i would have said... maybe next year IO :) thats a long time for such a short conference
19:26.16Dougie187all the submissions are due soon right?
19:26.18muthumichaelnovakjr:  what do you think p1 winners are doing? hanging with sailors ;)
19:26.38Dougie187june 30th?
19:26.40muthuyeah due soon
19:26.43michaelnovakjrmuthu not all of them are hanging in sf
19:26.57zhobbs_Dougie187: july 28
19:26.58Dougie187yeah half way around the world for a month?
19:26.59Dougie187lol
19:27.00Dougie187oh
19:27.04Dougie187thats a lot longer then i though
19:30.07michaelnovakjrmuthu, should have at least went to wwdc and made a trip out of it
19:30.45muthunot interested in apple
19:30.47muthufor some reason
19:31.22muthui like sergey better than steve :)
19:31.28michaelnovakjrwould have been something to do
19:32.00muthuhonestly now i'm bored with sf
19:32.15michaelnovakjri would be too!
19:32.26muthu15 days is the right timeframe
19:32.29zhobbs_muthu: you been working a lot though?
19:32.54muthuzhobbs_: its a mix yeah
19:33.16jastamuthu: i told you, a month is a chore, a week or two is a vacation.
19:33.22michaelnovakjryea
19:33.25muthujasta: you were right
19:33.59muthuzhobbs_: you need to do a startup
19:34.09jastait's like you're living there, without all the luxuries of family, friends, and stuff to keep you busy :)
19:34.18muthujasta: exactly
19:34.30zhobbs_muthu: I will
19:34.34muthuthere's no place like home :)
19:34.41muthuzhobbs_: you can do it
19:34.56muthuand let me know when you do it
19:35.07michaelnovakjrmuthu, why'd you go with this in mind?
19:35.24jastamuthu: what level of education do you have?  that matters a lot if you intend to come to the states and get sponsored for a work visa :)
19:35.39muthujasta: i have a masters here
19:35.42zhobbs_muthu: after android I'll be focusing on designing niche electronic devices
19:35.46muthui don't have a problem getting work here
19:36.09muthuzhobbs_: cool, sounds fun
19:36.15jastamuthu: that's only a start if you're trying to live here permanently :)
19:36.23jastathe US, apparently, really sucks about this.
19:36.29michaelnovakjryes it does
19:36.33muthujasta: i was here 10yrs then left
19:36.42muthuso thinking about it now, will suck bigtime for me
19:36.58jastamy friend Dmitri has been denied a work visa twice now, and is 6 months away from getting his masters.
19:37.11muthui know, i went through all
19:37.15jastathe only reason he's getting it is because he was denied and had no choice.
19:37.19jastamuthu: you've had a work visa here?
19:37.21muthui was here when there were pretty much no rules
19:37.51muthui had F1 (students), H1B (work) and B1 (business)
19:38.00muthuyou can get all kinds of visas
19:38.16muthuall my friends are US citizens now
19:38.53muthuzhobbs_: you excited about tunewiki?
19:39.17zhobbs_yep
19:39.28muthugreat
19:39.34muthuadding new stuff, huh ;)
19:40.20zhobbs_yeah, it's coming along pretty good
19:40.35muthucool
19:41.49michaelnovakjrare you guys working with an NDA SDK?
19:41.55muthuyeah
19:42.19zhobbs_yeah, all top 50 are
19:42.29zhobbs_don't think they have a choice
19:42.37michaelnovakjri still can't get over how stupid that is
19:42.47muthuwhat?
19:42.54michaelnovakjrfor at least two months all other developers have to wait
19:43.11muthuoh yeah
19:43.25michaelnovakjri can't see this having a good effect on the platform
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19:44.01zhobbs_hopefully there will be a public one out soon
19:44.53michaelnovakjryea, i've so much interest that it would take some pretty cool new features to draw me back in
19:45.02michaelnovakjri've lost so much interest*
19:45.47zhobbs_like what?
19:46.10michaelnovakjra more feature complete sdk that isn't restricting
19:46.26muthubrb
19:52.38jastamuch better emulation would be a big win for me.
19:52.53jastabluetooth, wi-fi, camera, etc.
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19:55.46michaelnovakjryea
19:55.49Dougie187i want an SDK that will make my car fly
19:56.01michaelnovakjr:)
19:56.02genericprodigyiPointlessSDK?
19:56.14Dougie187ohh, whos this newcomer?
19:56.39genericprodigyGeek with opinions and sarcasm.
19:56.43Dougie187cool.
19:56.44michaelnovakjrdeveloper?
19:57.00genericprodigyYep.
19:57.10michaelnovakjrgood
19:57.22michaelnovakjrbecause we aren't talking about developing at the moment
19:57.24Dougie187are you in the top 50?
19:57.24michaelnovakjr:)
19:57.36Dougie187ohh michaelnovakjr do you play warcraft 3 at all?
19:57.57michaelnovakjri've played world of warcraft... but that is about it.
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19:58.02Dougie187lol
19:58.05Dougie187WoW is boring.
19:58.12Dougie187i get bored with it after about 10 days
19:58.23Dougie187the trial versions usually work for me.
19:58.27Dougie187then i dont want to play it anymore
19:58.27zhobbs_10 days non-stop play?
19:58.33zhobbs_that's how most people play it
19:58.44michaelnovakjrye
19:58.45michaelnovakjra
19:58.59Dougie187lol no.
19:59.02Dougie18710 days, period.
19:59.21michaelnovakjri changed my paypal account and then realized i still had a wow account :)
19:59.26michaelnovakjrwhen they couldn't bill me
19:59.39Dougie187hah
20:00.15michaelnovakjrif anyone is looking to buy a MacBook Pro let me know.... i'm selling mine!
20:00.32Dougie187becauase it sucks?
20:00.40michaelnovakjrnah
20:00.47Dougie187thats why i would be selling it
20:00.48michaelnovakjrbecause i want a linux friendly laptop now
20:01.42Dougie187what are you looking at?
20:02.05michaelnovakjrprobably an xps
20:02.09genericprodigyEee 901 :)
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20:02.35Dougie187hey michaelnovakjr if you like WoW http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/tournament/index.xml
20:03.00michaelnovakjrcool!
20:03.12michaelnovakjri'm looking at a 13 inch laptop
20:03.15michaelnovakjrnot a 15 anymore
20:03.44Dougie187i want to get a Thinkpad r61 14.1'
20:04.05michaelnovakjri had a thinkpad for a while. they aren't so bad
20:04.28Dougie187i have a toshiba r10 right now
20:04.30Dougie187its pretty cool
20:04.40michaelnovakjrwhat are you running on it
20:05.12Dougie187ubuntu
20:05.24michaelnovakjrah, i switched
20:05.26Dougie187i have a dual boot though, like 8 gigs for XP.
20:05.30Dougie187thats just for games though
20:05.37michaelnovakjri am running mandriva now
20:05.43michaelnovakjrmuch more pleasant
20:05.46Dougie187ive heard good things about mandriva
20:05.53michaelnovakjrits nice
20:05.59michaelnovakjri am using it with xfce4
20:06.33Dougie187yeah
20:06.36Dougie187im using gnome.
20:06.43Dougie187not really for any reason.
20:06.47Dougie187sometimes i turn on compiz
20:07.00michaelnovakjri use compiz and an emerald theme that i like alot
20:07.08Dougie187thats cool.
20:07.14Dougie187im trying to talk my mom and brother into using ubuntu
20:07.15Dougie187from xp
20:07.15Dougie187lol
20:07.24Dougie187im trying to convert them
20:07.25michaelnovakjrhaha, good luck!
20:07.35Dougie187and my big brother is being a douche and trying to get them to stay with xp
20:07.36michaelnovakjrits a bit buggy for my tastes
20:07.41Dougie187he just complains about OOo
20:07.47Dougie187ive never had any issues.
20:07.56Dougie187and compared to fedora it's a dream
20:07.58Dougie187lol
20:08.18michaelnovakjrif i leave my ubuntu box on for a certain time period stuff stops working
20:08.24michaelnovakjrlike audio, web browser, terminal
20:08.26Dougie187thats weird.
20:08.46michaelnovakjryea
20:08.58michaelnovakjrso i switched to mandriva and i haven't had any problems at all
20:09.30Dougie187thats cool.
20:09.49michaelnovakjrtotally
20:09.59michaelnovakjrit picked up my nvidia right off the bat
20:10.01Dougie187i was looking into mandriva a while ago.
20:10.04michaelnovakjrwhen booting the live cd
20:10.08Dougie187but i just stayed with ubuntu
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20:15.04f00f-jasta: yeah i am stuck with lotus notes. sometimes there is no choice :)
20:15.53f00f-muthu when are you going back
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20:32.19f00f-interesting poll on LinkedIn front page
20:32.31f00f-so little confidence for android
20:32.41michaelnovakjrcan you blame them
20:32.55f00f-wtf, i am being owned by some smell
20:32.57f00f-it stinks
20:33.21f00f-i seriously hate AC systems
20:33.25f00f-circulates everything
20:33.34f00f-yeah i was at a mobile thing last week
20:33.41f00f-one of the founders of linkedin was there
20:33.47f00f-i forget what he was talking about though
20:34.09michaelnovakjri'm losing confidence in android
20:34.17muthumichaelnovakjr: why?
20:34.25muthuandroid is already changing the mobile world
20:34.40michaelnovakjrhow muthu?
20:34.55muthulook at iphone prices now
20:35.07muthuthis i'm sure would not happen if android is not looming over apple
20:35.47michaelnovakjri don't think android is the thing apple is worried about
20:36.01michaelnovakjrblackberry is the reason not android
20:36.48michaelnovakjri have not heard apple acknowledge android existed
20:38.23michaelnovakjrhey Dougie187, this is my desktop..... http://penguinsoftware.org/mydesktop.png
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20:39.23f00f-blackberry is an untapped market
20:39.32f00f-definitely need to unleash something for those devices
20:39.51f00f-net.rim.*
20:39.51michaelnovakjrblackberry is the iphone competitor not android
20:40.09jerkface03what?
20:40.19michaelnovakjri don't think there's money to be made in android
20:40.49michaelnovakjropen source, free software will be the biggest selling point for android
20:40.58muthumichaelnovakjr: just because we hate some things that goog is doing right now, doesn't mean android had lost its value
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20:41.28michaelnovakjri'm not saying its lost value..... there's a lot of people that are saying that
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20:56.42jastamuthu: i would argue directly that the actions of late have lost value for Android.
20:57.11muthuamong the developers, maybe
20:57.14jastain particular, it has lost third party applications that were originally likely to come to market along with the device itself, populating their "market" store for day 1.
20:57.40michaelnovakjryea, i mean i wouldn't buy a phone based on the top 50
20:57.51michaelnovakjri'd wait until more apps are out
20:58.07muthuprobably more apps are getting built by oem's and carriers
20:58.11donomoit feels like android is in a lull right now
20:58.12f00f-lots of companies working in stealth, who couldn't be arsed to enter the ADC, fyi
20:58.31michaelnovakjryes, but without the new sdk they are doing much :)
20:58.32jastathe argument wasn't whether value would remain, it was whether value was lost.
20:58.33jastaIt was.
20:58.49f00f-whatever, it'll come back
20:58.52donomogoog has gone more stealthy with development, and the wait for handsets is wearing down the 'outsider' devs
20:59.17michaelnovakjrthe 'outsider' devs are a large base of people you don't want to piss off
20:59.26donomoindeed
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20:59.38michaelnovakjrand i think its safe to say they have
21:00.17f00f-the only devs they have pissed off are the folks who submitted to ADC
21:00.21f00f-that's a very small minority
21:00.21muthuanother public sdk release, things would be back to normal
21:00.28jastaf00f-: minority in terms of wha?
21:00.29jastawhat*
21:00.43f00f-in terms of the number of developers they will have once an actual phone is out
21:00.55f00f-many good devs are not even thinking about android now
21:01.06f00f-it's too much in its infancy to be nothing but a blip on the radar
21:01.08michaelnovakjrof course, because its a waste of time
21:01.23f00f-exactly, so if you piss off people now, it doesn't really matter
21:01.27f00f-the real people will come in once the phone is out
21:01.33jastaf00f-: yeah, but again, the argument here was whether google's actions of late have lost value for the platform.
21:01.50jastaand they have.  the initial launch will suffer, i don't think you could reasonably argue otherwise.
21:01.59f00f-it's irrelevant. there was no value to begin with.
21:02.04michaelnovakjropen source projects that are stealth, that's annoying
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21:02.51jastaf00f-: I don't think I would agree.  Value doesn't have to be a realized utility.
21:03.00jastaHype, for example, is valuable.
21:03.32muthuthe value can be regained by doing a public release
21:03.40f00f-maybe perceived value was created by the community. i don't believe google realized how much response they got to android initially.
21:03.42michaelnovakjri dont think its that easy
21:04.06zhobbs_jasta: will the initial launch suffer more now than if R2 participants didn't get an SDK snapshot and just had to develop for M5?
21:04.47jastazhobbs_: so far, i don't think that the ADC had much to do with Google's overall marketing strategy.  For example, have they done anything other than create a PDF of the winners?
21:05.42romainguyjasta: they haven't won yet
21:05.42michaelnovakjrnope
21:05.42jastaThat's true, of course.
21:05.42muthuwe'll know after p2
21:05.43jastaWhen is judging supposed to be completed, anyway?
21:05.52zhobbs_I agree though, why didn't theys how off more of the apps?
21:05.55jastasome time in August?
21:06.04zhobbs_yeah, august
21:06.12muthuzhobbs_: really?
21:06.14michaelnovakjra lot of them weren't that great
21:06.37jastazhobbs_: Perhaps they are waiting until the grand prize winners are crowned, but my guess is actually that they don't see it as a useful marketing vehicle.
21:06.45michaelnovakjryea
21:07.03michaelnovakjrit'll be the apps that are actually used by people that get marketed with the platform
21:07.17jastaThus far, they have done a very poor job hyping the phone.  Not that they have not tried, it seems like they are trying, and failing.
21:07.25zhobbs_if they don't utilize the top 20 winners better than they did with top 50 then they wasted $5m
21:07.32jastaThe demonstration at the I/O keynote, for example, did not impress me.
21:07.34muthui don't think they are marketing yet
21:07.44Dougie187michaelnovakjr: i love your background.
21:07.46Dougie187its really cool
21:07.50michaelnovakjrthanks :)
21:07.54jastawhat background?
21:08.02michaelnovakjrmy desktop background
21:08.05jastawhere?
21:08.13Dougie187http://penguinsoftware.org/mydesktop.png
21:08.19michaelnovakjr^ yea that's it
21:08.21f00f-your name is sergey?
21:08.26michaelnovakjrnope
21:08.31michaelnovakjrthat is a status message
21:08.31Dougie187i think your theme is really cool too
21:08.34jastathat hurts my brain
21:08.39michaelnovakjrhaha
21:08.40jastais that an illusion or a real photograph?
21:08.42f00f-ugh, you are rolling up your windows like blinds
21:08.57Dougie187my bet is illusion
21:09.00michaelnovakjri actually did that to show the background
21:09.18jastait looks like an illusion based on the lighting, but then if you look at the clouds it's harder to tell
21:09.20romainguylooks like a real photograph taken as a panorama
21:09.32michaelnovakjrmy understanding is its a real photo
21:09.36f00f-yeah
21:09.51michaelnovakjri've seen shots of New York that make me think i live in a city that doesn't exist
21:09.57Dougie187i thought it was an illusion based on the cars and lighting.
21:10.09f00f-romainguy: one of your shots in the m3 or m5 backgrtound... was it shot from mt. hamilton?
21:10.22romainguyhmm no
21:10.24Dougie187I guess it could be a panorama though.
21:10.32muthuits not real
21:10.34romainguythe backgrounds in Android came from Sequoia Park
21:10.38romainguyand China
21:10.39f00f-okay
21:11.03Dougie187why muthu?
21:11.05romainguyand to be more precise, from a small mountain village in south China
21:11.14f00f-ah :D
21:11.15muthuDougie187: the streets are going nowhere
21:11.24Dougie187have you ever heard of a dead end?
21:11.33michaelnovakjrwhat are you talking about muthu?
21:11.37romainguymuthu: it's just a panorama
21:11.40Dougie187on the right.
21:11.44Dougie187there are two streets that just end.
21:11.44michaelnovakjrthe one in the middle stretches the whole way
21:11.54Dougie187but theres still city behind it.
21:11.57muthuwhich city is that?
21:12.04michaelnovakjrnot sure exactly
21:12.13Dougie187all speculation
21:12.17romainguythe one on the far right splits into two other streets
21:12.23michaelnovakjri stumbled across the graphic and it was nuts
21:12.36muthuits all superimposed
21:12.47michaelnovakjrnow that is just silly talk
21:12.49michaelnovakjr:)
21:13.05Dougie187lol
21:13.08Dougie187maybe its texas.
21:13.17Dougie187its flat enough.
21:13.33michaelnovakjrif that's texas, i think i'll move there :)
21:13.47Dougie187lol. it doesnt look like that all the time...
21:13.51Dougie187i hate texas actually.
21:14.02muthuno way close to texas
21:14.12jastatexas is a good guess, actually.
21:14.25muthuits europse
21:14.26romainguythis photo?
21:14.29romainguyTexas?
21:14.31muthueurope*
21:14.32michaelnovakjrhaha
21:14.34romainguywith these buildings??
21:14.37f00f-heh
21:14.37romainguyseriously guys...
21:14.46Dougie187what city romainguy?
21:14.52Dougie187i mean muthu
21:14.53Dougie187lol
21:14.53Dougie187...
21:14.54jastaromainguy: where would you guess?
21:15.00romainguyit looks a lot like Europe
21:15.20Dougie187where in europe?
21:15.21michaelnovakjryea
21:15.27Dougie187thats a rather broad guess.
21:15.27romainguythat I don't know
21:15.29jastayeah, but everyone is driving on the right side.
21:15.32Dougie187im gonna say Australia
21:15.44Dougie187maybe Asia
21:15.48romainguyjasta: so?
21:16.03michaelnovakjrthere are places in europe that don't drive on the left
21:16.14romainguyomg
21:16.16Dougie187any that have buildings like this?
21:16.24jastai dont think any that would look like this
21:16.24romainguyDougie187: certainly not Asia
21:16.28michaelnovakjromg.?
21:16.29Dougie187lol i know
21:16.30Dougie187it was a joke.
21:16.32jastain particular guys, look to the far left.
21:16.41jastaon the railing
21:16.42Dougie187because Europe is a ridiculous guess.
21:16.48romainguyjasta: people drive on the right in Europe... except in England
21:16.50Dougie187yeah i saw the railing thing.
21:17.11jastawell, i suppose this is a riddle for the channel
21:17.28Dougie187heh michaelnovakjr did you think your background would invoke such conversation?
21:17.32michaelnovakjrhaha
21:18.01romainguyah dog
21:18.02romainguydoh
21:18.04romainguyI feel stupid
21:18.07romainguyit's fucking Paris
21:18.10muthuhaha
21:18.14f00f-that's what i was thinking
21:18.14muthuthat's what i thought
21:18.19Dougie187hey romainguy, how do the roads work going from england to other countries?
21:18.19f00f-arrondisement style streets
21:18.21muthusomewhere in france
21:18.31romainguyDougie187: England is an island
21:18.36muthuromainguy_: how can you miss this?
21:18.48f00f-loo
21:18.56romainguythere's teh freaking arche de la défense in the background
21:19.04romainguythe picture is just taken on place de l'étoile
21:19.06Dougie187touche.
21:19.14romainguymuthu: cause I hate Paris :))
21:19.17f00f-yeah
21:19.44Kralnnothing wrong with paris
21:19.48Kralnexcept the people who inhabit it
21:19.55Dougie187either way, after a rather strong whiskey sour i think its time to play some dota.
21:19.55michaelnovakjrhaha
21:19.56KralnI much prefer Lyons
21:20.02f00f-romainguy: have you been down on 880 a bit south of SJC... there's a structure (i call it the Dolby Noise Reduction building since it looks like the NR logo), and it looks a lot like the l'arc de la defense
21:20.07michaelnovakjri love that Dougie187
21:20.14Dougie187dota?
21:20.17Dougie187or whikey sours?
21:20.27michaelnovakjrhow do the roads in england connect to other countries?
21:20.31Dougie187lol
21:20.36Dougie187its the whiskey sour talking.
21:20.46f00f-michaelnovakjr: they dont...
21:20.48romainguyf00f-: I don't remember seeing this building
21:20.51Dougie187heh
21:20.59Dougie187f00f-: he was quoting me
21:21.03michaelnovakjrhaha
21:21.14Dougie187(05:18:19 PM) Dougie187: hey romainguy, how do the roads work going from england to other countries?
21:21.52Dougie187romainguy has all the answers.
21:22.30Dougie187well, you can tell its a panoramic too, just because of the station wagon in the right side.
21:22.35Dougie187its "ghosted"
21:22.47Dougie187like a poorly put together panoramin
21:22.55michaelnovakjrArc de Triomphe
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21:23.07Dougie187now thats just jibberish.
21:23.16michaelnovakjrhaha
21:23.19michaelnovakjrthat is where it is
21:23.22Dougie187heh, brb
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21:24.49michaelnovakjrFrom the top there is a panoramic view of Paris
21:24.58michaelnovakjrstraight out of wikipedi
21:24.59michaelnovakjra
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21:26.14Dougie187now its time for dota
21:27.03Dougie187lol a noobs only game.
21:28.40Dougie187jasta: im invoker just for you.
21:28.41Dougie187lol
21:28.49muthuhey, walmart cheaper than target?
21:28.56muthuneed to get some shopping done
21:28.59muthufor family
21:29.01michaelnovakjrwalmart === cheap
21:29.11muthuwalmart, costco, target
21:29.14muthuthat's what we have here
21:29.28michaelnovakjrcostco is membership
21:29.46muthubut is it cheaper than walmart?
21:30.06michaelnovakjrno
21:30.08Dougie187depends. but you need a membership to get in.
21:30.10muthuheard generally you can buy in walmart blindly
21:30.12michaelnovakjrat least not by me
21:30.18michaelnovakjryes muthu
21:30.22muthucool
21:30.27michaelnovakjrwalmart is the cheapest i've found
21:30.33muthugreat
21:30.48michaelnovakjrhttp://penguinsoftware.org/chicago.jpg
21:30.56michaelnovakjrthat is also a pretty nutty photo
21:31.00Kralnmuthu: walmart is cheaper than target
21:31.09Kralnbut shopping at walmart is basically soulless
21:31.29muthuKraln: yeah, but i don't want to be comparing prices
21:31.38Kralnwalmart isn't the cheapest
21:31.44muthuwhich one then?
21:31.50Kralnthey did market research to figure out what are the 8 items that most people will remember the price on
21:32.05Kralnyoung men, young women, middle aged men, middle aged women, old men, old women
21:32.11Kralnand they made those 48 items loss leaders
21:32.18Kralnand everything else is pretty expensive by comparison
21:32.24muthuoh
21:32.36Kralnwhat are you shopping /for/
21:32.48muthulet me pull out the list
21:32.51muthumostly kids items
21:33.17muthucoloring set, school bag, educational toys
21:33.33Kralnsounds like toys 'r us to me
21:33.38muthuright
21:33.47muthuhand bag, perfume, makeup
21:33.53Kralnplus I don't have any ethical problems with toys r us.
21:34.02KralnI think you need to find a mall with a toys 'r us near by
21:34.10muthuthere's one very close
21:34.16muthuand i'm buying all toys there
21:34.28muthuwhat about diamond jewellery?
21:34.31muthuwhere to get that?
21:34.51Kralnhonestly? the internet. =p
21:35.02muthuyeah, but i don't have time to order and wait
21:35.14Kralnwell you're going to get gouged on convienience
21:35.24muthuright
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21:35.45muthuinternet might not be bad
21:35.50muthumay be that's what i should do
21:35.58muthustill time left
21:36.09muthuKraln: any website for diamond jewellery?
21:36.19Kralnoff the top of my head? no
21:36.26Kralnshop around though. you can definitely save some $$$
21:36.32muthuok
21:36.33Kralnamazon sometimes has good deals
21:36.42muthuok, i'll google
21:39.26muthuwow, 50% off
21:42.20KralnI'm not suprised =)
21:42.45muthuonline is the best place
21:42.53muthuKraln: thanks
21:45.03Dougie187jasta: your right about exort.
21:45.06Dougie187:(
21:48.51jastaprivmsg
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22:18.54jastaplaying with all this google stuff is really interesting.
22:18.57jastagears, gwt, etc
22:19.08jastai think gears especially is very cool
22:19.18jastai'm excited to see what people do with web apps on Gears.
22:19.25jastaerr, mobile web apps i mean
22:21.45zhobbswonder if they will release gears for mobile for other platforms?
22:22.06jastathey already released windows mobile, i assume they have plans to support every platform that can be supported.
22:22.14zhobbsoh, cool
22:35.31muthumobile web apps + gears will be interesting
22:35.59jastastill inferior to native apps, i think, but at least a big step up from current web apps on mobile phones
22:41.42muthujasta: you can't compare with native apps
22:42.13muthubut the gap might be bridged just like desktop/webapps
22:44.20jastathe next big step would be to optimize the language itself.  HTML and JavaScript are all wrong for mobile devices.
22:45.29jastaefficiently compressed HTML and a JavaScript bytecode are both necessary to improve the situation.
22:45.36jastaas in, not just gzipped HTML :)
22:45.42muthuit depends on browser
22:45.43jastasimilar to Android's binary XML format
22:45.50muthuthe mobile browsers must get smart
22:46.23jastathe efficiency of HTML and JS are big bottlenecks that the browser, however efficient, cannot overcome.
22:46.56muthuneed to think different for mobile
22:47.02jastaneither lend themselves well to poor network connections, slow processors, and limited memory.
22:47.30muthuisn't there some mobile web standard
22:47.41jastayes, WAP and WbXML
22:48.07jastathe former is a miserable failure, the latter is only just a failure :)
22:48.43jastathe basic problem with both is that they are not generalized encodings of what the desktop is used to processing.
22:49.07jastaa javascript bytecode and formalized efficient encodings for HTML and XHTML would go a long way.
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22:50.51muthuits again because of browser wars i guess
22:51.06Kralnnot really
22:51.14Kralnthe browers represent the page differently internally
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22:51.32muthuevery browser has it own thing
22:52.20muthuis webkit / webview going to be the mobile browser standard
22:53.02Kralnno
22:53.08Kralnopera and firefox both have mobile browsers
22:53.47muthuthat's the problem
22:53.57muthuagain browser wars and developers caught in between
22:57.36jastareally, that's not the biggest problem.
22:57.41jastaGears solved one of the big problems.
22:57.49jastaBut still, the bigger one is the efficiency of HTML and JS.
22:57.58jastathe bigger one remaining, i should say.
22:58.00muthugears solved only the storage problem
22:58.07jastaGears solved more than that.
22:58.09muthunot the view problem that webapps face
22:58.21muthuis gwt available for mobile?
22:58.40jastaGears also offers a fork analog, which can be used to do background caching and all sorts of other goodies.
22:58.46jastawindows mobile only
22:58.59jastaweb apps being rendered correctly on mobile phones is an easy problem space.
22:59.03muthuif we can use gwt + gears
22:59.44jastayou're not listening, GWT imposes pretty heavy JavaScript overhead, a language which is quite slow to interpret or JIT compile.
22:59.54jastaand HTML is bad as well.
23:00.01muthubrb
23:00.38jastagiven the limited real-estate of mobile phones, it's very simple to create a good user interface with almost no significant layout or markup.  Single column designs work *great*.
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23:01.07jastabut HTML and JS are inefficient bottlenecks.
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23:01.57Kralnjasta: the opera web browser proxies everything so it gets pre-rendered.
23:03.11rosh11821how pervasive is copy+paste in Android?
23:05.52jastarosh11821: uhh?
23:06.15jastaKraln: i'm not sure eactly what you mean, but the problem space isn't any different based on the time you render or compile.
23:06.28jastait still is an expensive operation when it doesnt have to be.
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23:06.35Kraln-1this is true
23:06.56KralnI agree. but they simplify the on-device browser to essentially a vector viewer iirc
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23:22.02jastaultimately, web apps could become very neatly integrated with mobile devices, but it will require a lot of standards work to get there
23:22.12jastaand that is traditionally something that happens very slowly
23:22.43jastaGears, I think, is an excellent first step, practically demonstrating the benefit of this type of integration.
23:23.18muthujasta: gears has nothing to do with mobile
23:23.28jastayou're quite wrong, muthu.
23:23.54muthugears is for developing ria
23:24.02muthuRIA
23:24.37jastaGears is for cooperating with the client's native resources.
23:25.01jastaIncluding the natural extension to contacts, location, etc.
23:25.02muthuyou always give the longer explanation, that no one reads
23:26.20jastaIf you're interested in what could be possible, see: http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI as an example
23:27.29jastaThe idea is that native applications have certain advantages at the edges, like access to local resources and platform-specific APIs.
23:27.51jastaGears ultimately is trying to even the playing field so that web apps, enabled with Gears, can have the same level of access on the device that is hosting the app.
23:28.09muthuRIA
23:28.41muthusimilar to flash/silverlight etc.,
23:29.08muthugears is only focussed on the client storage though
23:29.34f00f-we dont know enough about gears to really talk about it
23:29.57jastaWell, considering I have been looking at it for the past several days, I'd say I can :)
23:30.57muthuf00f-: are you saying you don't know enough?
23:31.09muthuor jasta doesn't know ;)
23:31.55jastamuthu, what gives you the confidence that you understand Gears so well?  Have you, for example, used it on a project?  Explored the documentation?  Scoured the forums?
23:32.34muthuhttp://www.slideshare.net/intellibitz/gears-user-guide/
23:32.40muthuthat was done 1 year ago
23:32.50muthuwhen gears came out
23:32.51jastaAnd is that your basis for education?
23:33.20jastaBecause I'm seeing a lot of things that, right now, could be possible.  And have read about where some of the engineers are trying to take the project in the future.
23:33.56jastaAnd specifically, how they want it to integrate with the mobile space to create applications that feel native to the user, with access to local resources like location awareness.
23:34.47muthui've worked with gears, gwt
23:34.54muthuetc., as soon as they have come
23:35.01muthujust like android ;)
23:35.29f00f-well none of us have developed anything using gears
23:35.30muthunow i just focus on android more, since its on the mobile space and seems to fit my interest like a "glove"
23:35.32muthu:0
23:35.43muthus/0/)/g
23:36.02muthuf00f-: haha
23:36.04f00f-s/infobot//g
23:36.10muthuyou have become more like me these days ;)
23:36.35f00f-hehe
23:36.48muthuwanted to create some sort of userguide for android
23:36.53muthubut now i don't think i can
23:37.37f00f-how come?
23:37.45f00f-(apart from the obvious reasons)
23:38.27muthuoh yeah the obvious ones
23:38.45muthum5 is old
23:41.49f00f-yea
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